Jean-jacques Body MD, PhD

Dr. Jean-Jacques Body, MD, Ph.D. is a Professor at the Free University of Brussels. Jean-Jacques Body received his training at the “Université Libre de Bruxelles” (ULB, Free University of Brussels) and at the Mayo Clinic (Rochester, Mn, USA). He has been an internist, an endocrinologist, and a medical oncologist. He has been Head of the Internal Medicine Clinic at Institute J. Bordet, the Cancer Center of ULB. He developed the Supportive Care Department at the same Institute. During this period, he created the first National Course on Supportive and Palliative Care. He also created the “Groupe Européen francophone denude des Métastases Osseuses (GEMO)” of which he was the first President. He has also been President of the “Belgian Bone Club” and has been re-elected as a Board member of the “Committee of Scientific Advisors” of “The International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF)”. He is a member of several professional organizations, including ASBMR, ECTS, ASCO, ESMO, SIOG, MASCC, and Endo Soc. He is now co-chair of the “Clinical Action Group” of ECTS (European Calcified Tissue Society) and President of the Local Organizing Committee of the 2021 ECTS Congress in Brussels. 
He is an Editorial Board Member of Calcified Tissue International, Journal of Bone Oncology, Osteoporosis International, and Supportive Care in Cancer. His particular research interests are osteoporosis, tumor bone disease, metabolic bone diseases, and markers of bone turnover. He was involved in numerous trials in cancer patients with all bisphosphonates available in Europe and with denosumab from phase I to phase IV. More recently, he became interested in risk factors for osteoporotic fractures in postmenopausal women and he oversees one of the largest European prospective studies in that field. He has authored or co-authored about 290 international peer-reviewed papers and he counts more than 220 invited lectures for international meetings.