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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 July 1-4, 2007 — Arthritis Foundation 2007 Juvenile Arthritis Conference, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA. Contact: Arthritis Foundation. Tel: 404 965 7538. Website: www.arthritis.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 5-6, 2007 — Ten Topics in Rheumatology, London, UK. Contact: Sandy Hampson. Tel: +44 (0)20 7188 3570. E-mail: sandy.hampson@kcl.ac.uk. Website: www.tentopics.com July 9, 2007 — Degenerative Joint Disease: Osteoarthritis–its treatment and management, London, UK. Tel: 01 722 716 926. E-mail: conferences@markallengroup.com. Website: www.mahealthcareevents.co.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 11-14, 2007 — 14th International Meeting of the International Meeting on Advanced Spine Techniques (IMAST), Paradise Island, Bahamas. Contact: Laura Varner, Director of Meetings. Tel: 630 681 1040. E-mail: admin@broad-water.com. Website: www.broad-water.com 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 12-13, 2007 — 40th Annual Musculoskeletal Tumour Meeting, Kofu City, Japan. Contact: Conference Secretariat. E-mail: office@joa-tumor2007.com. Website: www.joa-tumor2007.com/index_e_old.html 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 13-15, 2007 — 23rd Summer Meeting of the American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Contact: AOFAS Office. Tel: 800 235 4855. Fax: 847 692 3315. E-mail: aofasinfo@aofas.org. Website: www.aofas.org July 14-19, 2007 — FASEB Summer Research Conference on Skeletal Muscle Satellite and Stem Cells, Indian Wells, California, USA. Website: src.faseb.org July 14-19, 2007 — Autoimmunity, 2007 Conference, Saxtons River, Vermont, USA. Contact: Peggi McGovern, Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. Website: src.faseb.org July 15-20, 2007 — Bones and Teeth Gordon Research Conference, Biddeford, Maine, USA. Contact: Pamela Gehron Robey. Tel: 301 496 4563. E-mail: probey@dir.nidcr.nih.gov. Website: www.grc.org July 15-21, 2007 — Shoulder Injuries 2007, Wellington, New Zealand. Contact: National Education Institute. Tel: 866 685 6860. E-mail: info@neiconferences.com. Website: http://neiconferences.com July 19–22, 2007 — International Spine Intervention Society 15th Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Website: www.spinalinjection.com/a/events.htm July 27-29, 2007 — 3rd Asia Autoimmunity Forum 2007: From Bench to Bedside, Biopolis, Singapore. Website: www.aaf2007.org July 29-August 1, 2007 — World Spine IV Interdisciplinary Congress on Spine Care, Istanbul, Turkey. Website: www.worldspine.org August 2-5, 2007 — 6th MOS Annual Scientific Meeting, Subang Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia. Contact: Henry Yap. Tel: 03 795 507 07 Ext 786. Fax: 03 795 723 75. E-mail: mos_secretariat@merck.com. August 12-17, 2007 — 13th International Congress of Immunology, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Contact: Congress Secretariat. E-mail: ici2007@usp.br August 16-18, 2007 — XXXI Annual Meeting of the Argentine Association of Allergy & Clinical Immunology - South Cone Congress of the SLAAI, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Contact: Meeting Organiser. Tel/Fax: 54 11 4334 7680. E-mail: latamcong@alergia.org.ar August 16-19, 2007 — XI Colombian Congress of Rheumatology, Medellín, Colombia. Contact: Jose F. Molina, MD. Tel: 57 1 635 0840. Fax: 57 1 621 5145. E-mail: asoruema@une.net.co. Website: www.asoreuma.org August 19-22, 2007 — Pharmacoepidemiology & Therapeutic Risk Management, 23rd International Conference, Quebec, Canada. Contact: ISPE. Website: www.pharmacoepi.org 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 August 29-September 1, 1007 — International Society of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology (SICOT) Annual International Conference, Marrakech, Morocco. Website: www.sicot.org August 30-September 2, 2007 — 5th European Congress of Reproductive Immunology, Berlin, Germany. Contact: Conventus Congressmanagement & Marketing GmbH. Tel: 011 49 36 4135 33 0. Fax: 011 49 36 4135 3321. E-mail: aurelie.page@conventus.de. Website: www.conventus.de September 1-5, 2007 — Rheumatology 2007, Oludeniz, Turkey. Contact: Serenas Tourism & Organization. Tel: 011 90 312 44 5011. Fax: 011 90 312 441 4564. E-mail: yavuzalp@serenas.com.tr. Website: www.serenas.com.tr/english/02_org.php 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 5-8, 2007 — Scoliosis Research Society Annual Meeting, Edinburgh, Scotland. Website: www.srs.org/meetings/ September 5-9, 2007 — 14th Pediatric Rheumatology European Society Congress, Istanbul, Turkey. Contact: Dr. Seza Ozen. Website: www.pres2007.org September 6-8, 2007 — Combined Knee Society Interim Meeting/SIGASCOT Congresso, Siena, Italy. Contact: Knee Society. Website: www.kneesociety.org September 6-8, 2007 — Strong Bone Asia 2007, Pattaya, Thailand. Website: www.strongboneasia.com September 9-13, 2007 — Asia Pacific Orthopaedic Association, Seoul, Korea. Website: www.apoa2007.com/congress.html 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 10-15, 2007 — 2nd International Congress on Immune Mediated Diseases, Moscow, Russia. Website: www.gtcbio.com September 12-15, 2007 — 8th Dresden Symposium on Autoantibodies, Dresden, Germany. E-mail: streller@rcs.urz.tu-dresden.de 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 16-20, 2007 — 10th International Congress of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery/2nd International Congress of Shoulder Therapists, Bahia, Brazil. Website: www.icss2007.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 20, 2007 — Decade of the Flags: Identifying and managing modifiable risk factors in musculoskeletal disorders, Keele, UK. Tel: 01782 583922. E-mail: s.weir@cphc.keele.ac.uk. Website: www.keele.ac.uk September 20, 2007 — Decade of the Flags: Identifying and managing modifiable risk factors in musculoskeletal disorders, Keele, UK. Tel: 01782 583922. E-mail: s.weir@cphc.keele.ac.uk. Website: www.keele.ac.uk September 20-22, 2007 — Hip Society 2007 Summer Scientific Meeting, Pasadena, California, USA. Contact: Hip Society. Website: www.hipsoc.org September 20-22, 2007 — 26th Annual Meeting of the European Bone & Joint Infection Society, Corfu, Greece. Tel: +30 210 3244932. Fax: +30 210 3250660. E-mail: info@ebjis2007.gr. Website: www.ebjis2007.gr September 20-22, 2007 — Biospine 2 - 2nd International Congress for Spinal Surgery, Leipzig, Germany. Tel: 0049 30 85996216. Fax: 0049 30 85079825. E-mail: biospine@ctw-congress.de. Website: www.biospine.org September 20-23, 2007 — 32nd Annual Meeting & 16th Advanced Course of the European Society of Neuro Radiology (ESNR), Genoa, Italy. Website: www.aimgroup.it/2007/esnr September 24, 2007 — The New Science of Osteoarthritis–from bench to bedside, London, UK. Contact: Jennifer Lake. Tel: +44 0 20 7290 3919. E-mail: jennifer.lake@rsm.ac.uk. Website: www.rsm.ac.uk September 24, 2007 — Ethnicity and Rheumatological Disorders, London, England. Contact: Tori Bennett, Royal Society of Medicine. Tel: 011 44 207 290. E-mail: tori.bennett@rsm.ac.uk. Website: www.rsm.ac.uk 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 27-29, 2007 — 62nd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Surgery of The Hand, Seattle, Washington, USA. Contact: Donna Decker. Tel: 847 384 8300. Fax: 847 384 1435. E-mail: ddecker@assh.org. September 27-29, 2007 — School of MRI - Advanced MR Imaging of the Musculoskeletal System, Rome, Italy. Contact: Sabine Schuller, European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology. Tel: 011 43 1 535 1306. Fax: 011 43 1 535 7041. E-mail: sschuller@esmrmb.org. Website: www.esmrmb.org September 27-30, 2007 — 2007 Annual Scientific Meeting of the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (CSACI), Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Contact: CSACI. Tel: 613 730 6272. Fax: 613 730 1116. Website: csaci.medical.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 September 29, 2007 — 1st Annual Scientific Meeting of The Canadian Scleroderma Research Group, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Contact: Sara Constantino. Tel: 514 340 7906. E-mail: sara.constantino@mail.mcgill.ca September 30-October 4, 2007 — American Osteopathic Association Convention, San Diego, California, USA. Contact: AOA. Website: www.osteopathic.org October 2-6, 2007 — Eurospine 2007, Brussels, Belgium. Website: www.eurospine2007.com October 3-5, 2007 — International Congress of Immunotherapy in Allergology, Balneario Santa Lucia, Cuba. Contact: Olimpio Rodriguez Santos. Tel: 011 53 32 255 065. Fax: 011 53 32 255 065. E-mail: olimpiors@finlay.cmw.sld.cu. Website: pedia-evidencia.blogspot.com/ search/label/Congresos October 4-5, 2007 — Irish Society for Rheumatology & Irish Rheumatology Health Professionals Society AGM, 2007 Conference, Galway, Ireland. Contact: Abbey Conference Services and ISR/IRHPS Secretariat. Website: http://interdok.com October 4-6, 2007 — 4th Multidisciplinary Congress: "A Clinical and Rehabilitative Approach to Rheumatology," Mantova, Italy. Contact: Mr. Andrea Rossetti. Tel: 39 0 523 335 732. Fax: 39 0 523 334 997. E-mail: reumantova@euroconventions.it October 4-7, 2007 — Infectious Diseases Society of America 45th Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, USA. Contact: IDSA, 66 Canal Center Plaza, Suite 600, Alexandria, VA 22314. E-mail: info@idsociety.org October 5-6, 2007 — Musculoskeletal Ultrasound, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Contact: Donna M. Dowling, Jefferson Ultrasound Research and Education Institute. Tel: 215 955 8533. Fax: 215 923 9452. E-mail: JUREI@mail.tju.edu. Website: www.jefferson.edu/jurei October 6-13, 2007 — Rheumatology and Chronic Pain CME Cruise, Papeete, Tahiti. Contact: Sea Courses Cruises. Tel: 888 647 7327. Fax: 888 547 7337. E-mail: cruises@seacourses.com. Website: www.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 7-12, 2007 — 3rd International Conference on Autoimmunity: Mechanisms and Novel Treatments, Rhodes, Greece. E-mail: Autoimmunity@aegeanconferences.org October 10-12, 2007 — Second European Workshop on Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Diseases, Nürnberg, Germany. Contact: Medicongress. Tel: +32 (0)9 344 39 59. Fax: +32 (0)9 344 40 10. E-mail: imid@medicongress.com. Website: www.medicongress.com/imid October 10-14, 2007 — Bone and Joint Decade Annual Global Network Conference, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. E-mail: benh@arthritiswa.org.au October 11-13, 2007 — II Central European Congress of Osteoporosis and Osteoarthritis, Krakow, Poland. Website: www.osteoporoza.org October 11-13, 2007 — GIO 2007: 5th International Congress on Glucocorticoid Induced Osteoporosis, Naples, Italy. Website: www.symposium.it/gio2007 October 12-13, 2007 — Meeting of the European Forum on Antiphospholipid Antibodies, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Tel: 386 1 5225533. E-mail: info.apl2007@revma.net. October 14-20, 2007 — Shoulder Injuries 2007, Budapest, Hungary. Contact: National Education Institute (NEI). Tel: 866 685 6860. E-mail: info@neiconferences.com. Website: neiconferences.com October 17-20, 2007 — 12th International Congress of the World Muscle Society, Sicily, Italy. Contact: World Muscle Society. Website: www.worldmusclesociety.org October 18-21, 2007 — 80th Annual Clinical Assembly of Osteopathic Specialists, San Francisco, California, USA. Contact: American Osteopathic Academy of Orthopedics. Tel 954 262 1700. Fax: 954 262 1748. E-mail: meeting@aoao.org. Website: www.aoao.org October 20–24, 2007 — 6th Combined Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Societies, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Website:http://www.ors.org/ October 21-25, 2007 — 5th International Course on the Hand, Bodrum, Turkey. Tel: +90 252 316 5107. E-mail: vitalmed@vitalmedbodrum.com. Website: www.vitalmedbodrum.com October 23-24, 2007 — Engineering the Upper Limb, London, England. Contact: Institution of Mechanical Engineers (ImechE). Fax: 011 44 207 222 4557. E-mail: events@imeche.org.uk. Website: www.imeche.org.uk October 23-27, 2007 — North American Spine Society 22nd Annual Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona, USA. Contact: NASS. Website: www.spine.org October 25-27, 2007 — The Paget Foundation Symposium, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Contact: Paget Foundation for Paget's Disease of Bone and Related Disorders (PAGET). Tel: 212 509 5335. E-mail: pagetsym@aol.com. Website: www.paget.org October 25-28, 2007 — International Association for Dance Medicine & Science 17th Annual Meeting, Canberra, Australia. Website: www.iadms2007.com October 26-28, 2007 — United States Bone and Joint Decade Young Investigator Workshop, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. E-mail: usbjd@usbjd.org. Website: www.usbjd.org/rd/?YII October 26-27, 2007 — Comprehensive Musculoskeletal MRI Review Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Contact: Kelly Winters, Institute for Advanced Medical Education (IAME). Tel: 914 921 5700. Fax: 914 921 6048. E-mail: info@iame.com. Website: www.iame.com/courses/ vas0507/vas.html October 26-29, 2007 — IRACON 2007 (23rd Annual Conference of Indian Rheumatology Association), Khajuraho, India. Contact: IRA. Tel: 91 11 233 381 62. Fax: 91 011 256 872 78. E-mail: iracon2007khajuraho@gmail.com. Website: www.iracon2007.com November 2-4, 2007 — American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons 17th Annual Meeting, Grapevine, Texas, USA. Contact: AAHKS, 704 Florence Drive, Park Ridge, IL 60068-2104. Website: www.aahks.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/ November 8-10, 2007 — School of MRI–Advanced MR Imaging of the Musculoskeletal System, Cape Town, South Africa. Contact: Sabine Schuller, European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology (ESMRMB). Tel: 011 43 1 535 1306. Fax: 011 43 1 535 7041. E-mail: sschuller@esmrmb.org. Website: www.esmrmb.org November 9-14, 2007 — 2007 Annual Meeting of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. Contact: ACAAI. E-mail: mail@acaai.org. Website: www.acaai.org November 14-18, 2007 — 18th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy, Fremantle, Australia. Contact: ASCIA. Fax: 011 61 2 9907 9773. E-mail: education@allergy.org.au. Website: www.allergy.org.au November 25-28, 2007 — National Osteoporosis Society 12th Conference, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Contact: Sarah Phillips. Website: http://www.ectsoc.org/events.htm November 29-December 1, 2007 — Cervical Spine Research Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, USA. Contact: CSRS. Website: www.csrs.org December 6-9, 2007 — 2007 World Congress on Osteoarthritis, Miami Beach, Florida, USA. Contact: OsteoArthritis Research Society International (OARSI), 15000 Commerce Parkway, Suite C, Mt. Laurel, NJ 08054, USA. Tel: 1 856 439 1385. Fax: 1 856 439 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 9-12, 2008 — 8th European Congress on Clinical and Economic Aspects of Osteoporosis and Osteoarthritis, Istanbul, Turkey. Website: www.ecceo8.org 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/ September 18-21, 2008 — 2008 World Congress on Osteoarthritis, Rome, Italy. Contact: OsteoArthritis Research Society International (OARSI), 15000 Commerce Parkway, Suite C, Mt. Laurel, NJ 08054, USA. Tel: 1 856 439 1385. Fax: 1 856 439 0525. E-mail: oarsi@oarsi.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
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