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2004

November 3-7, 2004 — 4th International Congress on Autoimmunity, Budapest, Hungary. Website: www.kenes.com/autoim2004, E-mail: autoim04@kenes.com

November 14-28, 2004 — 11th International Congress on Antiphospholipid Antibodies, Sydney, Australia. Website: www.XIth-ICAA2004.unsw.edu.au/sydney/index.html

December 2-5, 2004 — OARSI 9th World Congress, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Contact: E-mail: oarsi@oarsi.org, Website: http://www.oarsi.org

2005

January 22-28, 2005 — Winter Rheumatology, Snowmass Village, Colorado, USA. Contact: American College of Rheumatology, Suite 250, 1800 Century Place, Atlanta, Georgia 30345-4300. www.rheumatology.org

February 15-16, 2005 — Bone Densitometry Course, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Contact: The International Society for Clinical Densitometry, tel. 860 586 7563, fax 860 586 7550. E-mail: info@iscd.org

March 3-5, 2005 — 7th European Lupus Meeting, London, England. Contact: J. Kermode, Conference Organiser, British Society of Rheumatology. E-mail: julia@rheumatology.org.uk

March 18-19, 2005 — Brussels International Symposium, "Impaired Motion of the Upper Limb: Advances in Diagnosis and Reconstructive Treatment", Brussels, Belgium. Contact: Dr. F. Schuind, Department of Orthopaedics, Erasme University Hospital, 808 route de Lennik, B-1070 Brussels, Belgium. Tel. 322 555 6844, fax 322 55 8360. E-mail: hand.congress@ulb.ac.be

April 19-22, 2005 — 22nd Annual General Meeting, British Society for Rheumatology, Brighton, England. Contact: C. Pembroke, BSR, tel. 44 020 7242 3313, fax 44 020 7242 3277. E-mail: caroline@rheumatology.org.uk

May 5-7, 2005 — 1st International Congress of the Minimally Interventional Spinal Treatment, Tehran, Iran. Contact: Dr. Foad Elahi, tel. 98 218 812 391, fax 98 218 728 860. E-mail: foadelahi@yahoo.com

May 22-25, 2005 — Current Concepts in Joint Replacement, Spring Course, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Contact: Congress Secretariat, Current Concepts Institute, tel. 216 295 1900, fax 216 295 9955. E-mail: ccjr@orl-inc.com

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

July 14-16, 2005 — ACR Summer Clinical Symposium, Montral, Quebec, Canada. American College of Rheumatology, Suite 250, 1800 Century Place, Atlanta, Georgia 30345-4300. www.rheumatology.org

July 24-27, 2005 — Third International Conference on GCA/PMR, London, England. Contact: Barbara Ashworth, Conference organiser. E-mail: b.ashworth@easynet.co.uk

September 1-3, 2005 — Baltic Bone and Cartilage Conference 5, Naantali, Finland. Contact: Lotta Palmi, Conference Coordinator, CongCreator CC Ltd., PO Box 762, Helsinki 00101, Finland. Tel. 3589 4542 1945, fax 3589 4542 1930. E-mail: lotta@congcreator.com

September 18-24, 2005 — International League of Associations for Rheumatology (ILAR) Congress, Tunis, Tunisia. Contact: Congress Secretariat, E-mail: webmaster@ilar.org

November 13-17, 2005 — 69th American College of Rheumatology Meeting, San Diego, California. Contact: American College of Rheumatology, Suite 250, 1800 Century Place, Atlanta, Georgia 30345-4300. www.rheumatology.org

2006

March 5-8, 2006 — 52nd Annual Meeting, Orthopaedic Research Society, New Orleans, LA, USA. Contact: Orthopaedic Research Society, Suite 727, 6300 North River Road, Rosemont, IL, USA. Tel. 847 698 1625, fax 847 823 4921. Website: www.ors.org/ors.asp. E-mail: ors@aaos.org

May 21-24, 2006 — Current Concepts in Joint Replacement, Spring Course, las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Contact: Congress Secretariat, Current Concepts Institute, tel. 216 295 1900, fax 216 295 9955. E-mail: ccjr@orl-inc.com

June 12-24, 2006 — EULAR 2006, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Contact: EULAR Secretariat, E-mail: secretariat@eular.org. Tel. 411 383 9690, fax 411 383 9810, www.eular.org

June 21-24, 2006 — EULAR 2006: European Congress of Rheumatology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Contact: EULAR Secretariat, Witikonerstrasse 15, CH-8032 Zurich, Switzerland. Tel. 411 383 9690, fax 411 383 9810, E-mail: secretariat@eular.org

August 20-24, 2006 — PANLAR: 14th Congress of the Pan American League of Associations for Rheumatology, Lima, Peru. Contact: PANLAR Congress, Av José Pardo 138, Oficina 1206, Miraflores - Lima 18, Lima, Peru. Tel. 511 446 1323, fax 511 446 1323. E-mail: socreuma@ terra.com.pe, Website: www.spr.com.pe

September 19-23, 2006 — EuroSpine 2006, Istanbul, Turkey. Contact: Haluk Berk, tel. 902 324 123 357, fax 902 322 772 277. E-mail: haluk.berk@deu.edu.tr

November 28-December 3, 2006 — 8th EULAR Postgraduate Course in Rheumatology, Prague, Czech Republic. Contact: EULAR Secretariat, E-mail: secretariat@eular.org. Tel. 411 383 9690, fax 411 383 9810, www.eular.org

American Board of Internal Medicine
2004 Certification Examination in Rheumatology
Registration Period: January 1, 2004-April 1, 2004
Late Registration Period: April 2, 2004-June 1, 2004
Examination Date: November 3, 2004
Note: The Board now offers all Subspecialty Certification Examinations annually.

2004 ABIM Recertification Examinations in Internal Medicine, its Subspecialties, and Added Qualifications
The ABIM Recertification Program, 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 4, 2004 December 1, 2003-March 1, 2004
November 3, 2004 June 1, 2004-September 1, 2004
For more information and application forms please contact Registration Section, American Board of Internal Medicine, 510 Walnut Street, Suite 1700, Philadelphia, PA 19106-3699, USA. 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 the Board's 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.