Dr. Teresita Bellido

Dr. Bellido, Professor and Chair of the Department of Physiology and Cell Biology in the College of Medicine of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), has joint appointments in the UAMS Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, and in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. Dr. Bellido is also a Research Career Scientist, at the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System – John L. McClellan Memorial Hospital, in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Dr. Bellido holds major grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Veterans Administration and has served in multiple NIH Study sections. She is past president (2020) of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR). A highly respected scientist and internationally known leader in bone research, her research focuses on signal transduction in bone and muscle, with particular emphasis on osteocyte biology in health and disease and the mechanisms of hormonal action in the musculoskeletal system.

Dr. Bellido is also highly committed to mentorship and faculty development, both within her own department and through her service as co-Chair of the Orthopedic Research Society (ORS) Workshop of Musculoskeletal Biology (previously at Sun Valley); and faculty and co-Director of the Endocrine Fellows Forum (EFF), a training tool for physicians and scientists in bone and mineral metabolism.

For her scientific and mentoring efforts, Bellido was awarded the Women Faculty Leadership Award and the Outstanding Postdoc Mentor Award in 2015 by Indiana University. In addition, she received the 2015 ASBMR Paula Stern Achievement Award, the 2018 ASBMR Gideon A. Rodan Excellence in Mentorship Award, and the 2022 ASBMR Stephen M. Krane Award, given in recognition of outstanding achievements in basic, translational, or clinical research in inflammation and/or skeletal matrix biology.