Formerly known as the Pierre Delmas Award from 2006 to 2013, the IOF President's Award honours individuals who have made a significant and unstinting contribution to the advancement of the work of the IOF, through furthering one or more of the mission statements and/or goals of the Foundation. It is awarded every year during the World Congress on Osteoporosis, Osteoarthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases.

Winners of the IOF President’s Award

2025: Prof. Atsushi Suzuki, Chair of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism at Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Japan.

2024: Prof. Ebeling AO FAHMS, endocrinologist and Head of the Department of Medicine, and Head of the School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

2023: Prof. Dawson-Hughes, Director, Bone Metabolism Laboratory at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, and Senior Scientist and Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine.

2022: Prof. René Rizzoli, Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the University Hospitals of Geneva.

2021: Dr. Philippe Halbout, Ph.D, Chief Executive Officer of the International Osteoporosis Foundation, and former IOF Executive President.

2020: Prof. Maria-Luisa Brandi (Italy), Dr. Lee Joon-Kiong (Malaysia) and Prof. Ego Seeman (Australia).

2019: Dr. Radmila Matijevic (ASTAS, Serbia) and Dr. Greg Lyubomirsky (Osteoporosis Australia)

2018: Prof. Hans Peter Dimai, Professor of Medicine and Endocrinology at the Medical University of Graz, Austria.

2017: Prof. Kerrie Sanders (Australia), Prof. Jorge Morales Torres (Mexico), Prof. Leith Zakraoui (Tunisia), Prof. David Kendler (Canada), Prof. Vidmantas Alekna (Lithuania), Prof. Marija Tamulaitiene (Lithuania) and Prof. Stefan Goemaere (Belgium).

2016: Dr. Ambrish Mithal (India), Prof. Patricia Clark (Mexico), Prof. Leith Zakraoui (Tunisia), Dr.  Famida Jiwa (Canada), Dr. Paul Mitchell (New Zealand), Dr. Andrea Ildikó Gáspárik (Romania), Prof. Jorge B. Cannata Andia (Spain) and Prof. Thierry Thomas (France).

2015: Prof. Liu Zhonghou (China), Prof. Edward Czerwinski (Poland), Prof. Cristiano Zerbini (Brazil), Dr. Gemma Adib (Syria), Dr. Marius Kraenzlin (Switzerland), Dr. Şansin Tüzün (Turkey), Dr. Michael McClung (USA).

2014: Prof. Peter Ebeling (Australia), Prof. Olga Lesnyak (Russia), Dr. Osvaldo Daniel Messina (Argentina), Dr. Basel Masri (Jordan), Prof. Johann Ringe (Germany), Prof. Paul D. Miller (USA).

2013: Prof. Socrates Papapoulos, a long-standing member of the IOF Board and leading researcher at the Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands.

2012: Prof. Bess Dawson-Hughes, Director of the Bone Metabolism Laboratory at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University and Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine.

2010: Prof. José Zanchetta, a researcher and specialist in osteology and nephrology, and is CEO and Principle Investigator at the Instituto de Investigaciones Metabolicas (IDIM) in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2008: Prof. Jean-Yves Reginster, Outstanding Professor of Epidemiology, Public Health and Health Economics, Professor of Bioethics and Societal Medicine, University of Liège where he also serves as the Honorary Chair of the Bone & Cartilage Metabolism Unit, Director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Epidemiology of Musculoskeletal Health & Aging at the University of Liège. 

2006: Dr. Ghassan Maalouf, orthopaedic surgeon at Saint George Hospital in Beirut, Lebanon.