Program: to be determined

Registration: to be determined

Organizing Committee:

• John Shepherd, University of California - San Francisco and ISCD Standards Committee Chairman
• Herbert Bennett, NIST (301) 975-2079, herbert.bennett@nist.gov
• Tammy Oreskovic, NIST (303)-497-4571, tammy.oreskovic@nist.gov
• Andrew Dienstfrey, NIST (303)-497-7485, andrew.dienstfrey@nist.gov
• S. Bobo Tanner, Vanderbilt University and ISCD Education Committee Chairman
• Martin Rotblatt, ISCD Associate Director
• G. Avery, Clarian Health and ISCD Board of Directors
• Steven Petak, Texas Institute for Reproductive Medicine and Endocrinology Director and ISCD President
• Deborah Augustus, ISCD Corporate Partnerships and Annual Meeting Manager
• Paul Miller, Colorado Center for Bone Research Director and ISCD Fracture Risk Taskforce Chairman

The International Society for Clinical Densitometry (ISCD) http://www.iscd.org is collaborating with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop the program for this Workshop. The ISCD is the world leader in bone densitometry measurements, standards, education, and certification. The ISCD provides comprehensive education courses in bone densitometry and offers certification exams for clinicians and technologists. It provides resources for multiple scientific disciplines with an interest in bone mass measurement, reference standards, and recommended practices. Its membership is comprised of over 6,000 clinicians, technologists, corporate partners, and industry members from more than forty countries. With the evolution of bone densitometry, differences in technologies, acquisition techniques, reference databases, reporting methods, and terminology have developed. To address these issues the ISCD periodically holds Position Development Conferences (PDCs). The recommendations from its PDCs are widely published and periodically updated.

The theme of this Workshop is measurements and standards for monitoring patients over time as they reside in different locations and have bone scans with different equipment and modalities. This Workshop will consist of two two-hour sessions, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. The morning session will have four plenary session speakers in addition to a talk on the new United States Measurements System Program at NIST. Each of these four speakers will be asked to conclude their presentations by addressing a few questions from a list that the organizers prepare in advance as well as questions from the audience. The afternoon session will be a panel of about six experts who will generate interactive discussions with the audience. The panel-audience interactive discussions are to:

1) Identify the most critical issues in standards and measurements for assessing bone health;
2) Determine whether agreement exists in the priorities for addressing the issues; and
3) Suggest how to bring together the experts needed to resolve the issues.

Industry, universities, government agencies and many medical specialties (e.g., endocrinologists, rheumatologists, allergists, and gynecologists who frequently prescribe corticosteroids, and orthopedic surgeons), members of other professional societies are expected to participate in this Workshop.