Bone and Mineral Special Interest Group
Background
The Bone and Mineral SIG was established in July 2004 and was led at that time by Bronwen Evans (Cardiff; evansba@cardiff.ac.uk), with Mark Cooper (Birmingham), Colin Farquharson (Roslin) and Raj Thakker (Oxford) as committee members. More recently, and following a flurry of meetings to try to raise the profile of osteoporosis and bone disease generally, Neil Gittoes (Birmingham; Neil.Gittoes@uhb.nhs.uk) has joined the committee as co-convenor. An email was sent out from Neil and Bronwen to all members in June 2007 asking for comments, suggestions, etc in relation to future plans and objectives for the SIG. In addition, a working group to deal with the more clinical aspects of osteoporosis and other bone diseases has been formed.
Regular meetings of the SIG and Osteoporosis Working Group have been held, usually in association with Society meetings. For example, one was held in March 2007 at the BES Meeting in Birmingham, and another in November 2007 at the National Osteoporosis Society conference in Edinburgh.
The Bone and Mineral SIG has actively been seeking collaborative links with other interested societies, including the Bone Research Society (BRS) (a joint meeting in 2008 / 2009 has been proposed), and National Osteoporosis Society (NOS) through the NOS National Health Professional Partners Forum.
Actions
- To provide a focus for Bone and Mineral research in order to strengthen the discipline
- To maintain a register of the specific interests of members
- To initiate and manage communication between members
- To organise meetings and symposia
- To increase the profile of endocrinology as a speciality
- To increase the profile of the Society for Endocrinology and encourage new membership
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