Professor Gustavo Duque is a world leader in ageing and musculoskeletal research. Prof. Duque is a geriatrician and a clinical and biomedical researcher with special interest in the mechanisms and treatment of osteoporosis, sarcopenia and frailty in older persons.
Prof. Duque's major research interests include the elucidation of the mechanisms of age-related bone loss, osteoporosis, sarcopenia and frailty. He is also looking at the effect of vitamin D, exercise and proteins on bone and muscle mass. As Director of the Fracture Prevention Program at Western Health, he has implemented a Falls and Fractures Clinic, where patients are assessed for falls and fractures risk in a comprehensive manner, and a Fracture Liaison Service linking his innovative programs with GPs in the community.• He has served as a member of several peer-review panels in major funding agencies in Canada (FRSQ and CIHR) and Australia (NHMRC) and reviews grants for 28 research Foundations. Member of the ASBMR-Membership Development Committee (2011-14) and Publications Committee (2007-10); member of the ANZBMS Program and Professional Development Committees (2010-11 and 2016-17); member of the GTE Committee of the ANZSGM since 2017. Member of the Council of the Adult Medical Division of the RACP since 2017. In January 2018, he started his tenure as Associate Editor of the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, the second most important journal in the geriatrics field. His peers have recognised his research achievements with the Kaufman Award from the Canadian Geriatrics Society in 1998, the New Investigator Award from the AGS in 1999, the Young Investigator Award from the ASBMR in 2003 and the Nathan Shock New Investigator Award from the Gerontological Society of America in 2005. In 2013, he was the inaugural recipient of the prestigious Professor Philip Sambrook Award from the Australian New Zealand Bone and Mineral Society (ANZBMS) for his leadership in bone research. In 2016, he was elected a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America.