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Endocrine Medicine
In 2015 the Endocrine Medicine programme was clearly strengthened by the three Linked Clinical Groups which joined this:
• Irene Halperin Ravinovich, from the Servicio de Endocrinología y Nutrición at the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona.
• Antonio Picó Alfonso from the Servicio de En-
The Endocrine Programme arranged the “Sim- posio Internacional sobre Enfermedades Raras Endocrinas, de la Investigación al Manejo Clíni- co” sponsored by the Fundación Ramón Areces and the CIBERER itself. This Symposium was led by doctors Webb and Resmini (U747). It was of use as an encounter for updating and discussing pituitary and thyroidal rare diseases, monogenic
Scientific Programmes
docrinología y Nutrición at the Hospital General Universitario de Alicante.
• Manuel Puig Domingo from the Servicio de En- docrinología y Nutrición at the Hospital Univer- sitario Germans Trías i Pujol de Badalona.
This Research Programme, made up of only three research groups in their own right and a fourth as- sociated group, lacked the critical mass to take on some measures. The new situation means they can, for example, get under way the project fund- ed by the CIBERER as part of its call for Transla- tional Research Projects: “Silent Corticotroph ad- enomas: Are these a subtype of non-functioning pituitary adenomas with more aggressive clinical behaviour?” This project is a transversal endeav- our by all the groups involved in the research into this type of pathologies, combining the best na- tional groups by pooling their collections of clini- cal cases to review the classification of this type of adenomas.
diabetes and sexually developed rare diseases, from their causes to their clinical management. Doctors Bernal (U708), Castaño (U725A) and Audí (U712) took part in this. Another event, coordinat- ed by the U712 through Dr Audí, was the XV en- cuentro de GrApSIA at the Hospital Universitario Miguel Servet de Zaragoza, an association which provides support for young people and adults with androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS) and other related syndromes.
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