Call for cases

As a prospective delegate you are expected to submit an abstract of a clinical case that is suitable for presentation in one of the interactive workshop sessions. All submitted cases will be marked by the workshop conveners. A number will then be chosen to be presented in the appropriate workshop sessions. The aim of presenting submitted cases within the workshop sessions is to promote discussion amongst delegates and faculty.

Each themed workshop will include at least one delegate clinical case.

Deadline for submissions:  17 September 2010

Abstracts MUST be submitted, in Microsoft Word, within the template which can be found below. Please use Arial font, size 10 throughout. Completed submission forms should be sent, via email, to hannah.brake@bioscientifica.com, the conference secretariat. Should you wish to discuss the suitability of cases, please contact Professor Peter Trainer by email peter.trainer@manchester.ac.uk.

Please note: We do reserve the right to make changes to the format of submitted abstracts, in order to maintain a standard layout

The abstract should include the following: Preferred choice of workshop strand (i.e. I to XII) abstract title, authors’ names and institutions, with presenting author being the first name. 

• I: Selected cases: Thyroid carcinoma
  (Convened by Eric Baudin, Paris, France)
• II: Selected cases: Hyperandrogenism in women
  (Convened by  Fahrettin Kelestimur, Kayseri, Turkey)
• III: Selected cases: Pituitary
  (Convened by Albert Beckers, Liege, Belgium)
• IV: Selected cases: Hypercortisolism
  (Convened by John Newell-Price, Sheffield, UK)
• V: Selected cases: Osteoporosis
  (Convened by Roger Bouillon, Leuven, Belgium)
• VI: Selected cases: Endocrine tumours
  (Convened by Wouter de Herder, Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
• VII: Selected cases: Hypothyroidism/thyrotoxicosis
  (Convened by Wilmar Wiersinga, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
• VIII: Selected cases: Pituitary
  (Convened by Diego Ferone, Genoa, Italy)
• IX: Selected cases: Hypercortisolism
  (Convened by Richard Feelders, Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
• X: Selected cases: Thyroid carcinoma
  (Convened by Barbara Jazab, Gliwize, Poland)
• XI: Selected cases: Hyperandrogenism in women
  (Convened by Wiebke Arlt, Birmingham, UK)
• XII: Selected cases: Hyper- and hypocalcaemia
  (Convened by Neveen Hamdy, Leiden, The Netherlands)

Please fill in the second page of the Abstract Submission Template with your name, telephone/fax number and email address.

Presenters will be informed of acceptance by 30 September 2010 and a full set of accepted abstracts will be circulated to delegates in the Programme and Abstract book at the event.

Please send your clinical case to hannah.brake@bioscientifica.com
(Tel: +44 1454 642240), by 17 September 2010.