Spine Universe Author Biography

Dr. Deal did his undergraduate work at Washington University, St. Louis, MO. He attended medical school at the University of Arkansas, graduating in 1977. His internship and residency were at Boston City Hospital in Boston, MA. He completed a fellowship in arthritis and connective tissue diseases at Boston University School of Medicine in 1982.

Dr. Deal has been in Cleveland in 1984. He was Associate Professor of Medicine at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine until 1999 when he left to become head of the Section of Osteoporosis and Metabolic Bone Disease at The Cleveland Clinic Foundation.

Dr. Deal has been an active investigator in multiple clinical trials relating to arthritis and osteoporosis. He has been an investigator in multicenter studies related to steroid-induced osteoporosis and Miacalcin, hip fractures and risedronate, and the multiple outcomes of raloxifene evaluation (MORE trial).

Dr. Deal is a practicing rheumatologist at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, OH.

SpineUniverse articles from Chad Deal, M.D.

• Can Calcium and Vitamin D Supplementation Adequately Treat Most Patients with Osteoporosis?
  Calcium and Vitamin D should be used in combination with an antiresorptive agent such as estrogen, raloxifene, alendronate, risedronate, or calcitonin.