Beatrice J. Edwards MD, MPH, FACP

Beatrice J. Edwards, MD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of General Internal Medicine at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX. Her interests include a) overcoming the gap in medical care after fracture, having developed a local secondary prevention program, and now participating in the American Orthopaedic Association’s “Own the Bone” a national program for osteoporotic fractures. Own the Bone will reduce future fractures, hospitalizations, and healthcare expenditures; b) She works in co-management of hip fractures, with algorithms of management that shorten the length of stay and improve outcomes; c) From the Study of osteoporotic fractures she identified that a wrist fracture increases the risk of functional decline by 48%. She received the American Society of Bone and Mineral Research Faculty Enhancement Award with which she will assess functional status and humerus fractures along with long-term outcomes. c) she is a co-investigator in the NIH-funded RADAR project, an active pharmacovigilance research team, that studied bisphosphonates and osteonecrosis of the jaw, atypical femur fractures, acute kidney injury, amiodarone ocular toxicity, nephrogenic systemic fibrosis among others; d) Skeletal complication in cancer survivors, such as fractures and correlates for fractures after breast cancer, and incidence of fractures in solid and hematologic cancers.