Rebecca S Mason Annual Meetings of the Endocrine Society of Australia and Society for Reproductive Biology and Australia and New Zealand Bone and Mineral Society 2016

Rebecca S Mason

Rebecca Mason is a medical practitioner with research interests in vitamin D, bone, calcium and sun damage in skin. She is a member of the Cancer Councils of Australia Working Party on Sun and Health, which produces guidelines on balancing the risks and benefits of sunlight exposure. Prof Mason led the working group which developed the most recent consensus Australian and New Zealand position statement on vitamin D in adults and was a member of the group which addressed vitamin D issues in pregnant women, children and adolescents. She served on the Editorial Boards of Journal of Bone and Mineral Research and Endocrinology and received an award from the 14th International Workshop on Vitamin D for career contributions to vitamin D research. Prof Mason was Head of Physiology from 2002 - 2019, Deputy Director of the Bosch Institute at the University of Sydney from 2006-2019, and a past President of the Australian and New Zealand Bone and Mineral Society. She is an Honorary Life Member of the Molecular and Experimental Pathology Society of ANZ and of the ANZ Bone and Mineral Society. She is a Board member of Healthy Bones Australia (formerly Osteoporosis Australia).