Mission: To collate and translate the results of current research findings to other members of the college, to develop collaborative research groups with ACSM facilitating extensive multidisciplinary approaches to the study of bone health, to provide informed chairs to bone related professional societies and to develop recommendations for the prevention of osteoporosis.
Leadership
Sarah Wherry, PhD
Chair
Sarah is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Colorado Anschutz and a Research Health Scientist with the VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System. She is trained as an exercise physiologist and biochemist, and her research includes the bone biomarker response to acute exercise in older adults, including the role of exercise mode and intensity. She began her appointment as a co-chair of the ACSM BONE SIG in 2025.
Bree Baker, PhD, FACSM
Co-Chair
Bree is the director of the Musculoskeletal Adaptations to Aging and eXercise (MAAX) Lab at Oklahoma State University. Our team, which includes both undergraduate and graduate students, investigates what factors are most influential for protecting one from musculoskeletal injury. This work entails the implementation of a variety of interventions in athletes, clinical, and aging populations. For more information on the MAAX please click here. Bree began her appointment as a co-chair of the ACSM BONE SIG in 2025.
Charlotte Coombs, PhD
Co-Chair
Charlotte is a Senior Physiologist for the British Army and has spent the last 7 years within the Army Health and Performance Research Team researching the health and performance of service personnel for Defence. Charlotte was a co-author of the British Army’s 2024 report on Optimising the Health and Performance of Women in Ground Close Combat Roles; an 8-year research programme delivering clinical research studies to inform policy on physical training, musculoskeletal injury, nutrition, and reproductive health. Charlotte is an accredited CASES physiologist and Chartered Scientist, and her research interests are in bone metabolism, female health, and tissue regeneration. Charlotte began her appointment as a co-chair of the ACSM BONE SIG in 2025.
Kristen Koltun, PhD, FACSM
Co-Chair
Kristen Koltun is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sports Medicine and Nutrition and a member of the Neuromuscular Research Laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh. Trained as an exercise physiologist, her research investigates the adaptive bone response to physical training, with a particular focus on sex differences in the metabolic and endocrine mechanisms underlying adaptation and injury risk. She began her appointment as Co-Chair of the ACSM BONE SIG in 2026.
Announcements:
- The Bone and Osteoporosis Network Exchange Special Interest Group are seeking abstract reviewers for annual conference awards and speakers for webinars.
- We hold an evening meeting at the annual meeting and webinars every quarter.
- Webinar: March 11 at 10:00 a.m. EST
- Annual Meeting: Wed, May 27 at 6:20 – 7:50 p.m.
Awards
Young Investigator Award for Best Presentation at Annual Conference.
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