Dear Guest
As Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the European Society for Clinical and Economic Aspects of Osteoporosis and Osteoarthritis (ESCEO), this is a pleasure to welcome you to this 8th European Congress on Clinical and Economic Aspects of Osteoporosis and Osteoarthritis (ECCEO8).
It has been a difficult task for the Scientific Advisory Committee to select oral communications among the 500 high quality abstracts submitted to this congress. Besides plenary session with Invited Lectures and oral selected communications, a lot of time has been dedicated to the poster presentation. I am convinced that this is a unique opportunity to share the knowledge among scientists and health professionals.
New this year, educational session (by Professor Seeman) as well as the “Meet-The-Professor” sessions (By Professors Dawson-Hughes, Rizzoli, Einhorn and Papapoulos) will also contribute to increase the knowledge of the participants.
During this meeting, ESCEO has also been pleased to provide the opportunity of supporting Awards, courtesy of grants from Amgen. These grants aimed specifically at encouraging young scientists to carry out high quality research in the field of osteoporosis or osteoarthritis.
The recipients of these grants received their Awards on Thursday April 10, during the first day of the Congress.
The ESCEO-Amgen Fellowship Awards were presented to:
- Bruyère Olivier for his project of
development of a pharmacoeconomic
model in osteoarthritis;
- Durosier Claire for her project to
identify the genetic determinants
and environmental factors related
to bone microarchitecture;
- Lorentzon Karl Mattias for his
project to assess the role of
genetic variations in modulating
the relationship between physical
activity and bone mass;
- Wang Qingju for the project to
identify genetic and environmental
structural diversity of the
bone.
The ESCEO-Amgen Young Investigator Awards, given to the two highest scored abstracts submitted for presentation at the ECCEO8 Annual Meeting, were awarded to Stéphanie Boutroy and John Brent Richards.
I really have the feeling that this meeting, with these high quality plenary lectures, oral communications and poster sessions, will have a huge success and will contribute to make osteoporosis and osteoarthritis diseases of the past. I wish you a very successful meeting.
Professor R. Rizzoli