Calman training Day Thursday 11th September 2008.

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Education Centre, Charing Cross Hospital, W6 8RF.

1:00 - 1:30pm Travel to Charing Cross Education Centre.
1:30- 2:00pm Welcome, Registration, Light refreshments

1.55 pm Welcome Karim Meeran

2:00 Nelson's Syndrome and Cushing's disease – an overview and practical management Karim Meeran

2:40 clinical cases of "Nelson's"

3:20 Controversies in the management of prolactinomas (Ben Field)

4:00 Tea / coffee

4:20 Translational research opportunities for SPRs: Functional MRI of human appetite to measure brain activity.
Tony Goldstone
Senior Clinical Scientist and Consultant Endocrinologist,
MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Campus

4:50 Acromegaly: can we improve the cure rate? Dr. Channa Jayasena

5.30 Certificates and close