Chief of Endocrinology and Metabolism at Central Virginia Veterans Affairs Health Care System and Professor of Internal Medicine and of Epidemiology at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond
Dr. Robert A. Adler is Chief of Endocrinology and Metabolism at Central Virginia Veterans Affairs Health Care System and Professor of Internal Medicine and of Epidemiology at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. He received his MD and internal medicine training at Johns Hopkins and received endocrinology fellowship training at Massachusetts General Hospital and Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
Recent studies focus on osteoporosis screening and evaluation, osteoporosis in mobility disorders such as spinal cord injury, and pituitary deficiency after blast traumatic brain injury. He was Co-Chair of the ASBMR Task Force on Long-Term Bisphosphonate Treatment for Osteoporosis. He is a co-author of the Endocrine Society Male Osteoporosis Guideline. He has served as a reviewer for many journals and study sections. Dr. Adler is Associate Editor of Osteoporosis International.