National Action Plan for Bone Health - Osteogenesis Imperfecta ...

Panel I What Has Been Accomplished in Bone Health Since the 2004
Surgeon General’s Report? What Are the Gaps?
8:45 a.m. Introduction: Leo Schargorodski, National Osteoporosis Foundation
Moderator: Susan Dentzer, Health Affairs
Building the Science Base and Changing the Paradigm of Preventing
and Treating Fractures
Presentations on scientific and clinical practice advances in the prevention and
treatment of fractures.
Lawrence G. Raisz, M.D., University of Connecticut Health Center
Joan A. McGowan, Ph.D., National Institute of Arthritis, Musculoskeletal
and Skin Diseases
9:10 a.m. Increasing Awareness and Integrating Health Messages on Prevention
and Treatment
Presentations on challenges in increasing awareness of how osteoporosis and related
bone diseases can be prevented and treated, and in integrating health messages on
physical activity and nutrition relating to other chronic diseases.
9:30 a.m. Discussion
10:00 a.m. Break
Ethel S. Siris, M.D., Columbia University
Susan Dentzer, Health Affairs
Panel II
What Can Health Professionals, Health Systems and
Population-Based Approaches Do in Partnership
to Promote Bone Health?
10:20 a.m. Introduction: Charlene Waldman, The Paget Foundation
Moderator: Allan S. Noonan, M.D., M.P.H., Morgan State University School
of Community Health and Policy
Lessons Learned from European and Canadian Action Plans and Policies
for Bone Health
Presentations on the European action plan for a Europe free from fragility fractures
and the Canadian policies and funding of public health programs to prevent and treat
osteoporosis.
Juliet Compston, M.D., European Union Consultation Panel
Julie M. Foley, Osteoporosis Canada
Summit for a National Action Plan for Bone Health June 26 – 27, 2008