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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 2008 October 2, 2008 — Current Issues in Rheumatic Diseases Workshop, Washington, DC, USA. Tel: 609 371 1137. Website: www.princetoncme.com/CORE/ October 15-18, 2008 — XLV Annual Congress of the Italian Society of Rheumatology, Venice, Italy. Contact: AISC & MGR, AIM Group, Via G. Ripamonti 129, 20141 Milano, Italy. Tel: +39 02 566011. Fax: +39 02 56609045. E-mail: sir2008@aimgroup.it. Website: http://www.reumatologia.it October 15-19, 2008 — 3rd National Osteoporosis Congress of the Turkish Osteoporosis Society, Antalya, Turkey. Website: http://www.iofbonehealth.org October 16, 2008 — Current Issues in Rheumatic Diseases Workshop, Washington, DC, USA. Tel: 609 371 1137. Website: www.princetoncme.com/CORE/ October 16-18, 2008 — International Pelvic Pain Society Annual Scientific Meeting: Understanding the Spectrum of Diagnoses and Treatments for Chronic Pelvic Pain Disorders, Orlando Florida, USA. Contact: Georgine Lamvu, MD. E-mail: georgine.lamvu@flhosp.org October 16-19, 2008 — 13th Meeting of the European Society for Immunodeficiencies (ESID), Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands. Contact: Congress Care. Tel: 011 31 73 690 1415. Fax: 011 31 73 690 1417. E-mail: info@congresscare.com October 18, 2008 — Current Issues in Rheumatic Diseases Workshop, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Tel: 609 371 1137. Website: www.princetoncme.com/CORE/ October 22-24, 2008 — 1st Advances in Rare Bone Diseases Conference, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. Tel: 847 384 4009. October 22-25, 2008 — International Bone & Mineral Society (IBMS) International Conference on Osteoporosis & Bone Research, Beijing, China. Website: http://www.chinamed.com.cn/icobr2008 October 23-25, 2008 — 18th Annual Meeting of the International Association for Dance Medicine and Science, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Contact: Donna Krasnow, Conference Director, IADMS. E-mail: ConferenceDirector@iadms.org October 23-26, 2008 — 33rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australian Atherosclerosis Society, Fremantle, Western Australia. Website: http://www.meetingsfirst.com.au/meetings October 24-25, 2008 — 3rd Annual Northern California Bone and Mineral Symposium (CME), Napa, California, USA. E-mail: http://www.ucsfcme.com/2008/osteobone.pdf October 24-28, 2008 — 2nd Congress of the European Academy of Paediatrics, Nice, France. Contact: Kenes International. Tel: +41 22 908 0488. Fax: +41 22 732 2850. E-mail: paediatrics@kenes.com October 24-29, 2008 — American College of Rheumatology 2008 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, USA. Website: www.rheumatology.org October 24-29, 2008 — Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals 2008 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, USA. Contact: ARHP. Website: http://www.rheumatology.org/annual/ 08meeting.asp October 26-30, 2008 — American Osteopathic Association 113th Annual Convention & Scientific Seminar, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Website: http//www.events.jspargo.com October 26-30, 2008 — 9th International Congress of Neuroimmunology, Fort Worth, Texas, USA. Contact: Organizing Secretariat, EEM International Congress Service. Tel: 39 06 5193499. Fax: 39 06 5194009. Website: http://www.isniweb.org October 28-31, 2008 — International Congress on Traditional and Complementary Medicine, Sari, Iran. Contact: Dr. Gholami. Tel: 981 513 257 230. Fax: 981 513 261 244. E-mail: ictcm@mazums.ac.ir October 31-November 1, 2008 — International Cartilage Repair Society 2nd Surgical Skills Course, Miami, Florida, USA. Contact: ICRS Executive Office, Seestrasse 53, 8702 Zollikon, Switzerland. Tel: 41 44 390 118 40. Fax: 41 44 390 18 41. E-mail: office@cartilage.org. Website: www.cartilage.org November 2, 2008 — Bone China Tea, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Contact: Osteoporosis Canada. E-mail: julia.gledhill@hotmail.com November 4-6, 2008 — The Orthopaedic Design and Technology Conference and Expo, Fort Wayne, Indiana. Contact: Howard Revitch. Tel: 201 825 2552 x343. E-mail: info@odtexpo.com. Website: http://www.odtexpo.com November 6-7, 2008 — The Society for Back Pain Research–Annual General Meeting 2008, Staffordshire, UK. Contact: Debbie McStrafick. E-mail: deb@spineresearch.org.uk. Website: http://www.sbpr.info November 6-8, 2008 — 3rd National Spinal Cord Injury Conference and the 16th Interurban Spinal Cord Injury Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Tel: 416 597 3422 ext. 3693. E-mail: conferences@torontorehab.on.ca November 6-8, 2008 — Musculoskeletal Tumor Society Annual Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona, USA. Contact: MSTS. Website: http://www.msts.org November 6-8, 2008 — Congress of Chiropractic State Association Convention, San Antonio, Texas, USA. Website: http://www.cocsa.org November 6-8, 2008 — OSTEOMEN – 4th International Conference on Osteoporosis in Men, Santa Margherita Ligure, Italy. Contact: IN&FO&MED Srl, Via Melchiorre Gioia, 82, 20125 Milano, Italy. E-mail: osteomen@infomed-online.it November 7-9, 2008 — American Association of Hip & Knee Surgeons 18th Annual Meeting, Dallas, Texas, USA. Website: http://www.aahks.org November 7-9, 2008 — American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons 18th Annual Meeting, Dallas, Texas, USA. Contact: AAHKS Administrative office, 6300 N. River Road, Suite 615, Rosemont, IL 60018-4237. Tel: 847 698 1200. Fax: 847 698 0704. Website: http://www.aahks.org November 7-12, 2008 — 2008 Annual Meeting of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, Seattle, Washington, USA. Contact: ACAAI. E-mail: mail@acaai.org. Website: www.acaai.org November 11-13, 2008 — 7th Louis Pasteur Conference on Infectious Diseases, Paris, France. Contact: Elodie Pysson. Fax: 33 140 613 721. E-mail: clp7@pasteur.fr November 12-14, 2008 — 14th Annual Congress of the Egyptian Society of Rheumatology and Rehabilitation, Cairo, Egypt. Contact: EGYRAR. Tel: +202 24856957. E-mail: rheumasociety@yahoo.com. Website: www.egyrar.com November 13-15, 2008 — From Concept to Critical Mass: Building & Sustaining Today's Palliative Care Program, Dallas, Texas, USA. Tel: 212 201 2680. E-mail: capcevents@mssm.edu November 13-16, 2008 — Arthroscopy Association of North America Fall Course, Phoenix, Arizona, USA. Contact: Holly R. Albert, Director of Meetings, AANA. Tel: 847-292-2262. Fax: 847-292-2268. E-mail: holly@aana.org. Website: www.aana.org/cme/FutureMeetings.aspx November 13-16, 2008 — Asia Pacific Geriatric Conference (APGC) 2008, Bali, Indonesia. Contact: Meeting Organizer. Tel: 62 213 146 633. Fax: 62 2 155 960 179. E-mail: apgc@pharma-pro.com November 15-16, 2008 — Hong Kong Academy of Medicine 15th Anniversary Congress, Hong Kong, China. Contact: Justin Ng/Daniel Chok. Tel: 85 228 718 896/28 718 815. Fax: 85 228 718 898. E-mail: hkam15@hkam.org.hk November 17-19, 2008 — Ontario Hospital Association, 2008 Convention & Exhibition, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Website: www.oha.com November 20-21, 2008 — Pennsylvania Orthopaedic Society Annual Fall Scientific Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Website: http://www.paorthosociety.org/meetings November 20-23, 2008 — 69th Annual Assembly of the American Academy of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, San Diego, California, USA. Contact: AAPMR. Tel: 312 464 9700. Fax: 312 464 0227. E-mail: info@aapmr.org. Website: www.aapmr.org November 25, 2008 — AHPs as Rheumatology Clinical Educators: Issues of Training and Teaching Improvement Skills, Derby, UK. Contact: Angela Nartey. Tel: 020 784 20900. E-mail: anartey@rheumatology.org.uk November 27-30, 2008 — 24th Annual Meeting of the Indian Rheumatology Association and 2008 Bone & Joint Decade World Network Conference/Convention, Pune, India. Contact: Conference Secretariat, Center for Rheumatic Diseases, 11 Hermes Elegance, 1988 Convent Street, Camp, Pune 411001, India. Tel: +91 20 26348291, Fax: +91 20 26334756. E-mail: crdpune2008@gmail.com. Website: www.rheumatologyindia.org November 28-30, 2008 — The Eleventh University of Melbourne/IOF South East Asian Regional Training Course on Osteoporosis – The Pathophysiology of Osteoporosis and Bone Disease, Bangkok, Thailand. Website: http://pobd.petnm.unimelb.edu.au/ December 3-6, 2008 — Cervical Spine Research Society 13th Instructional Course & 36th Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas, USA. Website: http://www.csrs.org December 3-7, 2008 — IOF World Congress on Osteoporosis, Bangkok, Thailand. Contact: Janice Blondeau, International Osteoporosis Foundation. Tel: +41 22 994 0100. Fax: +41 22 994 0101. E-mail: iofnews@osteofound.org December 6-7, 2008 — Perspectives in Rheumatic Diseases: Meeting the Clinical Challenge, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA. Website: www.rheumatologynewsperspectives.com December 7-10, 2008 — Annual Meeting of the American Society for Matrix Biology, San Diego, California, USA. Website: http://www.asmb.net December 10-13, 2008 — Current Concepts in Joint Replacement Winter Seminar, Orlando, Florida, USA. Tel: 216 295 1900. Fax: 216 295 9955. December 13-17, 2008 — The 48th Annual Meeting, American Society for Cell Biology, San Francisco, California, USA. E-mail: ascbinfo@ascb.org. Website: http://ascb.org/meetings 2009 January 12-16, 2009 — Endocrinology and Rheumatology: The Most Useful Topics in Both Specialties, Sarasota, Florida, USA. Contact: Christy or Cristina. Tel: 1 866 267 4263 or 941 388 1766. E-mail: mail@ams4cme.com January 14-17, 2009 — Rheumatology Winter Clinical Symposium 2009, Maui, Hawaii, USA. Contact: Nicole Gomez. Tel: 858 385 0785. Fax: 858 683 2027. E-mail: nicole.gomez@r-w-c-s.com. Website: www.r-w-c-s.com January 15-17, 2009 — Winter Total Joint Symposium, Vail, Colorado, USA. Contact: Biomet Orthopedics. Tel: 800 348 9500. Fax: 574 267 8137. Website: http://www.assh.org January 24-30, 2009 — Winter Rheumatology Symposium, Snowmass, Colorado, USA. Website: http://www.rheumatology.org/meetings January 27-31, 2009 — 16th International Conference of Indian Association of Palliative Care, New Delhi, India. Contact: Dr. Sushma Bhatnagar, Organising Secretary. Tel: 011 91 11 2658 8227. E-mail: iapcon2009@gmail.com. Website: www.iapcon2009.org January 28-31, 2009 — American Academy of Pain Medicine, 25th Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Website: http://www.painmed.org February 3-5, 2009 — 18th IOF Advanced Training Course on Osteoporosis, Lyon, France. Website: http://www.iofbonehealth.org February 4-6, 2009 — International Meeting on Early Intervention for Unicompartmental Knee Arthritis, Maastricht, The Netherlands. Contact: Nanne P. Kort, MD, PhD, Course Director. E-mail: n.kort@imuka.eu. Website: www.imuka.eu February 18-19, 2009 — The 7th International Congress of the Egyptian Society of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology (ESPAI 2009), Cairo, Egypt. Contact: Prof. Yehia El-Gamal, President of the Congress. Tel: 20 233 471 000. Fax: 20 233 045 060. E-mail: congress@espai-eg.org February 21, 2009 — American Society for Surgery of the Hand, 2009 Specialty Day, Washington, DC, USA. Website: http://www.assh.org February 25-March 1, 2009 — 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Contact: AAOS Office. Tel: 847 823 7186. Fax: 847 823 8125. E-mail: meeting@aaos.org. Website: www.aaos.org February 28, 2009 — 2009 Meeting of the Hip Society and AAHKS, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Contact: Hip Society. Website: http://www.hipsoc.org March 2-6, 2009 — Intensive Course in Applied Epidemiology, Aberdeen, United Kingdom. Contact: Lorraine Middleton. Tel: +44 0 1224 552495. E-mail: epidemiology@abdn.ac.uk March 6-8, 2009 — Innovative Therapies in Autoimmune Diseases Conference, Washington, DC, USA. Website: http://www.rheumatology.org/meetings March 10-13, 2009 — Sports Medicine Council of British Columbia, 2009 Annual Symposium, Whistler, BC, Canada. Contact: SMCBC. Tel: +1 604 473 4850. Fax: +1 604 473 4860. March 11-14, 2009 — 2009 Annual Meeting of the International Society for Clinical Densitometry, Orlando, Florida, USA. Contact: ISCD Educational Department. Tel: 860 586 7563. Fax: 860 586 7550. E-mail: iscd@iscd.org. Website: www.iscd.org March 13-16, 2009 — 5th World Congress, World Institute of Pain, New York, New York, USA. Contact: Kenes International, 1-3, Rue de Chantepoulet, P.O. Box 1726, CH-1211 Geneva 1, Switzerland. Tel: +41 22 908 0488. Fax: +41 22 732 2850. E-mail: wip@kenes.com March 13-17, 2009 — 65th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, Washington, DC, USA. Contact: Katie Ferguson, AAAAI. Tel: 414 272 6071. Fax: 414 272 6070. E-mail: annualmeeting@aaaai.org. Website: www.aaaai.org March 21-25, 2009 — 2nd Joint Meeting of the International Bone & Mineral Society and the Australian & New Zealand Bone and Mineral Society, Sydney, Australia. Contact: Anne Paterson, IBMS. Tel: 202 367 1121. Fax: 202 367 2121. E-mail: info@IBMSonline.org. Website: www.IBMSonline.org March 28-April 3, 2009 — Diagnosis of Musculoskeletal Diseases, 41st Davos International Course, Davos, Switzerland. Website: http://www.idkd.org/ March 30-April 3, 2009 — Rheumatology: Improving Primary Care Outcomes Through Diagnosis and Treatment, Sarasota, Florida, USA. Contact: Christy or Cristina. Tel: 1 866 267 4263 or 1 941 388 1766. Fax: 1 941 365 7073. E-mail: mail@ams4cme.com March 31-April 3, 2009 — 2009 Annual Meeting of the British Pain Society, London, UK. Contact: The British Pain Society. Tel: 011 44 207 269 7840. Fax: 011 44 207 831 0859. E-mail: info@britishpainsociety.org April 3-6, 2009 — 22nd Annual Spring Meeting of the Canadian Society for Immunology (CSI), Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. Contact: Gill Wu, CSI. E-mail: gill.wu@yorku.ca. Website: www.csi.ucalgary.ca April 5-9, 2009 — 7th Biennial Congress of the International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery and Orthopaedic Sports Medicine, Osaka, Japan. Contact: Michele Johnson, ISAKOS Secretariat. Tel: 925 807 1197. Fax: 925 807 1199. E-mail: isakos@isakos.com. Website: www.isakos.com April 10-12, 2009 — Fifth International Conference on Ethical Issues in Bioengineering, Brooklyn, New York, USA. Co-sponsored by the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research. E-mail: subrata.saha@downstate.edu. Website: www.downstate.edu/grad/bioethics2009.html April 18-19, 2009 — State-of-the-Art Clinical Symposium, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Website: http://www.rheumatology.org/meetings/ April 18-24, 2009 — International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 17th Scientific Meeting & Exhibition, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Contact: ISMRM office. Tel: +1 510 841 1899. +1 510 841 2340. Website: http://www.ismrm.org April 26-29, 2009 — The 12th International TNF Conference, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain. Contact: Forum d'Ideias. Tel: 351 212 189 393. Fax: 351 212 189 392. E-mail: tnf2009@forumdideias.com April 27-28, 2009 — Frontiers in Skeletal Research: Bone, Fat and Brain Connections, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. E-mail: asbmr@asbmr.org. Website: www.asbmr.org April 29-May 3, 2009 — 2009 Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Geriatrics Society, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Contact: AGS, The Empire State Building, 350 Fifth Avenue, Suite 801, New York, NY 10118. Tel: 212 308 1414. Fax: 212 832 8646. E-mail: info@americangeriatrics.org April 29-May 1, 2009 — 17th International Conference on Health Promoting Hospitals, Crete, Greece. Contact: Mrs. Penelope Mitroyianni. Tel: 302 107 257 693. Fax: 302 107 257 532. E-mail: info@erasmus.gr April 30-May 3, 2009 — 2009 Annual Meeting of the Arthroscopy Association of North America, San Diego, California, USA. Contact: AANA. Tel: 847 292 2262. Fax: 847 292 2268. E-mail: info@aana.org May 3-6, 2009 — Combined NZRA/ARA Conference, Wellington, New Zealand. Contact: New Zealand Rheumatology Association/Australian Rheumatology Association. Website: www.rheumatology.org.nz May 3-6, 2009 — 2009 BONES Annual Conference, Austin, Texas, USA. Contact: BONES Society.Website: http://www.bonessociety.org May 6-9, 2009 — 28th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Pain Society, San Diego, California, USA. Contact: APS. Tel: 847 375 4715. Fax: 877 734 8758. E-mail: info@ampainsoc.org. Website: www.ampainsoc.org May 7-9, 2009 — Biologic Therapies in Special Populations-Infections, Malignancies, Cardiovascular Disease, and other Comorbidities Summit, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Contact: Kimberly Pringle. E-mail: Pringlek@ccf.org May 13-17, 2009 — Association of Bone and Joint Surgeons 2009 Annual Meeting, Maui, Hawaii, USA. Contact: ABJS. Website: http://www.abjs.org May 14-16, 2009 — Inflammation, Cardiovascular Risk, and Connective Tissue Disease, Long Island, New York, USA. Contact: Dr. Robert Greenwald. Tel: 516 708 2555. E-mail: rgreenwald@lij.edu May 17-20, 2009 — Current Concepts in Joint Replacement – Spring 2009 Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Contact: Dorothy L. Granchi, Current Concepts Institute. Tel: 216 295 1900. Fax: 216 295 9955. E-mail: info@ccjr.com. Website: www.ccjr.com/new5 May 22-24, 2009 — 4th Romanian International Congress on Anti-Aging Medicine & 2nd International Congress on Lasers in Medicine and Surgery, Bucharest, Romania. Contact: Dr. Catalin Enachescu. Tel: 00 40 723 034 834. Fax: 00 40 214 130 212. E-mail: office@amaa.ro May 23-26, 2009 — 8th World Congress of the International Cartilage Repair Society, Miami, Florida, USA. Contact: Mr. Stephen Seiler. Tel: +41 44 390 18 40. E-mail: office@cartilage.org May 23-27, 2009 — 36th European Symposium on Calcified Tissues, Vienna, Austria. Contact: European Calcified Tissue Society. Tel: 011 44 145 461 0255. Fax: 011 44 145 461 0255. E-mail: admin@ectsoc.org. Website: www.ectsoc.org June 3-6, 2009 — 10th EFORT Congress, Vienna, Austria. Contact: EFORT Central Office, Technoparkstrasse, 1, 8005 Zurich, Switzerland. Tel: +41 44 448 4400. Fax: +41 44 448 4411. June 3-6, 2009 — FESSH 2009 (XIVth International Congress of Federations of the European Societies for Surgery of the Hand), Poznan, Poland. Contact: Pawel Surdziel. Tel: 48 618 310 346. Fax: 48 618 310 163. E-mail: pawelsurdziel@tlen.pl June 7-11, 2009 — 8th Symposium on Pediatric Pain, Acapulco, Mexico. Contact: Symposium Secretariat, International Conference Services. Tel: 604 681 2153. Fax: 604 681 1049. E-mail: ispp2009@meet-ics.com. Website: www.ispp2009.mexico.com June 9-13, 2009 — 27th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Brussels, Belgium. Contact: Kenes International. Tel: +41 22 908 0488. Fax: +41 22 732 2850. E-mail: espid@kenes.com June 10-13, 2009 — EULAR 2009 Annual European Congress of Rheumatology, Copenhagen, Denmark. Contact: MCI Suisse SA. Tel: +41 22 33 99 620. Fax: +41 22 33 99 621. E-mail: eular@mci-group.com June 13-17, 2009 — 5th World Congress of the International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey. Contact: Ms. Sezen Elagoz. Tel: 902 123 438 003. Fax: 902 123 438 023. E-mail: selagoz@teamcon.com.tr July 3-6, 2009 — 64th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Orthopaedic Association, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. Contact: Canadian Orthopaedic Association. Tel: 514 874 9003 x5. Fax: 514 874 0464. Website: www.coa-aco.org July 6-8, 2009 — International Workshop on the Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics of Bone Disease, Oxford, UK. Contact: Janet Crompton. Tel: +44 0 1453 549929. E-mail: janet@janet-crompton.com. Website: http://www.paget.org.uk July 8-9, 2009 — International Symposium on Paget's Disease, Oxford, United Kingdom. Contact: Janet Crompton, The Old White Hart, North Nibley, Dursley GL11 6DS, UK. Tel: +44 1453 549929. Fax: +44 1453 548919. E-mail: janet@janet-crompton.com July 9-12, 2009 — 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine, Keystone, Colorado, USA. Contact: Janisse Selan, Director of Education, AOSSM. Tel: 847 292 4900. Fax: 847 292 4905. E-mail: jan@aossm.org. Website: www.sportsmed.org August 31-September 2, 2009 —2009 Annual International Conference of the International Society of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, Pattaya, Thailand. Contact: SICOT AISBL. Tel: 011 32 2 648 6823. Fax: 011 32 2 649 8601. E-mail: hq@sicot.org. Website: www.sicot.org September 3-5, 2009 — American Society for Surgery of the Hand Combined Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, USA. Contact: ASSH. Website: http://www.assh.org September 10-12, 2009 — Aging and Physical Activity–12th EGREPA Congress, Magglingen, Switzerland. Contact: Dr. Michael Brach. E-mail: michael.brach@uni-muenster.de September 10-13, 2009 — 2009 World Congress of the Osteoarthritis Research Society International, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Contact: OARSI. Tel: 856 439 1385. Fax: 856 439 0525. E-mail: oarsi@oarsi.org. Website: www.oarsi.org September 11-15, 2009 — 31st Annual Meeting of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, Denver, Colorado, USA. E-mail: asbmr@asbmr.org. Website: http://www.asbmr.org September 13-16, 2009 — 2nd European Congress of Immunology, Berlin, Germany. Contact: KIT GmbH Association & Conference Management Group & Co. Tel: 011 49 30 2460 3000. Fax: 011 49 30 2460 3200. E-mail: eci2009@kit-group.org. Website: www.eci-berlin2009.com September 22-24, 2009 — Musculoskeletal Tumor Society Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Contact: MSTS. Website: http://www.msts.org September 24-26, 2009 — 2009 Meeting of the Hip Society, Palo Alto, California, USA. Contact: Hip Society. Website: http://www.hipsoc.org/ events.html October 1-3, 2009 — 18th Annual Scientific Meeting of the European Association of Osseointegration (EAO), Monaco. Contact: Colloquium. Tel: 011 33 1 4464 1515. Fax: 011 33 1 4464 1516. Website: www.eao.org October 21-25, 2009 — Bone and Joint Decade 2009 World Network Conference and Patient Advocacy Meeting, Washington, D.C., USA. Contact: Toby King. E-mail: tobyking@usbjd.org November 6-11, 2009 — American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Annual Meeting 2009, Miami Beach, Florida, USA. Contact: Meeting Organizer. Tel: 847 427 1294. Fax: 847 427 1200. E-mail: mail@acaai.org; meetings@acaai.org The 2009 Pediatric Rheumatology Initial Certifying Examination will be administered on March 30, 2009 by the American Board of Pediatrics. The new applicant registration period for the 2009 Pediatric Rheumatology Initial Certifying Examination commences August 4, 2008, and will end October 1, 2008 at 3:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time. Applicants must apply online at www.abp.org at least 24 hours before the deadline so that any technical difficulties can be addressed. Applications submitted after the deadline will require a late fee. The new applicant late registration period commences October 2, 2008, and ends October 31, 2008 at 3:00 PM EDT, after which time no applications may be submitted. Please review the requirements for certification found on the ABP Web site. Notice In the September print edition of The Journal of Rheumatology, page 1689, the wrong photograph was used to accompany the editorial "Hyperuricemia, Gout, and Lifestyle Factors," by Dr. Edward Roddy. The correct photograph appears in the online edition for September. We apologize to Dr. Roddy for this error.
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