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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 2007 February 11-14, 2007 — Orthopaedic Research Society Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, USA. Contact: ORS, 6300 North River Road, Suite 727, Rosemont, IL 60018-4238. Contact: ors@aaos.org. Website: http://www.ors.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/ 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 21-24, 2007 — Canadian Rheumatology Association 2007 Annual Meeting, Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada. Website: http://www.rheum.ca 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/ 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 8-9, 2007 — Assessment & Treatment of Adult Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Bath, UK. Contact: Tracey Lee. Tel: 01225 448 444. E-mail: traceylee@birdbath.org.uk 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 15-20, 2007 — Il Corso Teorico-Pratico La Settimana delle Malattie Rare in Reumatologia "Alessandro Lupoli," Pisa/Buti, Italy. Contact: Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology, Via Santa Maria 31, 56126 Pisa. Tel: 39 050 40124. Fax: 39 050 502299. E-mail: marconcini@clinexprheumatol.org March 19-21, 2007 — Osteoporosis and Other Metabolic Bone Diseases, St Anne's College, Oxford, UK. Contact: British Society for Rheumatology. Tel: +44 (0)1454 642 240. E-mail: conferences@endocrinology.org March 21-25, 2007 — American Academy of Osteopathy Annual Convention, Colorado Springs, Colorado. Contact: AAO.Website: www.academyofosteopathy.org 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 1-4, 2007 — First Course on Genetics of Rheumatic and Auto-inflammatory Diseases, Bertinoro, Italy. Contact: European Genetics Foundation. Tel: +39 051 306171; 306474; 5870614. Fax: +39 051 6364004. E-mail: courses@eurogene.org. Website: www.eurogene.org April 11-14, 2007 — Association of Children's Prosthetic-Orthotic Clinics Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Contact: ACPOC. Website: www.acpoc.org/annual_conference/ 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 19-21, 2007 — Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, & Vascular Biology, 2007 Conference, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Contact: Julie Green, American Heart Association. Website: www.myamericanheart.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 20-21, 2007 — 5th International Conference "Sex Hormones, Pregnancy and Rheumatic Diseases," Florence, Italy. Contact: Edra S.p.A., Viale Monza 133, 20125 Milano, Italy. Tel: 39 02 28172329. Fax: 39 02 28172399. 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 26-28, 2007 — 51st Annual General Assembly and Scientific Meeting of Japan College of Rheumatology and the 16th International Rheumatology Symposium, Yokohama, Japan. Contact: JCR. Website: www.ryumachi-jp.com 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 6-9, 2007 — Bones Society Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Contact: BONES. Website: www.bonessociety.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 23-26, 2007 — Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America Annual Meeting, Hollywood, Florida, USA. Contact: POSNA. Website: www.posna.org May 25-27, 2007 — Ontario Rheumatology Association Annual General Meeting, Muskoka, Canada. Website: www.rheum.ca
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. 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/ 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/ June 1-3, 2007 — Canadian Orthopaedic 62nd Association Annual Meeting, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Contact: COA. Website: www.coa-aco.org 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 10-15, 2007 — Health Promotion & Health Education, 19th World Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Contact: Amanda Pawlowski. Website: http://www.iuhpeconference.org/en/index.htm 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/ 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 18-21, 2007 — Mobility & Transport for Elderly & Disabled Persons, 11th International Conference, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Contact: Transport Canada and Canadian Transportation Agency. Website: www.tc.gc.ca/transed2007 June 21-24, 2007 — International Conference on Children's Bone Health, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. E-mail: info@iccbh4.org June 22-24, 2007 — 22nd Gesellschaft für Orthopädisch - Traumatologische Sportmedizin, München, Germany. Contact: ICRS Executive Office. Tel: 41 0 44 390 18 40. Fax: 41 0 44 390 18 41. E-mail: info@cartilage.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/ June 28-July 1, 2007 — 3rd International Forum on Pain Medicine, Montreal, Canada. Website: www.kenes.com 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 5-7, 2007 — RCN Education Conference, Brighton, UK. Contact: Holly Peppiatt. Tel: 020 7647 3582. E-mail: holly.peppiatt@rcn.org.uk 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 12-15, 2007 — American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine 33rd Annual Meeting, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Contact: AOSSM, 6300 N. River Road, Suite 500, Rosemont, IL 60018, USA. Website: www.aossm.org July 19-22, 2007 — International Spine Intervention Society 15th Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Website: www.spinalinjection.com/a/events.htm July 20-22, 2007 — Limb Lengthening and Reconstruction Society Seventeenth Annual Scientific Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Contact: LLRS. Website: www.llrs.org
July 23-26, 2007 — Pain Management for Primary Care Physicians, August 12-17, 2007 — 13th International Congress of Immunology, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Contact: Congress Secretariat. E-mail: ici2007@usp.br August 24-26, 2007 — Biologic Therapies for Autoimmune and Inflammatory Disease States, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Contact: UNITECH Communications. Tel: 216 297 7330 or 800 238 6750. Website: clevelandclinicmeded.com/biotherapies07 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 9-14, 2007 — III EULAR Course on Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Pisa, Italy. Contact: Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology, Via Santa Maria 31, 56126 Pisa, Italy. Tel: 39 050 40124. Fax: 39 050 502299. E-mail: marconcini@clinexprheumatol.org 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/ September 27-30, 2007 — American Academy of Pain Management Annual Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Contact: Jillian Manley. Tel: 209 533 9744. Fax: 209 533 9750. E-mail: jillian@aapainmanage.org 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/
October 6-13, 2007 — Rheumatology Cruise, Papeete, French Polynesia. Contact: Sea Courses Cruises. Tel: 1-888-647-7327. Fax: 1-888-547-7337. 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/ October 20-24, 2007 — 6th Combined Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Societies, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Website:http://www.ors.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 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/ November 25-28, 2007 — National Osteoporosis Society 12th Conference, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Contact: Sarah Phillips. Website: http://www.ectsoc.org/events.htm December 2-6, 2007 — The World Allergy Congress 2007, Bangkok, Thailand. Contact: Congrex Sweden AB, Attn. WAC 2007, P.O. Box 5619, SE-114 86 Stockholm, Sweden. Tel: 46 8 459 66 00. Fax: 46 8 661 91 25. E-mail: 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 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 January 31-February 3, 2008 — 32nd Scandinavian Congress of Rheumatology, Levi, Lapland, Finland. Contact: Marja-Leena Porsanger, Rovaniemi-Lapland Congresses, University of Lapland, PO Box 122, FI-96101 Rovaniemi, Finland. Tel: 358 16 341 2799. Fax: 358 16 317 843. E-mail: marja-leena.porsanger@ulapland.fi March 31-April 4, 2008 — British Society for Rheumatology, 25th Annual General Meeting, Brighton, United Kingdom. Contact: BSR. Website: http://www.siicsalud.com/ 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 May 21-24, 2008 — 13th ESSKA 2000, Porto, Portugal. Contact: European Society of Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy. Website: http://www.esska2008.com May 24-28, 2008 — 35th European Symposium on Calcified Tissues, Barcelona, Spain. Tel: 44 0 1454 610255. E-mail: admin@ectsoc.org 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/ 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 December 3-7, 2008 — IOF World Congress on Osteoporosis, Bangkok, Thailand. Website: http://www.iofbonehealth.org |