Daily Programmes: Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday

08:55– 16:30

ECTS TRAINING COURSE: BONE HISTOMORPHOMETRY AND RELATED APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF BONE
Chairs: Richard Eastell (Sheffield, UK)
Klaus Klaushofer (Vienna, Austria)

08:55

INTRODUCTION AND WELCOME
Peter Fratzl (Potsdam, Germany)

09:00

HISTOMORPHOMETRY
Ellen Hauge (Aarhus, Denmark)

09:40

SPECIES DIFFERENCES IN HISTOMORPHOMETRY
Reinhold Erben (Vienna, Austria)

10:20

COFFEE BREAK

10:50

IMMUNOLOCALIZATION OF EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS IN MINERALIZED TISSUES BY LIGHT AND ELECTRON MICROSCOPY
Marc McKee (Montreal, Canada)

11:30

DISCUSSION

12:00

LUNCH

Chairs: Peter Fratzl (Potsdam, Germany)
Bente Langdahl (Aarhus, Denmark)

13:00

BONE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES ASSESSED FROM MICROCT AND NANOINDENTATION
Philippe Zysset (Vienna, Austria)

13:40

SYNCHROTRONE BASED INVESTIGATIONS OF BONE MATERIAL
Himadri Gupta (London, UK)

14:20

COFFEE BREAK

14:50

BMDD COMPUTER MODELING OF MINERALIZATION KINETICS
Richard Weinkamer (Potsdam, Germany)

15:30

VIBRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPIC METHODS - FTIRI AND RAMAN
Eleftherios Paschalis (Vienna, Austria)

16:10

DISCUSSION

16:30

ECTS TRAINING COURSE SESSION ENDS

10:30 – 12:30

ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONALS SESSION
Chairs: Stuart Ralston (Edinburgh, UK)
Dorthe Nielsen (Odense, Denmark)

10:30

INTRODUCTION TO THE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE MEETING
Stuart Ralston (Edinburgh, UK)

11:00

IS01

PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND OSTEOPOROSIS
Dawn Skelton (Glasgow, UK)

11:20

IS02

A GROUNDED THEORY STUDY OF MEN'S PERCEPTIONS AND EXPERIENCE OF OSTEOPOROSIS
Helen Raphael (Southampton, UK)

11:40

IS03

SECONDARY HIP FRACTURE PREVENTION THROUGH INTEGRATED CLINICAL APPROACHES INVOLVING SPECIALISTS, GENERAL PRACTITIONERS AND NURSES
Elisabeth Zwettler (Vienna, Austria)

12:00

OC01
/AHP01

FAILURE TO PERCEIVE INCREASED RISK OF FRACTURE IN WOMEN AGED 55 YEARS AND OLDER. THE GLOBAL LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF OSTEOPOROSIS IN WOMEN
S. Adami^*1, S. Boonen², C. Cooper³, A. Díez-Pérez⁴, S. L. Greenspan⁵, A. LaCroix⁶, K. G. Saag⁷, S. Silverman⁸, N. B. Watts⁹, A. Wyman¹⁰, E. S. Siris^11
1Department of Rheumatology, University of Verona, Verona, Italy, ²Division of Geriatric Medicine, Leuven University Center for Metabolic Bone Diseases, Leuven, Belgium, ³MRC Environmental Epidemiology Unit, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, United Kingdom, ⁴Autonomous University of Barcelona, Hospital Del Mar, Barcelona, Spain, ⁵Osteoporosis Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, ⁶Fred Hutchinson, Cancer Research Center, Seattle, ⁷Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, ⁸Department of Rheumatology, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, ⁹Bone Health and Osteoporosis Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, ¹⁰Center for Outcomes Research, UMASS Medical School, Worcester, ¹¹Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, United States

12:10

OC02
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INTERNATIONAL VARIATION IN PROXIMAL FEMUR BONE MINERAL DENSITY
M. A. Paggiosi^*1, C. C. Glueer2, C. Roux³, D. M. Reid⁴, D. Felsenberg⁵, R. Barkmann², R. Eastell^1
1Sheffield NIHR Biomedical Research Unit, Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, United Kingdom, ²Department of Diagnostic Radiology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany, ³Rheumatology Department, Cochin Hospital, Rene Decartes University, Paris, France, ⁴Division of Applied Medicine, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, ⁵Centre for Muscle and Bone Research, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Free University and Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany

12:20

OC03
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TERIPARATIDE VERSUS ALENDRONATE FOR TREATING
GLUCOCORTICOID-INDUCED OSTEOPOROSIS: EFFECTS OF GENDER AND MENOPAUSAL STATUS - 24-MONTH RESULTS
H. Dobnig*¹, M. R. Warner², B. L. Langdahl³, R. Möricke⁴, K. See², F. Marin^5
1Internal Medicine, Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria, ²Lilly Research Laboratories, Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, United States, ³Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark, ⁴Endocrinology, Clinical Research Laboratory, Magdeburg, Germany, ⁵Lilly Research Laboratories, Eli Lilly and Company, Madrid, Spain

12:30

ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONALS SESSION ENDS

15:00 – 16:30

SATELLITE SYMPOSIUM 3
Bisphosphonate therapy: enhancing osteoporosis management

SUPPORTED BY THE ALLIANCE FOR BETTER BONE HEALTH (PROCTER & GAMBLE PHARMACEUTICALS AND SANOFI-AVENTIS)

Traditional Viennese delicacies will be served to all attendees prior to the symposium

Chair: Juliet Compston (Cambridge, UK)

INTRODUCTION
Juliet Compston (Cambridge, UK)

ANALYSIS OF REGIONAL DIFFERENCES IN RISK FACTORS AND FRAGILITY FRACTURES IN THE GLOW STUDY
Juliet Compston (Cambridge, UK)

EFFECTIVENESS OF BISPHOSPHONATES ON CLINICAL PRACTICE: NEW PERSPECTIVES
Serge Ferrari (Geneva, Switzerland)

EVALUATION OF SAFETY IN LONG-TERM MANAGEMENT OF OSTEOPOROSIS
Graham Russell (Oxford, UK)

CONCLUSION AND Q&A SESSION
Juliet Compston (Cambridge, UK)

16:30 – 17:00

BREAK

17:00 – 18:30

SATELLITE SYMPOSIUM 4
New perspectives for the treatment of osteoporosis: from bench to bedside

SUPPORTED BY AMGEN

Chair: Stuart Ralston (Edinburgh, UK)

PREVENTING BONE LOSS BY TARGETING THE RANK/RANKL/OPG PATHWAY
Serge Ferrari (Geneva, Switzerland)

THE EFFECTS OF RANK LIGAND INHIBITION ON MARKERS OF BONE TURNOVER
Richard Eastell (Sheffield, UK)

THE ROLE OF RANK LIGAND IN CONDITIONS OF HORMONE ABLATION
Lorenz Hofbauer (Dresden, Germany)

18:30 – 19:00

BREAK

19:00 – 20:00

OPENING CEREMONY AND PRESENTATION OF THE 2009 INTERNATIONAL PRIZE OF THE AUSTRIAN SOCIETY FOR BONE AND MINERAL RESEARCH

19:00

WELCOME TO THE MEETING
Roland Baron (ECTS President)

19:10

WELCOME TO VIENNA
Klaus Klaushofer (Chair, Local Organising Committee)

19:15

INTRODUCTION OF THE 2009 INTERNATIONAL PRIZE OF THE AUSTRIAN SOCIETY FOR BONE AND MINERAL RESEARCH
Klaus Klaushofer (Board Member, AuSBMR; Chair, International Jury)

19:25

PRESENTATION OF THE AWARD
Günter Cseh (representative from Meda Pharma GmbH)

19:30

LECTURE FROM PRIZE WINNER
BONE HOMEOSTASIS AND THE FUNCTIONS OF AP-1 (FOS/JUN)
Erwin Wagner (Madrid, Spain)

20:00

CONCLUDING REMARKS AND INTRODUCTION TO THE TANZGEIGER BAND
Roland Baron (ECTS President)