Saturday May 8, 2010

8:30-12:05 PLENARY SESSION V (HALL B)
Chairs: M.L. Brandi, J. Zanchetta

  • Plenary Lecture 9 - Extra Skeletal Effects of Vitamin D - B. Dawson-Hughes (US)
  • Oral Communications (5)
  • IOF-Servier Young Investigator Award / ESCEO-IOF-ABBH Young Investigator Awards
  • Break
  • Plenary Lecture 10 - Stimulators/Inhibitors of Bone Turnover, Together or One After the Other - J.P. Bilezikian (US)
  • Oral Communications of Selected Posters (12)

12:05-13:05
ESCEO-GREES Roundtable - Relationship Between Pharmaceutical Industry and Academic Scientists: Suggestions for a New Code of Conduct
(TEATRINO LORENESE)
Chairs: M.E. Abadie, J.Y. Reginster

  • Introduction - B. Flamion (BE)
  • Rights and Duties of Academic Scientists - R. Rizzoli (CH)
  • Conflicts of Interest or Competing Interests - J.A. Kanis (UK)
  • Ghost Authors - O. Bruyère (BE)
  • Staff and Student Education - N. Goel (US)
  • Conclusion - B. Flamion (BE)

12:30-14:00
Lunch Satellite Symposium - DANONE RESEARCH
Nutrition, Physical Activity and Bone Health: State of the Art and Emerging Trends (HALL B)

13:05–14:20
ESCEO-ASBMR JOINT SYMPOSIUM
Rare Bone Disorders:  Impact in Drug Development (TEATRINO LORENESE)
Chairs:  M.L. Brandi, M.P. Whyte

  • Introduction
  • Heritable disorders of the RANKL/OPG/RANK/NF-ĸB signalling pathway - M.P. Whyte (US)
  • Phosphatonins disregulation as pathogenetic basis of rare bone disorders -
    R. Thakker (UK)
  • Conclusions

14:00-14:20
Break

14:20-16:30 PLENARY SESSION VI (HALL B)
Chairs: J. A. Kanis, B. Masri

  • Plenary Lecture 11 - Developmental Plasticity and Later Osteoporosis - M. A. Hanson (UK)
  • Plenary Lecture 12 - Emerging Therapies for Osteoporosis - S. E. Papapoulos (NL)
  • Oral Communications (5)
  • Closing Remarks - J.Y. Reginster (BE)


16:30-18:00
Symposium on behalf of FIRMO, SIMG, SIOMMMS and SIOT under the auspices of ESCEO
Fragility Fractures: The Italian Effort for the Recognition of the Problem (TEATRINO LORENESE)

Chairs: S Adami, R. Nuti

  • Introduction - M.L. Brandi (IT)
  • The Italian Registry of Fragility Fractures - S. Ortolani (IT)
  • The Novel Diagnosis of Fragility Fractures - U. Tarantino (IT)
  • The Levels of Prevention - S. Minisola (IT)
  • The FRAX® Algorithm and the General Practitioner - C. Cricelli (IT)