| Daily Programmes: Saturday
Sunday Monday
Tuesday Wednesday |
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| MONDAY 25 MAY, 2009 |
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08:00 – 09:00 |
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SYMPOSIUM 3: Falls
Chairs: Socrates Papapoulos (Leiden, Netherlands)
Elisabeth Preisinger (Vienna, Austria) |

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08:00 |
IS11 |
FALLS RISK ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT
Tash Masud
(Nottingham, UK) |

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08:30
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IS12 |
PREVENTION OF FRACTURES BY HIP PROTECTORS
Douglas Kiel
(Boston, USA) |

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09:00 – 10:00 |
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ORALS
3: Osteoporosis pathophysiology
Chairs: Socrates Papapoulos (Leiden, Netherlands)
Elisabeth Preisinger (Vienna, Austria) |

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10:00 – 11:15 |
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COFFEE & POSTERS
(EVEN NUMBERS ATTENDED) |

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11:15 – 12:45 |
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WORKSHOP 2: Non-canonical Wnt signaling
Chairs: Roland Baron (Boston, USA)
Franz Varga (Vienna, Austria)
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11:15 |
IS13 |
NON-CANONICAL WNT SIGNALLING: AN OVERVIEW
Michael Kühl
(Ulm, Germany) |

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11:45 |
IS14 |
A NON-CANONICAL WNT SIGNAL INDUCES OSTEOBLASGENESIS
THROUGH ATTENUATING PPARGAMMA-MEDIATED ADIPOGENESIS
Shigeaki Kato
(Tokyo, Japan) |

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12:15 |
IS15 |
ON NON-CANONICAL WNT SIGNALING CASCADES:
INSIGHTS FROM OSTEOGENIC CELLS
Fanxin Long
(Saint Louis, USA) |

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11:15 – 12:45 |
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WORKSHOP 3: What we have learnt from
cohort studies?
Chairs: Bente Langdahl (Aarhus, Denmark)
Harald Dobnig (Graz, Austria) |

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11:15
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IS16 |
COMPARISON TO CLINICAL TRIAL INFORMATION
Jane Cauley
(Pittsburgh, USA) |

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11:45 |
IS17 |
SEX STEROIDS IN THE REGULATION OF BONE METABOLISM
IN MEN
Claes Ohlsson
(Gothenburg, Sweden) |

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12:15 |
IS18 |
THE BENEFITS OF COMBINING COHORTS FOR MEGA-ANALYSIS
Eugene McCloskey
(Sheffield, UK) |

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12:45 – 14:00 |
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LUNCH & POSTERS |

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12:45 – 13:15 |
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ECTS AGM
All members are invited to attend the AGM and drinks reception
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13:00 – 14:00 |
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MEET
THE PROFESSOR SESSIONS
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14:00 – 15:00 |
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SYMPOSIUM 4: Mesenchymal stem cells
Chairs: Hans van Leeuwen (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
Peter Pietschmann (Vienna, Austria) |

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14:00 |
IS19 |
MATRIX ELASTICITY DIRECTS STEM CELL LINEAGE
- SOLUBLE FACTORS THAT LIMIT OSTEOGENESIS
Dennis Discher
(Philadelphia, USA) |

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14:30
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IS20 |
CLINICAL APPLICATIONS OF MESENCHYMAL STEM
CELLS
Franz Jakob
(Wuerzburg, Germany) |

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15:00 – 15:12 |
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ECTS CAREER ESTABLISHMENT AWARD(S)
ECTS POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP AWARD(S) |

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15:12 – 16:12 |
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ORALS
4: Osteoblasts and bone formation
Chairs: Hans van Leeuwen (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
Peter Pietschmann (Vienna, Austria) |

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16:12 – 16:42 |
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COFFEE BREAK |

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16:42 – 17:30 |
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ORAL
POSTERS 2: Clinical
Chairs: Stuart Ralston (Edinburgh, UK)
Hans Peter Dimai (Graz, Austria) |

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16:42 – 17:30 |
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ORAL
POSTERS 2: Basic
Chairs: Miep Helfrich (Aberdeen, UK)
Heide Cross (Vienna, Austria) |
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17:30 – 18:00 |
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BREAK |

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18:00 – 19:30 |
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SATELLITE SYMPOSIUM 6
Moving beyond conventional antiresorptives
SUPPORTED BY MSD
Chair: Roland Baron (Boston, USA)
MUSCULOSKELETAL HEALTH AND VITAMIN D
Heike Bischoff-Ferrari (Zurich, Switzerland)
ODANACATIB: A NOVEL ANTIRESORPTIVE AGENT
Michael McClung (Portland, USA)
NEW APPROACHES TO OSTEOANABOLIC THERAPY
John Bilezikian (New York, USA)
FOLLOWED BY BUSES TO SOCIAL EVENTS
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20:00 – 21:30
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GALA CONCERT AT THE VIENNA KONZERTHAUS |

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20:00 – 22:00 |
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ECTS FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT
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