Venue: Amway Grand Plaza Hotel, Grand Rapids MI, USA (www.amwaygrand.com) Dates: The 20th ICOC will be organised in Grand Rapids MI, USA on the 22-25th October 2010. Preliminary Programme Friday 22nd October 2010: Evening-Registration Saturday 23rd October 2010: Scientific Sessions Sunday 24th October 2010: Scientific Sessions Monday 25th October 2010: Morning - Scientific Sessions. Midday Closing Invitation for participation and presentations The ICOC conferences are open platform meetings allowing the participation of clinicians, scientists, health professionals, students, patients' organisations and the general public. All participants have to be registered. Early registration deadline is the 30th of July 2010. There will be invitations for abstract submission with a deadline the 7th of August, 2010. Abstracts will be selected for presentation based on scientific merit and related to any of the topics of the conference. If you want your abstracts to be considered for the preliminary programme please send your titles (and your affiliation) to the Chairman of the conference at the e-mail address: kontoghiorghes.g.j@pri.ac.cy Example: Kontoghiorghes GJ and Kolnagou A (Postgraduate Research Institute, Limassol, Cyprus) New era in iron chelation therapy: complete treatment of iron overload and effects on the morbidity and mortality of iron loaded patients PUBLICATION OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE 20th ICOC IN THE JOURNAL HEMOGLOBIN: Arrangements have been made for the publication of selected papers of the proceedings of the 20th ICOC in the journal Hemoglobin. The papers will be selected from the submitted abstracts by a panel of the scientific committee. The authors of the selected papers will be informed about the selection of their papers after the completion of the conference. Guest Editor of the 20th ICOC proceedings in the journal Hemoglobin will be George J Kontoghiorghes. Contact information: George J. Kontoghiorghes Fax: 00357 26271434 Tel: 00357 26272076 e-mail: kontoghiorghes.g.j@pri.ac.cy www.pri.ac.cy www.icoc-isocam.org