CONGRESS ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
IBMS/ECTS 2001 - PROGRAM and ABSTRACTS
FACULTY
HONORARY COMMITTEE
Under the Patronage of
SS MM Don Juan Carlos and Doña Sofía of Spain
Their Majesties The King and The Queen of Spain
Excmo. Sr. D. Alberto Ruiz Gallardón
President of the Madrid Community
Excma. Sra. Dña. Celia Villalobos
Minister of Health
Excmo. Sr. D. Jose María Alvarez del Manzano
Mayor of Madrid
Excmo. Sr. Dr. Ignacio Echániz
Counselor of Health. Community of Madrid
Excmo. Sr. Dr. Simón Viñals Pérez
Counselor of Health, Municipality of Madrid
Excmo. Sr. D. Raúl Villar
Chancellor of the Autonomous University of Madrid
Ilmo. Sr. Dr. Guillermo Sierra Arredondo
President of the General Council of Spanish Colleges of Physicians
CONGRESS ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Jean-Philippe Bonjour (Geneva/Switzerland)
Scientific Program Chair
Francis H. Glorieux (Montréal, Quebec/Canada
Honorary President
Stuart H. Ralston (Aberdeen/UK)
ECTS President
Aurelio Rapado (Madrid/Spain)
Local Chair
Gideon A. Rodan (West Point, PA/USA)
IBMS Vice-President
R. Graham Russell (Oxford/UK)
IBMS President
Hans van Leeuwen (Rotterdam/The Netherlands)
ECTS Secretary
LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Aurelio Rapado (Madrid/Spain)
Chair
Jorge Cannata (Oviedo/Spain)
Manuel Díaz-Curiel (Madrid/Spain)
Adolfo Díez-Pérez (Barcelona/Spain)
Fernando Escobar-Jiménez (Granada/Spain)
Miguel Ferrer (Madrid/Spain)
Jesus González-Macías (Santander/Spain)
Federico Hawkins (Madrid/Spain)
Carlos Mautalen (Buenos Aires/Argentina)
Santiago Palacios (Madrid/Spain)
Manuel Sosa (Las Palmas de G.C./Spain)
Juan Antonio Yabur (Caracas/Venezuela)
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Jean-Philippe Bonjour (Geneva/Switzerland)
Chair
Toshio Matsumoto (Tokushima/Japan)
Co-chair
Gregory R. Mundy (San Antonio, TX/USA)
Co-chair
SESSION COMMITTEES
- Session Committee 1 - Cell Biology: Osteoclasts and Related Cytokines
- Chair: Michael A. Horton (London/UK)
- Co-Chair: Alberta M. Zallone (Bari/Italy)
- Members:
- Roland Baron (New Haven, CT/USA)
- Jesus González Macías (Santander/Spain)
- Ulf Lerner (Umea/Sweden)
- F. Patrick Ross (St. Louis, MO/USA)
- Tatsuo Suda (Tokyo/Japan)
- Steven L. Teitelbaum (St. Louis, MO/USA)
- Anna Teti (L'Aquila/Italy)
Mone Zaidi (New York, NY/USA)
- Session Committee 2 - Osteoporosis: Pathophysiology, Genetics, Epidemiology
- Chair: Reinhard Ziegler (Heidelberg/Germany)
- Co-Chair: L. Joseph Melton (Rochester, MN/USA)
- Members:
- Jane A. Cauley (Pittsburgh, PA/USA)
- Cyrus Cooper (Southampton/UK)
- Manuel Díaz-Curiel (Madrid/Spain)
- Olof Johnell (Malmo/Sweden)
- Peter Lakatos (Budapest/Hungary)
- Robert R. Recker (Omaha, NE/USA)
- B. Lawrence Riggs (Rochester, MN/USA)
- Ego Seeman (Heidelberg, Melbourne/Australia)
- Session Committee 3 - Cell Biology: Osteoblasts and Related Cytokines
- Chair: Roberto Civitelli (St. Louis, MO/USA)
- Co-Chair: Slobodan Vukicevic (Zagreb/Croatia)
- Members:
- Jane E. Aubin (Toronto, Ontario/Canada)
- Erik F. Eriksen (Aarhus/Denmark)
- Stavros C. Manolagas (Little Rock, AR/USA)
- Peter J. Nijweide (Leiden/The Netherlands)
- Gideon A. Rodan (West Point, PA/USA)
- Manuel Sosa Henriquez (Las Palmas de G.C./Spain)
- Akira Yamaguchi (Nagasaki/Japan)
Marian F. Young (Bethesda, MD/USA)
- Session Committee 4 - Osteoporosis: Evaluation and Treatment
- Chair: John A. Kanis (Sheffield /UK)
- Co-Chair: Jan Stepan (Prague/Czech Republic)
- Members:
- Bess Dawson-Hughes (Boston, MA/USA)
- Pierre D. Delmas (Lyon/France)
- Adolfo Díez-Pérez (Barcelona/Spain)
- Robert Lindsay (West Haverstraw, NY/USA)
- Carlos A. Mautalen (Buenos Aires/Argentina)
- Michael R. McClung (Portland, OR/USA)
- Pierre J. Meunier (Lyon/France)
Ian R. Reid (Auckland/New Zealand)
- Session Committee 5 - Hormones, including Estrogen, Vitamin D, PTHrP
- Chair: Gordon J. Strewler (West Roxbury, MA/USA)
- Co-Chair: René Rizzoli (Geneva/Switzerland)
- Members:
- Jorge B. Cannata (Oviedo/Spain)
- David Goltzman (Montréal, Quebec/Canada)
- Michael F. Holick (Boston, MA/USA)
- Harald Jueppner (Boston, MA/USA)
- J. Wesley Pike (Cincinnati, OH/USA)
- Thomas C. Spelsberg (Rochester, MN/USA)
- Andrew F. Stewart (Pittsburgh, PA/USA)
Ulrich Trechsel (Basle/Switzerland)
- Session Committee 6 - Cancer and Metabolic Bone Diseases other than Osteoporosis
- Chair: Jean Jacques Body (Brussels/Belgium)
- Co-Chair: Socrates Papapoulos (Leiden/The Netherlands)
- Members:
- Jacques P. Brown (Ste-Foy, Quebec/Canada)
- M. Christine De Vernejoul (Paris/France)
- T. John Martin (Melbourne, Victoria/Australia)
- Jane Moseley (Fitzroy, Victoria/Australia)
- Etsuro Ogata (Tokyo/Japan)
- J. Manuel Quesada Gómez (Cordoba/Spain)
- G. David Roodman (San Antonio, TX/USA)
Toshi Yoneda (San Antonio, TX/USA)
- Session Committee 7- Skeletal Growth and Development
- Chair: Pierre J. Marie (Paris/France)
- Co-Chair: Francis H. Glorieux (Montréal, Quebec/Canada)
- Member:
- Paolo Bianco (L'Aquila/Italy)
- Agamemnon E. Grigoriadis (London/UK)
- Andrew C. Karaplis (Montréal, Quebec/Canada)
- Henry M. Kronenberg (Boston, MA/USA)
- Clemens Löwik (Leiden/The Netherlands)
- Masaki Noda (Tokyo /Japan)
René St-Arnaud (Montréal, Quebec/Canada)
- Session Committee 8 - Hot Topics
- Chair: Gideon A. Rodan (West Point, PA/USA)
- Co-Chair: Stuart H. Ralston (Aberdeen/UK)
- Co-Chair: R. Graham Russell (Oxford/UK)