Northern Endocrine and Diabetes CME Spring Meeting: 3 May 2007

Northern Endocrine and Diabetes CME Spring Meeting 2007

Thursday 3rd May, 2007

Education Centre
Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead

0930 Registration

Morning session: Pituitary disorders
1000 Cushing’s syndrome in pregnancy – Dr Andy James, Royal Victoria Infirmary
1040 Discussion
1050 Pituitary disorders in children – Dr Tim Cheetham, Royal Victoria Infirmary
1130 Discussion
1140 Tea break
1150 Pituitary imaging – Dr Dip Mitra, Royal Victoria Infirmary
1230 Discussion
1240 Lunch

Afternoon session: Monogenic diabetes; Endothelial progenitor cells; NASH
1400 Finding monogenic diabetes in the clinic: how do we do it and why bother? – Dr Katherine Owen, Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism
1440 Discussion
1450 Endothelial progenitor cells in disease – Dr Jola Weaver, Queen Elizabeth Hospital
1530 Discussion
1540 Tea break
1550 Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis – Professor Chris Day, Newcastle University
1630 Discussion
1640 Close

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