Date and Time

Friday, April 17, 2009, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

place

Kitano Hospital 5th floor Kitano Hall

theme

"Diabetes Mellitus & Bone"

Opening Remarks

Dr. Eri Muso, Director of the Department of Nephrology, Kitano Hospital

Lecture

Chair: Dr. Tatsuo Tsukamoto, Deputy Director of Nephrology, Kitano Hospital
1. "Bone mineral density in Japanese patients with type 2 diabetes"
Dr. Hiroyuki Koshiyama, Director of the Diabetes and Endocrinology Center, Kitano Hospital
2. "Sorbitol pathway to develop osteoblast dysfunction in diabetic osteopathy"
Masaaki Inaba, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka City University

special lecture

Chair: Dr. Takehisa Yamamoto, Director of Pediatrics, Minoh City Hospital

“Recent knowledge from ADA/EASD consensus
〜Thiazolidinedione treatment and the risk of fractures〜”
Peter Vestergaard, MD, PhD, DrMedSc
Assistant professor of calcium metabolic disorders

The Osteoporosis Clinic Aarhus Amtssygehus
Denmark