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
. .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
.
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 |