Professor Peter Ebeling

Department of Medicine
Western Hospital
Cnr Marion and Eleanor Streets
Footscray, Vic. 3011 AUSTRALIA

Tel: +61 3 8345 6252 / Fax: +61 3 9318 1157
Email: peterre@unimelb.edu.au or Unit Manager, Lyn Kalms: lckalms@unimelb.edu.au

Professor Peter R. Ebeling, MB BS Melb. MD Melb. FRACP, is Head of Endocrinology at the Western Hospital, Footscray. An endocrinologist, Professor Ebeling's doctoral research was on parathyroid hormone-related protein with Professor T. John Martin. He then spent a three-year post-doctoral fellowship with Dr B. Larry Riggs at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, USA doing clinical research in osteoporosis, which he continued on his return to Australia. In 2003 he was a Visiting Research Fellow at Botnar Centre, Oxford University Institute of Musculoskeletal Sciences, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Headington, Oxford, UK.

Professor Ebeling's research interests include public health issues related to vitamin D deficiency, the pathophysiology and management of post-transplantation osteoporosis, particularly following bone marrow transplantation; the genetics and treatment of osteoporosis in men; the efficacy and safety of vertebroplasty and the clinical utility of biochemical markers of bone turnover. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research and Reumatología Clínica. He is Honorary Editor of Osteoblast and a member of the Medical and Scientific Committee of Osteoporosis Australia.

Professor Ebeling is co-chair of the Australian Musculoskeletal Quality Improvement Programme and was previously president of the Australian and New Zealand Bone and Mineral Society. He has more than 100 peer-reviewed publications and is regularly asked to speak at international and national scientific meetings. Professor Ebeling is also chairman of the Victorian State Committee of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.