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
07:30 - 08:30 Meet the Expert 3:2 - Precocious Puberty - When to Start and Stop Treatment
Lucia Ghizzoni, Parma, Italy
07:30 - 08:30 Meet the Expert 4:2 - Type 2 Diabetes
Silva Arslanian, Pittsburgh, United States
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
14:00 - 15:00 Meet the Expert 6:1 - Late Effects, Endocrinopathies after Irradiation and Chemotherapy
Chris Kelnar, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
14:00 - 15:00 Meet the Expert 7:1 - MRI in Congenital Hypopituitarism
Cheri Deal, Québec, Canada
14:00 - 15:00 Meet the Expert 8:1 - Management of Fetal Goitre
Michel Polak, Paris, France
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