BSPED25

Wednesday 12 November

08:00-19:00Registration
Main Entrance
08:50-09:00Welcome and Introduction by Dinesh Giri, CME Officer
Main Hall
09:00-10:00CME Symposium 1
Chair(s):Dinesh Giri (Bristol, UK) & Julie Park (Liverpool, UK)
Main Hall
09:00CME 1.1Recent Advances in the Management of Pituitary Adenomas
Márta Korbonits (Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK)
09:30CME 1.2An Approach to Endocrine Late Effects
Hoong-Wei Gan (Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK)
10:00-10:30CME Case Presentations 1 & 2
Chair(s):Dinesh Giri (Bristol, UK) & Julie Park (Liverpool, UK)
Main Hall
10:00OC1.1“Hidden in Plain Sight”: A Mini-Series of Diagnostic Difficulties in Paediatric Cushing’s Disease
Aikaterini Perogiannaki (Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, UK)
10:15OC1.2A Rare Case of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma in a Child with a CDC73 Mutation
Munibah Bashir (Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Liverpool, UK)
10:30-11:00Tea & Coffee Break
Hadfield Hall
11:00-12:00CME Sympsosium 2
Chair(s):Dinesh Giri (Bristol, UK) & Salma Ali (Glasgow, UK)
Main Hall
11:00CME 2.1Recent Advances in the Management of Hypogonadotropic Hypogonadism
Sasha Howard (Queen Mary University of London and Barts Health NHS Trust, London, UK)
11:30CME 2.2Adolescent Gynae for Paediatric Endocrinologist
Charlotte Elder (Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, UK)
12:00-12:30CME Case Presentations 3 & 4
Chair(s):Dinesh Giri (Bristol, UK) & Salma Ali (Glasgow, UK)
Main Hall
12:00OC2.1Hyperparathyroidism, pseudohypoparathyroidism (PHP) or pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (PPHP) – solving the GNAS riddle
Aikaterini Perogiannaki (Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, UK)
12:15OC2.2A rare case of heterozygous INSR variant presenting as hyperandrogenism in adolescence
Laurentya Olga (West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, Bury St Edmunds, UK)
12:30-12:40 CSAC Trainee Representative Update
Main Hall
12:40-13:30Lunch and Exhibition
Hadfield Hall
13:30-14:30CME Symposium 3
Chair(s):Dinesh Giri (Bristol, UK) & Christina Wei (London, UK)
Main Hall
13:30CME 3.1Update of Diabetes Transition Care - the International Consensus from ISPAD-ADA-EASD
May Ng (Ormskirk, UK)
14:00CME 3.2Recent Advances in the Diagnosis and Management of Rare Diabetes
Tim Barrett (Birmingham)
14:30-15:00CME Case Presentations 5 & 6
Chair(s):Dinesh Giri (Bristol, UK) & Christina Wei (London, UK)
Main Hall
14:30OC3.1Teenage Kicks: The Complexity of an Adolescent living with Diabetes. Subcutaneous Insulin Resistance Syndrome (SIRS) or a Case of Induced Illness?
Catriona McKay (Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children, Belfast, UK)
14:45OC3.2A difficult diagnosis of B-ALL presenting with hypercalcaemia and multiple fractures
Jennifer McKechnie (Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow, UK)
15:00-15:30Tea & Coffee Break
Hadfield Hall
15:30-16:30CME Symposium 4
Chair(s):Dinesh Giri (Bristol, UK) & Nadia Amin (Leeds, UK)
Main Hall
15:30CME4.1An Approach to XX DSD
Julie Park (Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, UK)
16:00CME 4.2Talking to Children about Gender Identity and Sex Development
Julie Alderson (University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust, Bristol, United Kingdom)
16:30-16:45CME Case Presentation 7
Chair(s):Dinesh Giri (Bristol, UK) & Nadia Amin (Leeds, UK)
Main Hall
16:30OC4.1Diagnostic and phenotypic challenges in a rare case of 46, XX differences in sex development (DSD) with a heterozygous RSPO1 variant
Louise Apperley (Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool, UK)
16:45-16:50Update & Conclusion by Dinesh Giri
Main Hall
17:00-17:45Satellite Symposium
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18:00-19:00Welcome reception
Reception Room

Thursday 13 November

08:00-18:30Registration
Main Entrance
08:00-08:45Satellite Symposium
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09:00-09:10Welcome and Introduction
Chair(s):Renuka Dias (Birmingham, UK) & Paul Dimitri (Sheffield, UK)
Main Hall
09:20-10:50Endocrine Oral Communications 1
Chair(s):Zainaba Mohamed (Birmingham, UK) & Jarod Wong (Glasgow, UK)
Main Hall
09:20OC5.1A novel polygenic risk prediction tool: improving the diagnosis of short stature
Miho Ishida (William Harvey Research Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK)
09:30OC5.2Pilot Data from the I-HH Registry: Improving Management in Hypogonadotropic Hypogonadism
Rachel Varughese (Queen Mary University of London, London, UK)
09:40OC5.3Assessment of fetal growth trajectories and relationships with early infant adiposity at a single site within the UK Pregnancies Better Eating and Activity Trial (UPBEAT)
Afreen Mushtaque (Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, Manchester, UK)
09:50OC5.4Disruption of the Wnt-antagonist APC in the pituitary stem cells is a driver of adamantinomatous craniopharyngioma
James Blackburn (William Harvey Research Institute, Barts & the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom)
10:00OC5.5Comparison of electronic growth chart software reveals clinically relevant variability hindering growth assessment: A UK study
Reena Perchard (University of Manchester, Manchester, UK)
10:10OC5.6Practice Patterns and Treatment Outcomes of Growth-Promoting Therapies in CAH: Insights from Real-World Data
Chamila Balagamage (Birmingham Women's & Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK)
10:20OC5.7A multi-centre study of Adrenal Recovery in Children Tapering Corticosteroids (ARCTiC Study)
Siân Beddows (University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK)
Siân BeddowsRia Bansal (University of Nottingham, Nottingham, (University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK)UK)
10:30OC5.8The Effect of Letrozole on Bone Age Maturation and Estimated Adult Height in Patients with Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia
Marwa Al Bahri (CHI at Temple St, Dublin, Ireland)
10:40Presentation from Previous Award Winner
09:20-10:50CEW Symposium
Chair(s):Senthil Senniappan (Liverpool, UK) & Dita Aswani (Sheffield, UK)
Banqueting Hall
09:20Current and future pharmacological therapy in weight management
Neil Wright (Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, UK)
09:50Diagnosis and management outside of pharmacological treatment
Nikki Davis (University Hospitals Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, United Kingdom)
10:20Psychological Aspects of Living with Complications of Excess Weight
Stephen Jones (Sheffield Children’s Hospital – Complications of Excess Weight Service, Sheffield, UK)
09:20-10:00PENS Annual Meeting
Reception Room
10:00-10:25PENS BSPED Prize
Reception Room
10:25-10:50PENS Nurse Presentation
Reception Room
10:50-11:20Tea & Coffee Break
Hadfield Hall
10:50-11:20Sanofi Training Station
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11:20-12:20Endocrine Symposium 1
Chair(s):Tim Cheetham (Newcastle, UK) & Anuja Natarajan (Sheffield, UK)
Main Hall
11:20Screening 100,000 Newborns Using Whole Genome Sequencing: The Generation Study
David Bick (Genomics England , London, UK)
11:40The Management of Thyroid Nodules – Insights into Management in Childhood
Neil Sharma (University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK)
12:00Innovative and novel therapies in Metabolic Bone Disease
Paul Arundel (Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, UK)
11:20-12:20Diabetes Symposium 1
Chair(s):Neil Wright (Sheffield, UK) & Pooja Sachdev (Nottingham, UK)
Banqueting Hall
11:20Early detection of type 1 diabetes: staging and monitoring - a national approach and update
Rachel Besser (Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK)
11:40Genetic Screening for Type 1 Diabetes and Primary Prevention Studies from GPADD
Loredana Marcovecchio (Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK)
12:00Disease Modifying Therapy in Early T1D - Immunotherapy
Renuka Dias (Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust , Birmingham, UK)
12:20-12:50Endocrine Oral Communications 2
Chair(s):Dinesh Giri (Bristol, UK) & Claire Wood (Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK)
Main Hall
12:20OC6.1Longitudinal evaluation of bone health index for assessment of bone health in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Hannah Ferguey (University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK)
12:26OC6.2Retrospective Review of Remission and Relapse in Paediatric Graves’ Disease
Ruba Anis (Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, Manchester, UK)
12:32OC6.3Evaluating Fibroscan as a screening tool for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease in children and young people with obesity
Pon Ramya Gokul (Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool, UK)
12:38OC6.4Systematic reassessment of children with congenital hypothyroidism in North West England through development of a multi-centre clinical network of paediatricians
Leanne Wherrett (Manchester University Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK)
12:44OC6.5Boys with Klinefelter syndrome referred to paediatric endocrine clinics have a much higher range of complexities than those in the community
Esin Karakilic Ozturan (Kartal Dr. Lutfi Kirdar City Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey)
12:20-12:50Diabetes Oral Communications 1
Chair(s):Aoife Kelleher (Leeds, UK) & Neil Wright (Sheffield, UK)
Banqueting Hall
12:20OC7.1Revealing Metabolic Clues through the use of Continuous Glucose Monitoring
Louise Apperley (Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool, UK)
12:26OC7.2A novel capillary-adjusted home oral glucose tolerance test: a practical and reliable alternative to the gold standard venous method in childhood early-stage type 1 diabetes
Rabbi Swaby (University of Oxford, Oxford, UK)
12:32OC7.3A Quality Improvement Innovation to improve the early diagnosis of Type 1 Diabetes in Children and Young People in Wales: Has it made an impact?
Kezia Stanford (Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK)
12:38OC7.4Fast-Tracking Success: Early Hybrid Closed Loop Initiation Dramatically Improves HbA1c in the First Year of Care in CYP with Type 1 Diabetes
Juliet Stone (Leeds Children's Hospital, Leeds, UK)
Juliet StoneJenny Evans (Leeds Children's Hospital, Leeds, (Leeds Children's Hospital, Leeds, UK)UK)
12:44OC7.5Efficacy and Safety of a Tubeless AID System Compared with MDI in Children and Adolescents with T1D in the RADIANT Study
Anne Marie Frohock (Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK)
12:50-14:05Lunch
Hadfield Hall
12:50-13:20Sanofi Training Station
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13:05-13:50Poster Tours
Hadfield Hall
13:00-13:45Satellite Symposium
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13:00-13:45Satellite Symposium
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14:05-14:35James M Tanner Award
Main Hall
14:45-15:45How Do I?
Chair(s):Renuka Dias (Birmingham, UK) & Alaa Baioumi (Sheffield, UK)
Main Hall
14:45Menstrual Irregularities in the Adolescent
Susie Jacob (Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, UK)
15:15Setmelanotide
Melanie Kershaw (Birmingham)
15:45-16:15Tea & Coffee Break
Hadfield Hall
15:45-16:00Sandoz Training Station
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16:15-16:45Endocrine Oral Communications 3
Chair(s):Poonam Dharmaraj (Liverpool, UK) & Amanda Peacock (Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK)
Main Hall
16:15OC8.1The Use of Medtech in Empowering Families within a Complications of Excess Weight Clinic: The Evira® App
Karen Jackson (Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK)
16:21OC8.2Genotype-endocrine phenotype associations in a large cohort of children with NF1
Robyn Haysom (University of Manchester, Manchester, UK)
16:27OC8.3Quantification of 11-oxyandrogen biomarkers from dried blood spots using tandem mass spectrometry
Meera Shaunak (UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, UK)
16:33OC8.4The IMPACT Survey in the UK: treatment patterns in osteogenesis imperfecta
Paul Arundel (Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, UK)
16:39OC8.5Evaluating the Predictive Utility of Basal Cortisol for Synacthen Test Outcomes in Neonates: A Retrospective Cohort Study
Daniel Chan (Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK)
16:15-17:15Debate
Chair(s):Zainaba Mohammed (Birmingham)
Old Banqueting Hall
Use of growth hormone in idiopathic short stature (For)
Justin Davies (University Hospital Southampton NHS Trust, Southampton, UK)
Use of growth hormone in idiopathic short stature (Against)
Helen L Storr (Queen Mary University London (QMUL) and Barts Health Trust, London, UK)
17:30-18:30BSPED's 2025 AGM
Main Hall
19:30-23:59Conference Dinner

Friday 14 November

08:00-16:45Registration
Main Entrance
08:00-08:45Satellite Symposium
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09:00-10:30Diabetes Symposium 2
Chair(s):Astha Soni (Sheffield, UK) & Toby Candler (Bristol, UK)
Main Hall
09:00GIRFT and the NHS Diabetes Programme
Dita Aswani (Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, UK)
09:30Lessons learned from the National Paediatric Diabetes Audit
Fiona Campbell (Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, UK)
10:00Grand Challenge
Simon Heller (Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust, Sheffield, UK)
09:00-10:30Endocrine Symposium 2 (Nurses / Endocrine Professionals Session)
Chair(s):Peter Laing (Liverpool, UK) & TBC
Banqueting Hall
09:00Use of GLP1 agonists in nurse led medication clinic
Jo Searles (Sheffield Children's Hospital , Sheffield, UK)
09:20The past, the present, and future of hypothalamic obesity
Paul Dimitri (Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, UK)
09:40Hypothalamic damage - grieving survival
Benj Hemingway (UK)
10:10Panel Q&A
Jo Searles (Sheffield Children's Hospital , Sheffield, UK)
Jo SearlesPaul Dimitri (Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, (Sheffield Children's Hospital , Sheffield, UK)UK)
Jo SearlesPaul DimitriBenj Hemingway ((Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, (Sheffield Children's Hospital , Sheffield, UK)UK)UK)
10:30-11:00Tea & Coffee Break
Hadfield Hall
10:30-10:45Sandoz Training Station
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11:00-12:30Diabetes Oral Communications 2
Chair(s):Fiona Regan (London, UK) & Rachel Besser (Oxford, UK)
Main Hall
11:00OC9.1Developing a National Schools Training Platform Transforming Diabetes Awareness in Schools across the UK to meet the needs highlighted in the ‘The INSCHOOL' project
Maddie Julian (Digibete, Leeds, UK)
Maddie JulianFiona Campbell (Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, (Digibete, Leeds, UK)UK)
11:10OC9.2Integrated, patient-centred, holistic transition model improves physical and psychosocial outcomes of young adults (16-25) with diabetes - Transition Safe and Sound (TraSS), an NHS England pilot.
Nadine D'Silva (University Hospitals Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK)
Nadine D'SilvaSarah Schlesinger (University Hospitals Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, (University Hospitals Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK)UK)
11:20OC9.3Reducing ‘Was Not Brought’ Rates in Paediatric Diabetes Clinic: Empowering Patient Choice to Improve Service Delivery
Henry Gann (University Hospital Southampton, Southampton, UK)
11:30OC9.4Quantifying the effect of screening for childhood type 1 diabetes on HbA1c, DKA and hospitalisation at diagnosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Hannah Sutton (University of Oxford, Oxford, UK)
11:40OC9.5Mind the Gap: Ongoing Inequalities in glycaemic levels in Young People living with Type 1 Diabetes across England and Wales
Renuka Dias (Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust , Birmingham, UK)
11:50OC9.6Analysing the impact of socioeconomic deprivation and ethnicity on the development of vascular complications in young people with Type 1 Diabetes – A regional perspective
Afiya Andrews (Birmingham Children's Hospital, Birmingham, UK)
12:00OC9.7A Phase II, International, Randomised, Double-blind, Efficacy and Safety Trial of Sodium Valproate in Paediatric and Adult Patients with Wolfram Syndrome.
Timothy Barrett (University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK)
11:00-12:30Endocrine Oral Communications 4
Chair(s):M Guftar Shaikh (Glasgow, UK)
Banqueting Hall
11:00OC10.1Application of multi-omic approaches to investigate novel LZTR1 gene variants and identify therapeutic targets implicated in the pathogenesis of Noonan syndrome (NS)
Avinaash Vickram Maharaj (William Harvey Research Institute, QMUL, London, UK)
11:10OC10.2Iatrogenic Vitamin D toxicity within the Paediatric Population: An Acute Surge in National Cases
Isobelle Blinkhorn (Stockport Hospital Trust, Greater Manchester, UK)
11:20OC10.3The United Kingdom Adult NorthStar Network Consensus Recommendations of Transition of Osteoporosis Care and Management of Osteoporosis in Adults with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Sze Choong Wong (University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK)
11:30OC10.4Pubertal Induction in girls with Turner syndrome: Updated retrospective data from the International TS Registry
Sinéad M McGlacken-Byrne (University College London (UCL) Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom)
11:40Break
11:50OC10.5Assessing the Scale of the Teenage Obesity Epidemic in Northern Ireland: An audit of Prevalence and Practice in the Tertiary Paediatric Hospital
Catriona McKay (Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children, Belfast, UK)
12:00OC10.6“Real world” experience” of treatment with Wegovy (Semagluatide) and Saxenda (Liragluatide) in a Paediatric population living with Severe Obesity.
Neil Wright (Sheffield Children's Hospital, Sheffield, UK)
12:10OC10.7Citizens Advice Sheffield (CAS) and Complications from Excess Weight (CEW) innovative integration pilot, recovering finances of over £29K for 31 families in initial 6 months.
Dita Aswani (Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, UK)
Dita AswaniMarianne Damtsas (Citizens Advice Sheffield, Sheffield, (Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, UK)UK)
Dita AswaniMarianne DamtsasJulia Voyse (Sheffield Children's Foundation Trust, Sheffield, (Citizens Advice Sheffield, Sheffield, (Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, UK)UK)UK)
12:20OC10.8Behind the Glucose Dip: A Retrospective Review of Paediatric Ketotic Hypoglycaemia and Evolving Management Approaches
Sameera Hannah Auckburally (Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, Manchester, UK)
12:30-12:50Tea & Coffee Break
Hadfield Hall
12:30-12:45Sandoz Training Station
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12:50-13:30Plenary
Chair(s):Verghese Mathew (Hull, UK)
Main Hall
12:50Navigating the role of paediatric endocrinology in young people’s gender services
Talat Mushtaq (Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, UK)
13:40-14:40Lunch
Hadfield Hall
13:40-14:10Sanofi Training Station
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13:45-14:30Poster Tours
13:50-14:35Satellite Symposium
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14:40-16:10Diabetes Symposium 3
Chair(s):Nikki Davis (Southampton) & Billy White (London)
Main Hall
14:40Management of Type 2 - what’s coming to paediatrics
Pooja Sachdev (Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham , UK)
15:10Monogenic Diabetes - diagnostic pathways and insights into therapies
Kashyap Patel (University of Exeter Medical School, Exeter, UK)
15:40Psychological aspects of T2D
Claire Semple (University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust, Bristol, UK)
14:40-16:10Endocrine Symposium 3
Chair(s):Elspeth Ferguson (Sheffield, UK) & Sanjay Gupta (Hull, UK)
Banqueting Hall
14:40Artificial Intelligence: Reimagining Growth and Pituitary Management
Paul Dimitri (Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, UK)
15:10An oncologist’s view of the management of late effects in paediatrics
Anna Jenkins (Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, UK)
15:40Innovations in the screening and diagnosis of adrenal insufficiency
Charlotte Elder (Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, UK)
16:15-16:30BSPED 2025 Awards
Main Hall
16:30-16:45Close of Meeting
Main Hall