Osteoporosis remains underdiagnosed and undertreated; that’s despite widespread availability of treatments and evidence that osteoporosis care can prolong life.
Using the ECHO model, our program offers presentations on the evaluation and management of real, anonymous patients with skeletal diseases. Our community is educational, collegial and highly interactive.
The program aims to expand global implementation of best practices in skeletal health care, reduce the osteoporosis treatment gap and empower providers to take better care of patients.
Our Bone Health program has allowed clinicians from around the world to meet online weekly since 2015.
For more information about the Bone Health ECHO program, please email our team.
Lewiecki is the director of New Mexico Clinical Research and Osteoporosis Center. He is also the director of the Bone Health ECHO program at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center.
He is a consultant and educator in osteoporosis and metabolic bone diseases. Lewiecki has served as principal investigator for many osteoporosis clinical trials and is the author of more than 300 publications in peer-reviewed medical journals, serving as review editor for "Osteoporosis International"
Associate Professor, UNM Department of Pharmacy Practice and Administrative Sciences.
Ray received her Doctor of Pharmacy from The University of New Mexico, where she completed a pharmacy practice residency and a cardiovascular pharmacotherapy residency. She practices as a pharmacist clinician in two UNM Family Medicine clinics providing diabetes management and cardiovascular risk-reduction services to high-risk patients.
Bouchonville is an associate professor at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine in the division of endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism. He serves as the medical director of the UNM Diabetes Comprehensive Care Center and UNM Center for Diabetes and Nutrition Education.
He is an associate director of Project ECHO and medical director of New Mexico ECHO programs.
In 2014, he launched the Endo ECHO program to support implementation of best practices around complex diabetes management among health care professionals in medically underserved regions of New Mexico.
Chafey is an orthopedist in Albuquerque, New Mexico and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including the University of New Mexico Hospitals and UNM Sandoval Regional Medical Center. He received his medical degree from Ponce Health Sciences University.
Tanner received his medical degree with honors from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He completed his residency in internal medicine and fellowships in rheumatology and allergy and immunology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where he founded the Vanderbilt Osteoporosis Clinic. He is a certified clinical densitometrist and past-president of the International Society for Clinical Densitometry. He continues to update and teach the ISCD Osteoporosis Essentials course.
Garcia is a program manager for the ECHO Institute, who specializes in process improvement and program implantation.
Growing up in rural New Mexico, Garcia saw firsthand how a lack of access to resources challenged many people in her community. These experiences led her to obtain a masters in Health Administration from the University of New Mexico.
Since 2019, Rebecca has dedicated herself to expanding health and community services for underserved populations through the ECHO model.
Pérez-Chávez is a program specialist at Project ECHO. She is a certified professional in training management, in charge of ECHO programs' logistics.
Her more than 18 years of experience in adult learning, training management, learning and development, guided her to obtain a master’s degree in Organizational, Information and Learning Sciences, where she found her new passion of learning through communities of practice using the ECHO model.