193rd Meeting for the Society for Endocrinology

Programme: Wednesday 6 November 2002

Mon 4 Nov | Tues 5 Nov | Wed 6 Nov | Attended Posters

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09.00 - 10.30 Wolfson Theatre
Lectures
Chairperson: Conway G (London)
   
DS1 09.00 PPARg - Living up to expectations?
Gurnell M (Cambridge)
   
DS2 09.30 Metabolic aspects of polycystic ovary syndrome
Franks S (London)
   
DS3 10.00 PKC inhibitors and glucose toxicity
Dodson P (Birmingham)
   
10.30 - 11.00 Osler Room
COFFEE
   
11.00 - 12.30 Wolfson Theatre
Symposium: Obesity
Chairperson: Stewart PM (Birmingham)
   
DS4 11.00 Appetite control
Bloom SR (London)
   
DS5 11.30 Molecular genetics of severe childhood obesity
O'Rahilly S (Cambridge)
   
DS6 12.00 Current therapeutics of obesity
Finer N (Luton)
   
12.30 - 13.00 Osler Room
LUNCH
   
13.00 - 14.00 Library
Attended posters
   
14.00 - 14.45 Wolfson Theatre
Expert sessions: Impotence
Chair: Besser M (London)
   
DS10 14.00 How to treat: a diabetologist's view
Alexander WD (Edinburgh)
   
DS11 14.10 Response: an endocrinologists view
TBC
   
14.15 Discussion
14.30 Case presentation
   
14.45 - 15.30 Wolfson Theatre
Expert Session: Lumps in the thyroid
Chair: Kendall-Taylor P (Newcastle upon Tyne)
   
DS12 14.45 How to treat: an endocrinologist's view
Franklyn J (Birmingham)
   
DS13 14.50 Response: a surgeon's view
B Harrison (Sheffield)
   
15.05 Discussion
   
15.20 Case presentation
   
15.30 - 16.00 Osler Room
TEA
   
16.00 - 17.00 Wolfson Theatre
Workshop: Treatment of insulin resistance or post-prandial hyperglycaemia - contrasting evidence
Chair: Scarpello J (Stoke-on-Trent)
   
DS7 16.00 Role of insulin resistance with the evidence from thiazolidinediones
Barnett AH (Birmingham)
   
DS8 16.20 The role of metformin
Holman RR (Oxford) & Stratton IM
   
DS9 16.40 The evidence of the value of postprandial blood glucose lowering medication
Davies MJ (Leicester)