ESPE2010

Thursday, 23 September



 07:30 - 08:30
Meet the Expert 1:2 - Central Diabetes Insipidus

Mohamad Maghnie, Genova, Italy

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, please be on time.



 07:30 - 08:30
Meet the Expert 2:2 - Long Term Follow-Up of Hashimoto Thyroiditis

Marek Niedziela, Poznan, Poland

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, please be on time.



 07:30 - 08:30
Meet the Expert 3:2 - Precocious Puberty - When to Start and Stop Treatment

Lucia Ghizzoni, Parma, Italy

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, please be on time.



 07:30 - 08:30
Meet the Expert 4:2 - Type 2 Diabetes

Silva Arslanian, Pittsburgh, United States

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, please be on time.



 08:30 – 08:45
Break



 08:45 - 09:45
Free Communication 1
Moderator(s): To be announced



 08:45 - 09:45
Free Communication 2
Moderator(s): To be announced



 08:45 - 09:45
Free Communication 3
Moderator(s): To be announced



 08:45 - 09:45
Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology 1
Moderator(s): To be announced



 08:45 - 09:45
New Perspectives 1 - Towards the Future Cure of Diabetes
Moderator(s): To be announced

Session Aim: This new perspective series will provide current information on technological advances towards the future cure of diabetes. The first talk will cover novel achievements in the closed-loop system (technical approach to the cure of diabetes), the second talk will update the biological approach - manipulations of beta-cells to prevent cell damage following beta-cell transplantation.

Closing the loop - where are we today?
Moshe Phillip, Petach Tikva, Israel

Coated beta cells for islet transplantation
Anne G. Bang, San Diego, United States



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



 10:15 – 11:15
Plenary Session 2 - Novel Avenues in Energy Metabolism
Moderator(s): To be announced

How the fetal hypothalamus senses maternal glucose metabolism
Jens C. Brüning, Cologne, Germany

A paradigm of integrative physiology, the crosstalk between bone and energy metabolisms
Gerard Karsenty, New York, NY, United States



 11:15 - 12:30
Plenary Session 3 - ESPE Activities / ESPE Awards 1
Moderator(s): To be announced



 12:30 – 14:00
Lunch Break, Visit to the Posters and Exhibition



 14:00 - 15:30
Symposium 4 - "Bridging Clinical Care and Basic Research" - Adrenals – ESPE/SLEP
Moderator(s): To be announced

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 pathways involved in ovarian development through gene defects.

Triple A syndrome
Angela Hübner, Dresden, Germany

Childhood adrenocortical carcinomas and p53 mutations
Ana Claudia Latronico, Sao Paolo, Brazil

PAPSS2 deficiency and adrenal hyperandrogenism
Wiebke Arlt, Birmingham, United Kingdom



 14:00 - 15:30
Symposium 5 - Endocrine Perspectives of Environmental Endocrine Disruption
Moderator(s): To be announced

Session Aim: The hypothesis of Environmental Endocrine Disruption has been around for several decades and tremendous progress has been made in this area. The symposium is intended to present recent data in animals and humans on the impact, the mechanisms and the human implications of endocrine disrupters on testicular function.

The masculinisation programming window: setting up the reproductive system and origin of common male reproductive disorders
Richard Sharpe, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Transgenerational actions of endocrine disruptors on disease: epigenetic ghosts in your genome
Michael Skinner, Pullman, WA, United States

Environmental endocrine disruption: human implications
Jorma Toppari, Turku, Finland



 14:00 - 15:30
Symposium 6 – The SWEET Project: Current Status of Diabetes Care in Europe and Directions Towards Better Control - ESPE/ISPAD
Moderator(s): To be announced

Session Aim: The aim of this joint ISPAD/ESPE symposium is to give an update on the European collaborative project SWEET intended to map the current status of paediatric diabetes care in Europe and to set up criteria for centres of reference in participating countries to improve quality of care and the long-term outcome of diabetic children and adolescents.

Heterogeneity of paediatric diabetes care in Europe
Zdenek Sumnik, Prague, Czech Republic

Elaborating standards for centres of reference for paediatric diabetes
Carine De Beaufort, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Role of IT in setting up centres of reference: a model for Europe and beyond?
Thomas Danne, Hannover, Germany



 14:00 - 15:00
Meet the Expert 5:1 - 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, please be on time.



 14:00 - 15:00
Meet the Expert 6:1 - 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, please be on time.



 14:00 - 15:00
Meet the Expert 7:1 - MRI in Congenital Hypopituitarism

Cheri Deal, Québec, 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, please be on time.



 14:00 - 15:00
Meet the Expert 8:1 - 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, please be on time.



 15:30 – 16:00
Coffee Break, Visit to the Posters and Exhibition



 16:00 – 17:30
ESPE Business Meeting



 17:30 – 17:45
Break



 17:45 – 19:15
Satellite Symposium
Pfizer



 17:45 – 19:15
Satellite Symposium
Eli Lilly



 17:45 – 19:15
Satellite Symposium
To be announced