Programme

Monday 29 November: Diagnostic dilemmas in Obesity

16:00 - 18:00 CET

Chairs: Uberto Pagotto (Italy) and Liesbeth van Rossum (Netherlands)

Different drivers of obesity (including Pathogenesis) – medical

Arya Sharma (Canada)

Patient perspective - stigmatisation and diagnostic process

Susie Birney (Ireland)

Rapid onset of beneficial cognitive, emotional and behavioural effects of off-label metreleptin treatment of patients with anorexia nervosa

Jochen Antel (Germany) 

Endocrine diseases and obesity (leading to obesity, and those as a consequence of obesity)

Mariana Monteiro (Portugal) 

Safe approaches in anti-obesity pharmacotherapy – actual and future perspective

Luc van Gaal (Belgium)

Tuesday 30 November: Management and challenges of Obesity

16:00 - 18:00 CET

Chairs: Volkan Yumuk (Turkey) & Uberto Pagotto (Italy)

Weight re-gain after Bariatric surgery

Rachel Batterham (UK) 

Hypoglycaemia after bariatric surgery

Andre van Beek (Netherlands)

Management of nutritional deficiencies

Stephan Bischoff (Germany) 

Obesity and Infections (including COVID-19, and impact of vaccination)

Manel Puig Domingo (Spain)

Wednesday 1 December: Treatments and future landscape 

16:00 - 18:00 CET

Chairs: Peter Kühnen (Germany) and Gema Fruhbeck Martínez (Spain)

Obesity and microbiota: is there a therapeutical approach?

Nathalie Delzenne (Belgium)

Latest developments in adipose tissue biology

Karine Clement (France)

The genetics of common obesity in the era of precision medicine

Ruth Loos (Denmark)

Pharmacotherapy and Multimodal conservative treatment

Roberto Vettor (Italy)

CME  

CME accreditation

“The European Society of Endocrinology Clinical Update on Obesity 2021, Online, United Kingdom, 29/11/2021-01/12/2021 has been accredited by the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME®) with 6 European CME credits (ECMEC®s). Each medical specialist should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.”

“Through an agreement between the Union Européenne des Médecins Spécialistes and the American Medical Association, physicians may convert EACCME® credits to an equivalent number of AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Information on the process to convert EACCME® credit to AMA credit can be found at www.ama-assn.org/education/earn-credit-participation-international-activities.”

“Live educational activities, occurring outside of Canada, recognised by the UEMS-EACCME® for ECMEC®s are deemed to be Accredited Group Learning Activities (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.”