Chronic hypophosphatemia: Differential diagnosis in children and adults

Prof. Dr. Maria Luisa Brandi is a Professor of Endocrinology at the Vita-Salute University at the San Raffaele, Milan, Italy. She is President of the FIRMO Foundation, a non-profit research organization fully devoted to skeletal health.

Her research and fellowship has received several awards and honors, such as Roussel Italia Award, 1988; The European Foundation Award, 1989; Schering Award, Italian Endocrine Society, 1990; The Sandoz Foundation for Gerontological Research Award, 1991; Helena Rubinstein Award “Women in Science”, 1998; Italian Endocrine Society Senior Award, 2003; AILA Award, 2004, Pierre Delmas IOF/ESCEO Prize 2013.

Her research includes Genetics and Clinics of Osteoporosis; Pathogenesis of Parathyroid Disorders; Genetics of Paget’s Disease of Bone; Bone Cell Biology; Epidemiology of Osteoporosis; Bone Inherited Disorders. She is serving as an editorial member of several reputed journals like Clinical Cases in Bone and Mineral Metabolism, Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, Medicine, etc. She has authored over 500 papers in peerly reviewed journals and 200 chapters and books. She is a member of American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists; Endocrine Society; International Bone and Mineral Society; Italian Society of Endocrinology; Italian Society of Internal Medicine; International Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Committee.

Prof. Outi Mäkitie received her MD and PhD degrees at the University of Helsinki, Finland. After specialty training in Pediatrics and Pediatric endocrinology in Finland, she had a three-year clinical and research fellowship at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada, focusing on rare skeletal disorders.

Prof. Mäkitie has been Professor of Pediatric Endocrinology at the University of Helsinki since 2015. She has extensive clinical experience on diagnostics and management of metabolic bone diseases in children. During the past 10 years her research has focused on clinical and translational aspects of various genetic and acquired skeletal disorders and disorders of mineral homeostasis. She has published more than 380 scientific papers in these research areas. Prof. Mäkitie currently manages active research groups in Helsinki, Finland and in Stockholm, Sweden.