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