Douglas Charles Bauer, MD is Associate Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology, and Bostatistics, and Director of Research, University of California San Francisco Division of General Internal Medicine.

A graduate of the University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, he completed his postgraduate training in Internal Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and subsequently completed a research fellowship in General Internal Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.

Dr. Bauer is a general internist and clinical epidemiologist with active clinical research projects in several areas of aging and osteoporosis research, including risk factors, diagnostic tests, and biochemical determinants of osteoporosis.

Dr. Bauer has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals on topics related to osteoporosis, including risk factors, diagnostic tests and treatments, and has been an invited speaker at numerous national and international meetings and educational programs.

He is a previous member of the Planning Committee of the NIH Consensus Conference on Osteoporosis, and was a member of the Advisory Committee on Biochemical Markers of Bone Turnover of the National Osteoporosis Foundation.

Dr. Bauer is a Council Member for the Western Society of Clinical Investigation, and serves on the Skeletal Biology Development and Disease Study Section for the NIH.

He serves a as peer reviewer for several prestigious journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, and the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, and maintains a general medical practice at UCSF.