ESPE2021

7 May 2021

07:00-18:30Registration
07:20-07:50Breakfast for Working Group attendees
07:50-09:50Working Group - Turner Syndrome (TS)
07:50-09:50Working Group - Gender Incongruence (GI)
07:50-09:50Working Group - Paediatric and Adolescent Gynaecology (PAG)
07:50-09:50Working Group - Diabetes Technology (DT)
07:50-09:50Working Group - Bone and Growth Plate (BGP)
07:50-09:50Working Group - Obesity (OWG)
07:50-09:50Working Group - Disorders of Sex Development (DSD)
09:50-10:20Tea & coffee break
10:20-10:35Opening Ceremony
Hall A
10:35-11:05Plenary 1 - A Kiss before sex
10:35PL1A Kiss before sex
Waljit Dhillo (London, UK)
11:05-11:35Awards 1
11:45-13:15Symposium 1 - Endocrine Hypertension - Aetiology directed management
11:45S1.1Pathogenesis of familial and sporadic hyperaldosteronism: new concepts involving Ion channels
Martin Reincke (University Hospital Munich, Munich, Germany)
12:15S1.2Pheochromocytomas and paragangliomas: from genetic diversity to targeted therapies
Karel Pacak (USA)
12:45S1.3Clinical, genetic, and structural basis of apparent mineralocorticoid excess due to 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 2 deficiency
Mabel Yau (The Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, USA)
11:45-13:15Symposium 2 - Recent Breakthroughs in our understanding of Calcium & Phosphate Homeostasis
11:45S2.1TBC
12:15S2.2Phosphate toxicity: focus on medial vascular calcification
Jakob Voelkl (Austria)
12:45S2.3Calciotropic and non-calciotropic roles of the calcium sensing receptor
Daniela Riccardi (UK)
11:45-13:15Symposium 3 - Bone formation: The growth plate and beyond
11:45S3.1Epigenetic regulation of the growth plate
Julian Lui (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, USA)
12:15S3.2Growth plate: new insights in the origin and function of the growth plate
Andrei Chagin (Solna, Sweden)
12:45S3.3The osteocyte: translating biomechanics into endocrine signals
Alex Robling (USA)
11:45-13:15Symposium 4 - Optimising the management of thyroid disorders
11:45S4.1Prophylactic thyroidectomy in Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia
Tom Kurzawinski (University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK)
12:15S4.2Novel genes implicated in thyroid dysfunction
Nadia Schoenmakers (Cambridge, UK)
12:45S4.3Congenital hypothyroidism ERN guidelines
Michel Polak (Paris, France)
11:45-13:15Symposium 5 - Epigenetics in health and disease
11:45S5.1Maternal obesity and offspring health
Rebecca Reynolds (UK)
12:15S5.2Epigenetics, imprinting and growth
Karen Temple (UK)
12:45S5.3Role of Epigenetics in endocrine disruption of prenatal development
Aurore Gely-Pernot (France)
13:15-14:30Lunch, poster tours & exhibition
13:25-14:25Satellite Symposia
14:30-15:00Rapid Communications 3
14:30-15:00Rapid Communications 2
14:30-15:00Rapid Communications 1
14:30-15:15Meet The Expert 1.1
14:30MTE1.1Thyroid hormone resistance syndromes
Krishna Chatterjee (Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK)
14:30-15:15Meet The Expert 2.1
14:30MTE2.1Management of a child with pituitary adenoma
Marianne Andersen (Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark)
14:30-16:00Novel Advances
14:25NA1Gene therapy
Marianne Delville (France)
15:00-16:00Free Communications 1
15:00-16:00Free Communications 2
15:00-16:00Free Communications 3
16:00-16:25Tea & coffee break
16:25-16:55Plenary 2 - From the 100,000 Genomes Project to a new NHS genomic medicine service
16:25PL2From the 100,000 Genomes Project to a new NHS genomic medicine service
Sian Ellard (UK)
16:55-18:25How Do I... (Session 1)
14:30HDI1.1Treat non-classic CAH?
Naomi Weintrob (Tel Aviv University, Kfar Saba, Israel)
15:00HDI1.2Test gonadal function in neonates and infants
Jorma Toppari (University of Turku, Turku, Finland)
15:30HDI1.3Treat female hypogonadism at the time of transition
Anette Pedersen (University of Copenhagen , Copenhagen , Denmark)
16:55-17:25Rapid Communications 5
16:55-17:25Rapid Communications 4
17:10-17:55Meet The Expert 3.1
17:10MTE3.1Management of a child with post-neurosurgical hyponatraemia
Søren Rittig (Aarhus University , Aarhus, Denmark)
17:10-17:55Meet The Expert 4.1
17:10MTE4.1Cystic Fibrosis-related diabetes
Andrea Kelly (USA)
17:10-18:10Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology - YB 1
17:25-18:25Free Communications 5
17:25-18:25Free Communications 4
18:30-20:00Satellite symposium

8 May 2021

07:00-17:00Registration
08:00-08:30Plenary 3 - Iodine deficiency: a public health issue
08:00PL3Iodine deficiency: A public health issue
Michael Zimmermann (ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland)
08:30-09:30Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology - YB 2
08:40-09:25Meet The Expert 6.1
08:40MTE6.1Autoimmune endocrinopathy
Eystein Husebye (University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway)
08:40-09:25Meet The Expert 5.1
08:40MTE5.1Management of MEN1 in children and adolescents
Maria Luisa Brandi (Florence, Italy)
08:40-09:25Meet The Expert 7.1
08:40MTE7.1Endocrine and osteoporosis management of boys with DMD
Leanne Ward (Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ontario , Canada)
08:40-09:25Meet The Expert 8.1
08:40MTE8.1Real-life diabetes management during exercise
Andrea Scaramuzza (Italy)
08:40-09:25Meet The Expert 1.2
08:40MTE1.2Thyroid Hormone Resistance syndromes
Krishna Chatterjee (Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK)
09:35-10:05Rapid Communications 6
09:35-10:05Rapid Communications 7
09:35-10:05Rapid Communications 8
09:35-10:05Rapid Communications 9
09:35-10:05Rapid Communications 10
09:35-11:05ERN
10:05-11:05Free Communications 6
10:05-11:05Free Communications 7
10:05-11:05Free Communications 8
10:05-11:05Free Communications 9
10:05-11:05Free Communications 10
11:05-11:35Tea & coffee break
11:35-12:05Awards 2
12:05-12:35Plenary 4 - Development of novel therapies for obesity
12:05PL4Development of novel therapies for obesity
Matthias Tschop (Germany)
12:35-13:05Awards 3
13:05-14:20Lunch, poster tours & exhibition
13:15-14:15Satellite symposium
14:00-16:00GPED
14:25-16:25Working Group - Nursing and Allied Health (PENS)
14:25-15:55Symposium 6 - Hot Topics in Paediatric Endocrinology
14:25S6.1Environmental obesogens
Leonardo Trasande (USA)
14:55S6.2New insights into sex differentiation and their clinical relevance to disorders of sex development
Humphrey Yau (USA)
15:25S6.3Vitamin D and male reproduction
Martin Blomberg-Jensen (Denmark)
14:25-15:55Symposium 8 - Novel therapies in endocrinology
14:25S8.1Setmelanotide in the treatment of rare obesity syndromes
Peter Kühnen (University of Duisburg-Essen, Berlin, Germany)
14:55S8.2Vosoritide in achondroplasia
Ravi Savarirayan (Melbourne, Australia)
15:25S8.3Coming soon: new drugs for treatment of youth with type 2 diabetes
William Tamborlane (Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, USA)
14:25-15:25Controversies 1
17:10CON1.1Should CGM be used in every child with diabetes? (AGAINST)
Fergus Cameron (Australia)
17:10CON1.2Should CGM be used in every child with diabetes? (FOR)
Tadej Battelino (Slovenia)
14:25-15:55Symposium 10 - Pathways to improved diagnosis and management of hypothalamo-pituitary disorders
15:25S10.1The role of the MAPK pathway in hypothalamo-pituitary axis development and disease
Carles Gaston-Massuet (UK)
15:55S10.2Delayed puberty: A genetic condition?
Sasha Howard (London, UK)
16:25S10.3Novel insights into the management of cranial diabetes and insipidus
Mohamad Maghnie (Italy)
16:00-17:00GPED AGM
16:00-16:30Plenary 5 - The transgender dilemma
16:00PL5The transgender dilemma
Stephen Rosenthal (USA)
16:30-16:45Tea & coffee break
16:45-18:15Satellite symposium
18:15-19:15ESPE Annual Business Meeting (ESPE members only)

9 May 2021

07:00-18:00Registration
08:00-08:45Meet The Expert 2.2
08:00MTE2.2Management of a child with pituitary adenoma
Marianne Andersen (Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark)
08:00-08:45Meet The Expert 3.2
08:00MTE3.2Management of a child with post-neurosurgical hyponatraemia
Søren Rittig (Aarhus University , Aarhus, Denmark)
08:00-08:45Meet The Expert 4.2
08:00MTE4.2Cystic Fibrosis-related diabetes
Andrea Kelly (USA)
08:00-08:45Meet The Expert 5.2
08:00MTE5.2Management of MEN1 in children and adolescents
Maria Luisa Brandi (University of Florence, Florence, Italy)
08:00-09:00Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology - YB 3
09:10-09:40Rapid Communications 11
09:10-09:40Rapid Communications 12
09:10-09:40Rapid Communications 13
09:10-09:40Rapid Communications 14
09:10-10:40How Do I... (session 2)
09:10HDI2.1Investigate the child with unexplained fractures
Zulf Mughal (Al Jalila Children’s Specialty Hospital, Dubai , UAE)
09:40HDI2.2Manage a patient with tall stature
Lars Sävendahl (Sweden)
10:10HDI2.3Advise patients on insulin dosing for real meals
Ewa Pankowska (Poland)
09:40-10:40Free Communications 11
09:40-10:40Free Communications 14
09:40-10:40Free Communications 13
09:40-10:40Free Communications 12
10:40-11:10Tea & coffee break
11:10-11:40Plenary 6 - The current state of epigenetic research in humans: promise and reality
11:10PL6The current state of epigenetic research in humans: promise and reality
John Greally (USA)
11:40-12:10Awards 4
12:10-12:40Plenary 7 - Novel insights into weight regulation
12:10PL7Novel insights into weight regulation
Sadaf Farooqi (Cambridge, UK)
12:40-13:55Lunch, poster tours & exhibition
12:45-13:45Satellite symposia
13:55-14:55Controversies 2
13:55CON2.1Should children with GHD be re-tested early eg as they start puberty, rather than wait until the final height is achieved? (FOR)
Sandro Loche (Cagliari, Italy)
13:55CON2.2Should children with GHD be re-tested early eg as they start puberty, rather than wait until the final height is achieved? (AGAINST)
Jan-Maarten Wit (Willem-Alexander Children’s Hospital, Leiden, The Netherlands)
13:55-14:55Young Investigators
14:00-14:45Meet The Expert 6.2
14:00MTE6.2Autoimmune endocrinopathy
Eystein Husebye (University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway)
14:00-14:45Meet The Expert 7.2
14:00MTE7.2Endocrine and osteoporosis management of boys with DMD
Leanne Ward (Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ontario , Canada)
14:00-14:45Meet The Expert 8.2
14:00MTE8.2Real-life diabetes management during exercise
Andrea Scaramuzza (Unit of Pediatrics , Asola, Italy)
14:55-15:25Tea & coffee break
15:25-16:55Symposium 9 - Recent developments in congenital adrenal hyperplasia
15:25S9.1Novel insights and long term outcomes
Wiebke Arlt (MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences, London, UK)
15:55S9.2Testis function and fertility issues in men with CAH
Niels Jørgensen (Denmark)
16:25S9.3Advances in the measurement of steroid hormones
Stefan Wudy (Germany)
15:25-16:55Symposium 11 - Advances in the management of congenital hyperinsulinism
15:25S11.1Defining genotype-phenotype correlations in Congenital Hyperinsulinism
Sarah Flanagan (Exeter, UK)
15:55S11.2Novel therapies in the treatment of Congenital Hyperinsulinism
Diva D. de Leon-Crutchlow (Philadelphia, USA)
16:25S11.3A laparoscopic approach in patients with Congenital Hyperinsulinism
Paolo de Coppi (Great Ormond Street Hospital , London, UK)
15:25-16:55Symposium 12 - Novel technologies in the treatment of diabetes
15:25S12.1Latest developments in closed loop technology
Emma Wilmot (UK)
15:55S12.2Open APS – DIY closed loop systems
Alastair McLay (NHS East Midlands, Edinburgh, UK)
16:25S12.3The use of big data and artificial intelligence in managing the therapy of people with T1DM
Moshe Phillip (Israel)
15:25-16:55Symposium 7 - Endocrine consequences of childhood brain tumours
14:25S7.1Paediatric Neurosurgery in the 21st Century
Conor Mallucci (British Paediatric Neurosurgery Research Group, UK)
14:55S7.2Proton-beam Therapy for CNS tumours in childhood
Daniel Indelicato (USA)
15:25S7.3Hypothalamic obesity in craniopharyngiomac
Hermann Müller (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany)
17:00-17:15 International Award & President Poster Award
17:15-17:45Plenary 8 - The long-term effects of adolescent obesity
17:15PL8The long-term effects of adolescent obesity
Thomas Reinehr (Germany)
17:45-18:00Closing Ceremony