8:00 am - 8:05 am

OPENING SESSION

Welcome and opening remarks

S Lamberts (Rotterdam, The Netherlands)

8:05 am - 9:45 am

SESSION ONE

Chairs: D Clemmons (Chapel Hill, NC, USA),

R Clayton (Stoke-on-Trent, UK)

Pathogenesis

Molecular pathogenesis

S Melmed (Los Angeles, CA, USA)

Feed-back tumors

SL Asa (Toronto, Canada)

Genetic syndromes

CA Stratakis (Rockville, MD, USA)

Management of non-pituitary tumors (craniopharyngeomas)

ER Laws (Charlottesville, VA, USA)

9:45 am - 10:45 am

Poster viewing and coffee break

10:45 am - 12:25 pm

SESSION TWO

Chairs: S Webb (Barcelona, Spain),

A Grossman (London, UK)

Cushing's disease

POMC-gene regulation

Y de Keyzer (Paris, France)

Diagnosis

LK Nieman (Bethesda, MD, USA)

Characterization of ACTH in ectopic Cushing's syndrome

A White (Manchester, UK)

Management of recurrent Cushing's disease

R Fahlbusch (Erlangen, Germany)

12:25 pm - 1:55 pm

Lunch seminars

1:55 pm - 3:35 pm

SESSION THREE

Chairs: P Kelly (Paris, France),

M Bronstein (Sao Paulo, Brazil)

Prolactinomas

Role of D2 receptors in pathogenesis of prolactinomas

M Low (Portland, OR, USA)

PRL receptor physiology

V Goffin (Paris, France)

Gonadal dysfunction/treatment in menopause

K Miller (Boston, MA, USA)

Treatment

D L Kleinberg (New York, NY, USA)

3:35 pm - 4:05 pm

Coffee break

4:05 pm - 5.45 pm

SESSION FOUR

Chairs: K Ho (Sydney, Australia),

P Belchetz (Leeds, UK)

Acromegaly

Pathogenesis

L Persani (Milan, Italy)

Diagnostic pitfalls

P Freda (New York, NY, USA)

Medical management

JAH Wass (Oxford, UK)

Role of somatostatin receptor sub-types

LJ Hofland (Rotterdam, The Netherlands)

7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Starlight Roof Cocktail Reception