Current Committee Irish Endocrine Society (after AGM 2024)

President:  Professor Steven Hunter

Secretary:  Dr Maeve Durkan (team ends November 2026)

Treasurer: Dr Mark Hannon

Communication Officer: Dr Pyeh Kyithar

Basic Science: Professor Graham Lee (term ends November 2027)

Paediatrics:  Professor Edna Roche (term ends February 2025), Dr Sinead Glackin

Leinster: Dr Pyeh Kyithar; Lead Organiser 49th Annual Meeting (term ends November 2025)

Ulster: Dr Helen Wallace; Lead Organiser Joint SfE-48th IES Annual Meeting (term ends November 2025)

Connacht: Dr Elizabeth Brosnan

Munster: Dr Mark Hannon, Lead Organiser 50th Annual Meeting  (term ends November 2026)

Subgroups: 

Subgroup Chairpersons

• Diabetes             Dr Antoinette Tuthill
• Endocrinology.  Professor Mark Sherlock
• Obesity               Professor Francis Finucane

If you wish to get involved in any of the activities of the Irish Endocrine Society, please contact any committee member.

Dear Colleagues,

Many thanks to all those involved in the recent 46th Annual Meeting of The Irish Endocrine Society held from 11th and 12th November 2022. It was a very well attended events with very high numbers attending in-person and also on the online platform

2022 MONTOGOMERY MEDAL (best oral presentation) Cliona O’Donnell for OC2 titled The Effect of Treatment with a Glucagon-like-peptide-1 Analogue on Metabolic Activity in Adipose Tissue: data from a proof-of-concept PET-CT study

2022 O’DOVOVAN MEDAL (best poster presentation) Robert Lyons for CR2 titled Case Report: The successful use of a MiniMed 780G insulin pump containing Teriparatide to treat symptomatic hypoparathyroidism in a patient with Barakat Syndrome

2022 BASIC SCIENCE GRANTS

Marie McIlroy Evaluation of androgen driven cancer cell entosis as a potential mechanism of endocrine therapy resistance in breast cancer Supervisors Prof. Jochen Prehn and Prof. Michael O’Reilly

Keith Rochfort To elucidate the effect of semaglutide on a three-dimensional model of the blood retinal barrier in a diabetic setting Supervisor Dr. Hannah Forde

2022 CLINICAL SCIENCE AWARDS

Mairead Crowley Evaluation of glycemic control and pregnancy outcomes in women with HNF1A-MODY and HNF4A-MODY Supervisor Prof. Maria M Byrne

Ben Loughrey Exome Sequencing to Characterise the Pituitary Neuroendocrine Tumour Microenvironment. Supervisor Prof. Steven Hunter

On behalf of the committee, please accept our thanks to all that participated in the 46th Annual Meeting. We are  looking forward to welcoming you at the Study Day scheduled for 27th January 2023 in the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, 6 Kildare Street, Dublin 2.

Congratulations to all who were involved in the 46th Annual Meeting of the Irish Endocrine Society. Thank you to each and every one of you for your support and your participation in the meeting.

The winner of the 2022 O’Donovan medal is Cliona O’Donnell for her oral presentation entitled ‘The Effect of Treatment with a Glucagon-like-peptide-1 Analogue on Metabolic Activity in Adipose Tissue: data from a proof-of-concept PET-CT study’.

The winner of the 2022 Montgomery medal is Robert Lyons for his poster entitled ‘The successful use of a MiniMed 780G insulin pump containing Teriparatide to treat symptomatic hypoparathyroidism in a patient with Barakat Syndrome’.

Thank you to those who submitted your research to the meeting.