Smita Jha, MBBS

Background

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https://twitter.com/docsmita_jha?lang=en

Recent News Articles and Media Coverage

• Following Media Reports of Safety Concerns, Use of Osteoporosis Drugs Down, Science 2.0 (June 18, 2015)

  Bisphosphonates use drop after media reports of safety concerns, Healio (June 18, 2015)

  Did reports of side-effects contribute to drop in bone drug use?, Reuters (July 20, 2015)

  More Support for Osteoporosis Drugs, Wall Street Journal (February 15, 2016)

  Fearing Drug's Rare Side Effects, Millions Take Their Chances With Osteoporosis, New York Times (June 1, 2016) 

  Experts streamline guidelines for treating osteoporosis, CNN (May 8, 2017)

  Scientists uncover cause of disease that makes bones “drip like candle wax”, Newsweek (April 12, 2018)

Research Interests

adrenal diseases, diabetes, genetics, metabolic bone diseases

Google Scholar

https://scholar.google.nl/citations?hl=en&user=eKC285AAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&citft=1&citft=2&email_for_op=smita.jha%40nih.gov&gmla=AJsN-F73vDOJoSXEJyex0O0TpSh8jT595qou-4j-eqBQ2I9wGrTH6aPsWzUdxz1zb6KyRqTtJsvyE8zEVrk-rDDOF_SaG7DXosrR2R3DgdtBB7in_DqS0n0

PubMed

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=jha%2C%20smita%20

Selected Publications

• Jha S*, Sinaii N*, McGlotten RN, Nieman LK. Remission of hypertension after surgical cure of Cushing’s Syndrome, Clin Endo, 2020; 92(2):124-130. PMID: 31721265

• Jha S, Turcu A, Sinaii N, Brookner B, Auchus RJ, Merke DP. 11-Oxygenated Androgens Useful in the Setting of Discrepant Conventional Biomarkers in 21-Hydroxylase Deficiency, Journal of Endocrine Society 2021; 5 (2): bvaa192, https://doi.org/10.1210/jendso/bvaa192 PMID: 33447690

• Jha S, Wang Z, Laucis N, Bhattacharyya T. Trends in Media Reports, Oral Bisphosphonate Prescriptions, and Hip Fractures 1996-2012: An Ecological Analysis; Journal of Bone and Mineral Research 2015; 30(12): 2179-2187. PMID: 26018247

• Kang H*, Jha S*, Deng Z*, Fratzl-Zelman N, Cabral WA, Ivovic A, Meylan F, Hanson EP, Lange E, Katz J, Roschger P, Klaushofer K, Siegel R#, Marini JC#, Bhattacharyya T#. Somatic Activating Mutations in MAP2K1 Cause Melorheostosis” Nature Communications 9(1): 1390, 2018. PMID: 29643386

• Kang H*, Jha S*, Ivovic A*, Fratzl-Zelman Nadja, Deng Z, Mitra A, Cabral WA, Hanson EP, Lange E, Katz J, Roschger P, Klaushofer K, Dale RK, Siegel RM, Bhattacharyya T, Marini JC. Somatic SMAD3 activating mutations cause melorheostosis by upregulating the TGF-β/ SMAD pathway, Journal of Experimental Medicine, 2020: 217(5). PMID: 32232430

Honors

• NIH Group Merit Award, 1/1/18
• NICHD Collaboration Award, 1/1/18
• Invited to compete in the Presidential Poster Competition for a first-authored top-scoring abstract, Endocrine Society Annual Meeting, 1/1/17
• Fellow Travel Grant, Endocrine Society Annual Meeting, Endocrine Society, 1/1/17
• Fellow Travel Grant, American Society of Bone and Mineral Research Annual Meeting, Endocrine Fellows Foundation, 1/1/17
• Fellow Travel Grant, Santa Fe Bone Symposium, Endocrine Society, 1/1/17
• Fellow Travel Grant, Endocrine Fellows Foundation Research Meeting, Endocrine Fellows Foundation, 1/1/15
• Letter of Honorable Mention, Outstanding Article of the Year, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 1/1/15
• Fellow Travel Grant, American Diabetes Association Fellows Forum on Metabolic Bone Diseases, Endocrine Fellows Foundation, 1/1/14
• Helmsley Charitable Trust Abstract Award in Diabetes, Endocrine Society, 1/1/14

Memberships

• Endocrine Society
• American Society of Bone and Mineral Research
• Women in Endocrinology