Lawrence Raisz, M.D.

Faculty Title: 
Professor of Medicine

Office Locations: 
Osteoporosis Clinic, New England Musculoskeletal Institute
Medical Arts & Research Building, 3rd floor
UConn Health Center
263 Farmington Avenue
Farmington, CT 06030-6232
Phone: 860-679-2160

Specialties: 
Osteoporosis and metabolic bone disease

Board Certifications:
American Board of Internal Medicine

Brief Biosketch:
Dr. Raisz is has been working in the field of osteoporosis and metabolic bone disease for more than 40 years.  He is Director of the UConn Center for Osteoporosis and Associate Director of the New England Musculoskeletal Institute.  Formerly he was Head of the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism and Program Director of the General Clinical Research Centers.   His practice is limited to osteoporosis and metabolic bone disease.  He also does clinical and basic research in this field.  He is past President of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, member of the Board of Trustees of the National Osteoporosis Foundation and on the Advisory Council for the National Institutes of Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases.  He has authored over 450 publications and has received many honors for his work in bone and mineral metabolism. 

Selected Publications:
Raisz, LG. Pathogenesis of osteoporosis: concepts, conflicts, and prospects. J Clin Invest 115:3318-3325, 2005.

Kenny AM, Boxer R, Walsh S, Hager WD, Raisz LG.  Femoral bone mineral density in patients with heart failure.  Osteoporos Int 17:1420-1427, 2006.

Oncken C, Prestwood K, Kleppinger A, Wang Y, Cooney J, Raisz, L.  Impact of smoking cessation on bone mineral density in postmenopausal women.  J Womens Health 15:1141-1150, 2006.

Alander CB, Raisz LG.  Effects of selective prostaglandins E2 receptor agonists on cultured calvarial murine osteoblastic cells.  Prostaglandins Other Lipid Mediators 81:178-183, 2006.

Xu, Z, Choudhary, S, Okada, Y, Voznesensky, O, Alander C, Raisz, L., Pilbeam, C.  Cyclooxygenase-2 gene disruption promotes proliferation of murine calvarial osteoblasts in vitro.  Bone 41:1, 2007.

Choudhary S, Halbout P, Alander C, Raisz L, Pilbeam C.  Strontium ranelate promotes osteoblastic differentiation and mineralization of murine bone marrow stromal cells: involvement of prostaglandins. J Bone Miner Res 22:7, 2007.