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Notices
2003 September 3-5, 2003 — 3rd Asia Pacific Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care, Auckland, New Zealand. Website: www.quality.bmjpg.com September 4-7, 2003 — American Academy of Pain Management 14th Annual Clinical Meeting, Denver, Colorado, USA Contact: American Academy of Pain Management, 13947 Mono Way #A, Sonora, California 95370, USA. Tel 209 533 9744, fax 209 533 9750. 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 2-5, 2003 — 10th European Pediatric Rheumatology Congress, Lago Maggiore, Italy. Contact: ECON Srl, via della Moscova 16, 20121 Milan, Italy. Tel: 39 022900 5745, fax 39 022900 5790, e-mail: econsrl@tin.it October 9-11, 2003 — International Congress on Arthritis in the Elderly, Milan, Italy. Contact: Organizing Secretariat, E. Romero: tel. 3902 6571 200, fax 3902 6571 270, e-mail: eldrheum@oic.it October 9-12, 2003 — 7th EULAR Sonography Course, Rome, Italy. Contact: M. Civelli, EDRA SpA, Medical Publishing and News Media, Viale Monza 133, Milan 20125, Italy. Tel. 3902 2817 2300, fax 3902 2817 2399, e-mail: edracongressi@dsmedigroup.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 21-25, 2003 — North American Spine Society 18th Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, USA. Contact: North American Spine Society, website: www.spine.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. November 13-15, 2003 — Canadian Arthritis Network 2003 Scientific Conference, Montreal, Quebec. Deadline for submission of Abstracts September 30, 2003. Contact: www.arthritisnetwork.ca, E-mail: can@arthritisnetwork.ca, Tel. 416 586 4770. November 14-17, 2003 — Fourth International Symposium on Clinical and Economic Aspects of Osteoporosis and Osteoarthritis, Nice, France. Website: http://nice.piettecommunication.com November 27-29, 2003 — 2nd International Forum on Geronto-Rheumatology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Contact: Congress Secretariat, Mark Two Communications, Amsterdam. Tel. 33 434 5730, fax 33 434 5720, e-mail: info@marktwo.nl 2004 February 5-7, 2004 — International Meeting, "Heart, Rheumatism and Autoimmunity," Milan, Italy. Contact: Organizing Secretariat, OIC, via Fatebenefratelli 19, 20121 Milan, Italy. Tel 3902 6571 200, fax 3902 6571 270. E-mail: hra@oic.it 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 October 27-31, 2004 — 11th International Conference on Behçet's Disease and 3rd International Convention for Patients with Behçet's Disease, Antalya, Turkey. Contact: Figur Congress Services, Sti. Ayazmaderesi Cad. Karadut sok. No. 7, 80888 Dikilitas — Istanbul, Turkey. www.behcet2004.org, tel. 90 0212 258 6020, fax 90 0212 258 6078, E-mail: behcet2004@figur.net November 3-7, 2004 — 4th International Congress on Autoimmunity, Budapest, Hungary. Website: www.kenes.com/autoim2004, E-mail: autoim04@kenes.com 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
2003 American Board of Internal Medicine Recertification Examinations in Internal Medicine, its Subspecialties, and Added Qualifications
CPD Examination Registration
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
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