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The Vitamin D Workshop, Inc. is a non-profit organization dedicated to the conduct and support of scientific meetings related to vitamin D. The head office of the Vitamin D Workshop is located in the Department of Biochemistry, University of California-Riverside, CA 92521. The Workshop is managed by a two-member Advisory Committee, and assisted by an approximately 40 member Program Committee. A new Program Committee is appointed for each Workshop. Both of these committees consist of professional scientists and clinicians from around the world.
The Vitamin D Workshop, Inc. typically conducts a five-day meeting that has traditionally been held every three years, alternating between Europe and North America. The attendees to the workshops typically include chemists, biochemists, physiologists, endocrinologists, and clinicians -- scientists of all of the disciplines essential to modern research pertaining to the many facets of vitamin D. During the course of the 5-day meeting, there can be 40-70 verbal presentations, as well as 300-400 poster presentations.
Background
There have been fourteen previous Workshops on Vitamin D over the interval 1973 through 2009, as can be see on History Workshop.
Interest in and attendance at recent Vitamin D Workshops have been high despite the fact that there are now many annual meetings in the area of calcium regulating hormones and other steroid hormones. Besides the immensely beneficial accomplishment of bringing highly talented scientists together for a short, but intensive, period of time, the accomplishments of the vitamin D researchers have been promptly recorded and published for each Workshop in a series of 1000-page books. Information on the Proceedings of the first eleven workshops are described in detail on the Proceedings page; many can still be purchased.
The 15th Workshop on Vitamin D will be held in Houston, Texas from June 20th through the 22nd, 2012.