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
Please submit your case and register before the Early Bird!
Early Bird Deadline: Tuesday 7 January 23:59 CET
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 deadline: Tuesday 7 January 2025 23:59 CET
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
Chairs: TBC
09:30 – 10:00 Aggressive pituitary adenomas diagnosis and management
Sorina Martin (Romania)
10:00 – 10:30 Hypophysitis
Marie-Lise Jaffrain-Rea (Italy)
10:30 – 11:00 Treatment of Hypopituitarism
Cristina Capatina (Romania)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00 Session 2: Sex hormones
Chairs: TBC
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
Chairs: TBC
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
TBC
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
Chairs: TBC
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
Chairs: TBC
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
TBC
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:00 Session 6: Neuroendocrine tumours
Chairs: TBC
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
Chairs: Peter Igaz (Hungary) & TBC
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
Chairs: TBC
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
Chairs: TBC
10:30 – 11:00 Primary hyperparathyroidism
Mihaela Vlad (Romania)
11:00 – 11:30 Hypoparathyroidism and Pseudohypoparathyroidism
TBC
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
Chairs: TBC
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 and certification information
Departures
ESE would like to thank Ipsen for supporting the 35th ESE Postgraduate Training Course - Romania 2025
An application will be made to the UEMS EACCME® for CME accreditation for this event.
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.
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.
Submit your case using the form below by Tuesday 7 February!
All registered participants are encouraged to submit a clinical case for discussion in one of the sessions. A great opportunity to discuss your case with experts in the field. Cases will be selected for a short presentation and discussion at each webinar.
Please note if your case is accepted, you must register for the webinars.
Please remember to include a case title and all references and affiliations within your uploaded word document.
The total word count for the submission should be no more than 300 words (excluding title, references and affiliations).
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