Pawel Pludowski PhD

Dr. Pludowski is an Associate Professor at the Department of Biochemistry, Radioimmunology, and Experimental Medicine at the Children’s Memorial Health Institute in Warsaw. He is also the chairman of the European Vitamin D Association (EVIDAS). He published over 200 peer-reviewed articles and chapters in books; (till date about 60 indexed in PubMed).

He is a specialist in clinical densitometry (Certified Clinical Densitometrist, CCD) and vitamin D metabolism. His other peripheral qualifications: disturbances of calcium-phosphate metabolism, disturbances of bone tissue metabolism, body composition, and biological development, basics of statistics, GLP, research methodology. His research work was devoted primarily to densitometry (DXA and pQCT) as a non-invasive method for assessing bone mass and body composition during growth and maturation. Another area of interest is the metabolism of vitamin D and the importance of vitamin D for human health.