Professor Vladyslav Povoroznyuk, passed away on June 12, 2021 at the age of 66 years.
He was known as the acting President of the Ukrainian Association of Osteoporosis, President of the Ukrainian Association of Andropause, Menopause, Bone and Joint Disease; the Board member of the International Osteoporosis Foundation; Head of the Ukrainian Division of the European Vitamin D Association (EVIDAS), Head of the Department of Clinical Physiology and Pathology of the Locomotor Apparatus of State Institution «D.F. Chebotarev Institute of Gerontology», NAMS of Ukraine, Director of the Ukrainian Scientific Medical Centre of Osteoporosis, Honoured scientist and technology expert of Ukraine, Member of ACR, ECTS, EMAS, EULAR, ISCD, ISSAM, OARSI, SICOT; the Editor-in-Chief of the “Pain. Joints. Spine”, “Problems of Osteology”, and “International Osteological Journal”, member of the editorial board of “Problems of Aging and Longevity”, “Gerontechnology”, “Gerontologija” (Lithuania), “Medix.Antiaging”, “Ukrainian Rheumatologic Journal”, “Orthopaedics, Traumatology, Endoprosthetics” (Ukraine) journals and others.