SEMINAR 1

Chairs: A Attanasio (Agliano Terme, Italy),

EM Erfurth (Lund, Sweden)

Is growth hormone replacement therapy in adults cost-effective?

NICE growth hormone - lessons from the UK

PM Stewart (Birmingham, UK)

The burden of neuroendocrine diseases in a low budget health-care system

J Marek (Praha, Hungary)

A debate about the effects of growth hormone replacement on quality of life

A Barkan (Ann Arbor, MI, USA) and S Shalet (Manchester, UK)

SEMINAR 2

Chairs: K Post (New York, NY, USA),

The face of old problems

The re-emergence of Sheehan's syndrome in Western Europe

F Kelestimur (Kayseri, Turkey)

Traumatic brain injury: endocrine effects

G Aimaretti (Turin, Italy)

SEMINAR 3

Chairs: H Turner (Oxford, UK),

V Bonert (Los Angeles, CA, USA)

New aspects of prolactin in health and disease

Is a medical cure of prolactinomas possible?

A Colao (Naples, Italy)

Psychological stress and hyperprolactinemia

L Sobrinho (Lisbon, Portugal)

Dopamine resistance of prolactinomas

M Molitch (Chicago, IL, USA)

SEMINAR 4

Chairs: J Schlechte (Iowa City, IA, USA),

Y Greenman (Tel Aviv, Israel)

Do the results of the women's health initiative have impact on hormone replacement therapy for hypopituitarism?

Introduction to the theme

C Wang (Torrance, CA, USA)

Estrogen replacement therapy

S Berga (Pittsburgh, PA, USA)

Androgen deficiency in women with hypopituitarism

K Miller (Boston, MA, USA)

SEMINAR 5

Chairs: A Schonbrunn (Houston, TX, USA),

N Horseman (Cincinnati, OH, USA)

New technologies

Mechanism of pituitary cell secretion (studies using atomic force microscopy)

B Jena (Detroit, MI, USA)

The use of BRET for detecting protein interactions in cellular functions

K Eidne (Perth, Australia)

The use of imaging (MRI and PET) for small (transgenic or knockout) animals

N Beckmann (Basel, Switzerland)

SEMINAR 6

Chairs: L Frohman (Chicago, IL, USA),

P Chanson (Kremlin-Bicetre, France)

Polymorphisms in pituitary hormone genes: the impact in the normal population

Glucocorticoid receptor gene

E van Rossum (Rotterdam, The Netherlands)

Growth hormone receptor

K Chihara

LH/FSH and their receptors

I Huhtaniemi (London, UK)

SEMINAR 7

Chairs: S Ezzat (Toronto, Canada),

R Salvatore (Baltimore, MD, USA)

The pituitary in the frail elderly

GH-IGF axis in frail elderly

A Hoffman (Palo Alto, CA, USA)

Testosterone

S Bhasin (Los Angeles, CA, USA)

DHEA

W Arlt

SEMINAR 8

Chairs: M Tschopf (Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany),

C Auernhammer (Munich, Germany)

New aspects of growth hormone and PRL actions

Overview of growth hormone and IGF actions in the central nervous system

T Wood (Hershey, PA, USA)

Mechanisms for storing pituitary hormones: implications for controlling hormone release

PS Dannies (New Haven, CT, USA)

GH effects on fat metabolism and obesity

D Flint