Importing photoshop elements 5 (for PC) into iphoto

I'm sure this question has been asked many times and I would have searched for it, but I can't find the "search this forum" button. I apologize in advance for being blind/daft.
So I just switched from Win/Linux to Mac (yay!). I have THOUSANDS of photos all meticulously tagged with Adobe Photoshop Elements 5. Is there a way to import the photoshop elements album to iPhoto and keep all the metadata?

Yes if the metadata is written to the IPTC.
Regards
TD

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