By Dr. Lars Folkestad, OIFE Medical Advisory Board Every year the OI Foundation (OIF) host a Scientific Meeting where researchers and clinicians from North America is invited for a 2-and-a-half-day long seminar focused on OI research. Lars Folkestad, member of OIFE’s Medical Advisory Board, joined the meeting in April and reports about it. Collaboration…
The IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli in Bologna, Italy has started recruitment of patients for two clinical studies. And the Italian OI organization As.It.OI (Associazione Italiana Osteogenesi Imperfetta Onlus) is helping with recruitment. The first 4Frailty project “Intelligent sensors, infrastructures and management models for the safety of fragile patients” – involves the use of an advanced…
Interview with Bettina Willie, Professor at McGill University and Shriners Hospital for Children in Montreal, Canada Who are you and what is your relationship to OI? I am Bettina Willie, and grew up in Utah, US. I earned a doctoral degree in Bioengineering from the University of Utah and I did my first postdoctoral training…
Interview with Professor Amaka Offiah, University of Sheffield and honorary consultant pediatric radiologist at Sheffield Children’s Hospital Who are you and what is your relationship to OI? I work as a professor at the University of Sheffield, employed by the University of Sheffield but I am also an honorary consultant pediatric radiologist at Sheffield Children’s…
Fabiano Lioi from Italy is an actor, musician and artist with OI. He has published an artistic catalog which is also and above all a journey to discover a condition unknown to many, namely Osteogenesis imperfecta. This interview was first published in OIFE Magazine in spring 2018. Who are you and what do you do?…
