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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE National Osteoporosis Foundation Honors Dr. B. Lawrence Riggs With Highest Award LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (April 20, 2009) — Dr. B. Lawrence Riggs was honored in Washington, D.C. when he was presented the Legends of Osteoporosis Award from the National Osteoporosis Foundation (NOF). The award was presented on May 20 at the Silver Silhouette Awards Dinner at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. Actress Sally Field also was be honored for her work to increase public awareness of osteoporosis as well as Dr. Elizabeth Barrett-Connor of the University of California at San Diego for her studies on the epidemiology of osteoporosis. The Legends of Osteoporosis Award is given for career achievements in osteoporosis and is the highest award given by the NOF. A Hot Springs, Ark. native, Riggs, 78, returned to Little Rock in 2006 after retiring from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., where he worked for 44 years. While at Mayo, he was chairman of the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism and the Purvis and the Roberta Tabor Professor of Medical Research. He also was director of the General Clinical Research Center from 1991-2002. He has been active in research on bone biology, osteoporosis and metabolic bone diseases. He has served as president of the American Society of Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR) and the National Osteoporosis Foundation and currently is a member of the American College of Physicians, American College of Endocrinology, the American Association of Clinical Endocrinology, the Endocrine Society, and the American Society of Clinical Investigation and Association of American Physicians. He is also former associate editor of the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research and former member of the editorial boards of the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of Clinical Investigation. Riggs has received many awards, including the Clinical Investigator Award from the Endocrine Society; the Fredrick C. Bartter Award for excellence in clinical investigation and the William F. Neuman Award, both from the ASBMR, and the Award for Excellence in Clinical Investigation from the National Institute of Health. Riggs was graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Arkansas (1952) and with a Doctorate of Medicine from University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (1955). He has received Distinguished Alumni Awards from of these institutions, plus the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine. He interned in San Francisco and did his internal medicine and endocrinology training at the Mayo Clinic. He joined the medical faculty at Mayo in 1962 where he remained until he retired three years ago. He has testified on four occasions on medical and scientific issues before committees of the United States Congress and once before the U.S. Health Care Financing Administration. He has published more than 500 full-length medical and scientific papers and has trained more than 50 young scientists in research on osteoporosis and bone biology. For more information contact: |