The International Osteoporosis Foundation Joins ECCEO9 At Leading International Meeting In Athens

Main Category: Bones / Orthopaedics
Also Included In: Conferences;  Arthritis / Rheumatology;  Menopause
Article Date: 19 Feb 2009 - 2:00 PDT

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Collaboration results in enhanced scientific meeting, greater global perspective

The International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) invites clinicians and researchers in the bone health field to attend ECCEO9-IOF, a joint meeting to be held from March 18-21 in Athens, Greece.

Some 4,000 participants are expected at the four-day meeting which will feature an expanded scientific scope as well as a broad spectrum of clinically-oriented 'Meet-the-Professor' sessions. The programme is also enhanced by poster sessions and satellite symposia, and offers clinical insights through special sessions on the management of osteoarthritis and osteoporosis.

A highlight of the stimulating scientific programme is the series of eight plenary lectures, delivered by leading experts in the field:

• Implications of improving adherence to osteoporosis treatment, Stuart Silverman
  
  
• Secular trends in osteoporosis fracture: myth or reality, Cyrus Cooper
  
  
• Imaging of bone microarchitecture and osteoporosis, Sharmila Majumdar
  
  
• Clinical and economic aspects of the management of postmenopausal women with osteopenia, Christian Roux
  
  
• Role of microdamage in bone fragility, Clive Lee
  
  
• Novelties and perspectives in the management of osteoarthritis, Jean-Pierre Pelletier
  
  
• Debate: long-term treatment of osteoporosis with bisphosphonates: good, John Bilezikian
  
  
• Debate: long-term treatment of osteoporosis with bisphosphonates: bad, Socrates Papapoulos

Join us in Athens for an exciting scientific programme, and a special opportunity to meet leading experts from around the world.

Reminder: Paid registrants of the cancelled IOF World Congress on Osteoporosis in Bangkok (December 2008) are offered free registration. Please register through the ECCEO9-IOF website http://www.ecceo9.org/ and under 'special discount' indicate 'IOF WCO FREE'.

ABOUT IOF

The International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) is a nongovernmental umbrella organization dedicated to the worldwide fight against osteoporosis, the disease known as "the silent epidemic". IOF's members - committees of scientific researchers, patient, medical and research societies and industry representatives from around the world - share a common vision of a world without osteoporotic fractures. Launched in 1998 with the merger of the European Foundation for Osteoporosis (EFFO, founded in 1987) and the International Federation of Societies on Skeletal Diseases, IOF now represents 191 societies in 91 locations. http://www.iofbonehealth.org

ABOUT ESCEO

The European Society for Clinical and Economic Aspects of Osteoporosis and Osteoarthritis (ESCEO) is a non-profit organization, dedicated to a close interaction between clinical scientists dealing with rheumatic disorders, pharmaceutical industry developing new compounds in this field, regulators responsible for the registration of such drugs and health policy makers, to integrate the management of osteoporosis and osteoarthritis within the comprehensive perspective of health resources utilization. The objective of ESCEO is to provide practitioners with the latest clinical and economic information, allowing them to organize their daily practice, in an evidence-based medicine perspective, with a cost-conscious perception.

Source: Yolande Piette
International Osteoporosis Foundation