International Society for Clinical Densitometry (ISCD) is a professional community of physicians with more than 2,700 individual members from over 25 countries. The society advocated an advance in the assessment of musculoskeletal health through education, certification and facility accreditation. The association is established in 1993 and headquartered in
Middletown, Connecticut
Middletown is a city located in Middlesex County, Connecticut, United States, Located along the Connecticut River, in the central part of the state, it is south of Hartford, Connecticut, Hartford. In 1650, it was incorporated by English settler ...
, United States.
Conferences
The International Society for Clinical Densitometry periodically hosts both Annual Meetings and Position Development Conferences (PDC). The Annual Meetings are held in demonstration of Society's mission of "advancing high-quality
musculoskeletal health assessments in the service of superior patient care".
The purpose of the Position Development Conferences is to gather experts in the field of skeletal measurement and update the Society’s Official Positions, which pertain to the use of
bone mass
Bone density, or bone mineral density, is the amount of bone mineral in bone tissue. The concept is of mass of mineral per volume of bone (relating to density in the physics sense), although clinically it is measured by proxy according to optica ...
measurement and other skeletal health assessment technologies inclusive of the performance, interpretation, reporting, and clinical relevance of those technologies. The Official Positions are intended to serve as guidance to the field of osteoporosis assessment and as a foundation for elements of the ISCD’s education, certification, and facility accreditation activities. The positions are disseminated in official ISCD publications and widely cited peer-reviewed literature. The first adult PDC was held in July 2001.
Former presidents
Sister organizations
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American Association of Endocrine Surgeons (AAES)
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American Diabetes Association
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(ADA)
*American Society for Bone & Mineral Research (ASBMR)
*American Society of Andrology (ASA)
*American Society of Endocrine Physician Assistants (ASEPA)
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American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM)
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American Thyroid Association (ATA)
*Androgen Excess and PCOS Society (AE-PCOS)
*Association of Program Directors in Endocrinology (APDEM)
*Endocrine Nurses Society (ENS)
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American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE)
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Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
JDRF is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that funds type 1 diabetes (T1D) research, provides a broad array of community and activist services to the T1D population and actively advocates for regulation favorable to medical research and approval o ...
(JDRF)
*Pediatric Endocrine Society (PES)
*Pediatric Endocrinology Nursing Society (PENS)
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Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology (SBN)
*Society for Gynecologic Investigation (SGI)
*Society for the Study of Reproduction (SSR)
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Endocrine Society
The Endocrine Society is a professional, international medical organization in the field of endocrinology and metabolism, founded in 1916 as The Association for the Study of Internal Secretions. The official name of the organization was changed ...
(ES)
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The Obesity Society (TOS)
*The Pituitary Society (PS)
Publications
* ''Journal of Clinical Densitometry''
References
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