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About Professor Philip Sambrook

My passion is improved patient care for sufferers of bone and joint disease. We can only do that by constantly pushing the barriers to research.

Philip Sambrook is Professor of Rheumatology at the University of Sydney and has research interests in osteoporosis, osteoarthritis and inflammatory joint disease

Philip Sambrook is the Florance and Cope Professor of Rheumatology at the University of Sydney. He has published over 270 peer reviewed papers including invited editorials in the New England Journal of Medicine, British Medical Journal and Lancet.

He is a member of the Editorial Boards of Journal of Rheumatology, Osteoporosis International, Arthritis Research and the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research.

He is the current President of the Australian & New Zealand Bone & Mineral Society and a member of the Committee of Scientific Advisors of the International Osteoporosis Foundation and the Board of the International Bone and Mineral Society.

Selected publications

  • Chen JS, Cameron ID, Cumming RG, March LM, Sambrook PN, Simpson J, Seibel M, Effect of age related immobility on markers of bone turnover, J Bone Miner Res, 2006, 21, 324-331
  • Sambrook PN, Chen JS, March LM, Cameron ID, Cumming RG, Simpson J, Seibel M, High bone turnover is an independent predictor of mortality in the frail elderly, J Bone Miner Res, 2006, 21, 549-555
  • Sambrook PN, McGregor AJ, Spector T, Genetic influences on cervical and lumbar disc degeneration, Arthritis Rheum, 1999, 42, 366-372
  • Center JR, Nguyen TV, Schneider D, Sambrook PN, Eisman JA, Mortality after all major types of osteoporotic fracture in men and women: an observational study, Lancet, 1999, 353, 878-882
  • Morrison NA, Qi JC, Tokita A, Kelly PJ, Crofts L, Nguyen TV, Sambrook PN, Eisman JA, Prediction of bone density by vitamin D receptor alleles, Nature, 1994, 367, 284-287
  • Jones G, Nguyen T, Sambrook PN, Kelly PJ, Eisman JA, Progressive femoral neck bone loss in the elderly: longitudinal findings from the Dubbo Osteoporosis Epidemiology Study, Brit Med J, 1994, 309, 691-695
  • ambrook PN, Birmingham J, Kelly PJ, Kempler S, Pocock NA, Eisman JA, Prevention of corticosteroid osteoporosis; a comparison of calcium, calcitriol and calcitonin, New Engl J Med, 1993, 328, 1747-1752
  • Nguyen T, Sambrook PN, Kelly P, Jones GJ, Lord SR, Freund J, Eisman JA, Prediction of osteoporotic fractures by postural instability and bone density, Brit Med J, 1993, 307, 1111-1115
  • Pocock NA, Eisman JA, Hopper JL, Yeates MG, Sambrook PN, Eberl S, Genetic determinants of bone mass in adults: a twin study, J Clin Invest, 1987, 80,706-710
  • Makovey J, Naganathan V, Nguyen TV, Wark J, Sambrook PN, Genetic effects on postmenopausal bone loss: a twin study. J Bone Miner Res, 2007, in press