27th IES Continuing Education Study Day

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Registration: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/27th-ies-continuing-education-study-day-friday-11th-june-2021-tickets-157633015593

 

 

TIME

 
10.40 – 10.50 WELCOME TO THE IRISH ENDOCRINE STUDY DAY

Professor Brendan Kinsley, President of the Irish Endocrine Society

 

 

SESSION 1:

 

Chair: Professor Brendan Kinsley, President of the Irish Endocrine Society

 

10.50 – 11.35

 

 

 

 

11.35– 12.40

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12.40 – 13.30

 

 

Epidemiology of COVID-19 and diabetes

Professor Helen Colhoun

Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine

University of Edinburgh

 

COVID-19 and Endocrine disorders

   Adrenal – Dr Agnieszka Pazderska, Consultant Endocrinologist, St. James’s Hospital

   Thyroid – Dr Anne McGowan, Consultant Endocrinologist, Robert Graves Institute, Tallaght University Hospital

   Reproductive – Dr Lisa Owens, Consultant Endocrinologist, St. James’s Hospital

 

Coffee break

 

 

SESSION 2:  

Chair: Professor James Gibney, Honorary Secretary/ Treasurer, Irish Endocrine Society.

 

 

13.30 – 14.10

 

 

 

 

14.10 – 14:40             

Why is COVID-19 more severe in diabetes and obesity?

Professor Carel le Roux

Professor of Experimental Pathology

University College Dublin

 

Diabetes and COVID-19 – the Paediatric experience

Dr Orla Neylon

Consultant Paediatric Endocrinologist

Department of Paediatrics, University Hospital Limerick

 

14.40 – 15:30 

 

15.30 – 16:15     

 

 

 

 

16.15 – 16:55                           

Coffee break

 

Management of hyperglycaemia in hospitalised patients with COVID-19

Professor Ketan Dhatariya

Consultant Diabetes & Endocrinology / Honorary Professor

Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia

 

Diabetes and COVD-19

Professor Daniel J Drucker

Senior Scientist, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute

Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto

 

16:55– 17.00 Summary and Close

Prof Brendan Kinsley, President, Irish Endocrine Society