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ESPE Working Group on Paediatric and Adolescent Gynaecology

Aims

To improve the reproductive health of girls and adolescents through:

  • bringing together clinical physicians and basic scientists involved and/or interested in the field;
  • promoting active research in reproductive‐related disorders with special attention to cross‐collaboration between basic and clinical aspects;
    • developing and maintaining a registry of the main reproductive‐related disorders as a background for research;
  • interacting and collaborating with related disciplines;
  • promoting knowledge and education in order to optimize the care of young girls worldwide.

Chairperson/Coordinator: Lourdes Ibáñez, MD, PhD

Secretary: Prof. Charles Sultan

Committee members:

Jean‐Pierre Bourguignon - Liège, Belgium
Marco Cappa - Rome, Italy
Feyza Darendeliler - Istanbul, Turkey
Lucia Ghizzoni - Torino, Italy
Anders Juul - Copenhagen, Denmark
Christopher Kelnar - Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Alexander Kurtev - Sofia, Bulgaria
Maria Victoria Marcos – Barcelona, Spain
Catherine Pienkowski - Toulouse, France
Michel Polak - Paris, France
Richard Stanhope - Guildford, United Kingdom

Meetings

Meetings will be held annually during the ESPE Meetings and will include presentations and updates on specific reproductive‐related disorders , group discussions and planning of joint research projects.

Next meeting date - 25 September 2011, Glasgow

Organisation & coordination

The Working Group Board is composed by a Coordinator, a Secretary and 11 additional members.
An annual business meeting will be held to plan future scientific sessions and collaborative research.

Planned activities for the next 2 years

  • Collaborative clinical project on the Prevalence of Hyperandrogenism in Adolescent Girls Previously Treated for Central Precocious Puberty and Followed Up for at Least Two Years After Menarche. Coordinators: Dra. Laura Gaspari & Professor Charles Sultan (Montpellier, France). Please find the details in the web.
  • Collaborative studies on PCOS: to be announced shortly

How the proposed group will add value to existing ESPE activities

The ESPE PAG Group has the potential to become the forum for guiding ESPE in issues related to Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology and reproductive disorders, the link with other specialist groups in the field of PAG and a means to strengthen the standard of collaborative research in PAG and reproductive disorders in Europe.

Contact for further information

Dr. Lourdes Ibáñez, Chair, ESPE PAG Working Group
Endocrinology Unit
Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, University of Barcelona
Passeig de Sant Joan de Déu, 2 ‐ 08950 – Esplugues, Barcelona ‐ Spain
Tel: 34 93 280 40 00, ext. 2261
Fax: 34 93 2033959
Email: libanez@hsjdbcn.org