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Osteoporosis Canada educates, empowers and supports individuals and communities in the risk-reduction and treatment of osteoporosis.

 
 

Bio

Dr. Earl Bogoch

Consultant with Osteoporosis Canada, Scientific Advisory Council, and Medical Director of the Mobility Program, St. Michael's Hospital.

 

Dr. Earl Bogoch graduated in medicine from the University of Alberta in 1974 and after a rotating internship at Dalhousie University worked in rural general practice for two years. He trained in Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Toronto then worked in Davos and Zurich Switzerland for two years, pursuing a clinical and research fellowship in the surgical management of the rheumatic diseases and abnormal bone remodeling in inflammatory arthritis.

He took an academic position at the Wellesley Hospital in 1985 where he was became head of Orthopaedic Surgery and then moved St. Michael's Hospital in 2002 where he is now Medical Director of the Mobility Program (Neurology, Rheumatology, Plastic Surgery and Orthopaedic Surgery), past president of the Canadian Orthopaedic Research Society, and Professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Toronto.

Dr. Bogoch has published 75 peer reviewed articles, principally on abnormal bone remodeling in inflammatory arthritis, osteoarthritis and in arthritis surgery. In recent years Dr. Bogoch has become interested in health care delivery and especially in undiagnosed osteoporosis in patients presenting to fracture clinic with a fragility fracture.


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