Meetings/Events
Forthcoming meetings and events
Congress of Musculoskeletal Diseases
Habtoor Grand Hotel, Beirut, Lebanon
October 23 – 26, 2008
This four-day congress will be held on occasion of the opening of the Bellevue Medical Center and in collaboration with the Lebanese American University (LAU) Faculty of Medicinethe, Lebanese Osteoporosis Prevention Society (LOPS) and the Bone and Joint Decade (BJD), Lebanese chapter.
For further information click here. Read letter of invitation (PDF, 20.8 KB)
EFORT 2008
Advanced Update on Orthopaedics and Traumatology
Nice, France
May 29- June 1, 2008
Will feature special session on osteoporosis.
See preliminary program (PDF, 1.19 MB)
Past Meetings and Reports
IOF Osteoporosis Diagnosis Course, with densitometry certification
4th Pan Arab Osteoporosis Congress and the First Emirates Osteoporosis Society Congress
March 2-4, 2008, Dubai, UAE
and IOF Osteoporosis Diagnosis Course with Densitometry Certification
3rd IOF Middle East Training Course (METCOP)
December 2007
Read report of the successful 3rd METCOP held in Broumana, Lebananon in December 2007.
' Practical Aspects of Bone Health' Amman , Jordan 2007
The Jordanian Osteoporosis Prevention Society (JOPS) and the Pan Arab Osteoporosis Society
held a successful meeting ' Practical Aspects of Bone Health' in Amman on June 7-8, 2007.
The meeting was held under the patronage of HRH Princess Sarvath El-Hassan,
Honorary President of JOPS.
Third Pan Arab Osteoporosis Congress
The Third PAOS Congress took place in Tunis from September 7 to 9, 2005. Presentations covered a full range of topics including epidemiology, pathophysiology, genetics, diagnosis procedures, male osteoporosis, corticosteroid-induced osteoporosis, management and treatment strategies.
New PAOS Committee
A PAOS Committee Meeting was held in conjunction with the Congress and it was decided that:
- Dr. Abdul Rahim Suhaili (Emirates) would succeed Prof. Leith Zakraoui as President
- Dr. Elias Saba (Palestine) succeeds Dr. Basel Masri (Jordan) as General Secretary
- Prof. Ghassan Maalouf (Lebanon) will preside the Scientific Committee, consisting of the following members: Dr. Riad Sulaimani (S. Arabia), Dr. Omar Hussein (Egypt), Prof. Leith Zakraoui (Tunisia) and Dr. Basel Masri (Jordan).
It was also agreed that another meeting, chaired by Dr. Wahid El Kharousi, would take place in Muscat, Oman, with the object of revising the by-laws of PAOS.
Finally, much appreciation was expressed for the valuable work carried out by Drs. Zakraoui and Masri over the past three years.
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| From left to right. First row: Dr. Abdel Rahim Suhaili, Prof. Khaled El Muntasser, Dr. Gemma Adib, Prof. Ghassan Maalouf, Prof. Leith Zakraoui. Second row: Dr. Wahid El Kharoussi, Prof. Samir El Badawi,Dr. Basel Masri, Dr. Hikmat Abou Samra. Third row: Dr. Sami Salman, Dr. Elias Saba, Dr. Riad Sulaimani. |
