The 35th ESE Postgraduate Training Course in Clinical Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism will take place in person from Thursday 20 February to Sunday 23 February 2025 at the Crowne Plaza, Bucharest, Romania and online
Register to attend online Register to attend in-person
Early Bird is now over but you can still register!
We are delighted to be running this course with the Romanian Psychoneuroendocrine Society and the Romanian Society of Endocrinology
We hope you can join us in-person in Romania, or online.
The course will include presentations on relevant aspects of clinical endocrinology. Participants will have an opportunity to listen to and interact with leading European experts in the field of endocrinology and metabolism. During the lectures, faculty members will share their knowledge and clinical experiences based around cases, and there will be a chance to ask questions and interact with the experts. There will also be a chance to test your knowledge.
There will be both an option to participate in-person in Bucharest and online.
Early Bird is now passed!
Registration fees |
ESE member |
ESE member |
ESE member in-training/reduced rates |
ESE member in-training/ reduced rates |
Non-member |
Non-member |
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Before Early Bird deadline |
After Early Bird deadline |
Before Early Bird deadline |
After Early Bird deadline |
Before Early Bird deadline |
After Early Bird deadline |
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In-person: with accommodation |
€450 |
€675 |
€300 |
€450 |
€785 |
€1,175 |
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In-person: no accommodation |
€250 |
€375 |
€170 |
€250 |
€435 |
€650 |
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Online |
€135 |
€200 |
€90 |
€135 |
€235 |
€350 |
*ESE member in-training/reduced rate
Concessionary rates are available for ESE Early Career, Students, Nurses or Retired Members, and ESE members who are from low-income or middle-income countries, as classified by the World Bank. Income status can be checked at the Worldbank website.
Please note: If you have recently become a member or renewed your membership within the last few days, this may take a couple of days to reflect in the registration system.
If you are a current member of ESE, you must be renewed for 2025 to benefit from the reduced member rates. Please visit the ESE membership pages.
We can only accept credit/debit card payments
Registration will close on Thursday 20 February 2025.
Ukrainian delegates
If you are located in Ukraine, please email registration@ese-hormones.org.
Complimentary places - online only
A limited number of free places are available for ESE members, who have a valid membership that falls into one of the following categories; Early Career, students or nurses who are also from a middle or low-income country as classified by the World Bank.
Please note: ESE does not permit attendance of sanctioned individuals or individuals from sanctioned institutions at any ESE events. Please click here to see ESE's Sanctions Policy.
In-person
No accommodation: Includes full registration and access to all sessions, course materials, catering: coffee breaks, lunch. Welcome reception and one evening offsite dinner (excludes breakfast and accommodation)
With accommodation: Includes full registration and access to all sessions, course materials, catering: coffee breaks, lunch, welcome reception and one offsite evening dinner. Accommodation includes 3 nights accommodation (arrival: Thursday 20 February 2025, departure: Sunday 23 February 2025) and full American Breakfast Buffet in Brasserie restaurant.
Accommodation is limited, early booking is advised.
The recording of the webinars will be available approximately 3 weeks after the webinars have taken place for those who have purchased a registration ticket, including those attending in-person. All ticket holders will have access to this content for 6 months, and unlimited access if you are an ESE member.
Cancellation of Registration / Refund Requests – in-person tickets
All cancellations of registration or refund requests must be made in writing to the European Society of Endocrinology (ESE) registration@ese-hormones.org.
Cancellation of registration or refund requests will be accepted until and on 7 January 2025 – cancellation requests received before this date will be subject to an administrative charge of 10% plus bank charges.
For cancellations or refund requests made after 7 January 2025 (for any reason including ill health) we regret that no refunds can be made or authorised.
Please send your email confirmation and receipt with the written cancellation. All bank fees related to the refunds are to be paid by the delegate. Refunds will be processed after the course has taken place.
It is recommended that all delegates take out insurance to cover their registration, travel and accommodation costs to cover the case that they are unable to attend or the event is cancelled for any unforeseen reason. The European Society of Endocrinology (ESE) takes no responsibility for reimbursing delegates’ expenses in such cases.
Delegates are fully liable for damages caused to third parties and property. All delegates shall have valid, comprehensive third-party liability insurance.
If you have any further requirements or require any additional information, please contact registration@ese-hormones.org.
Online
The course will be live-streamed and will take place on Zoom. You can ask questions to the speakers via Zoom, and the chairpersons may select your question to ask the speaker.
Sessions will be carried out of Zoom, so please ensure that you are able to access Zoom on your University/institution computer. You will be sent access information approximately 1 week before.
The recording of the webinars will be available approximately 3 weeks after the webinars have taken place for those who have purchased a registration ticket, including those attending in-person. All ticket holders will have access to this content for 6 months, and unlimited access if you are an ESE member.
Cancellation of Registration/Refund Requests - online tickets
We cannot accept any cancellations for 35th ESE Postgraduate Training Course, if you miss the live days you can watch the recordings of all sessions when they are available (approx. 3 weeks after).
Times are shown in Eastern European Time (EET)
08:00 - 08:30 Registration
08:30 - 09:00 Course Opening
Carmen Georgescu and Mihaela Vlad (Chairs Local Organising Committee, Bucharest Romania) & Gregory Kaltsas (Chair of the Education Committee)
09:00 - 09:30 Pre-course Exam
Karim Meeran (UK)
09:30 - 11:00 Session 1: Pituitary
09:30 – 10:00 Aggressive pituitary adenomas diagnosis and management
Carmen Sorina Martin (Romania)
10:00 – 10:30 Hypophysitis
Marie-Lise Jaffrain-Rea (Italy) - remote
10:30 – 11:00 Treatment of Hypopituitarism
Cristina Capatina (Romania)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00 Session 2: Sex hormones
11:30 – 12:00 Ovulation induction and other approaches to restoring fertility
Nikolaos Vlahos (Greece)
12:00 – 12:30 Fertility preservation in oncologic patients
Luminita Cima (Romania) (EYES)
12:30 – 13:00 Menopause; when and how to treat?
Catalina Poiana (Romania)
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 16:00 Session 3: Diabetes mellitus and the metabolic syndrome
14:30 – 15:00 Clinical implications of insulin resistance and pre-diabetes
Djuro Macut (Serbia)
15:00 – 15:30 Diabetes and cardio-reno-metabolic risk
15:30 – 16:00 Intermittent fasting; do we have scientific evidence?
Adrian Vlad (Romania)
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 - 18:00 Session 4: Thyroid
16:30 – 17:00 Graves ophthalmopathy in autoimmune thyroid disease
Simon Pearce (UK)
17:00 – 17:30 Well differentiated thyroid carcinoma
Alina Silaghi (Romania) (EYES)
17:30 – 18:00 Medullary thyroid carcinoma
Corin Badiu (Romania)
18:00 – 18:30 Exam Day 1
Karim Meeran (UK)
19:30 Dinner
Times are shown in Eastern European Time (EET)
08:30 - 10:00 Session 5: Osteoporosis and metabolic bone diseases
08:30 – 09:00 Fracture risk assessment and management of osteoporosis
Tomaz Kocjan (Slovenia)
09:00 – 09:30 Secondary causes of osteoporosis
Carmen Barbu (Romania)
09:30 – 10:00 Chronic kidney disease and fracture risk
Dana Stoian (Romania)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:00 Session 6: Neuroendocrine tumours
10:30 – 11:00 Genetics of NET
TBC
11:00 – 11:30 Carcinoid syndrome
Peter Igaz (Hungary)
11:30 – 12:00 Expanding role of PRRT
Wouter de Herder (The Netherlands)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:00 Session 7: Adrenals
Chair: Peter Igaz (Hungary)
13:30 – 14:00 Mild autonomous cortisol secretion (MACS)
Carmen Georgescu (Romania)
14:00 – 14:30 Management of endogenous and exogenous steroid withdrawal
Karim Meeran (UK)
14:30 – 15:00 Diagnosis and management of pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma
Cristina Preda (Romania)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 - 17:00 Session 8: Selected clinical cases
• Thyroid cases
• Pituitary & adrenal cases
• Diabetes, lipids and obesity cases
• Bone and calcium cases
Please note, this session is not available for online attendees.
17:00 - 17:30 Exam Day 2
Karim Meeran (UK)
Times are shown in Eastern European Time (EET)
08:30 - 10:00 Session 9: Paediatric endocrinology and the transition period
08:30 – 09:00 GH treatment in non-GH deficient children
Ionela Pascanu (Romania)
09:00 – 09:30 Precocious puberty and lifelong effects of childhood treatment
Evangelia Charmandari (Greece)
09:30 – 10:00 CAH; is transition making a difference?
Iuliana Gherlan (Romania)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:00 Session 10: Parathyroid
10:30 – 11:00 Primary hyperparathyroidism
Mihaela Vlad (Romania)
11:00 – 11:30 Hypoparathyroidism and Pseudohypoparathyroidism
Agnes Linglart (France) - remote
11:30 – 12:00 Parathyroid carcinoma
Stefana Bilha (Romania) (EYES)
12:00 – 12:30 Coffee break and snack
12:30 - 13:00 Exam Day 3
Karim Meeran (UK)
13:00 - 14:00 Session 11: Special topics in endocrinology
13:00 – 13:30 Endocrine Disruptors
Josef Köhrle (Germany)
13:30 – 14:00 Obesity - new drugs
Luca Busetto (Italy)
14:00 - 14:30 Closing remarks
Departures
ESE would like to thank S.C. Medis RO S.R.L., Ipsen, Ipsen Pharma Romania, Komtur Pharmaceuticals SRL and Sandoz Pharmaceuticals for supporting the 35th ESE Postgraduate Training Course - Romania 2025
We are please to inform you that 35th ESE Postgraduate Training Course - Romania 2025, Bucharest, Romania 20/02/2025 - 23/02/2025 has been granted 16.0 European CME credits (ECMEC®s) by the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME®) as below:
21/02/2025 - 6.0
22/02/2025 - 6.0
23/02/2025 - 4.0
Each medical specialist should claim only those credits that he/she actually spent in the educational activity. The EACCME® awards ECMEC®s on the basis of 0.5 ECMEC® for every 30 minutes attended live.
Through an agreement between the European Union of Medical Specialists and the American Medical Association, physicians may convert EACCME® credits to an equivalent number of AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Information on the process to convert EACCME® credits to AMA credits can be found at https://edhub.ama-assn.org/pages/applications.
Live educational activities occurring outside of Canada, recognised by the UEMS-EACCME® for ECMEC® credits are deemed to be Accredited Group Learning Activities (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
Credit will be converted based on one (1) hour of participation equalling one credit for all activities. Physicians wishing to convert EACCME® credits to AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ will be required to access the AMA website at https://edhub.ama-assn.org/pages/applications to obtain the necessary paperwork and instructions. Physicians and other health care professionals will be required to pay a processing fee to the AMA.
For other countries, please contact the relevant national/regional accreditation authority.
Please note: CME Accreditation will only be available to those who watch the webinars live (either in-person or virtually). CME Accreditation will not be available to those who watch the recordings post event.
It is a requirement of the UEMS-EACCME® that an Evaluation form is completed and submitted before a CME certificate and credits can be issued.
A number of meeting grants will be available for help in attending the post-graduate training course in-person only.
Please see the website for more information. ESE Meeting Grants
Crowne Plaza Bucharest
Bulevardul Poligrafiei 1, Bucharest, 013704, Romania
Crowne Plaza Bucharest Hotel is located at 18 minutes' drive from Henri Coanda International Airport, Crowne Plaza Bucharest is a refined hotel in the north part of the city, with good public transport connections to the city center and Gara de Nord train station. The hotel is adjacent to the Romexpo exhibition centre and close to the business office area. The Arch of Triumph, the Village Museum and Baneasa Shopping City mall are all within five kilometres.
By train and public transport from Gara de Nord train station:
- From North Railway Station it is a 10 -15 minutes drive distance at noon and night. During rush hours 8:00 -10:00 AM and 5:00-7:00 PM it is 20 - 30 minutes drive distance.
Estimated distance to the hotel: 4.35 MI/ 7 KM
By plane and public transport from Henri Coanda International Airport
- 12 KM, 18 min drive
- 13 mins by taxi (approx. €12)
- 40 mins by public transport
By car:
- From the airport, take the national road DN1 in the city centre direction until Piata Montreal roundabout. Follow the first exit on the right and drive until the first traffic light, where you turn left. In about 50 metres, you will find the hotel on the left.
Onsite Parking Available
- Ample outdoor parking including two electric charging stations with a power of 22kW, each equipped with a Type 2 connector.
- Cost: 18 EUR
Off-site Parking
The parking lot is in the front of the hotel at 50 meters distance and has a directly exit to the entrance of the hotel building.
Case submission is now closed!
Please note if your case is accepted, you must register in person.
Convenient timing, excellent presenters and case based. Challenging cases discussed.
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