Dr. Shalender Bhasin, MD is a Professor of Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine, and Chief of the Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition at Boston Medical Center. He serves as the Director of the NIA-funded Boston Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center for Function Promoting Therapies. Dr. Bhasin obtained his medical education at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi, India. He subsequently received his residency training at Northwestern University Medical School and fellowship training in Endocrinology and Nutrition at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA.

Dr. Bhasin is an internationally recognized endocrinologist with expertise in function promoting anabolic therapies, androgen biology and clinical trials of testosterone. He chaired the Endocrine Society’s Expert Panel for the development of Guidelines for Testosterone Therapy. He serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. He serves as the Chair of the Endocrine Society’s Clinical Guidelines Subcommittee and as a member of the American Board of Internal Medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolism Subspecialty Examination. His laboratory provided the first unequivocal evidence of the anabolic effects of androgens in humans, demonstrated that androgens regulate differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells, and invoked the activation of Wnt target genes through beta-catenin-TCF-4 pathway. He is a translational researcher, supported by several NIH-funded grants for over 20 years, and has been the recipient of numerous teaching and research awards.