Practical Neonatal Endocrinology

19th January 2010
Moller Centre, Cambridge

Suitable for consultants and trainees in Endocrinology, Neonatology and Paediatrics

An essential guide to investigation, results interpretation and management of suspected endocrine disorders in the newborn. Lecture and interactive case-based programme.

Programme:

09:00-09:30 Coffee and registration

09:30-10:30 Disorders of glucose homeostasis - hypoglycaemia (including hyperinsulinism), hyperglycaemia. Dr Kathy Beardsall

10:30-11:00 Interpretation of endocrine results in the newborn baby. Dr David Halsall

11:10-11:30 Coffee

11:30-12:20 Thyroid disorders in the newborn - thyroid function in preterm babies, hypothyroxinaemia of prematurity, management of babies born to mothers with thyroid disease. Dr Amanda Oglivy-Stuart

12:20-12:50 Disorders of the adrenal gland Part 1 (including adrenal failure, collapse, hypertension, hypo/hypermatraemia, hyperkalaemia). Dr Paula Midgley

12:50-13:40 Lunch

13:40-14:10 Disorders of the adrenal gland Part 2 (including adrenal failure, collapse, hypotension, hypo/hypermatraenia, hyperkalaemia). Dr Paula Midgley

14:10-15:10 Assessment of ambigious genitalia (including cryptorchidism). Professor Ieuan Hughes

15:10-15:30 Coffee

15:30-16:30 Calcium disorders in the newborn - hypocalcaemia, hypercalcaemia Dr Jeremy Allgrove

16:30-16:45 Summing up and close

Cost £175

Course Organisers: Amanda Ogilvy Stuart, Professor Ieuan Hughes