Scientific Programme

08:30 – 13:00 DES Exams

Pre - congress courses

09:00 – 12:00 Neuromonitoring Course in Thyroid Surgery

Lectures & Live streaming from the operating theatre

09:00 – 12:00 Neck Ultrasound course

Lecture & Hands on in US-Devices with real patients

13:00 – 16:00 Microsoft Power BI Course

14:00 – 17:00 DES Examinations Preparation

14:00 – 17:00 Fluorescence course

Meetings

13:30 – 15:30 DES-Examiners meeting

15:30 – 16:00 National Delegates meeting

16:30 – 19:30 Executive Committee meeting

20:00 President’s dinner

08:00 – 08:15 Opening of the Congress

President of ESES: David Scott-Coombes

Congress Organizers: Nikolaos Roukounakis – Kyriakos Vamvakidis

08:15 – 09:00 Charles Proye Lecture:

The impact of innovation and tehchnology on endocrine surgery

Prof. William B. Inabnet III

Chair: David Scott-Coombes

09:00 – 10:00 Oral Paper Session 1

NET

Chairs: Fatih Tunca, Dimitrios Linos

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 – 11:30 Oral Paper Session 2

Benign thyroid

Chairs: Celestino Lombardi, Isaak Kesisoglou

11:30 – 12:30 Oral Paper Session 3

Parathyroid A

Chairs: Jan Zedenius, Charidimos Markogiannakis

12:30 – 13:00 Eurocrine GA – Eurocrine Progress

Chair: Anders Bergenfelz

13:00 – 14:00 ESES General Assembly

Chair: David Scott -Coombes

14:00 – 15:00 Lunch Break (Poster evaluation)

15:00 – 16:00 Oral Paper Session 4

Adrenal

Chairs: Francois Pattou, Jesus Villar del Moral

16:00 – 17:00 Oral Paper Session 5

Malignant thyroid Α

Chairs: Joaquin Gomez, Kyriakos Vamvakidis

17:00 – 17:30 Coffee Break

17:30 – 18:30 Oral Paper Session 6

Malignant thyroid B

Chairs: Lorenz Kerstin, Nikolaos Roukounakis

18:30 – 19:00 Key Note Lecture

Surgical Management of Medullary Thyroid Cancer

Prof. Henning Dralle

Chairs: Kyriakos Vamvakidis, Nikolaos Roukounakis

19:00 – 19:20 Presenting UEMS diplomas

Chairs: Kerstin Lorenz, Oliver Gimm

20:00 Welcome Reception

08:15 – 09:15 Oral Paper Session 7

Parathyroid B

Chairs: Inga- Lena Nilsson, Theodosis Papavramidis

09:15 – 10:45 Interactive interesting case presentations with live voting

Moderator: Michael Stechman

Paraganglioma: GN. Zografos

Thyroid: J. Sancho

Parathyroid: F. Palazzo

Adrenal: R. Brandstrom

10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break

11:15 – 11:45 Basic Science Lecture:

Adressing thyroid cancer progression and iodine refractoriness

Prof. Chris McCabe

Chair: Sam Van Slycke

11.45 – 12.45 Best Oral Paper Session

Chairs: Antonio Sitges-Serra, Radu Mihai

12.45 – 13.45 BJS Prize Session

Chairs: Anders Bergenfelz, Marcin Barczynski

13:45 – 14:15 Historical Lecture:

Thomas Peel Dunhill: The life and times of a pioneer thyroid surgeon

Prof. Fausto Pallazo

Chair: Marcin Barczynski

14:15 – 15:30 Lunch Break (Poster evaluation)

15.30 – 16.00 BJS Lecture:

New optical techniques for the detection and preservation of the parathyroid glands

Prof. Frederic Triponez

Chair: David Scott-Coombes

16:00– 17:00 Video Session

Chairs: Marco Raffaelli, Ioannis Koutelidakis


17:00 – 17:30 Break

17:30 – 18:00 ETA Lecture

Supplementation of thyroid hormones after total thyroidectomy for Graves’s disease: what is the role of T3?

Prof. Simon Pearce

Chair: Gianlorenzo Dionigi

18:00 – 18:15 Honorary membership

Chair: David Scott-Coombes

18:15 – 18:30 Closing remarks

David Scott-Coombes, Nikolaos Roukounakis, Kyriakos Vamvakidis

20:00 Gala Dinner