Megan E. Milne, Md

Megan E. Milne, MD

Duke University

Durham, North Carolina

Dr. Milne completed her undergraduate education at Case Western Reserve University, majoring in Biochemistry and Spanish. She attended medical school at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and recently completed her internal medicine residency training at the University of Texas Southwestern. Dr. Milne is now a rheumatology fellow at Duke University.

Talks by Megan E. Milne, MD

PCa Patients on ADT- Improving Bone Health Monitoring Through Specialty Clinic Collaboration

Megan E. Milne, MD | Sep 2020

Megan E. Milne, MD, a rheumatology fellow at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, discusses efforts to encourage the referral of patients with prostate cancer treated with androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) to the High Risk Osteoporosis Clinic (HIROC) at her former institution, the University of Texas Southwestern. ADT decreases bone mineral density and increases patients’ risk of iatrogenic osteoporosis and minimal trauma fractures, but this risk is often under-discussed and referral rates to HIROC of patients treated with ADT were initially very low. By creating a best practice advisory (BPA) and conducting provider education meetings, doctors at HIROC were able to increase the referral rate from 4% to 59%, thereby increasing the number of post-intervention patients who received DXA and vitamin D monitoring.