Belinda Beck is a Professor at Griffith University in the School of Allied Health Sciences and the Menzies Health Institute Queensland and a Director of The Bone Clinic.  She graduated from The University of Queensland (BHMS[Ed]) and from the University of Oregon (MSc and PhD) where she studied sports medicine and exercise physiology.  She completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in the Stanford University School of Medicine (CA, USA).  Her work, primarily related to the effects of mechanical loading on bone, has involved both animal and human models, from basic to clinical research.  Her particular focuses have been exercise interventions for the prevention of osteoporosis and fracture across the lifespan, and the prevention and management of bone stress injuries in the military.  She recently co-founded The Bone Clinic, an innovative translational research facility and health service with a purpose to implement safe, evidence-based exercise for osteoporosis coupled with rigorous patient monitoring for clinical and functional outcomes.