APPES 2006 SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME

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APPES 2006 SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME

Wednesday 1 November 2006                                                                                                       Room/Area
16.00-16.30        
Formal Opening                                                                                      Grand Ballroom
16.30-17.30     Plenary Lecture I                                                                  
                Grand Ballroom  
                       
Chairperson : Prof. Kitti Angsusingha (Thailand)                                                  
                        Identification and management of type 1 prediabetes
  
                     NK Maclaren (USA)
18.00-19.30     Welcome Reception
                                                                                   Siam Ballroom A&B

Thursday 2 November 2006
08.15-08.30     Awarding of life memberships
.                                                              Grand Ballroom
                         Chris Cowell, (Australia), President of APPES
08.30-09.30     Plenary Lecture II, Presidential Plenary                                               Grand Ballroom
                                Chairperson : Chris Cowell, (Australia)
                        Assessment and management of non-growth hormone deficient short stature.    
                                JM Wit (The Netherlands)
09.30-11.00     Symposium I, Diabetes Mellitus :                                                               Grand Ballroom
                       
Chairpersons: Cathy Choong (Australia), Nalini Shah (India)
09.30-10.00     The features and management of the metabolic syndrome in childhood
                       
NK Maclaren (USA)
10.00-10.30     Assessment of glycaemic control in children
                       
G Ambler (Australia)
10.30-11.00     Fulminant type 1 diabetes mellitus
                       
A Imagawa (Japan)                                                       
11.00-11.30     COFFEE BREAK                                                                                             Exhibition Area
11.30-12.30     Oral Session I : Kaichi Kida Oral Session :                                                  Grand Ballroom
                        Chairpersons: Louis Low (China), Palagny Raghupathy (India)
                                Decreased androgen receptor gene methylation in premature pubarche:
                                a novel pathogenetic mechanism?
                                
Sergio Bernasconi (Italy)
                                Enhanced insulin sensitivity is a characteristic of prepubertal children with
                                constitutional delay of growth and development
                 
                                Wayne Cutfield (New Zealand)
                                Onset of activation of the pituitary-adrenal axis during human development
                                and its potential effects on sexual differentiation
                                
Masahiro Goto (Japan)
                                Alternative methods of assessing hydrocortisone replacement in children
                                and adolescents with hypopituitarism
                                
Ann Maguire (Australia)
                                Molecular and phenotypic features of Korean patients with congenital lipoid adrenal hyperplasia
                                
Jung Hyun Lee (Korea)
                                12.30-13.30                                                                                                     Grand Ballroom&Orchid Hall A
13.30-15.00     Symposium II, Regional Challenges :                     
                    Grand Ballroom
                       
Chairpersons: Lorna Abad (Philippines), Chanika Tuchinda (Thailand)
13.30-14.00     Severe obesity and the metabolic syndrome: a global perspective
                                
L Baur (Australia)
14.00-14.30     Access to diagnostics and therapeutics in the developing world
                                
S Chan-Cua S (Phillipines)
14.30-15.00     Malnutrition and diabetes mellitus.
                                
A Kanunga (India)
15.00-15.30     COFFEE BREAK                                                                                             Exhibition Area
15.30-16.30     Oral Session IIA : Diabetes Oral Session
                                
                      Grand Ballroom
                        Chairpersons: Geoff Ambler (Australia), Fatima Harun (Malaysia)
                                Hyperinsulinism, molecular genetic analysis for KCNJ11 and ABCC8 promotor
                                variants in congenital hyperinsulinism
                                
Klaus Brusgaard (Denmark)
                                Sulfonylurea therapy in two Korean patients with insulin treated neonatal diabetes
                                due to mutation of KCNJ11 gene encoding the KIR6.2
                                
Min Sun Kim (Korea)
                                The value of oral glucose tolerance test in diagnosing type 2 diabetes and insulin
                                resistance: 5 years experience
                                
Stewart Birt (Australia)
                                Three-dose aspart regime (premixed-regular-premixed) is safer and more effective
                                than conventional bolus-basal regime in schoolgoing children
                                
Sanjay Kalra (India)
                                No mutations in uncoupling protein-2 in a large series of genetically unexplained
                                congenital hyperinsulinism
                                
Henrik T Christesen (Denmark)
15.30-16.30     Oral Session IIB : Growth/Bone Oral Session :                                      Orchid Hall A
                                
Chairpersons: Pat Mahachoklertwattana (Thailand), Reiko Horikawa (Japan)
                                Prematurely born children are short and lean
                                
Wayne Cutfield (New Zealand)
                                Intravenous administration of pamidronate decreases serum levels of FGF23
                                as well as calcium and phosphate
                                
Kitaoka Taichi (Japan)
                                Inhibition of insulin receptor activation by proteolytic insulin-like growth factor
                                binding protein-3 fragment in the serum of the patients with simple obesity
                                
Sun Woo Lee (Korea)
                                Final adult height of patients who underwent hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
                                for hematological disorders during childhood
                                
June Bum Kim (Korea)
                                Improvement of cortical bone density in children and adolescents with hyperthyroidism
                                treated with anti-thyroid medication
                                
Nawaporn Numbenjapon (Thailand)
16.30-17.00     Management Session I                                                                            Grand Ballroom          
                        Investigation and treatment of childhood osteoporosis                  
                                C Munns ( Australia )
16.30-17.00     Management Session II                                                                           Orchid Hall A
                        Management of puberty: induction and ongoing care
                        M Zacharin (Australia)
17.00-18.30     Pfizer Endocrine Care Satellite Meeting "New Directions in Growth Hormone Treatment"Grand Ballroom
                       
Chairpersons: Hartmut Wollmann (Germany), Suttipong Wacharasindhu (Thailand)
                        GHD: a state of the art after 20 years of recombinant GH therapy
                       
Chris Cowell (Australia) 
                        Short children born SGA: Recommendations for management
                        Wayne Cutfield (New zealand)
                        GH treatment in Prader Willi Syndrome: New data on efficacy and safety
                        B. Hauffa (Germany)

Friday 3 November 2006
08.30-09.30
     Symposium III, Hot Hormones :                                                              Grand Ballroom
                        Chairpersons: Wayne Cutfield (New Zealand), Jeh Hoon Shin (Korea)
08.30-09.00     Does C-type natriuretic peptide regulate growth?               
                        E Espiner (New Zealand)
09.00-09.30     Kisspeptin- a critical switch for puberty?
                        A Herbison. (New Zealand)
09.30-11.00     Symposium IV, Growth:                                                                           Grand Ballroom                                  
                        Chairpersons: Keiichi Ozono (Japan), Meena Desai (India)                                                
09.30-10.00     Normal pubertal growth
                        T Tanaka. (Japan )
10.00-10.30     Biology of catch-up growth.
                        JM Wit (The Netherlands)
10.30-11.00     GH treatment to final height in Turner Syndrome
                        B. Hauffa (Germany)
11.00-11.30     BREAK                                                                                                      Exhibition Area
11.30-12.15     Symposium V, Management of Hyperandrogenism in Girls :             Grand Ballroom
                        Chairpersons: Xiaoping Luo (China), Kevalee Unachak  (Thailand)
                       
Assessment and management of PCOS in adolescence
                        Ac Ammini (India)
12.15-13.30     Annual General Meeting and Lunch                                                            Grand Ballroom
12.15-13.30     LUNCH                                                               
                                          Orchid Hall A
13.30-15.00     POSTERS                                                          
                                           Orchid Hall B
15.00-15.30     COFFEE BREAK
                                                                                        Exhibition Area          
15.30-17.00     Symposium VI, Adrenal:                                                                         Grand Ballroom          
                       
Chairpersons: Kah Yin Loke (Singapore), Shen Shiuxian (China)

15.30-16.00     Polyglandular autoimmune syndromes
                       
P Crock (Australia)
16.00-16.30     The genetic mutations of adrenal insufficiency
                       
K Fujieda (Japan)
16.30-17.00     Phaeochromocytoma
                       
L Low (Hong Kong)
18.00-22.00     Gala Dinner at ALANGKARN                                                                     Alangkarn Restaurant

Saturday 4 November 2006
08.15-09.00     Plenary Lecture III,
                                                                                Grand Ballroom
                        Chairperson: Sei Won Yang (Korea)
                        Understanding sexual differentiation
                        Olaf Hiort (Germany)
09.00-10.00     Oral Session IIIA : Puberty/Thyroid Oral Session :                               Grand Ballroom
                        Chairpersons: Suttipong Wacharasindhu (Thailand), Kim Duk Hee (Korea)
                            Leuprolide provides less effective early gonadotrophin suppression than goserelin
                             in the treatment of precocious puberty, but has a similar effect on initial linear height
                             suppression
                           
Frances Mouat (New Zealand)
                            A successful and novel strategy to rapidly normalise serum free thyroxine level in
                            primary congenital hypothyroidism
                           
Paul Hofman (New Zealand)
                            Elevated gonadotrophins in premature babies with ambiguous genitalia-are they abnormal?
                            Margaret Zacharin (Australia)
                            Comparison of pubertal development of children and adolescents in urban and rural areas
                            in south-west China
                           
Xiong Feng (China)
                            Analysis of the thyroid function and longterm follow-ups in 189 cases of Turner’s syndrome
                           
Hui Pan (China)
09.00-10.00     Oral Session IIIB : Adrenal/Obesity Oral Session :   Orchid Hall A
                       
Chairpersons: Mark Harris (Australia), San Ging Shu (Taiwan)
                        Body mass index, waist circumference, which is the better predictor of metabolic syndrome?
                            Bingyan Cao (China)
                            Characterisation of metabolic consequences in severely obese children
                           
Yung Seng Lee (Singapore)
                            A cross-sectional study on caregivers’ perception of own and their children’s body weight status
                           
Sheau Fang Ng (Malaysia)
                            Pheochromocytoma in children and adolescents
                           
Ganesh H.K. (India)
                            Glucose metabolism disorder in obese children
                           
Zou Chao Chun (China)
10.00-10.30     COFFEE BREAK                                                                                         Exhibition Area
10.30-12.00
     Symposium VII, Clinical Challenges :                                                     Grand Ballroom
                        Chairpersons: Bambang Asmara (Indonesia), Du Min Lian (China)
10.30-11.00     Bone mineral density in childhood
                           
P.Pitukcheewanont. (Thailand)
11.00-11.30     Pituitary transcription factors: matching genotype to phenotype
                           
Han-Wook Yoo (Korea)
11.30-12.00     Establishing regional growth charts
                           
Jose Batubara (Indonesia)                                                       
12.00-12.30     Closing Ceremony                                                                                   Grand Ballroom
12.30-13.30     LUNCH                                                 
                                Grand Ballroom&Orchid Hall A


                                                                               
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P plenary lecture
S Symposium
O Oral session
M management session

Management sessions
Type 1 diabetes mellitus and exercise
Cryptorchidism (associations, investigation, treatment, fertility)
Assessment and management of the metabolic syndrome in adolescence

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