UMSOM's Dr. Jay Magaziner Elected President of Fragility Fracture Network

Dr. Magaziner Elected to Serve as President of Global Organization Focusing on Care and Prevention of Fractures Impacting Mobility

Jay Magaziner, PhD, MSHyg, Professor and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM), was elected to serve as president of the Fragility Fracture Network (FFN), a global network of professionals that help sets policy and care standards for treatment and secondary prevention of serious fractures impacting mobility, such as spinal and hip fractures.

Dr. Magaziner was elected President at the 7^th Annual FFN Global Congress held in Dublin in July for a one-year term, which began in August.

“I am honored to be elected to work with experts from around the world to help improve treatment and secondary prevention of fractures that impair mobility. The global and multidisciplinary and collaborative approach of the Fragility Fracture Network truly helps set the standard globally for approaches that restore a patient’s mobility, and independence,” said Dr. Magaziner.

The FFN is a global organization, founded in order to create a network of experts for improving treatment and secondary prevention of fragility fractures. Current priorities include transforming surgical and medical care provided to patients hospitalized with hip fractures, a painful fracture of the spine and other major fragility fractures; prevention of secondary and subsequent fractures for people who have sustained their first fragility fracture; and rehabilitation of patients whose ability to function is impaired by major fragility fractures to restore their independence.

As president of the global organization, Dr. Magaziner’s duties include overseeing the scientific integrity of the FFN’s work, educational efforts of the organization worldwide, and development of additional regional FFN organizations to address the local needs in clinical care and policies.

Prior to being elected as president of FNN, Dr. Magaziner served as Chair of the FFN Scientific Committee for two years and as Co-Chair of the Hip Fracture Recovery Special Interest Group.

Dr. Magaziner is a leading scholar and expert in the epidemiology of aging. He pursues research on aging in three interrelated areas: the consequences of hip fracture, health and long-term care, and methods for studying older populations. The major focus of his work is on identifying ways to enhance functioning and improve the quality of life for older people.

Dr. Magaziner’s work focusing hip fracture recovery has earned him a two consecutive MERIT awards from the National Institute on Aging. He also directs a training program in the epidemiology of aging and the University of Maryland Claude D. Pepper Independence Center. He has published extensively in internationally recognized journals and served as editorial board member for multiple journals, and as a reviewer for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In addition to his leadership roles with the FFN, he has served in many leadership positions locally nationally, and internationally including the Governor's Commission on Aging in Maryland and the Gerontological Society of America.

Dr. Magaziner was a founder of the University of Maryland at Baltimore Long-Term Care Project, an umbrella organization established to recruit and oversee research in Maryland’s nursing homes, the Baltimore Hip Studies, a program designed to evaluate outcomes, develop and test interventions to improve outcomes after hip fracture, the Program in Aging, Trauma and Emergency Care, designed to increase understanding and improve outcomes of emergency care for older persons; and the University of Maryland Center for Research on Aging, whose mission is to advance interdisciplinary aging research across the University of Maryland.

“Dr. Magaziner has been a leader in setting care and prevention standards for critical fractures that impact mobility. His leadership of the Fragility Fracture Network is important in setting the highest global standards for treatment,” said UMSOM Dean E. Albert Reece, MD, PhD, MBA, who is also the Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs, University of Maryland, and the John Z. and Akiko K. Bowers Distinguished Professor.

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