Richard Eastell MD, FRCP (London, Edinburgh, Ireland), FRCPath, FMedSci is a British medical doctor and Professor of Bone Metabolism at the University of Sheffield.[1] He was born in Shipley (West Yorkshire) and attended the Salt Grammar School, later graduating from the University of Edinburgh in 1977 with an MB ChB and in 1984 with an MD[2] and achieved prominence as an expert in osteoporosis.

Career

Eastell has pioneered new techniques for measuring calcium uptake and vitamin D conversion and is a leading expert in osteoporosis diagnosis, implementation of bone turnover markers and new osteoporosis treatments.[3]

While at the Mayo Clinic, Eastell developed new non-radioactive methods for measuring how calcium was absorbed from the diet and a new technique for measuring 1,25-OH2D3 production as well as refining the use of bone densitometry[4] and a new approach for identifying vertebral fractures on radiographs of the spine. After returning to the UK, Eastell set up a metabolic bone service at the Northern General Hospital. More recent contributions have been within the area of biochemical bone turnover markers and leadership of clinical trials in the osteoporosis area for new osteoporosis treatments.

Eastell is Professor of Bone Metabolism at the University of Sheffield and Director of the Mellanby Centre for Musculoskeletal Research.[5] Eastell has supervised the study for 37 doctoral degrees over the past 30 years and published over 550 research papers.

In 2005, a report was published in the Times Higher Education Supplement alleging that Eastell had incorrectly claimed to have had full access to data for a trial of the Procter & Gamble drug Actonel. The report claimed that the analysis for the trial had been carried out by Procter & Gamble and that Eastell did not in fact have complete access to the data. At a General Medical Council "fitness to practice" hearing in November 2009, it was determined that Eastell's actions had not been "deliberately misleading or dishonest", although he may have been negligent in making "untrue" and "misleading" declarations.[6][7]

Recent Awards and Honours

References

  1. ↑ Academic Unit of Bone Metabolism
  2. ↑ Eastell, Richard (1984). Investigation of metabolic bone disease by in vivo neutron activation analysis (Thesis). hdl:1842/18160.
  3. ↑ "Eastell, Richard, Professor". www.sheffield.ac.uk. 25 May 2022. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
  4. ↑ Eastell, Richard; Riggs, B. Lawrence; Vieira, Nancy E.; Yergey, Alfred L. (3 December 2009). "One-day test using stable isotopes to measure true fractional calcium absorption". Journal of Bone and Mineral Research. 4 (4): 463–468. doi:10.1002/jbmr.5650040403. PMID 2816495. S2CID 34666862.
  5. ↑ "Professor Richard Eastell | Medical School | The University of Sheffield". www.sheffield.ac.uk. 3 February 2021. Retrieved 16 March 2021.
  6. ↑ Phil Baty, "Academic made ‘untrue’ declaration about ‘full access’ to research material, GMC finds", Times Higher Education, 10 November 2009
  7. ↑ Phil Baty, "Bone professor faces GMC probe", Times Higher Education, 22 September 2009
  8. ↑ "Professor Richard Eastell awarded the Linda Edwards Award by the National Osteoporosis Society", 4 December 2018
  9. ↑ European Society of Endocrinology
  10. ↑ Bone Research Society
  11. ↑ American Society for Bone and Mineral Research
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