First EULAR course in diagnostic laboratory testing,
Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark.
October 20 to 23, 2005.

A practical course for clinical rheumatologists who want to
get insight into diagnostic laboratory testing.

PROGRAM

Maximum number of participants: 25

Faculty:
Professor Gerd Burmester, Berlin
Professor Piérre Miossec, Lyon
Dr. Johan Rönnelid, Uppsala
Professor Guido Valesini, Rome
Dr. Allan Wiik, Copenhagen

Topics:
Anti-nuclear antibodies
Neutrophil-specific autoantibodies
Anti-phospholipid antibodies
Cytokines and their inhibitors
DNA/RNA analyses
Complement system analyses

Participants will have to pay their own travel costs, whereas the course administration pays for the course, all meals, and for hotel accommodation.
Participants are expected to arrive in the evening of October 19, so the course can start in the morning next day. The course will end in the afternoon of October 22, but cheep airfare tickets mostly demand that you stay till Sunday. A certificate of participation will be furnished from the EULAR Secretariat to those participants who stay for the whole course.
Fee for participation: 1000 Euros.
Some bursaries are expected to be made available from the EULAR Secretariat.
Applications for bursaries must be sent there.

Course secretariat: Dr.Allan Wiik, MD, DSc., Dept. of Autoimmunology, Statens Serum Institut, Artillerivej 5, 2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark.
E-mail: aw@ssi.dk
phone: +45-32683546
fax: +45-32683876