The Herbert A. Fleisch ESCEO-IOF Medal recognizes a researcher who has made outstanding and groundbreaking achievements in basic bone science. The late Professor Herbert Fleisch was a renowned researcher whose ground-breaking work contributed to scientific knowledge about metabolic bone diseases and their treatment. The Award was presented from 2011 to 2022.

Winners of the Herbert A. Fleisch ESCEO-IOF Medal

2022: Prof. Antonio Cherubini M.D., Chief, Geriatria Accettazione Geriatrica e Centro di Ricerca per l’Invecchiamento, Geriatric Hospital, IRCCS-INRCA, Ancona, Italy and Associate Professor of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Perugia University Medical School.

2021: Professor Roger A. Fielding, Ph.D, Associate Center Director, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University; Director, Professor of Nutrition and Medicine Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University School of Medicine; Associate Director, Boston Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center.

2020: Dr, Stefania Maggi, Research Director at the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) Aging Branch-Institute of Neuroscience in Padua and Director of the CNR Project on Ageing.

2019: Prof. Jonathan D. Adachi, Professor of Medicine and Actavis Chair for Better Bone Health in Rheumatology at the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster University, Ontario, Canada.

2018: Dr. Charlotte Beaudart, Adjunct Professor and researcher at the Department of Public Health, Epidemiology and Health Economics at the University of Liège, Belgium.

2017: Dr. Helena Johansson, an internationally recognized statistician in the field of osteoporosis and is the principal architect of the country-specific FRAX models.

2016: Prof. René Rizzoli, Emeritus Professor of Medicine at University Hospitals of Geneva.

2014: Prof. Jean-Marc Kaufman, Professor of Medicine at the Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium.

2013: Prof. Mary Bouxsein, Assistant Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Harvard Medical School, adjunct Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Boston University.

2012: Prof. Claus Christiansen MD, MMS, co-founder of the European Foundation of Osteoporosis, Chairman and President of Nordic Bioscience and CCBR-Synarc.

2011: Prof. Gerard Karsenty M.D., Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Genetics & Development, Columbia University Medical Center, New York.