Teresita Bellido, Ph.D. is Professor and Chair of the Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, UAMS. She graduated from the Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina; and performed postdoctoral studies at Indiana University and the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. Dr. Bellido’s research focuses on signal transduction in bone cells, with emphasis on osteocyte biology and the direct action of hormones on bone cells.