Friday, 24 September





 07:30 - 08:30
Meet the Expert 5:2 - Interpretation of Endocrine Investigations in Complex DSD

Yves Morel, Lyon, France

This session is interactive and located in a smaller room. Seats are limited and will therefore be allocated on a “first-come-first-served” basis.



 07:30 - 08:30
Meet the Expert 6:2 - Late Effects, Endocrinopathies after Irradiation and Chemotherapy

Chris Kelnar, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

This session is interactive and located in a smaller room. Seats are limited and will therefore be allocated on a “first-come-first-served” basis.



 07:30 - 08:30
Meet the Expert 7:2 - MRI in Congenital Hypopituitarism

Cheri Deal, Montreal, Canada

This session is interactive and located in a smaller room. Seats are limited and will therefore be allocated on a “first-come-first-served” basis.



 07:30 - 08:30
Meet the Expert 8:2 - Management of Fetal Goitre

Michel Polak, Paris, France

This session is interactive and located in a smaller room. Seats are limited and will therefore be allocated on a “first-come-first-served” basis.



 08:30 – 08:45
Break



 08:45 - 09:45
Free Communication 4 - Defects in the GH/IGF-I Axis
Moderator(s):     Gianni Bona, Novara, Italy 
                         Jan-Maarten Wit, Leiden, The Netherlands 



 08:45 - 09:45
Free Communication 5 - Hypoglycemia and Neonatal Diabetes
Moderator(s):     Khalid Hussain, London, United Kingdom 
                         Stefan Riedl, Vienna, Austria 



 08:45 - 09:45
Free Communication 6 - Pre and Post-Natal Environmental Influences
Moderator(s):     George Chrousos, Athens, Greece 
                         Jorma Toppari, Turku, Finland 



 08:45 - 09:45
Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology 2
Moderator(s):      Atilla Büyükgebiz, Istanbul, Turkey

Obesity and weight regulation
Martin Wabitsch, Ulm, Germany

Growth and growth factors
Stefano Cianfarani, Rome, Italy

Adrenals
Evangelia Charmandari, Athens, Greece

Population genetics, pharmacogenomics
Ken Ong, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Pediatric endocrinology: editor's choice
Jean-Claude Carel, Paris, France



 08:45 - 09:45
New Perspectives 2 - New Treatment Modalities for the Preservation of Fertility
Moderator(s):     Ieuan Hughes, Cambridge, United Kingdom 
                         Jürgen Brämswig, Muenster, Germany

Session Aim: This new perspective series will provide current information on advances in infertility treatments. Although this area is not in the core of paediatric endocrinology, it is essential to paediatric endocrinologists to convey current information to their patients and families.

Testicular stem cells for fertility preservation
Stefan Schlatt, Muenster, Germany

Fertility preservation in girls and women facing gonadotoxic treatment
Mikkel Rosendahl, Copenhagen, Denmark



 09:45 – 10:15
Coffee Break, Visit to the Posters and Exhibition



 10:15 – 11:30
Plenary Session 4 - ESPE Award Session and Activities 2
Moderator(s):     Franco Chiarelli, Chieti, Italy 
                         Jan Lebl, Prague, Czech Republic

Henning Andersen Prize Presentations – Sponsored by Novo Nordisk
Presentations of best clinical and basic science abstract.

ESPE Summer School – Sponsored by Ferring 

ESPE Winter School – Sponsored by Ferring 

ESPE Sabbatical Leave Programme – Sponsored by Eli Lilly International Corp

Oustanding Clinician Award – Sponsored by Pfizer

Andrea Prader Prize – Sponsored by Pfizer



 11:45 - 12:45
Free Communication 7 - Calcium & Bone 
Moderator(s):     Gabriele Häusler, Vienna, Austria 
                         Giuseppe Saggese, Pisa, Italy 



 11:45 - 12:45
Free Communication 8 - Gonadal Function 
Moderator(s):    Lourdes Ibañez, Barcelona, Spain 
                        Nicolas de Roux, Paris, France 



 11:45 - 12:45
Free Communication 9 - Growth Regulation 
Moderator(s):    Lars Sävendahl, Stockholm, Sweden 
                        Peter Clayton, Manchester, United Kingdom 



 11:45 - 12:45
Free Communication 10 - Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome 
Moderator(s):     Ewa Malecka-Tendera, Katowice, Poland 
                         Ludmila Kostalova, Bratislava, Slovakia



 12:45 – 14:15
Lunch Break, Visit to the Posters and Exhibition



 14:15 - 15:45
Symposium 7 - "Bridging Clinical Care and Basic Research" - Beta Cell
Moderator(s):     To be announced 
                         Štepánka Pruhová, Prague, Czech Republic

Session Aim: This symposium is part of a series of symposia "Bridging Clinical Care and Basic Science". The aim of the series is to emphasize the impact of patient observation on the understanding of basic biological mechanisms. Each presentation starts with a seminal case presentation, that has led to such development. This symposium is to discuss the genetic and molecular pathways involved in monogenic forms of beta-cell dysfunction.

Beta cell potassium channel mutations and diabetes
Andrew T. Hattersley, Exeter, United Kingdom

Carboxyl ester lipase and diabetes
Pål R. Njølstad, Bergen, Norway

Diabetes due to Neurogenin 3 deficiency 
Oscar Rubio-Cabezas, Madrid, Spain



 14:15 - 15:45
Symposium 8 - Epigenetics in Paediatric Endocrinology
Moderator(s):     Kerstin Albertsson-Wikland, Gothenburg, Sweden 
                         Yves Le Bouc, Paris, France 

Session Aim: The aim of the symposium is to introduce to the paediatric endocrine community the principles of epigenetics and the role of epigenetics in development and endocrine disorders. The symposium will reflect from the recent NICHE symposium that was recently supported by ESPE.

Introduction to epigenetics – implications in paediatric endocrinology
Miguel Constância, Cambridge, United Kingdom 

Nutrition, epigenetics, and developmental plasticity: implications for understanding human disease
Karen A. Lillycrop, Southampton, United Kingdom

Epigenetic changes after prenatal exposure to the Dutch famine of 1944-45
L.H. Lumey, New York, United States



 14:15 - 15:45
Symposium 9 - New Developments in the Regulation of Puberty
Moderator(s):     Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, Liege, Belgium 
                         Leo Dunkel, Kuopio, Finland

Session Aim: The aim of this symposium is to review recent advances in the field.
The first two talks are focusing on new clinically relevant discoveries on the genetic control of the timing of puberty. These genes are operative in the hypothalamic-pituitary unit. The last talk will focus on secular trends in the population and their possible environmental causes.

The genetics of idiopathic hypogonadotropic hypogonadism
Nelly Pitteloud, Boston, United States

Common genetic variants and the timing of puberty
Ken Ong, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Secular trends in the timing of puberty in Europe (environmental factors)
Anders Juul, Copenhagen, Denmark



 15:45 – 16:15
Coffee Break, Visit to the Posters and Exhibition



 16:15 - 17:15
Plenary Session 5 - G-Protein Coupled Receptors/Adrenal Diseases
Moderator(s):     Guy Van Vliet, Montréal, Canada 
                         Sergio Bernasconi, Parma, Italy 

Specificity and promiscuity of G-protein coupled receptors
Gilbert Vassart, Brussels, Belgium

Molecular basis of adrenal insufficiency in children
(Kenji Fujieda memorial lecture)
Toshihiro Tajima, Sapporo, Japan 



 17:15 – 17:30
Break



 17:30 – 19:00
Satellite Symposium - Sponsored by Merck Serono
Evolution of Growth Hormone Therapy: Predicting Response and Monitoring Adherence to Improve Outcomes
Moderator(s):        Jan Čáp, Hradec Kralové, Czech Republic
                            Luciano Tató, Verona, Italy

The spectrum of response to growth hormone therapy in children
Peter Bang, Stockholm, Sweden

Personalizing treatment for short stature
Linda Johnston, Munich, Germany

PREDICT Study: Genetic markers: science or clinical practice?
Peter Clayton, Manchester, United Kingdom



 19:00
ESPE Evening at the Žofín Palace