Course Date: November 7, 2026. This course builds the knowledge and competence technologists, clinicians, and other healthcare professionals need to use DXA body composition analysis in clinical and research practice. Learners follow the full workflow: how each body composition method produces a measurement and why they differ from DXA, how DXA resolves fat, lean, and bone, how to standardize acquisition and analysis, how to read a results sheet and select the measures suited to a clinical question, and how to place a value against reference data while recognizing where reference data and cut-points do not exist. Clinical application covers monitoring change over time, identifying risk that BMI conceals, diagnosing low muscle mass states, and managing patients through obesity pharmacotherapy, cancer treatment, aging, and athletic seasons. Emphasis throughout is on distinguishing true change from measurement error and on recognizing that a result is specific to the system and software that produced it. Case studies reinforce application to real patients.

Course Date: November 8, 2026. The Pediatric Bone Densitometry Course provides the most current research and best-practice techniques for obtaining and interpreting bone mineral density (BMD) measurements in children and adolescents. This educational program is designed to improve learner competence in the area of pediatric densitometry. Learners will have the opportunity to take the knowledge gained from this educational program and properly/consistently apply it to their professional practices.

Course Date: December 5 & 6, 2026. The core elements of this program focus on performing quality DXA scans, dissecting the data, and applying this knowledge to a technologist’s role in patient care. This course, which focuses on quality DXA, is innovative, interactive, and informative. The course emphasizes technical excellence in the performance, analysis, and troubleshooting of bone densitometry scans. It provides standard practices and applications to raise the quality of DXA scan procedures and their impact on patient care. The program is designed to enhance awareness of the technical expertise involved in performing bone densitometry and applying protocols to address the everyday challenges. Attendees will come away with a strong sense of the considerable impact that a technologist plays in the delivery of quality DXA and how that influences patient management.

Course Date: December 5 & 6, 2026. The core elements of this course serve to educate healthcare providers about bone densitometry and osteoporosis and to apply standard practices to assure quality performance and interpretation of bone densitometry studies. The course is offered in two parts. The first day sets the standard to perform Quality DXA interpretation. Day 2 focuses on the clinical assessment, prevention, treatment and management of osteoporosis and the essential role that high-quality DXA plays in treatment initiation decisions and monitoring of osteoporotic patients.