Eight Hammersmith Multidisciplinary Endocrine Symposium
Friday 6th December 2013
Wolfson Education Centre, Hammersmith Hospital
2013 abstracts LAPPS/AMEND parallel
8.30 Registration and Coffee
8.45 Mr. Fausto Palazzo, Prof Karim Meeran and Prof. Waljit Dhillo: Welcome and Introduction
Session 1: Pituitary
(Chairs: Simon Aylwin and Karim Meeran)
9.00am A Case of pituitary apoplexy (Oral communication abstract T011) Dr Preeti Chiran
9.20am Pituitary apoplexy guidelines (Prof John Wass, Oxford University)
9.45am The evolution of Pituitary surgery (Mr Saurabh Sinha, Sheffield)
10.20am Pituitary Case presentations
(Oral communication abstract T016)
Cranial diabetes insipidus masked by anterior pituitary dysfunction in a patient with Sheehan’s syndrome: Dr Vassiliki Bravis
10.40am Coffee Break
Session 2: Advances in Endocrine Surgery
(Chair Fausto Palazzo)
11.10 Endocrine Surgery: Technique versus Technology (Mr Fausto Palazzo, Hammersmith Hospital)
11.25 The value of Intraoperative PTH monitoring & and nerve monitoring in parathyroid and thyroid surgery (Mr David Scott Coombes, Cardiff, Wales)
11.55pm Robotic thyroid and parathyroid surgery – a review of Current evidence (Mr Neil Tolley, St Mary’s Hospital, London)
12.15 Discussion
12.30 Lunch & The Society for Endocrinology Poster session
1.30 BES International Guest Lecture: Surgery : the Cure of Diabetes (Prof Francios Pattou (Lille, France))
2.30 Designing a bariatric department – The Imperial Experience (Mr Ahmed Ahmed, Imperial College London)
3.00 Coffee break
Session 3: Endocrine Pathology in pregnancy
Chairs Dr James Ahlquist and Waljit Dhillo
3.20pm: Thyrotoxicosis in pregnancy (Prof John Lazarus, Cardiff, Wales)
3.45pm Hyperparathyroidism in pregnancy & an update on 3 years of pituitary tumours in pregnancy. (Prof Catherine Williamson, St Thomas’ Hospital, London)
4.05. Phaeochromocytoma in pregnancy (Prof Tom Lennard, (Newcastle University))
4.35pm: Endocrine disease in pregnancy Case presentations
OC003: Central diabetes insipidus in pregnancy: Sarah Jarvis
OC004: Hyperparathyroidism in early pregnancy: a case report: Yong Yong Ling
5.00 Feedback and Close