Orhan Oz, MD, PhD

Associate Professor
Endowed Title: Wechun Pak Professorship of Bone Biophysics
Radiology

Contact Information

UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75390

Office Phone: 214-648-8018
Office Fax: 214-648-2678

orhan.oz@utsouthwestern.edu

To make an appointment, call 214-645-8300.

Education

ResidencyParkland Memorial Hospital, Diagnostic Radiology (1995)
InternshipParkland Memorial Hospital, Diagnostic Radiology (1992)
Medical SchoolStanford University (1991)

Research Interests

Mechanism underlining estrogens’ regulation of bone mass and metabolism
Tumor imaging

Publications

Featured
Pathogenesis of Primary Hypercalciuria

Moe OW, Zerwekh JE, Huang CL, Preisig PA, Oz OK, Pak CYC , Clinical Cases in Mineral and Bone Metabolism , 2004; (1/1):13-19

Featured
Biodistribution of Phosphodiester and Phosphorothioate siRNA

Braasch DA, Paroo Z, Constantinescu A, Ren G, Oz OK, Mason RP, Corey DR , Biorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters , 2004; (14):1139-1143

Featured
Expression of aromatase in the human growth plate

Oz OK, Millsaps R, Welch R, Birch J, Zerwekh JE , J Molec Endocrinol , 2001; (27/2):249-253

Featured
Bone has a sexually dimorphic response to aromatase deficiency

Oz OK, Zerwekh JE, Fisher C, Graves K, Nanu L, Millsaps R, Simpson ER , J Bone Min Res , 2000; (15):507-513

Viable Mice with compound mutations in the Wnt/Dvl-pathway antagonists nkd1 and nkd2

Zhang S, Cagatay T, Amanai M, Zhang M, Kline J, Castrillon DH, Ashfaq R, Oz OK, and Wharton KA , Molecular and Cell Biology , June 2007; (27):4454-64

Fortuitous detection of Pseudoaneurysm by three-phase bone scan

Coskun ZU, Stewart CE, Robinson M, Beisert G, Rivera FJ, Oz OK , Clinical Nuclear Medicine , 2005; (30):685-687

Aromatase Deficiency Causes Altered Expression of Molecules Critical for Calcium Reabsorption in the Kidneys of Female Mice

Orhan K. Oz, Asghar Hajibeigi, Kevin Howard, Carolyn L. Cummins, Monique van Abel, Rene J. M. Bindels, R. Ann Word, Makoto Kuro-o, Charles Y. C. Pak, Joseph E. Zerwekh , Journal of Bone and Mineral Research , ; (in press)

Honors/Awards

Career Development Award

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (2000)

Compton Dissertation Fellowship

Dissertation Fellowship (1987)

Atlanta Rotary Club Award

Academic Excellence (1982)

National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke

Exceptional Summer Employee Award (1982)

Phi Beta Kappa

(1980)

Professional Associations/Affiliations

American Society of Bone and Mineral Research

Endocrine Society

International Bone and Mineral Society

National Medical Association

Society of Nuclear Medicine