Professor Bruce Hollis and The Dark Report are presenting a 90 minute Audio Conference on Vitamin D (PR)

DATE: Wednesday, February 24, 2010
TIME: 1 p.m. EDT; 12 p.m. CDT; 11 a.m. MDT; 10 a.m. PDT
PLACE: Your telephone or speakerphone
COST: a whopping $245

After you pay, The Dark Report will email you a phone number to call at the time of the conference and a pin number to use when logging on.  You can put the conference on a speakerphone and as many people as you want can listen to the presentation. The conference is designed for clinical laboratory specialists, physicians, nurses and other caregivers. I talked with Bruce and he feels the general public will find much of what he says relevant and useful.

For questions or concerns about this conference please contact Justin Clark at jclark@darkreport.com.

This event is not sponsored by the Vitamin D Council and we have no involvement in its production nor in its technology so please do not email me with questions or complaints.
However, The Dark Report has generously agreed to donate $75.00 to the Vitamin D Council for everyone who signs up using the discount code "VITAMIND".

https://store.darkdaily.com/AudioConferences.aspx?id=10&code=VITAMIND

Here's some of what you'll learn during this 90-minute conference:

-         The basics of Vitamin D2 and D3.
-         The different testing methodologies, from immunoassay to mass spectrometry.
-         Insights into the sources of Vitamin D and how the body metabolizes it.
-         The most recent clinical studies linking Vitamin D insufficiency to a surprising number of diseases.
-         Why new research findings are changing the way many physicians manage Vitamin D in their patients.
-         The politics of Vitamin D in the scientific and payer communities.
-         The debate on what are sufficient/insufficient levels of Vitamin D.
-         How the choice of reference ranges for different Vitamin D test methodologies affects physician and patient response.
-         Why your own Vitamin D level may be under what,s necessary for optimal health.
-         The future demand curve for Vitamin D testing: Why more testing is likely.

This audio conference features expert Bruce Hollis, Ph.D., Professor of Pediatrics and Neonatology at the Medical University of South Carolina. He is recognized as the inventor of the first successful Vitamin A immunoassay in the 1980s and is a well-known international authority on Vitamin D. In fact, the depth and breadth of his insights about Vitamin D and its essential role in optimum health motivated a number of experienced pathologists and laboratory scientists to leave last year's Executive War College to purchase Vitamin D supplements!
Bruce Hollis has studied vitamin D metabolism, molecular function and assay techniques for the past 35 years. He is a trained nutritional biochemist who has studied maternal and infant nutrition related to vitamin D for his entire tenure. He earned his Ph.D. in 1979 from the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. Hollis currently has active National Institutes of Health (NIH) projects investigating vitamin D requirements during pregnancy and lactation as well as its role in the development of childhood asthma and infection prevention.

Dr. Hollis will provide details of recent clinical studies that will help explain how new knowledge about Vitamin D is changing the role it plays in a growing number of conditions and diseases. You'll also learn which methodologies are being used to conduct Vitamin D testing and what the advantages and limitations are for each type of Vitamin 25(OH)D assay. And find out why the Vitamin 25(OH)D levels and reference ranges used to report the results generated by different Vitamin 25(OH)D test methodologies can confuse patients and physicians.

You'll get the latest information on the vigorous debate going on about what level of Vitamin D should be used by clinicians to determine a patient's sufficiency. Find out how the healthcare establishment and the Food and Nutrition Board picked a recommended daily amount that - as clinical knowledge advances - is much too low to support optimum health. And how new clinical studies are providing persuasive evidence that the daily intake of Vitamin D should be closer to 5,000 units per day.

Understanding the changing science behind Vitamin D and why it is the fast-growing assay, by volume, in the USA. At the end of this session, you'll come away with steps you can take that will help position your laboratory as a valuable resource on all aspects of Vitamin D testing. And don't forget the question-and-answer session that allows you to pose your specific questions to this world-renowned expert in vitamin D testing.

How to Register Now:
1. Online
2. Call toll free: 800-560-6363 and tell them to use the discount code "VitaminD."

Your audio conference registration includes:

A site license to attend the conference (invite as many people as you can fit around your speakerphone at no extra charge)
Downloadable PowerPoint presentations from our speaker
A full transcript emailed to you soon after the conference
The opportunity to connect directly with our speaker during the audience Q&A session

I have heard Bruce speak many times and, he is such a good speaker, I'll be in the audience.

John Cannell, MD
Vitamin D Council
1241 Johnson Ave., #134
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401