Appendix 1: NOGG members

National Osteoporosis Guideline Group

Chair: Celia L Gregson, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Honorary Consultant Orthogeriatrician, Musculoskeletal Research Unit, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK and Royal United Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Bath, UK.

The guideline development writing group was composed of two committees, the Guideline Development Group and the Expert Advisory Group. Members of both committees contributed to the content of the guideline, but consensus agreement on the recommendations was restricted to the Guideline Development Group. Disclosures of potential conflicts of interest of all members are available on the NOGG website (https://www.nogg.org.uk/resource-centre). No funding source/body was involved in the development and/or writing of this guideline, all members gave up their time voluntarily, without any renumeration for their work.

Guideline Development Group

  • Juliet Compston, Emeritus Professor of Bone Medicine, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge
  • John Edwards, Senior Lecturer in General Practice, Primary Care Centre Versus Arthritis, School of Medicine, Keele University, Staffordshire, and General Practitioner, Wolstanton Medical Centre, Newcastle under Lyme.
  • John A Kanis, Emeritus Professor in Metabolic Bone Disease, Centre for Metabolic Bone Diseases, University of Sheffield, Sheffield
  • Sarah Leyland, Clinical adviser and Osteoporosis Specialist Nurse, Royal Osteoporosis Society
  • Lucy Douglas, General Practitioner Lindley Group Practice Huddersfield. General Practitioner with Extended Role (GPwER) Musculoskeletal Medicine and Rheumatology East Lancashire NHS Trust
  • Christina Avgerinou, General Practitioner, Sterndale Surgery, Hammersmith and Fulham, and Honorary Senior Clinical Research Associate, University College London
  • Rebecca Low, General Practitioner, Marcham Road Health Centre, Abingdon and Specialty Doctor in Metabolic Bone Disease, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford
  • Zoe Paskins, Professor of Rheumatology, School of Medicine, Keele University, Keele, and Haywood Academic Rheumatology Centre, Haywood Hospital, Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Stoke-on-Trent
  • Julia Thomson, Nurse manager and Osteoporosis Specialist Nurse, Royal Osteoporosis Society
  • Nic Vine, Public and patient representative
  • Jane Parker, Public and patient representative
  • Jean Bowden, Public and patient representative

Expert Advisory Group

  • David Armstrong, Consultant Rheumatologist, Western Health and Social Care Trust (NI), and Visiting Professor, Nutrition Innovation Centre for Food and Health, Ulster University.
  • Cyrus Cooper, Professor of Rheumatology, MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Center, University of Southampton; NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust and University of Southampton; and Professor of Musculoskeletal Science, University of Oxford.
  • Neil Gittoes, Consultant & Honorary Professor of Endocrinology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University Hospitals Birmingham & University of Birmingham, Centre for Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Birmingham.
  • Nicholas C Harvey, Professor of Rheumatology and Clinical Epidemiology, MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Centre, University of Southampton; NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust and University of Southampton.
  • Eugene McCloskey, Professor in Adult Bone Disease and Honorary Consultant, University of Sheffield and Director of the Centre for Integrated research in Musculoskeletal Ageing (CIMA), University of Sheffield.
  • Katie Moss, Consultant Rheumatologist and Honorary Senior Lecturer, St George’s University Hospital, London.
  • Ken Poole, Professor in Metabolic Bone Disease, Honorary Consultant Physician (Rheumatology), Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge.
  • David Reid, Emeritus Professor of Rheumatology, University of Aberdeen.
  • Mike Stone, Consultant Physician (Geriatric Medicine), University Hospital Llandough, and Director of Bone Research, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board.