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DR. JOY WU
Joy Wu is Chief of the Division of Endocrinology and Vice Chair of Basic and Translational Science in the Department of Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Wu directs a translational research program that focuses on skeletal development, stem cell therapies for bone, and breast cancer bone metastases, and has an active clinical practice focused on osteoporosis and bone health in cancer. She has served on clinical guideline committees for the Endocrine Society, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, and the American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy. Dr. Wu earned her M.D. and Ph.D. degrees at Duke University and completed her clinical training in endocrinology at Harvard Medical School before joining the Stanford faculty. She has previously served on the Board of Directors of the Endocrine Society and is currently a member of the Council of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research.
PROF. BU YEAP
Bu Yeap (MBBS, FRACP, PhD) is Professor, Medical School, University of Western Australia and consultant endocrinologist, Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Fiona Stanley Hospital, Perth, WA. He has longstanding interests in the area of androgens and health during male ageing, and the prevention and treatment of cardiometabolic diseases. His clinical responsibilities include care of patients with endocrine disorders and diabetes at Fiona Stanley Hospital. He has published epidemiological studies focussing on health outcomes in middle-aged to older men, and conducted investigator-initiated clinical trials to prevent type 2 diabetes and improve fitness and body composition in men. He has 300 publications with 10,000 citations (Scopus). Bu was first author of the Endocrine Society of Australia’s position statement on management of male hypogonadism published in the MJA in 2016, and was ESA President in 2020-22.