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2003

April 8-9, 2003 — Health Economics in Rheumatology: An International Conference, Rochester, Minnesota, USA. Contact:
D. Jacobson, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN 55905.
Tel. 507 284 2720, fax 507 284 1516. E-mail: jacobson.darcy@mayo.edu

June 3-7, 2003 — First Joint Meeting of the International Bone
and Mineral Society and the Japanese Society for Bone and
Mineral Research, Osaka, Japan. Contact: K. Nishimoto, Congress Secretariat, IBMS-JSBMR 2003, Japan Convention Service, Keihanshin Fudosan Yodoyabashi, Bldg. 4F, 4-4-7, Imabashi, Chuo-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka 530-0047, Japan. Tel. 816 6221 5933, fax 816 6221 5939,
email: ibms@convention.co.jp

June 18-21, 2003 — EULAR 2003, Annual European Congress of Rheumatology, Lisbon, Portugal. www.eular.org.

June 19-20, 2003 — eMusk2: Second International Meeting on Evidence-Based, User-Focused Management of Musculoskeletal Conditions, University of Teesside, Middlesbrough, UK. Deadline for submission of abstracts January 9, 2003. Contact: Kate Rowntree, eMusk Co-ordinator, School of Health and Social Care, University of Teesside, Middlesbrough, UK TS1 3BA. Tel. 44 (0)1642 384108, fax: 44 (0)1642 384995. E-mail: emusk@tees.ac.uk

June 25-28, 2003 — American College of Rheumatology 3rd Annual Summer Rheumatology Symposium, Santa Barbara, California, USA. Contact: American College of Rheumatology, Suite 250, 1800 Century Place, Atlanta, Georgia 30345-4300. www.rheumatology.org

August 2-6, 2003 — 6th World Congress on Inflammation, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Contact: Conference Secretariat, Triangle 3 Ltd., Triangle House, Broomhill Road, London SW18 4HX, England. Tel. 44 020 8875 2440, fax 44 020 8875 2421, e-mail: info@triangle3.com

September 16-20, 2003 — Joint Meeting of the American Association of Electrodiagnostic Medicine and the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology with the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society and the International Society of Transcranial Stimulation, San Francisco, California, USA. Contact: AAEM, Suite 300E, 421 First Avenue SW, Rochester, Minnesota 55902. Tel. 507 288 0100, fax 507 288 1225. E-mail: aaaem@aaem.net

September 19-23, 2003 — 25th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research - ASBMR 2003, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Contact: ASBMR, Suite 300, 1200 19th Street, NW, Washington DC 20036, USA. Tel 202 367 1161, fax 202 223 4579. Website: http://www.asbmr.org. E-mail: asbmr@dc.sba.com

October 12-15, 2003 — Osteoarthritis Research Society International (OARSI) World Congress, Berlin, Germany. Contact: OARSI, Suite 800, 2025 M Street, Washington, DC 20036-3309, USA. Tel. 202 367 1177, fax 202 367 2177, e-mail: oarsi@oarsi.org

October 23-28, 2003 — 67th Annual American College of Rheumatology Meeting, Orlando, Florida, USA. Contact: American College of Rheumatology, Suite 250, 1800 Century Place, Atlanta, Georgia 30345-4300. www.rheumatology.org.

2004

April 20-23, 2004 — XXI British Society for Rheumatology Annual General Meeting, Edinburgh, UK. Contact: C. Pembroke, Conference Manager, British Society for Rheumatology, 41 Eagle Street, London WC1R 4AR, UK. Tel: 44 20 7242 3313, fax: 44 20 7242 3277. E-mail: caroline@rheumatology.org.uk. Website: http://www.rheumatology.org.uk

May 14-18, 2004 — International Osteoporosis Foundation World Congress, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Contact: S. Sharpe, IOF, 5 rue Perdtemps, 1260 Nyon, Switzerland. Website: www.osteofound.org,
e-mail: info@osteofound.org

June 9-12, 2004 — Annual European Congress of Rheumatology, Berlin, Germany. Contact: EULAR, MCI Congress, rue de Lyon 75,
CH-1211 Geneva 13, Switzerland. Tel. 41 2233 99 590, fax 41 2233 99 621, E-mail: eular@mci-group.com

October 1-5, 2004 — 26th Annual Meeting of the American Society
for Bone and Mineral Research — ASBMR 2004, Seattle,
Washington, USA. Contact: ASBMR, Suite 300, 1200 19th Street,
NW, Washington DC 20036, USA. Tel: 202 367 1161, fax: 202 223 4579. Website: http://www.asbmr.org. E-mail: asbmr@dc.sba.com

October 16-21, 2004 — 68th Annual American College of Rheumatology Meeting, San Antonio, Texas. Contact: American College of Rheumatology, Suite 250, 1800 Century Place, Atlanta, Georgia 30345-4300. www.rheumatology.org

2005

June 8-11, 2005 — EULAR Congress, Vienna, Austria. Contact: EULAR Secretariat, Witikonerstrasse 15, CH-8032 Zurich, Switzerland. Tel: 41 1383 9690, fax: 41 1383 9810. E-mail: secretariat@eular.org. Website: http://www.eular.org

Eleventh Intensive Applied Epidemiology Course for Rheumatologists
February 24-28, 2003, Manchester, UK
Presented by the ARC Epidemiology Unit, University of Manchester. The course is residential and is limited to 25 places.
For information contact L. McClair, ARC Epidemiology Unit, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PT, UK. Tel. 44 0161 275 5993, fax 44 0161 275 5043. E-mail: lisa@fs1.ser.man.ac.uk

2003 American Board of Internal Medicine Recertification Examinations in Internal Medicine, its Subspecialties, and Added Qualifications
The ABIM Recertification Program, which has been renamed the Program for Continuous Professional Development (CPD), consists of an at-home, open-book Self-Evaluation Process (SEP) and an examination which will be administered twice each year in May and November. To register for the examination, Diplomates must be enrolled in the CPD Program and be in at least year 6 of their certification cycle.

CPD Examination Registration
Administration Period
May 6, 2003   December 1-2002-March 1, 2003
November 5, 2003   June 1, 2003-September 1, 2003
For more information and application forms please contact Registration Section, American Board of Internal Medicine, 510 Walnut Street, Suite 1700, Philadelphia, PA 19106-3699. Tel. (800) 441 2246 or (215) 446 3500 Fax (215) 446 3590 E-mail: request@abim.org
Note: Physicians can register for all ABIM certification and recertification examinations via web site at www.abim.org (click on Online Services).

WEGENER'S GRANULOMATOSIS ETANERCEPT TRIAL
A multicenter, randomized trial of etanercept (combined with conventional treatment) versus placebo (combined with conventional treatment). WGET is funded jointly by the National Institute of Arthritis, Musculoskeletal, and Skin Diseases and the Food & Drug Administration's Office of Orphan Products Development. Experimental medication (etanercept/placebo) provided for patients enrolled. For information regarding patient referral to one of the eight clinical centers in the United States, please contact either: John H. Stone, MD, MPH, The Johns Hopkins University Vasculitis Center, tel 410-614-4905, or Gary S. Hoffman, MD, The Center for Vasculitis Care and Research, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, tel 216-445-6996.

International Osteoporosis Foundation World Congress
May 14-18, 2004, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

IOF awards valuable fellowships for scientists:
IOF — Claus Christiansen Research Fellowship, value 45,000 Euros
IOF — Servier Young Investigator Fellowship, value 40,000 Euros
Contact: S. Sharpe, IOF, 5 rue Perdtemps, 1260 Nyon, Switzerland.
Website: www.osteofound.org
e-mail: info@osteofound.org