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Associate Professor Jackie Center

 

Senior Research Officer; Group leader, Dubbo Osteoporosis Epidemiology, Bone and Mineral Research Program, Garvan Institute of Medical Research

Email: j.center 'at' garvan.org.au
Research Group: Bone Genetics and Epidemiology

 
 

Education

1999 PhD, University of New South Wales
1995 MS Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health
1993 FRACP
1987 MBBS (Hons) University of Sydney

Awards and Honours

2002 Young Investigator Award, American Society for Bone and Mineral Research
1999 Garvan Institute of Medical Research, award for best thesis
1999 Aust and NZ Bone and Mineral Society Travel Grant Perth national meeting
1995-1998 NHMRC Medical Postgraduate Scholarship

Publications

Joshi D, Center JR, Eisman JA. Investigation of incidental hypercalcaemia. BMJ 2009 Nov 20;339:b4613. doi: 10.1136/bmj.b4613

Lee P, Greenfield JR, Seibel MJ, Eisman JA, Center JR. Adequacy of vitamin D replacement in severe deficiency is dependent on body mass index. Am J Med 2009 Nov;122(11):1056-60

Tran BN, Nguyen ND, Center JR, Eisman JA, Nguyen TV. Enhancement of Absolute Fracture Risk Prognosis with Genetic Marker: The Collagen I Alpha 1 Gene Calcif Tissue Int 2009 Sep 30. [Epub ahead of print]

Lee P, Nair P, Eisman JA, Center JR. Vitamin D deficiency in the intensive care unit: an invisible accomplice to morbidity and mortality Intensive Care Med 2009 Dec;35(12):2028-32

Sandhu SK, Nguyen ND, Center JR, Pocock NA, Eisman JA, Nguyen TV. Prognosis of fracture: evaluation of predictive accuracy of the FRAX algorithm and Garvan nomogram Osteoporos Int 2009 Jul 25

Frost SA, Nguyen ND, Center JR, Eisman JA, Nguyen TV Timing of repeat bone mineral density measurements: Development of an absolute risk-based prognostic model J Bone Miner Res 2009 May 6. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 19419321

Lee P, Eisman JA, Center JR. Vitamin D Deficiency in Critically Ill Patients is Highly Prevalent and Associated with Adverse Outcome N Engl J Med 2009 Apr 30;360(18):1912-4

Bliuc D, Nguyen ND, Milch VE, Nguyen TV, Eisman JA, Center JR. Mortality risk associated with low trauma osteoporotic fracture and subsequent fracture in men and women. JAMA 2009 301:513-521

Lee P, Samaras K, Glanville AR, Center JR. Transplant reciepients on the edge of the hypocalcemia abyss. J Heart Lung Transplant 2009 Jan;28(1):93-5

Styrkarsdottir U, Halldorsson BV, Gretarsdottir S, Gudbjartsson DF, Walters GB, Ingvarsson T, Jonsdottir T, Saemundsdottir J, Snorradóttir S, Center JR, Nguyen TV, Alexandersen P, Gulcher JR, Eisman JA, Christiansen C, Sigurdsson G, Kong A, Thorsteinsdottir U, Stefansson K. New sequence variants associated with bone mineral density. Nat Genet. 2009 Jan;41(1):15-7

 

 

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Areas of Interest

Osteoporosis, bone, fractures, fracture outcomes, mortality
 

News

 

An extra 5 years of life an unexpected benefit of osteoporosis treatment

MEDIA RELEASE: 03 Feb 2011
Clinical researchers at Garvan have noted an extraordinary and unexpected benefit of osteoporosis treatment – that people taking bisphosphonates are not only surviving well, better than people without osteoporosis, they appear to be gaining an extra five years of life.
 
 

Low Vitamin D causes problems for acutely ill patients

MEDIA RELEASE: 30 Apr 2009
A group of endocrinologists, who are also Garvan researchers, have observed that very sick patients tend to have very low levels of Vitamin D. The sicker they are, the lower the levels. These findings are published today as a letter in the the New England Journal of Medicine.
 
 

Bone fractures can double or triple mortality for up to 10 years

MEDIA RELEASE: 04 Feb 2009
A new study shows that osteoporotic fractures increase a person’s risk of dying, even after relatively minor fractures if that person is elderly. With hip fractures, there is double the risk of death for women, three times the risk for men.
 
 

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