International Shoulder Group

After this year's very successful meeting in Bologna, we are still looking for a site for the 2010 meeting of the ISG. We try to switch between continents, which implies that the 2010 meeting should preferably take place outside Europe, for instance somewhere in the Americas. There is a tentative offer from Minneapolis, but other offers are still welcome!

If you would like to host the 2010 ISG meeting, please let us know before October 1st. This can be done by sending an email to: H_E_J_Veeger@fbw.vu.nl which should include a brief description of your plan, such as place, time, and facilities.

by Frans van der Helm.

Bologna, Italy. July 10-12.

About 30 attendants are present.

1. Opening (17.24h)
2. Minutes of last meeting (hand-out), also here
   1. Accepted without changes
3. ISG constitution (hand-out)
   1. Explanation by DirkJan Veeger about the most important items. Constitution will be mailed for definite voting.
4. Membership update (Ed Chadwick)
   1. Anybody registering at website is member
   2. Membership gone up from 150 (2 years ago) to 200 now.
5. Data and software sharing via website (Ed)
   1. Any data or software is welcome.
   2. Also forum for discussion is available
   3. Some overlap with BIOMCH-L might occur
6. Update current meeting
   1. Papers from present conference will be published by Springer.
   2. Limited number of papers, Andrea Cutti will make a selection.
7. Data and location of next meeting
   1. No offers yet
   2. Next meeting is intended to be held in North America.
   3. Paula Ludewig suggests to consider Minnesota. No definitive offer yet.
   4. Meeting will be small (< 100 participants, no parallel sessions, informal get-together)
   5. Current meeting is 2.5 days, 2 days might be too short, suggestion by Cutti is to have a 3 day meeting. That will be considered.
8. Elections needed in 2 years
   1. Dirkjan suggests that members do not have to do too much.
   2. Ed maintains the website, which is probably the largest effort
   3. Other members mainly participate in e-mail discussions
9. No other questions asked.
10. Meeting closed (17.44h)

Dear Friends,

In case:

1. your research activity has been financed by U.S. NIH, and
2. you are about to submit a paper for the issue of Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing (MBEC) dedicated to the conference

you may be interested to know the position of Springer regarding the NIH request to deposit the final manuscript of your journal articles in PubMed Central (http://publicaccess.nih.gov/).

Here (pdf) you can find the details of Springer’s position, which appears very positive, with two possible options!

Kind Regards,

Andrea G. Cutti

Dear Friends,

Two important news items regarding ISG 2008:

1. On Friday we sent out all the acceptance letters for the abstracts received for the conference. If you sent an abstract and didn't receive a letter, please send an email to isg2008@inail-starter.org.
2. REGISTRATION is NOW open. Just open this link in a new window: www.inail-starter.org/ISG2008Registration.aspx. Please register by MARCH 31st to confirm your presentation. In case of problems, email isg2008@inail-starter.org.

Looking forward to seeing you in Bologna.

Kind Regards,

Lorenzo Chiari
Andrea G. Cutti

Dear Friends,

Due to the 2 week postponement of the deadline for the submission of the abstracts, we had to slightly postpone the date for the notification of acceptance as well. The new date is therefore next Friday, February 29th.

Kind Regards,

Lorenzo Chiari
Andrea G. Cutti