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Michael Holick

(Advisory Board Member) Michael F. Holick, Ph.D., M.D. Professor of Medicine, Physiology
and Biophysics; Emeritus Chief of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and
Nutrition; Director; Director of the Bone Health Care Clinic and the
Director of the Heliotherapy, Light, and Skin Research Center at
Boston University Medical Center. Dr. Holick has made numerous
contributions to the field of the biochemistry, physiology,
metabolism, and photobiology of vitamin D for human nutrition. Dr.
Holick has established global recommendations advising sunlight
exposure as an integral source of vitamin D. He has helped increase
awareness in the pediatric and medical communities regarding
vitamin D deficiency pandemic, and its role in causing not only
metabolic bone disease, and osteoporosis in adults, but increasing
risk of children and adults developing common deadly cancers,
schizophrenia, infectious diseases including TB and influenza,
autoimmune diseases including type 1 diabetes and multiple
sclerosis, type 2 diabetes, stroke and heart disease. He published over
500 manuscripts in wellrespected peerreviewed journals and more
than 200 reviews and book chapters. He has acted as editor and/or
coeditor on 13 books, and has written The UV Advantage in 2004
and The Vitamin D Solution in 2010. There have been more than
63,000 citations for his work in the field of calcium, vitamin D and
bone metabolism. He served as the Chair for the Endocrine Society’s
Clinical Practice Guidelines Committee for Vitamin D. He have
received numerous awards for my research activities including: The
Linus Pauling Prize in Human Nutrition, The Linus Pauling
Functional Medicine Award, The General Clinical Research Center’s
Program Award for Excellence in Clinical Research from the
National Institutes of Health, and the Louis Avioli Award from the
American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, just to name a
few. He was recognized by Thompson Reuters as one of the most
influential scientific minds for 2014.