Bone Quality: From Bench to Bedside

Saturday, May 5 2007

Satellite to the 34th European Symposium on Calcified Tissues
Copenhagen, Denmark, May 5-9, 2007

Course fee: ECTS Member - €95, Non-member - €145
Registration: You can register for this course by selecting the option on the Copenhagen meeting registration form.

Course Organisers: Dieter Felsenberg (Berlin, Germany) and Eleftherios Paschalis (Vienna, Austria)

The aim of this ECTS training course is to provide participants with an overview of the latest opinion on bone quality and related topics, and to give practical guidance on topics such as bone strength, bone mineral density, bone turnover, oversuppression, measurement and genetics. The workshop will comprise a series of overviews and practical advice, given by experts in the field, together with discussion stimulated by issues proposed in advance by the audience.

Supporters

ECTS is grateful to the following companies who have supported the training course with unrestricted educational grants:

Amgen

The Alliance for Better Bone Health (Procter& Gamble Pharmaceuticals and sanofi-aventis)

Programme

09:05-09:40		Bone strength: Introduction - why do we need quality to complement bone mineral density?
		Graham Russell (Oxford, UK)
09:40-10:15		Basics of mechanics
		Hans Schiessl (Pforzheim, Germany)
10.15-10.50		Genetics and bone strength
		Stuart Ralston (Edinburgh, UK)
10:50-11:20		COFFEE
11:20-11:55		Bone turnover
		Richard Eastell (Sheffield, UK)
11:55-12:30		Oversuppression: what is it? And does it exist?
		Socrates Papapoulos (Leiden, Netherlands)
10:50-11:20		LUNCH
13:30-14:00		Porosity and bone strength
		Nigel Loveridge (Cambridge, UK)
14:00-14:30		Bone mineral density and micro-CT (geometry, size, shape, etc)
		Ralph Müller (Zurich, Switzerland)
14:30-15:00		Bone material quality
		Peter Fratzl (Vienna, Austria)
15:00-15:30		COFFEE
15:30-16:00		Bone mineral density distribution
		Paul Roschger (Vienna, Austria)
16:00-16:30		Collagen
		Simon Robins (Aberdeen, UK)
16:30-18:00		SUMMARY and DISCUSSION OF CLINICAL PROBLEMS SUBMITTED BY PARTICIPANTS

Speakers will:

1. Define the subject/outcome
2. Explain its relevance to bone quality and bone strength
3. Mention the pros and cons of the techniques employed
4. Provide clinical examples
5. Discuss availability in the clinical setting
6. If applicable, state how existing therapies affect the specific outcome
7. State his/her vision for the future
    

Clinical cases

Training course participants will be invited to propose clinically relevant problems they are either encountering or contemplating for discussion during the day.

See announcement and registration details [PDF]
 

Travel Grants

Travel grants are available to ECTS members.
Further information and application form
 

Continuing Medical Education (CME)

The training course has been approved for 6 CME (Continuing Medical Education) credits for full attendance by the European Accreditation Council for continuing Medical Education (EACCME). The EACCME is an institution of the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS). EACCME credits are recognized by the American Medical Association towards the Physicians' Recognition Award (PRA)

Delegates wishing to claim their points must fill in the CME evaluation form in the delegate wallet and hand it in at the registration desk to receive their certificate.