Washington, DC Metabolic and Rare Bone Disease Club – September 2026

Join the Washington, DC Metabolic & Rare Bone Disease Club on Thursday, September 10, 2026 for a quarterly dinner focused on new developments in research, diagnosis, and treatment of metabolic and rare bone disorders.

Seeing is Believing: Recognizing the Dental Manifestations of XLH

presented by

Juan F. Yepes DDS, MD, MPH, MS, DrPH

Paul E. Starkey Dental Research Professor, Professor in the Department of Pediatric Dentistry and the Associate Dean for graduate education at Indiana University School of Dentistry and an attending at Riley Children Hospital in Indianapolis, Indiana. Dr. Yepes is a dentist (DDS) and a physician (MD) from Javeriana University at Bogotá, Colombia.

The goal of the Washington, DC Metabolic & Rare Bone Disease Club is to bring together endocrinologists, rheumatologists, geneticists and orthopaedic surgeons with easy access to innovative and robust data as well as to help them expand their professional relationships across the varied disciplines that care for these challenging patients. We want to include BOTH pediatric and adult practitioners as the natural history of these disorders is changing rapidly, and we want to help improve care across the age span. Perhaps most importantly, we want to extend this invitation to interested physicians, researchers, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, genetic counselors, fellows, medical students and other professionals interested in this rapidly changing field as we seek to grow the community of clinicians focused on improving care for these thought-provoking disorders.

The programs will be science (not product) focused presentations sponsored by industry partners that do not provide CME.

Annual dues will be $50 for practicing physicians/researchers and $25 for physician assistants, nurse practitioners and genetic counselors. There will be no fee for fellows, residents, or medical students. Dinners will be free and will offer a virtual attendance option.

If you are interested in presenting a case, please contact Melissa Bonardi at mbonardi@oif.org