The International Skeletal Society 2010 Annual Meeting & Refresher Courses

The International Skeletal Society 2010 Annual Meeting & Refresher Courses

29 September - 2 October, Athens Hilton Hotel

The International Skeletal Society is an interdisciplinary working group concerned with skeletal disease: its pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment. The first meeting of the Society was held in 1972, in Washington D.C., during the Annual Meeting of the American Roentgen Ray Society. The newly formed society, with approximately 50 founding members, met for the first time in 1974. The new organization was enthusiastically received by the skeletal community, and membership has grown steadily.

Course Description
The 37th Annual ISS Imaging Update Courses will offer two parallel programs running concurrently: a course on sports injuries and imaging of the lower extremity and the second course focused on the themes of musculoskeletal tumours, trauma and degeneration. The courses will include several lectures by orthopedic surgeons and pathologists speaking on the interrelationships between pathology, imaging and clinical orthopedic surgery. In addition there will be a dedicated one day Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Course offered by the leading international experts in musculoskeletal ultrasound.

Course purpose
At the completion of this course participants will be able to:
1. Optimize performance of musculoskeletal imaging;
2. Comprehend recent updates in sports injuries and imaging of the lower extremity
3. Comprehend latest updates in imaging of musculoskeletal tumors, trauma and degeneration
4. Comprehend the pathology of musculoskeletal diseases.

Target audience
The target audience for this refresher course includes general radiologists, musculoskeletal radiologists, orthopaedic surgeons, rheumatologists, pathologists, and allied health care workers with special interest in the diagnosis and therapy of musculoskeletal disease.