Ronald C. Hamdy, MD, FRCP, FACP
Conference Chair is Professor of Internal Medicine and holder of the Cecile Cox Quillen Chair of Excellence in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology and is also Director of the Osteoporosis Center at East Tennessee State University in
Johnson City, Tennessee.  

Michael F. Holick, PhD is Professor of Medicine, Physiology, and Dermatology, Director of the General Clinical Research Center at Boston University School of Medicine and Director of the Bone Healthcare Clinic at Boston
Medical Center.  

Andrew J. Laster, MD, FACR is a partner in a 5 member rheumatology group in Charlotte, North Carolina. He is an Assistant Consulting Professor of Medicine at Duke University in Durham and Clinical Instructor in Medicine at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine at Chapel Hill. 

S. Bobo Tanner, MD is Assistant Professor of Medicine and Director of the Osteoporosis Clinic at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee.

Nelson B. Watts, MD, is Professor of Medicine at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and is Director of the University of Cincinnati Bone Health and Osteoporosis Center.

SMA's Coordinating Committee on Education/Planning Committee
o Jan N. Basile, MD, Chair, Charleston, SC
o Wesley Eastridge, MD, Gate City, VA
o Mark G. Martens, MD, Tulsa, OK
o G. Richard Holt, MD, San Antonio, TX
o R. Bruce Shack, MD, Nashville, TN
o Donald Pell, MD, St. Petersburg, FL
o Peter J. Kragel, MD, Greenville, NC
o Ronald C. Hamdy, MD, Johnson City, TN
o Judy A. C. King, MD, Mobile, AL
o Veronica K. Piziak, MD, PhD, Temple, TX
o Karen Winn, RN, MSN, Birmingham, AL

SMA Disclosure Policy and Conflict of Interest Resolution
It is SMA's policy that all individuals involved with the planning and implementation of the content of an SMA CME/CE activity are required to disclose to the audience (1) any relevant financial relationships with entities producing healthcare goods or services consumed by or used on patients, and (2) unlabeled/unapproved uses of drugs or devices discussed in their presentation. Conflicts of interest will be resolved prior to the activity and disclosures will be noted on a slide at the beginning of the lectures and in the syllabus.