Northern Endocrine and Diabetes CME Spring Meeting 2006
Northern Endocrine and Diabetes CME Spring Meeting 2006
Programme
Thursday 1st June
Freeman Hospital
Newcastle upon Tyne
0930 Registration & Coffee
Morning session: Thyroid cancer, PCOS and endocrinology research update
1000 Current issues in management of thyroid cancer: Dr Ujjal Mallick
1040 Discussion
1050 Case presentation: Dr Reena Thomas
1105 Discussion
1115 Coffee break
1130 PCOS Audit: Dr Suresh Vaikkarra
1145 Discussion
1150 Research in Endocrinology: Dr Simon Pearce
1230 Lunch
Afternoon session: Novel insulin therapies and update on Pregnancy and diabetes
1345 CSII-Recent Trends: Dr Jim Shaw
1420 Discussion
1430 Inhaled insulin therapy: Professor Philip Home
1510 Discussion
1520 Tea break
1530 Pregnancy and diabetes: Professor Roy Taylor
1610 Discussion
1625 Close
Contacts: Arutchelvam Vijayaraman &/or Reena Thomas
Programme
Thursday 1st June
Freeman Hospital
Newcastle upon Tyne
0930 Registration & Coffee
Morning session: Thyroid cancer, PCOS and endocrinology research update
1000 Current issues in management of thyroid cancer: Dr Ujjal Mallick
1040 Discussion
1050 Case presentation: Dr Reena Thomas
1105 Discussion
1115 Coffee break
1130 PCOS Audit: Dr Suresh Vaikkarra
1145 Discussion
1150 Research in Endocrinology: Dr Simon Pearce
1230 Lunch
Afternoon session: Novel insulin therapies and update on Pregnancy and diabetes
1345 CSII-Recent Trends: Dr Jim Shaw
1420 Discussion
1430 Inhaled insulin therapy: Professor Philip Home
1510 Discussion
1520 Tea break
1530 Pregnancy and diabetes: Professor Roy Taylor
1610 Discussion
1625 Close
Contacts: Arutchelvam Vijayaraman &/or Reena Thomas
posted by Arutchelvam at 10:58 AM
1 Comments:
ENDOCRINE DIABETES cmE JUNE 1st 2006- FRH
Endocrine- Diabetes CME on June 1st 2006 was an excellent meeting with a high educational content and covered a variety of relevant topics. The Endocrine session in the morning kicked off with Dr.Ujjal Mallik’s thorough and exhaustive presentation on current controversies in management of differentiated thyroid cancers. Some of the issues covered included the staging systems used, current consensus on the extent of surgery, European consensus on radioablation treatment, high dose versus low dose radioiodine ablation, use of thyrogen and management of patients with positive thyroglobulin but negative scan. This was followed by an elegant case presentation by Reena. Suresh then presented a fascinating audit on the potential use of metformin therapy as a diagnostic test to differentiate hyperandrogenism due to benign causes (PCOS and ovarian hyperthecosis) from ovarian and adrenal malignancies. This was well appreciated by the audience and generated a good amount of discussion. Simon Pearce gave a very practical talk on how to build a successful research career in Endocrinology. The useful tips and advices from a person with such an amazing research background was a great motivation for everyone. I am sure the SpRs especially the Juniors would have taken a keen note of the exciting opportunities available.
The afternoon session on Diabetes maintained the same high standard as the Endocrine talks, with 3 eminent speakers giving authoritative lectures on current hot topics. Jim Shaw presented interesting data on the local experience in Insulin pump use and his views on future technological advances. Insulin inhalers have been hitting headlines for some time now and Prof.Home’s lecture really gave us a thorough overview of current evidence in this topic. The fact remains that there are still a lot of questions to be answered before it becomes widely used. Prof.Taylor underlined the rapidly increasing incidence of GDM and pregnancy in women with type 2 diabetes and the continued need for effective counselling in these women to improve the foetal outcome. Use of metformin and glargine in pregnancy are other important developments, which could become standard practice in not too distant future. Congrats to Arut and Reena for organising such a valuable meeting. Surely I for one will look forward to the next one in Autumn with great interest.
SpRs who missed this meeting might find these sites and references useful: (check it out)
Thyroid Cancer
http://www.british-thyroid-association.org/guidelines.htm
http://www.thyrogen.com/global/p_hp_homepage.asp
Management guidelines for patients with thyroid nodules and differentiated thyroid cancer. Source: Thyroid [1050-7256] Cooper DS yr:2006 vol:16 iss:2 pg:109
Initial results from a prospective cohort study of 5583 cases of thyroid carcinoma treated in the united states during 1996. U.S. and German Thyroid Cancer Study Group. An American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer Patient Care Evaluation study. Source: Cancer [0008-543X] Hundahl SA yr:2000 vol:89 iss:1 pg:202
Check for publications of these authors:
Mazzaferri El,
Cady B
Schlumberger
Roubino
Sawka AM
Insulin inhalers
http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/drugsatfda/index.cfm?fuseaction=Search.SearchAction&ApplNo=021868&SearchType=AddlSearch&SEARCHOPTION=B
Diabetes and pregnancy
http://www.cemach.org.uk/publications/CEMACH%20Diabetes%20Organisational%20Survey.pdf
Effect of treatment of gestational diabetes mellitus on pregnancy outcomes Source: The New England journal of medicine [0028-4793] Crowther CA yr:2005 vol:352 iss:24 pg:2477
Metformin during pregnancy reduces insulin, insulin resistance, insulin secretion, weight, testosterone and development of gestational diabetes: prospective longitudinal assessment of women with polycystic ovary syndrome from preconception throughout pregnancy. Source: Human reproduction [0268-1161] Glueck CJ yr:2004 vol:19 iss:3 pg:510
http://www.idf.org/home/index.cfm?node=1457
Arun
4/6/06
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