A number of Meet the Professor Sessions will be held on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday during the lunch breaks. Numbers will be limited to 50 per session to encourage audience participation. Entry will be by ticket only, to be collected on a first-come first-served basis from the registration desk on the day of the session. Boxed lunches will be available for delegates to consume during the sessions. 

Sunday 8 May 2011, 13:00-14:00

MTP01: BONE AND BONE MARROW
David Scadden (Boston, USA)

MTP02: AN UPDATE ON FRACTURE HEALING
Thomas Einhorn (Boston, USA)

MTP03: SHOULD WE APPLY THE INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE GUIDELINES FOR VITAMIN D FOR PATIENTS WITH OSTEOPOROSIS?
Paul Lips (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

MTP04: ANABOLIC OR ANTICATABOLIC DRUGS IN THE MANAGEMENT OF OSTEOPOROSIS
Felicia Cosman (West Haverstraw, USA)

MTP05: CLINICAL CARE TO PREVENT FRACTURES IN 2020
Steven Cummings (San Francisco, USA)

Monday 9 May 2011, 13:00-14:00

NIW1: LIFE AS A POSTDOC IN THE USA, EUROPE AND IN INDUSTRY
Elazar Zelzer (Rehovot, Israel), Miep Helfrich (Aberdeen, Scotland), Georg Schett (Erlangen, Germany)

MTP07: APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF SKELETAL DEVELOPMENT
Stefan Mundlos (Berlin, Germany)

MTP08: BIOENGINEERING FOR BONE AND JOINT
Rocky Tuan (Pittsburgh, USA)

MTP09: WHAT CALCIUM INTAKE IS BEST?
Ian Reid (Auckland, New Zealand)

MTP10: SKELETAL SEXUAL DIMORPHISM
Dirk Vanderschueren (Leuven, Belgium)

Tuesday 10 May 2011, 13:15-14:15

NIW2: ECTS/IBMS NEW INVESTIGATOR WORKSHOP 2: LIFE AFTER POSTDOC
Anna Teti (L’Aquila, Italy), Stuart Ralston (Edinburgh, Scotland), Florent Elefteriou (Nashville, USA)

MTP12: IMMUNE-LIKE SIGNALLING IN OSTEOCLASTS
Hiroshi Takayanagi (Tokyo, Japan)

MTP13: THE ROLE OF THE VASCULATURE IN BONE HOMEOSTASIS / REPAIR
Ernestina Schipani (Boston, USA)

MTP14: DIAGNOSIS OF VERTEBRAL FRACTURES
Cyrus Cooper (Southampton & Oxford, UK)

MTP15: CANCER AND BONE WITH A SPECIAL FOCUS ON MYELOMA
Toshio Matsumoto (Tokushima, Japan)