Prof. Robert Plank

Prof. Robert Blank is an American physician-scientist currently based in Sydney, Australia, with over five years’ experience as an academic medical division chief. Before joining the Garvan Institute, he held academic and faculty positions at various hospitals and universities in the USA, including Weill-Cornell College of Medicine in New York and the University of Wisconsin. Prof. Blank serves on the Board of Directors and as Treasurer of the International Federation of Musculoskeletal Research Societies (IFMRS); he is a member of the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) Committee of Scientific Advisors (CSA), and a former President of the International Society for Clinical Densitometry (ISCD). He serves as an associate editor for OSIN, Bone, Translational Research, Osteoporosis International, and Frontiers in Endocrinology, and sits on numerous editorial boards. His current research focuses on personalised fracture-risk algorithms incorporating comorbidities, fracture site, and time since fracture.