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Meetings in Rheumatology
Readers are invited to submit notices of conferences, seminars, and other events in rheumatology, autoimmunology, and related fields. Details of your meeting should be submitted at least 2 months before the desired month of publication. E-mail notice of your event should be sent to jrheum@jrheum.com 2006 December 7-10, 2006 — OsteoArthritis Research Society International World Congress on Osteoarthritis, Prague, Czech Republic. Contact: OsteoArthritis Research Society International (OARSI), 15000 Commerce Parkway, Suite C, Mt. Laurel, New Jersey 08054, USA. Tel. 856 439 1385, fax 856 439 0525. E-mail: oarsi@oarsi.org December 9-13, 2006 — 46th American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, USA. Website: www.ascb.org December 10-14, 2006 — VI International Meeting on Cancer Induced Bone Disease, San Antonio, Texas, USA. Contact: Conference Secretariat, tel. 202 367 1138, fax 202 367 2138. E-mail: info@cancerandbonesociety.org December 12-14, 2006 — Cancer & Bone Society, 2006 International Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, USA. Contact: CABS. Website: http://www.ibmsonline.org/Conferences/cabs06.cfm December 13-16, 2006 — Current Concepts in Joint Replacement Winter Course, Orlando, Florida, USA. Contact: Current Concepts Institute, tel. 216 295 1900, fax 216 295 9955. E-mail: ccjr@orl-inc.com. December 14-17, 2006 — Canadian Arthritis Network Partnerships and Sustainability Committee Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Contact: Arthritis Community Research & Evaluation Unit. Tel: 416-603-6269. E-mail: acreu@uhnres.utoronto.ca. Website: www.acreu.ca/research/events.html December 15-18, 2006 — Fourth International Huaxia Congress of Endocrinology, Hong Kong SAR, China. Contact: Veronica Cheng, c/o PC Tours and Travel, B128, The Royal Garden Hotel, 69 Mody Road, Tsimshatsui East, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Tel : 852 2734 3312/15. Fax : 852 2369 0327 E-mail: huaxia2006@pctourshk.com. Website:www.endocrine-hk.org/huaxia2006 2007 January 11-13, 2007 — Arthroscopy Association of North America, Winter Course Preliminary Program, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. Tel: 847 292 2262. Fax: 847 292 2268. Website: www.aana.org January 15-19, 2007 — Topics in Endocrinology & Rheumatology: A Practical Approach, 2007 Seminar, Sarasota, Florida, USA. Contact: American Medical Seminars, Inc. Website: http://www.ams4cme.com January 18-23, 2007 — Arthroscopic Surgery, 2007 Conference, Scottsdale, AZ, USA. Contact: Karon Sorensen. Website: http://uuhsc.utah.edu/som/education/ cme/conference%20list.htm January 25-27, 2007 — Asian Musculoskeletal Society, 9th Annual Scientific Meeting, Tokyo, Japan. Website: http://www.asianmsk.org/pages/279630/index.htm January 27-30, 2007 — Immunologists, 2007 Mid-Winter Conference, Pacific Grove, California, USA. Contact: Christel Uittenbogaart. Website: http://www.midwconfimmunol.org January 28-February 2, 2007 — American College of Rheumatology Winter Rheumatology Symposium, Snowmass Village, Colorado, USA. Website: http://www.rheumatology.org/meetings/wr07/index.asp January 30-February 1, 2007 — 16th IOF Advanced Training Course on Osteoporosis, Lyon, France. E-mail: fliu@osteofound.org or sgrazioli@osteofound.org February 2-4, 2007 — Canadian Society of Orthopaedic Technology, 2007 Convention, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Contact: Tessie Poong. Website: http://www.siicsalud.com/scripts/congresos.php/cc008176 February 11-14, 2007 — Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society, San Diego, California, USA. Contact: ors@aaos.org February 12-13, 2007 — 5th Canadian Cochrane Symposium, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Contact: Miranda Cumpston, The Canadian Cochrane Network and Centre. Tel: 416 927 2027 x2193. E-mail: cochrane@uottawa.ca. Website: www.cochrane.uottawa.ca February 12-16, 2007 — Primary Care Rheumatology: Improving Outcomes Through Diagnosis & Treatment, 2007 Seminar, Sarasota, Florida, USA. Contact: American Medical Seminars, Inc. Website: http://www.ams4cme.com February 14-18, 2007 — American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, USA. Contact: International Cartilage Repair Society. Tel: +41 (0) 44 390 18 40. Fax: +41 (0) 44 390 18 41. E-mail: office@cartilage.org. Website: http://www.aaos.org February 17, 2007 — Arthroscopy Association of North America, 2007 Specialty Day, San Diego, California, USA. Website: www.docguide.com/ crc.nsf/congresses/3DCAFC1748F9786085256F5B006CBEB1 February 20-23, 2007 — British Society for Immunology, 2007 Congress, Glasgow, UK. Contact: British Society for Immunology. Website: http://www.immunology.org/congress/2007/index.htm February 22-24, 2007 — 27th European Workshop for Rheumatology Research, Florence, Italy. Website: www.ewrr2007.org February 23-27, 2007 — American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology 63rd Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, USA. Contact: J. Alexander, tel. 414 272 6071, fax 414 272 6070. Website: www.aaaai.org/members/meetings/future_meetings.stm March 2-4, 2007 — 6th World Congress of the International Society for Apheresis, Yokohama, Japan. Contact: Tadao Akizawa. Tel: 440 358 1102. Fax: 440 358 1104. E-mail: akizawa@med.showa-u.ac.jp March 11-15, 2007 — International Federation of Societies for Hand Therapy, 7th Triennial Congress, Sydney, Australia. Contact: Roland Hicks. Website: http://www.hands2007.com March 24-28, 2007 — 2nd International Congress of Molecular Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey. Contact: Prof. Dr. Turgay Isbir. Tel: 90 2 126 351 959. 90 2 126 351 959. E-mail: tisbir@superonline.com March 28-31, 2007 — 7th European Congress on Clinical and Economic Aspects of Osteoporosis and Osteoarthritis, Porto, Portugal. Contact: International Cartilage Repair Society. Tel: +41 (0) 44 390 18 40. Fax: +41 (0) 44 390 18 41. E-mail: office@cartilage.org. Website: http://www.kit.de April 11, 2007 — World Immune Regulation Meeting-Special Focus on Regulatory Cells, Davos, Switzerland. Website: http://ki.se/ki/jsp/polopoly. jsp?d=5181&a=13427&l=en April 11-15, 2007 — 18th Israeli Medical Association World Fellowship International Conference, Jerusalem, Israel. Contact: Ms. Sagit Ishay. Tel: 97 236 384 444. Fax: 97 236 384 455. E-mail: imawf@ortra.com. Website: www.ortra.com/imawf April 11-15, 2007 — World Immune Regulation Meeting, Davos, Switzerland. Contact: SIAF, Obere Strasse 22, CH-7270 Davos, Switzerland. E-mail: siaf@siaf.unizh.ch. Website: http://www.siaf.unizh.ch April 18-20, 2007 — 12th International Congress on Antiphospholipid Antibodies, Florence, Italy. Contact: E-mail: info@antiphospholipid.net. Website: http://www.antiphospholipid.net/ April 18-22, 2007 — Osteoporosis: Translating Research into Clinical Practice, Washington, DC, USA. Contact: National Osteoporosis Foundation, 1232 22nd Street NW, Washington, DC 20037-1292, USA. Tel: 202 223 2226. Fax: 202 223 2237. Website: www.nof.org April 19-22, 2007 — International Cartilage Repair Society Laboratory Skills Hands-on Workshop, Cardiff, United Kingdom. Contact: ICRS Executive Office. E-mail: sseiler@cartilage.org. Website: http://www.cartilage.org April 25-27, 2007 — First Central Asian Congress of Rheumatology, Almaty, Kazakhstan. Contact: Prof. A. Seisenbayev, Kazakh National Medical University, Almaty, Kazakhstan. E-mail: Zdrav_kz@nursat.kz April 26-29, 2007 — 26th Arthroscopy Association of North America Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, USA. Tel: 847 292 2262. Fax: 847 292 2268. E-mail: info@aana.org April 27-29, 2007 — Cell/Tissue Damage & Autoimmune Response Colloquium, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. By invitation only. May 5, 2007 — European Calcified Tissue Society Course: Bone Quality: From Bench to Bedside, Copenhagen, Denmark. Contact: ECTS, PO Box 337, Patchway, Bristol BS32 4ZR, UK. Tel: 44 0 1454 610255. Fax: 44 0 1454 610255. E-mail: admin@ectsoc.org. Website: www.ectsoc.org May 5-9, 2007 — 34th European Symposium on Calcified Tissues, Copenhagen, Denmark. Website: http://www.ectsoc.org/ May 8-11, 2007 — British Society for Rheumatology Annual Meeting, Birmingham, UK. Contact: Rowena Treitel, BSR, Bride House, 18-20 Bride Lane, London EC4Y 8EE. Tel 44 0 207 842 0900. Fax: 44 0 207 842 0914. E-mail: conferences@rheumatology.org.uk. Website: www.rheumatology.org.uk May 10-14, 2007 — 8th European Federation of National Associations of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (EFORT) Congress, Florence, Italy. Tel: 0041/1/913-3225. E-mail: gabrielle.skala@efort.org May 12-18, 2007 — International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 15th Scientific Meeting, Barcelona, Spain. Contact: ISMRM Office: tel. 510 841 1899, fax 510 841 2340. Website: www.ismrm.org May 16-20, 2007 — The 8th International Congress on SLE, Shanghai, China. Contact: Mr. Bo Feng. Tel: 861 085 158 145. Fax: 861 065 123 754. E-mail: lupus2007@cma.org May 18-22, 2007 — American Association of Immunologists Immunology 2007, Miami Beach, Florida, USA. Contact: The American Association of Immunologists, 9650 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20814. Tel: 301 634 7178. Website: www.aai.org May 26-30, 2007 — 49th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australian Rheumatology Association, Sydney, Australia. Contact: P.O. Box 235, North Balwyn, Victoria 3104, Australia. Tel: +61 3 9859 6899. Fax: +61 3 9859 2211. E-mail: arasyd@wickhams.com.au. Website: www.araconference.com May 27-31, 2007 — 6th Biennial Congress, International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery and Orthopaedic Sports Medicine, Florence, Italy. Contact: Michele Johnson, ISAKOS, 2678 Bishop Drive, Suite 250, San Ramon, CA 94583, USA. Tel. 925 807 1197, fax 925 807 1199. E-mail: isakos@isakos.com. Website: www.isakos.com May 30-June 2, 2007 — American College of Sports Medicine, 2007 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Contact: ACSM. Website: http://interdok.com/mind/detail.cfm?ID=14228 May 30-June 3, 2007 — International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine, 2007 Annual Meeting, Beijing, China. Contact: R. Gunzburg. Website: http://interdok.com/mind/detail.cfm?ID=14222 June 1-30, 2007 — DVD-Topics in Endocrinology and Rheumatology Diagnostic and Treatment Skills, Sarasota, Florida, USA. Contact: Eva or Cristina. Tel: 1 866 267 4263. Fax: 941 365 7073. E-mail: mail@ams4cme.com June 7-11, 2007 — Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies (FOCIS) Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, USA. Contact: FOCIS. Website: www.focisnet.org June 10-13, 2007 — European Atherosclerosis Society 76th Annual Meeting, Helsinki, Finland. Contact: Congress Secretariat, Kenes International, 17 rue du Cendrier, PO Box 1726, CH-1211 Geneva 1, Switzerland. Tel. 41 22 908 0488, fax 41 22 732 2850. E-mail: eas2007@kenes.com June 13-16, 2007 — European League Against Rheumatism 2007 Annual Meeting, Barcelona, Spain. Contact: EULAR Secretariat, website: www.eular.org June 16-20, 2007 — Inflammation, 8th World Congress, Copenhagen, Denmark. Sponsored by the International Association of Inflammation Societies. Website: www.inflammationresearch.org/meet-natconf.html June 17-22, 2007 — 3rd International Conference on Birth Diseases and Disabilities, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Contact: Monica Cevidanes, PMP. Tel: 55 212 266 9150. Fax: 55 212 266 9175. E-mail: monica@jz.com.br June 17-22, 2007 — 2nd International Conference on Crossroads between Innate and Adaptive Immunity, Crete, Greece. E-mail: Crossroads InnateImmunity@aegeanconferences.org June 21-24, 2007 — International Conference on Children's Bone Health, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. E-mail: info@iccbh4.org June 23-26, 2007 — 4th Asia Pacific Occupational Therapy Congress, Hong Kong. Contact: APOTC 2007 Secretariat, c/o International Conference Consultants, Ltd., Unit 301, The Centre Mark, 287-299 Queen's Road Central, Hong Kong. Tel: 852 2559 9973. Fax: 852 2547 9528. E-mail: info@apotc2007.com. Website: www.apotc2007.com June 24-29, 2007 — International Bone & Mineral Society, 17th Scientific Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Contact: Anne Paterson, Association Assistant, International Bone and Mineral Society (IBMS), 2025 M Street NW, Suite 800, Washington, DC 20036, USA. Tel: 202 367 1121. Fax: 202 367 2121. E-mail: IBMS@dc.sba.com. Website:www.ibmsonline.org/Conferences/ibms07.cfm June 29-30, 2007 — International Cartilage Repair Society Rehabilitation Consensus Meeting, Zurich, Switzerland. Contact: ICRS Executive Office. E-mail: info@cartilage.org. Website: http://www.cartilage.org July 3-5, 2007 — Bone Research Society Annual Meeting (formerly Bone & Tooth Society), Aberdeen, Scotland, UK. Contact: Janet Crompton. Tel: 44 0 1 453 549 929. Fax: 44 0 1 453 548 919. E-mail: janet@janet-crompton.com July 10-11, 2007 — Advances in the Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics of Bone Disease, Oxford, England. Contact: Janet Crompton, The Old White Hart, North Nibley, Dursley GL11 6DS, UK. Tel 44 1453 549 929, fax 44 1453 548 919. E-mail: janet@janet-crompton.com. Website:www.paget.org.uk July 12-13, 2007 — International Symposium on Paget's Disease, Oxford, England. Contact: Janet Crompton, The Old White Hart, North Nibley, Dursley GL11 6DS, UK. Tel 44 1453 549 929, fax 44 1453 548 919. E-mail: janet@janet-crompton.com. Website: www.paget.org.uk July 19-22, 2007 — International Spine Intervention Society 15th Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Website: www.spinalinjection.com/a/events.htm July 23-26, 2007 — Pain Management for Primary Care Physicians, 2007 Conference, Hilton Head, South Carolina, USA. Website: http://interdok.com/mind/detail.cfm?ID=16215 August 12-17, 2007 — 13th International Congress of Immunology, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Contact: Congress Secretariat. E-mail: ici2007@usp.br September 3-7, 2007 — South African Orthopaedic Association Annual Meeting, Cape Town, South Africa. Contact: SAOA, tel. 2751 430 3280, fax 2751 430 3284. Website: http://www.saoa.org.za September 16-20, 2007 — Twenty-ninth Annual American Society for Bone and Mineral Research Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Contact: ASBMR Business Office. Tel. 202 367 1161; fax 202 367 2161; e-mail ASBMR@smithbucklin.com September 19-22, 2007 — 35th Congress of the German Society for Rheumatology, Hamburg, Germany. Contact: Martin Berndt. Tel: 49 211 585 897 0. Fax: 49 211 585 897 99. E-mail: info.duesseldorf@intercongress.de September 27-29, 2007 — Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada, 76th Annual Meeting, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada. Website: http://www.umdnj.edu/psyevnts/ September 27-30, 2007 — 68th Annual Assembly, American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Boston, USA. Website: http://www.aapmr.org/assembly/amdates.htm September 28-October 2, 2007 — 7th International Cartilage Repair Society World Congress on Cartilage Repair, Warsaw, Poland. Contact: ICRS Executive Office. E-mail: infor@cartilage.org. Website: http://www.cartilage.org October 4-10, 2007 — American Society of Hand Therapists, 2007 Annual Meeting, Phoeniz, Arizona, USA. Contact: ASHT. Website: http://interdok.com/mind/detail.cfm?ID=14018 October 6-13, 2007 — Rheumatology Cruise, Papeete, French Polynesia. Contact: Sea Courses Cruises. Tel: 1-888-647-7327. Fax: 1-888-547-7337. E-mail: cruises@seacourses.com October 7-12, 2007 — Australian Orthopaedic Association, 2007 Annual Meeting, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. Contact: AOS. Tel: 61 2 9233 3018. Fax: 61 2 9221 8301. Website: http://www.aoa.org.au October 20-24, 2007 — Canadian Cardiovascular Society, 60th Annual Scientific Sessions & Exhibition, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. Contact: A. Ferguson. Website: http://www.siicsalud.com/scripts/congresos.php/cc008123 October 20-24, 2007 — 6th Combined Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Societies, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Website:http://www.ors.org/ December 6-9, 2007 — OsteoArthritis Research Society International World Congress on Osteoarthritis, Miami Beach, Florida, USA. Contact: OsteoArthritis Research Society International (OARSI), 15000 Commerce Parkway, Suite C, Mt. Laurel, New Jersey 08054, USA. Tel. 856 439 1385, fax 856 439 0525. E-mail: oarsi@oarsi.org November 7-10, 2007 — Low Back & Pelvic Pain, 6th Interdisciplinary World Congress, Barcelona, Spain. Contact: University of California at San Diego. Website: http://www.worldcongresslbp.com November 7-11, 2007 — American College of Rheumatology/ARHP Annual Scientific Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Website: http://www.rheumatology.org/meetings/index.asp?aud=mem November 14-17, 2007 — American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, 2007 Annual Meeting, Dallas, Texas, USA. Contact: ACAAI. E-mail: mail@acaai.org. Website: http://www.acaai.org/Member/ Annual_Meeting/ Annual+Meeting.htm November 25-28, 2007 — National Osteoporosis Society 12th Conference, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Contact: Sarah Phillips. Website: http://www.ectsoc.org/events.htm December 7-9, 2007 — The 4th Huaxia Congress on Diagnosis and Management of Rheumatic Diseases, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Contact: Miss Kitty Y. L. Leung, Administrative Manager. Tel: 2821 3512. Fax: 2865 0345. E-mail: kitty@fmshk.org
2008 March 31-April 4, 2008 — British Society for Rheumatology, 25th Annual General Meeting, Brighton, United Kingdom. Contact: BSR. Website: http://www.siicsalud.com/scripts/congresos.php/cc008169 April 2-5, 2008 — 22nd European Immunogenetics and Histocompatibility Conference, Toulouse, France. Contact: Mogens Thomsen. Tel: 33 561 322 061. Fax: 33 561 322 084. E-mail: thomsen@toulouse.inserm.fr June 8-13, 2008 — 2nd International Conference on Osteoimmunology: Interactions of the Immune and Skeletal Systems, Rhodes, Greece. E-mail: osteoimmunology@aegeanconferences.org June 11-14, 2008 — European League Against Rheumatism, 9th Annual European Congress, Paris, France. Contact: EULAR. Website: http://www.slicsalud.com/scripts.congresos.php/cc017821 August 17-22, 2008 — 12th World Congress on Pain, Glasgow, Scotland. Contact: Elizabeth Twiss, tel. 206 547 6409, fax 206 547 1703. E-mail: liz@iasp-pain.org September 23-27, 2008 — 13th Congress of the Asia Pacific League of Associations for Rheumatology, Yokohama, Japan. Contact: APLAR. Tel: 81 3 3508 1214. Fax: 81 3 3508 1302. E-mail: aplar2008@convention.jp. Website: http://www.aplar2008.com
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