Hard Tissue Workshops organized annually since 1965 by Prof Jee provided a multidisciplinary forum for presenting and discussing new methods, evidence and ideas about human skeletal disorders. Attended by hundreds of international authorities and fellows in many disciplines, the University of Utah sponsored them and private and federal funds supported them. They probably had more effect on how people think about and study skeletal disorders than any other meetings in this century - Jee, WSS (The Utah paradigm had its genesis at these Workshops; hence its name.)