Laboratory Evaluation & Unmet Clinical Needs in Bone Health

Evaluation of bone health within blood is a challenge. Vitamin D, PTH and bone turnover markers like P1NP and CTx are the most frequently used biomarkers. However, do all these biomarkers have true clinical value in the diagnosis and follow up of patients with bone (related) diseases? What are the analytical possibilities? Moreover, what unmet clinical needs exist in the field of biomarkers for bone health? And will we be able to fulfill these needs in the future in the laboratory? These questions will be answered by national and international experts in the field during the symposium preceding the PhD defenses of Mariska Vlot and Niek Dirks at the VU University in Amsterdam.

Laboratory Evaluation & Unmet Clinical Needs in Bone Health

September 7, Online symposium

9.30h-9.35h Introduction

Laboratory evaluation of bone health
9.35h-10:05h
Clinical utility and analytical possibilities: current status
Drs Mariska Vlot and Drs Niek Dirks

10.05h-10.15h coffee break

Bone health: unmet clinical needs
10:15h-10:25h
What are “unmet clinical needs”?
Prof Dr Christa Cobbaert

10:25h-10:45h
The endocrine perspective
Prof Dr Barbara Obermayer-Pietsch

10:45h-11:05h
The nephrology perspective
Prof Dr Marc Vervloet

11:05-11:15h coffee break

Laboratory evaluation of bone health
11:15h-11:35h
Future perspectives
Prof Dr Etienne Cavalier 1

1:35-11:45h
Closing remarks

13:45h PhD defense Mariska Vlot
15:45h PhD defense Niek Dirks
Both PhD defenses can be followed via a live stream

Speakers:
Drs Mariska Vlot
PhD student at Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam Internist- endocrinologist in St Jansdal hospital, Harderwijk

Drs Niek Dirks
PhD student at Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam Clinical chemist in residence at Atal Medial, Amsterdam & NorthWest Clinics, Alkmaar

Prof Dr Christa Cobbaert
Laboratory specialist and head of the Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine department at Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden Vice Chair of the IFCC Scientific Division (International Federation of Clinical Chemistry)

Prof Dr Barbara Obermayer-Pietsch
Internist endocrinologist and head of the department of Endocrinology at the University Hospital Graz, Austria Board member and Chair of the research committee of the European Calcified Tissue Society

Prof Dr Marc Vervloet (Amsterdam UMC)
Nephrologist at the Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam Chair of the ERA-EDTA working group on CKD-MBD (Chronic Kidney Disease – Mineral Bone Disorder)

Prof Dr Etienne Cavalier
Clinical Chemist and head of the Clinical Chemistry department at Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège, Belgium
Chair of the IFCC Bone Committee (International Federation of Clinical Chemistry)

Organization Committee
Dr Ir Mariette Ackermans, Endocrine Laboratory, dept. of Clinical Chemistry
Prof Dr Martin den Heijer, dept. of Internal Medicine, Endocrinology
Dr Annemieke Heijboer, Endocrine Laboratory, dept. of Clinical Chemistry
Prof Dr Robert de Jonge, dept. of Clinical Chemistry
Amsterdam UMC

Registration
Registration for the symposium is free of charge. Please register before September 1, 2020: a.vannieuwkoop@amsterdamumc.nl. Please include your BIG number/debiteur number if applicable.

Location
You will be sent a weblink prior to the meeting to be able to join the meeting online.

Accreditatiepunten zijn aangevraagd bij de NVKC en de NIV