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Opening remarks


Mr. János Áder, MEP − Member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety

Introductions by the Co-Chairs

The Role of the Doctor in Prevention
Dr. Konstanty Radziwill, President of the Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME), Family
Medicine Specialist


The Importance of Science
Prof. Dr. Roger Bouillon, Catholic University of Leuven, Organiser of the Vitamin D Workshop



Prevention – The Case for Vitamin D


Keynote Presentation: The CPME Policy Paper and the Role of Doctors
Prof. Dr. Arie Nieuwenhuijzen Kruseman, Chairman of the Royal Dutch Medical Association −
Koninklijke Nederlandsche Maatschappij tot bevordering der Geneeskunst (KNMG)


Respondents
Prof. Dr. Ferenc Szalay, 1st Dept. of Medicine, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary


Prof. Dr. Kevin Cashman, Vitamin D Research Group, University College Cork, Ireland


Dr. Werner Faché, Head of the Linus Pauling Prevention Clinic, Ghent, Belgium



Raising Awareness, Societal Education & Enabling Consumer Choice


Keynote Presentation: Availability of Vitamin D for Consumers and Patients
Prof. Dr. Heike Bischoff-Ferrari, Director of the Centre on Aging and Mobility, University Zurich


Respondents
Mr. Jim Higgins, MEP − Co-Chair of the cross-party, pan-European Interest Group on Rheumatic and
Musculoskeletal Diseases


Prof. Moira O’Brien, President of the Irish Osteoporosis Society


Dr. Erik Schoon, Representative of the United European Gastroenterology Federation (UEGF)

Mr. Árpád Gogl, former Minister for Health of Hungary and Hungarian Member of Parliament



Open Q&A session


Chair: Dr. Werner Christie, PA International Foundation and former Health Minister of Norway


Closing remarks


Dr. Anja Weisgerber, MEP − Co-Chair of the European Parliament Osteoporosis Interest Group

     
     
Photos by Fabrice Debatty    
Conference Agenda