Margo Rockwell publishes first article

Margo Rockwell, UNECOM MS III, has become a published researcher.  Awarded a UNECOM Dean’s Research Fellowship at the Institute for Aging Research at Hebrew SeniorLife in Boston, Massachusetts, during the summer of 2009, Rockwell’s continued work in geriatrics resulted in the co-authorship and publication of “Height Loss Predicts Subsequent Hip Fracture in Men and Women of the Framingham Study” in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, Vol. 27, No. 1, January 2012, pp. 146-152.  DOI: 10.1002/jbmr.557.

Rockwell’s onsite mentor during her Research Fellowship was Marian T. Hannan, DSc, MPH, associate professor of medicine and co-director of musculoskeletal research at the Institute for Aging Research, and her UNECOM mentor is Marilyn Gugliucci, Ph.D., Department of Geriatric Medicine.  Rockwell’s co-authors of the article are Marian T. Hannan, Kerry E. Broe, Adrienne Cupples, Alyssa B. Dufour, and Douglas P. Kiel.

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