CLINICAL - Optimum Strategy for Managing Cyclical Cushing's Disease
Track
:
CLINICAL
Program Code:
CMF05-1
Date:
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Time:
8:30 AM to 9:15 AM
EST
SPEAKER
(S):
AB Atkinson, MD, FRCP, Royal Victoria Hosp. Disclosure: Nothing to disclose
Professor Brew Atkinson is currently Head of the Regional Centre for Endocrinology and Diabetes at the Royal Victoria Hospital and Professor of Endocrinology, Queen’s University, both in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK. He has worked there since 1981 after qualifying in medicine from Queen’s and then completing postgraduate training in Belfast, Glasgow and in Vanderbilt (Nashville, US). Since his time in Glasgow where he carried out some of the earliest work with ACE inhibitors in hypertension, he has had a major interest in refractory and endocrine hypertension. He has a specialist interest in the pituitary gland with a longstanding interest in the diagnosis,inveestigation and management of Cushing’s syndrome.
JW Findling, MD, Med Coll of Wisconsin. Disclosure: Nothing to disclose