About the Society

ESPE Working Groups

The Bone Club

Aims

To bring together clinical and experimental scientists and physicians actively involved in the study of paediatric bone and mineral research. The ESPE Bone Club's key aims are to achieve these goals including the nurturing and development of future generations of basic and clinical scientists, and the dissemination of new knowledge in bone and mineral metabolism.
The ESPE Bone Club will provide an additional forum within ESPE for the dissemination of current research regarding the rapidly growing field of paediatric metabolic bone disease.

Formation of group proposed by

Professor Ze'ev Hochberg
Current Coordinator:
A.M. Boot (Netherlands)
Committee members:
N.J. Shaw (UK)
E.Schonau (Germany)
A.Bereket (Turkey)
G Haussler (Austria)
L.Audi (Spain)
D.Tiosano (Israel)
G.Saggese (Italy)
J Deschepper (Belgium)
J. Allgrove (UK)
P. Crofton (UK)
W. Högler (Austria)
O. Makitie (Finland)

Organisation & coordination

There is an annual business meeting to plan future scientific sessions and collaborative research.

Grants, awards and any other recognition received

The ESPE Bone Club has obtained an ESPE Research Unit Grant in 2002 and completed a project on "Rickets in Middle Eastern Children". It has published so far two papers as a result of the annual meetings.

Planned activities for the next 2 to 3 years

To hold a scientific session at each annual ESPE meeting of general interest to paediatric endocrinologists.

Meetings

Meetings will be held annually. The first ESPE Bone Club Board Meeting was held in 2000. The annual meetings will be held during, before or after ESPE Meetings and will include presentations, group discussions and conduct of joint research projects.

Contact for further information

a.m.boot@bkk.umcg.nl (department of paediatric endocrinology, University Medical Center Groningen, the Netherlands).