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Michael F. Holick

Michael F. Holick

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2025

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514
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

Michael F. Holick is affiliated with Boston University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with significant contributions to pathology and forensic medicine, nutrition and dietetics, genetics, infectious diseases, and orthopedics and sports medicine. These areas reflect a broad engagement with clinical and biomedical topics, especially related to vitamin research and human health.

The scientist has been involved in numerous studies spanning topics such as vitamin D research, vitamin C and antioxidants, COVID-19 clinical research, bone health and osteoporosis, connective tissue disorders, skin protection and aging, and the effects of estrogen and related hormones.

Frequent co-authors of Michael F. Holick include Nipith Charoenngam, Arash Shirvani, Andrzej Słomiński, Radomir M. Slominski, and William B. Grant. These collaborations underline a strong network within their fields of study and publication.

Research outputs have been published prominently in journals such as Nutrients, Endocrine Practice, Anticancer Research, Journal of the Endocrine Society, and Journal of Investigative Dermatology. The most notable publication venue is Nutrients, with eleven papers contributed by the scientist.

Selected recent papers illustrate the scope and focus of Michael F. Holick's research:

  • Immunologic Effects of Vitamin D on Human Health and Disease (2020, Nutrients)
  • SARS-CoV-2 positivity rates associated with circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels (2020, PLoS ONE)
  • Vitamin D sufficiency, a serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D at least 30 ng/mL reduced risk for adverse clinical outcomes in patients with COVID-19 infection (2020, PLoS ONE)
  • Guidelines for Preventing and Treating Vitamin D Deficiency: A 2023 Update in Poland (2023, Nutrients)
  • Photoprotective Properties of Vitamin D and Lumisterol Hydroxyderivatives (2020, Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics)

Michael F. Holick has been recognized as a member of the Association of American Physicians, an award that highlights professional standing within the medical community.

Best Publications

  • Vitamin D Deficiency

    Michael F. Holick

  • Evaluation, Treatment, and Prevention of Vitamin D Deficiency: an Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline

    Michael F. Holick;Neil C. Binkley;Heike A. Bischoff-Ferrari;Catherine M. Gordon

  • Decreased bioavailability of vitamin D in obesity

    Jacobo Wortsman;Lois Y Matsuoka;Tai C Chen;Zhiren Lu

  • Sunlight and vitamin D for bone health and prevention of autoimmune diseases, cancers, and cardiovascular disease

    Michael F Holick

  • Vitamin D deficiency : a worldwide problem with health consequences

    Michael F Holick;Tai C Chen

  • High prevalence of vitamin D inadequacy and implications for health.

    Michael F. Holick

  • Estimates of optimal vitamin D status

    Bess Dawson-Hughes;Robert P. Heaney;Michael F. Holick;Paul Lips

  • Vitamin D: importance in the prevention of cancers, type 1 diabetes, heart disease, and osteoporosis

    Michael F Holick

  • Influence of season and latitude on the cutaneous synthesis of vitamin D3: exposure to winter sunlight in Boston and Edmonton will not promote vitamin D3 synthesis in human skin.

    A. R. Webb;L. Kline;M. F. Holick

  • Resurrection of vitamin D deficiency and rickets

    Michael F. Holick

  • Vitamin D Status: Measurement, Interpretation, and Clinical Application

    Michael F. Holick

  • Vitamin D: A millenium perspective

    Michael F. Holick

  • Aging decreases the capacity of human skin to produce vitamin D3.

    J MacLaughlin;M F Holick

  • Vitamin D for Health: A Global Perspective

    Arash Hossein-nezhad;Michael F. Holick

  • Human serum 25-hydroxycholecalciferol response to extended oral dosing with cholecalciferol

    Robert P Heaney;K Michael Davies;Tai C Chen;Michael F Holick

  • Increased skin pigment reduces the capacity of skin to synthesise vitamin D3.

    T.L. Clemens;S.L. Henderson;J.S. Adams;M.F. Holick

  • Epidemic influenza and vitamin D.

    J. J. Cannell;R. Vieth;J. C. Umhau;M. F. Holick

  • The Role of Vitamin D in Cancer Prevention

    Cedric F. Garland;Frank C. Garland;Edward D. Gorham;Martin Lipkin

  • Prevalence of vitamin D inadequacy among postmenopausal north american women receiving osteoporosis therapy

    Michael F. Holick;Ethel S. Siris;Neil Binkley;Mary K. Beard

  • Vitamin D deficiency.

    Roger Bouillon;Anthony W Norman;Paul Lips

Frequent Co-Authors

Tai C. Chen
Tai C. Chen Boston University
Hector F. DeLuca
Hector F. DeLuca University of Wisconsin–Madison
William B. Grant
William B. Grant Sunlight, Nutrition, and Health Research Center
Vin Tangpricha
Vin Tangpricha Emory University
Thomas L. Clemens
Thomas L. Clemens United States Department of Veterans Affairs
Robert P. Heaney
Robert P. Heaney Creighton University
Clifford J. Rosen
Clifford J. Rosen Maine Medical Center
Susan L. Greenspan
Susan L. Greenspan University of Pittsburgh
John S. Adams
John S. Adams University of California, Los Angeles
Andrzej Slominski
Andrzej Slominski University of Alabama at Birmingham

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