Issue 12 – Summer 2009

The Lawson Wilkins/ESPE joint meetings occur every four years and this year it will be held in New York City. The congress venue will be the Hilton New York, located in mid town Manhattan and close to various international airports. The organising committee has put together an excellent programme. The meeting will begin on the morning of 9 September with Concurrent Sessions of the Bone/Growth Plate/Turner, Obesity, DSD, Turner and PAG clubs. This will be followed by a Yearbook Symposium and Interactive Sessions. The ESPE and SLEP business meetings will be held between 15:30 and 17:30. The day will finish with a Satellite Symposium and the Welcome Reception. On Thursday, 10 September the programme starts bright and early with a Satellite Symposium at 6:30, followed by Meet-the Expert sessions and selected Oral Communications. The first Plenary session will be held in the morning at 9:20, followed by more Meet-the-Expert sessions, Yearbook sessions and Oral Communications. In the afternoon there will be five Concurrent Symposia, focused on adrenarche, hypoglycaemia, puberty, endocrine pathology of the premature infant and prolactin. The day will finish with the Plenary session including the Prader Award and Henning Anderson Award lectures, followed by a Satellite Symposium. Once again on Friday morning we will start with a Satellite Symposium at 6:30, with Meet the-Expert sessions and a Yearbook session preceding the third Plenary lecture. The four Concurrent Symposia will include endocrine imaging, international diabetes trials, longevity and a Ross Clark Memorial Symposium on IGF-1 in health and disease. The afternoon Concurrent Symposia will include diabetes in indigenous and developing populations, genome-wide association screening, sex chromosomes, pro/con sessions and vitamin D. The evening finishes with the fourth Plenary lecture and a Satellite Symposium. The programme for Saturday morning again starts at 6:30 with a Satellite Symposium and Meet-the-Expert sessions. The Plenary Awards session will begin at 8:00. The Concurrent Symposia will include adrenal disorders, syndromic DSD, bone and the international consensus meeting report on insulin resistance. The final Plenary lecture session will take place at 13:30, followed by the meeting’s closing remarks. Please mark your calendars for the upcoming joint meeting as it is sure to be a huge success. In addition, New York City, with some of the best restaurants in the world, attractions such as the numerous museums, Empire State Building and Times Square, as well as the entertainment in the Broadway theatre district, will be an exciting location for this meeting. Register before 7 August and benefit from the early registration discount!