ASBMR is pleased to announce the candidates for the 2013 election of officers and councilors. The electronic ballots for the 2013 election will be emailed in December, with elected individuals announced in January.  The terms for those elected will begin in October 2013. We are grateful to each of these outstanding members who have agreed to run for office.

President-Elect
Roland Baron, D.D.S., Ph.D., Harvard School of Medicine and of Dental Medicine, United States
Douglas P. Kiel, M.D., M.P.H., Harvard Medical School and Hebrew Senior Life Institute for Aging Research, United States

Secretary-Treasurer-Elect
Philip Osdoby, Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis, United States
Dolores Shoback, M.D., VA Medical Center, United States

Councilors
Xu Cao, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, United States
Bart Clarke, M.D., Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, United States 
Luigi Gennari, M.D., University of Siena, Italy
Nuria Guanabens, M.D., Universitat De Barcelona, Spain
Beate Lanske, Ph.D., Harvard School of Dental Medicine, United States
Natalie Sims, Ph.D., St. Vincent’s Institute for Medical Research, Australia