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International Research Prize

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Daily Programmes: Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday

 
SUNDAY 24 MAY, 2009

08:00 – 09:00

 

SYMPOSIUM 1: Calcium signaling

Chairs: Anna Teti (L’Aquila, Italy)
Meinrad Peterlik (Vienna, Austria)

08:00

IS04

CALCIUM SIGNALLING IN HEALTH AND DISEASE
Michael Berridge (Cambridge, UK)

08:30

IS05

BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOLOGY OF THE EXTRACELLULAR CALCIUM-SENSING RECEPTOR
Edward Brown (Boston, USA)

09:00 – 10:00

 

ORALS 1: Calcium regulating hormones

Chairs: Anna Teti (L’Aquila, Italy)
Meinrad Peterlik (Vienna, Austria)

10:00 – 11:15

 

COFFEE & POSTERS (ODD NUMBERS ATTENDED)

11:15 – 12:45

 

ECTS-ASBMR DEBATE: This house believes that all patients with asymptomatic primary hyperparathyroidism who are medically fit should undergo parathyroid surgery

Chairs: Richard Eastell (Sheffield, UK)
David Goltzman (Montreal, Canada)


11.15

 

INTRODUCTION
Richard Eastell (Sheffield, UK)

VOTE

FOR THE MOTION
Radu Mihai (Oxford, UK)

AGAINST THE MOTION
John Bilezikian (New York, USA)

REBUTTAL
Radu Mihai

REBUTTAL
John Bilezikian

DISCUSSION

VOTE

12:45

 

CLOSE
David Goltzman (Montreal, Canada)

11:15 – 12:45

 

WORKSHOP 1: Adult forms of monogenic bone disorders

Chairs: Wim van Hul (Antwerp, Belgium)
Rudolph Gasser (Innsbruck, Austria)

11:15

IS06

OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA, PATHOGENESIS AND TREATMENT
Osten Ljunggren (Uppsala, Sweden)

11:45

IS07

HYPOPHOSPHATASIA
Michael Whyte (St Louis, USA)

12:15

IS08

LESSONS FROM HUMAN OSTEOPETROSIS
Jens Bollerslev (Oslo, Norway)

12:45 – 14:00

 

LUNCH & POSTERS

13:00 – 14:00

 

MEET THE PROFESSOR SESSIONS

14:00 – 15:00

 

SYMPOSIUM 2: Uncoupling approaches for osteoporosis treatment

Chairs: Steven Boonen (Leuven, Belgium)
Eleftherios Paschalis (Vienna, Austria)

14:00

IS09

STUDIES OF ANTIRESORPTIVE AGENTS PLUS PARATHYROID HORMONE IN THE TREATMENT OF BONE LOSS
David Goltzman (Montreal, Canada)

14:30

IS10

UNCOUPLING ANABOLISM FROM BONE RESORPTION
Jack Martin (Melbourne, Australia)

15:00 – 15:12

 

ECTS / AMGEN BONE BIOLOGY FELLOWSHIP
ECTS / SERVIER RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP
ECTS / ABBH IAIN T BOYLE AWARD

15:12 – 16:12

 

ORALS 2: Osteoclasts and bone resorption

Chairs: Erwin Wagner (Madrid, Spain)
Elisabeth Zwettler (Vienna, Austria)

16:12 – 16:42

 

COFFEE BREAK

16:42 – 17:30

 

ORAL POSTERS 1: Clinical

Chairs: Serge Ferrari (Geneva, Switzerland)
Astrid Fahrleitner-Pammer (Graz, Austria)

16:42 – 17:30

 

ORAL POSTERS 1: Basic

Chairs: Peter Fratzl (Potsdam, Germany)
Reinhold Erben (Vienna, Austria)

17:30 – 18:00

 

BREAK

18:00 – 19:30

 

SATELLITE SYMPOSIUM 5
The evidence builds for zoledronic acid: unparalleled comprehensive fracture protection

SUPPORTED BY NOVARTIS

Chair: René Rizzoli (Geneva, Switzerland)

WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION
René Rizzoli (Geneva, Switzerland)

WEIGHING THE EVIDENCE IN POSTMENOPAUSAL OSTEOPOROSIS
Michael McClung (Portland, USA)

COMPREHENSIVE OSTEOPOROSIS PROTECTION: BEYOND THE PMO PATIENT
David Reid (Aberdeen, UK)

EVIDENCE FROM HORIZON-RFT: THE ONLY RANDOMIZED TRIAL IN POST-HIP FRACTURE SURGERY PATIENTS
Steven Boonen (Leuven, Belgium)

STATE-OF-THE-ART OSTEOPOROSIS TREATMENT: PANEL DISCUSSION
René Rizzoli (Geneva, Switzerland)

CLOSING REMARKS
René Rizzoli (Geneva, Switzerland)

 

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