John T. Schousboe, MD, PhD, FASBMR, CCD Dr. Schousboe is a health services researcher and co-founder of the Park Nicollet Osteoporosis Center of HealthPartners, Inc. His research has helped advance the science and practice of vertebral fracture and abdominal aortic calcification assessment. In particular, his research has advanced accurate assessment of aortic calcification and prevalent vertebral fracture on lateral spine bone density images, and their associations with incident fractures, cardiovascular disease events, frailty and other geriatric outcomes, total health care costs, and effects on patient management. He also has extensive experience in cost-effectiveness modeling research of bone densitometry and vertebral fracture assessment. He is a co-investigator at the Minneapolis site of the Osteoporotic Fractures in Men (MrOS) studies, and is site PI for the NIH funded “Calculator for Length of use of Bisphosphonates (CLUB)” project. He has been involved in leading and/or writing position statements as well as professional and clinical guidelines that are published in leading journals e.g. American College of Rheumatology: Task Force on treatment of rheumatoid arthritis 2008-2015; International Society for Clinical Densitometry (ISCD) Task Forces on Vertebral Fracture Assessment, and co-led the ISCD Position Development Conferences of 2013 and 2015. Dr. Schousboe is also a past president of the International Society for Clinical Densitometry, has been the chair of the ISCD Vertebral Fracture Recognition Course committee since 2017, and has served on the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research Treat to Target Task Force.