International Bone and Mineral Society

INTERNATIONAL BONE & MINERAL SOCIETY The International Bone & Mineral Society is the international organization that facilitates the generation and dissemination of knowledge of bone and mineral metabolism through communication, community, training, and multidisciplinary meetings throughout the world. IBMS is comprised of 1,500 researchers and clinicians from over 55 countries, 2 Collective Affiliate Societies and 40 Professional Affiliate Societies and 17,000 BoneKEy subscribers. IBMS Members are active in the fields of cell and molecular biology, orthopaedics, osteoporosis, rheumatology, endocrinology and oncology. IBMS is proud of its two major publications. IBMS publishes and supports BoneKEy, with over 17,000 subscribers, BoneKEy is the only free, open access, online knowledge environment in the bone field. The official scientific journal of IBMS is Bone. Benefits of IBMS Membership include a full subscription to the journal Bone, discounted subscription to Osteoporosis International, IBMS Meeting discounts, access to multiple Society Awards and Fellowships, and the ability to participate in the largest international Bone Network in the world. Annual General Meeting: IBMS Annual General Meeting will take place in 517 C-D at the Palais des congrès de Montréal on Wednesday, June 27, 2007 at 12:30. All IBMS members are invited to attend. IBMS Upcoming Meetings: IBMS Davos 2008 – Davos Workshops: Bone Biology & Therapeutics - Davos, Switzerland March 9–14, 2008 IBMS Beijing 2008 – International Conference on Osteoporosis and Bone Research 2008 - Beijing, China – October 15–18, 2008 IBMS Sydney 2009 – 2nd Joint Meeting of the International Bone & Mineral Society and the Australian & New Zealand Bone and Mineral Society, Sydney, Australia - March 21–25, 2009 For more information about IBMS, please contact: International Bone & Mineral Society (IBMS) 2025 M Street, NW, Suite 800, Washington, DC 20036-3309, USA Tel: +1 202 367 1121 Fax: +1 202 367 2121 Email: [email protected] www.ibmsonline.org IBMS Executive Committee: President: Ian R. Reid (Auckland, New Zealand) Vice President: Jane Aubin (Toronto, Canada) Secretary/Treasurer: Roger Bouillon (Leuven, Belgium) Immediate Past President: Gregory M. Mundy (Nashville, USA) IBMS Board of Directors: Jane Aubin (Toronto, Canada) Roland Baron (New Haven, USA – Editor in Chief – Bone) Maria Luisa Bianchi (L’Aquila, Italy) Roger Bouillon (Leuven, Belgium) Juliet Compston (Cambridge, UK) Steven Cummings (San Francisco, USA) Richard Eastell (Sheffield, UK) Matthew Gillespie (Melbourne,Australia) Theresa Guise (Charlottsville, USA) Gerard Karsenty (New York, USA) Henry Kronenberg (Boston, USA)

Stavros Manolagas (Little Rock, USA) Gregory M. Mundy (Nashville, USA) Masaki Noda (Tokyo, Japan) Stuart Ralston (Edinburgh, UK) Ian R. Reid (Auckland, New Zealand) Mike J. Rogers (Aberdeen, UK) Ego Seeman (Melbourne, Australia – Clinical Editor - BoneKEy) Gordon J. Strewler (Boston, USA – Editor in Chief – BoneKEy) Anna Teti (L’Aquila, Italy)

IBMS Collective Affiliate Members Austrian Society for Bone and Mineral Research (AuSBMR) Sociedad Espanola de Investigaciones Oseas y Metabolismo Mineral (SEIOMM) IBMS Corporate Members and BoneKEy Supporters The Alliance for Better Bone Health Amgen Chugai Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. GlaxoSmithKline Eli Lilly and Company Merck & Co., Inc. Novartis

Nycomed Pfizer Inc. Roche/GSK A Joint Force in Osteoporosis Servier Teijin Pharma Limited Wyeth Pharmaceuticals AUXILIARY MEETINGS

The International Society for Clinical Densitometry (ISCD) Bone Densitometry Course and Certification Exam The 4th International Conference on Children’s Bone Health (ICCBH4) The 6th Comparative Endocrinology of Calcium Regulation (CECR) Satellite Meeting The Sociedad Espanola de Investigaciones Oseas y Metabolismo Mineral (SEIOMM) Meeting The Austrian Society for Bone and Mineral Research (AuSBMR) Meeting 2007 IBMS/ TRAVEL GRANTS IBMS is proud to announce that it presented Seventy Three (73) to young investigators around the world, in order for them to attend the 17th Scientific Meeting in Montreal. The Grants were awarded to Members aged 41 or younger and were based solely on scientific merit determined by abstract scores. Ozan Akkus 079W Omar Albagha 081 Habiba Lynda Átala 351Th Guive Balooch 005 Julie Briody 178Th Jeroen Buijs 074 Robert Caldwell 166W Lucie Canaff 180Th Alfredo Cappariello 027 Marco Cardelli 094th Narattaphol Charoenphandhu 330M Winnie Chee 225Th Moira Cheung 136M Jillian Cornish 020 Andrea Del Fattore 024 Jodi Dowthwaite 188M Melita Dvorak 002 Florent Elefteriou 079

Desiree Floyd 029 Ali Ghasem Zadeh 030 Vaida Glatt 239M Ariane Godbout 167Th Craig Godfrey 163W Jonathan Gooi 036 Vaselina GoranovaMarinova 152W Francesco Grassi 354th Eric Hesse 006 Bernadine Idowu 023S Marion Julien 010 Tatjana Jung 069 Olexandr Korchynskyi 013S Susan Krum 107M Beney Lee 218W Yang-Sin 146M Clemens Iöwik 014

Polyzois Makras 289W Anestis Mavropoulos 217W Roseleen McCann 337W Michelle McDonald 064 Fumitaka Mizoguchi 038 Nguyen Nguyen 237th Naomi Nishii 044M Benjamin Ory 072 Julie Pasco 057 Allison Pettit 039 Ya-Wei Qiang 070 Susan Ridge 025 Christina Roemelt 102M Anne Saarinen 062 Sandra Sacco 256M Susannah Sample 336W Run Shen 007 Hui Sheng 171Th Xingming Shi 091Th

Sandra Silvestri 319Th Natalie Sims 037 Despina Sitara 042 Julie Sterling 0285 Agnès Vignery 057M Daniel Weekes 019 Rachel Wetzsteon 019S Shenyong Wu 258M Cory Xian 113W Mika Yamauchi 259M Ying Yan 003S Sun Yoon 121W Yuji Yoshiko 032S Vionnie Yu 009 Ge Zhang 054 Xiaoling Zhang 070W Xiao Zhou 081Th Mei Zhu 080 Ralph Zimgibl 015