1st Pediatric Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Hippocration General Hospital
Head: Professor M.Athanasiou-Metaxa
Educational Seminar
«Inherited Metabolic Disorders for the Pediatrician»
Saturday 27th February 2010
Venue: Hotel «ELECTRA PALACE» Thessaloniki
9.00 – 17.00
PROGRAM
9.00-9.30 Registration (free)
9.30– 9.45 Welcome address
Chairman: Prof. James V Leonard (London)
9.45 – 10.30 Overview of IMD: Although rare, IMD are everywhere.
Dr John Walter (Manchester)
10.30 – 10.40 Discussion
10.40 – 11.10 DNA diagnostics in IMD: Indications and problems.
Prof. Orly Elpeleg (Jerusalem)
11.10 – 11.30 Discussion
11.30– 12.00 Coffee break
12.00 – 12.30 Treatable disorders of intermediary metabolism (emergencies, other, future prospects)
Dr Vassilis Valayanopoulos (Paris)
12.30-12.40 Discussion
12.40 – 13.10 Treatment options in lysosomal disorders
Dr Simon Jones (Manchester)
13.10 – 13.20 Discussion
13.20 – 13.50 Expanded newborn screening: What it means for the general paediatrician .
Dr Jim Bonham (Sheffield)
13.50- 14.00 Discussion
14.00 – 15.00 Lunch
15.00– 15.30 Structured communication to patients with IMD and their families.
Dr Peter Burgard (Heidelberg)
15.30 – 15.40 Discussion
15.40- 16.40 Case reports of patients with IMD presented by Greek pediatricians
(Α Evangeliou, E. Drongari, H Ioannou,E.Pavlou,E.Vargiami).
16.40 – 16.50 Closing of Seminar
INVITED SPEAKERS
Jim Bonham Biochemist, Department of Clinical Chemistry, Children’s Hospital, Sheffield, UK
Peter Burgard Paediatrician, Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Heidelberg, Germany
Orly Elpeleg Paediatrician, Professor Metabolic Disease Unit, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
Simon Jones Consultant Paediatrician, Inherited Metabolic Disease, Willink Unit Genetic Medicine, St Mary’s Hospital, Manchester, U.K.
James V Leonard, Professor Emeritus, formerly Professor of Paediatric Metabolic Disease, Institute of Child Health, University of London, U.K.
Vassilis Valayanopoulos, Metabolic Consultant-Paediatrician, Reference Center for Inborn Errors of Metabolism, Hopital Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France
John H Walter, Consultant Paediatrician, Inherited Metabolic Disease, Willink Unit Genetic Medicine, St Mary’s Hospital, Manchester, U.K.
Local Organizing Committee:
President: Persephone Augoustides-Savvopoulou
Members: A. Evangeliou
H.Ioannou
E.Pavlou
E.Vargiami
Accreditation: Credits for Continual Medical Education will be issued according to the criteria EAOOME-UEMS