Director
Oregon Osteoporosis Center
Portland, OR
Michael McClung, MD, FACE, FACP
Biography:
Michael McClung, M.D., is the Founding Director of the Oregon Osteoporosis Center in Portland. He graduated from Rice University in Houston and from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas. After his training in Internal Medicine at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, he completed a fellowship in Endocrinology at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. He then joined the faculty at the Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland where he founded a clinic devoted to the care of patients with disorders of bone and calcium metabolism. He is board certified in both Internal Medicine and in Endocrinology and Metabolism, and is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and the American College of Endocrinologists.
Dr. McClung and his center have been involved in the planning, conduct and presentation of many of the important clinical studies that resulted in the availability of the medications now used to treat osteoporosis. He has published numerous papers and book chapters and is Co-editor of a book for clinicians about disorders of bone and mineral metabolism. Dr. McClung is widely known as an educator, translating clinical research information into practical strategies of evaluation and treatment for other physicians. He is an active member of multiple international societies focusing on bone diseases and their treatment. He serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the National Osteoporosis Foundation and on the Council of Scientific Advisors for the International Osteoporosis Foundation. He was also a member of the WHO Task Force on Fracture Risk Assessment and has been involved in the implementation of the WHO fracture risk calculator.