Day 1

Opening ceremony

Chair: Punith Kempegowda, Organising Chair, EYES 2021 (UK)

Welcome from Eva Coopmans, Co-Chair, EYES (Netherlands)

Welcome from Ms Helen Gregson (Chief Executive Officer, European Society of Endocrinology)

Panel Discussion on Academic Careers

Chair: Prof Davide Calebiro (Birmingham, UK)

Dr Gabriela Da Silva Xavier (Birmingham, UK)

Dr Rowan Hardy (Birmingham, UK)

Prof David Hodson (Birmingham, UK)

Dr Vicki Smith (Birmingham, UK)

Panel Q&A - Academic careers overview and discussion: encouraging the next generation of early career researchers and endocrinologists

Career insights from reproductive and adrenal endocrinology

Chair: Dr Alessandro Prete (UK)

Dr Michael O’Reilly (Dublin, Ireland)

Adrenal oral presentations

Chairs: Dr Alessandro Prete (UK), Dr Antoan Stefan Sojat (Serbia)

OR1: Should the approach to non-classic congenital adrenal hyperplasia (NCAH) be changed? - a real-life validation of NCAH diagnostic process (Bartosz Domagała, Poland)

OR2: Evaluation of urinary free cortisol and late night salivary cortisol as diagnostic tools for Cushing’s Syndrome (Roberto Novizio, Italy)

OR3: Steroid profiling using liquid chromatography mass spectrometry during adrenal vein sampling in patients with primary bilateral massive adrenal hyperplasia (Ru Zhang, Germany)

OR4: Characterization of transcriptional and miRNA based dysregulations in Cushing’s syndrome (Sharmilee Vetrivel, Germany)

OR5: Impact of adrenalectomy on cardiovascular features in patients with adrenal incidentalomas and possible autonomous cortisol secretion: results from ITACA study (Marianna Minnetti, Italy)

OR6: Adverse events associated to mitotane treatment in patients with adrenocortical carcinoma (Barbara Altieri, Germany)

Pituitary and Neuroendocrinology oral presentations

Chairs: Dr Manuel D Gahete (Spain), Dr Walter Vena (Italy)

OR1: Pituitary adenoma consistency is associated with postoperative hormonal deficits: a retrospective study on 50 patients undergoing transsphenoidal adenomectomy (Dario De Alcubierre, Italy)

OR2: A novel molecular subclassification may predict somatostatin analogs response in corticotropinomas (Alejandro Ibáñez-Costa, Spain)

OR3: Hormonal adjustment to metabolic derangement in adult Growth Hormone Deficiency: evaluation of Ghrelin and LEAP-2 serum levels (Edoardo Vergani, Italy)

OR4: Indexes of chronic low-grade inflammation in different models of insulin-resistance: evaluation of lipocalin-2 in metabolic syndrome, partial and total growth hormone deficiency (Carmine Bruno, Italy)

OR5: Digital Transformation of a Hyponatraemia Toolkit: Impact on Clinical Practice (Christina O'Dowd, UK)

OR6: Altered splicing machinery as a source of biomarkers in lung neuroendocrine neoplasms (Ricardo Blázquez-Encinas, Spain)

Glands, bands but no hands: a light-hearted interactive quiz covering Europe, endocrinology and beyond