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Welcome to the Springer Healthcare IME virtual meeting, entitled Insights into MAnaging Growth for Endocrine Nurses (IMAGE). This is the 9th IMAGE programme, which focuses on transgender management, bone health, and the genetics and treatment of growth disorders.
Once again, this year’s meeting was held as a virtual event. Registration allows access to the Nurses’ Knowledge Centre, where you can watch the webcast and view a valuable collection of teaching resources in the form of video presentations and teaching case studies.
This continuing medical education activity has been approved by the International Council of Nurses (ICN) for the award of 4.5 International Continuing Nursing Education Credits (ICNECs).
This programme is made possible thanks to an educational grant received from: Merck Healthcare KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany.
At the end of the programme, delegates will understand:
- The epidemiology of paediatric gender dysphoria and its major clinical features
- The principles of early management and the major clinical guidelines underlying management of patients with gender dysphoria
- The main physiological principles of disorders of the calcium-phosphate system and how and when bone physiology can be disturbed
- How long-term illness can influence or impair bone health
- The principles behind the treatment of problems such as osteopaenia
- Common bone disorders such as vitamin D deficiency
- The underlying cause of skeletal dysplasias such as achondroplasia, and the principles behind current treatment
- How human growth hormone (hGH) developed, why it is effective and how treatment has evolved
- Why recombinant hGH has had such wide acceptance and usage
- About the future use of long-acting hGH and see how clinical practice might be changed
- The advances that have been made by genetic studies in short children and in the context of cost-benefit analysis
- The reasons for a balanced approach to short stature, using both genetic and clinical assessment
Title of session | Speaker |
Transgender management | |
Current endocrine strategies in transgender adolescents | Gary Butler |
Transgender referrals: the nurse’s involvement | Paul Carruthers |
Gender dysphoria – a case study | Gary Butler and Stephanie Kemp |
Bone health | |
Bone health in chronic paediatric disorders and cancer survivors | Justin Davies |
Metabolic bone disorders | Raja Padidela |
Funny bones! A case study of a 3-week-old infant | Ian Tucker and Justin Davies |
Growth disorders | |
Growth hormone therapy: past, present and future | Martin Savage |
Contribution of genetics to the diagnosis of short stature | Helen Storr |
Mode of action of GnRH analogues in growth and puberty disorders | Kate Davies |
Webinar Thursday 9th February 2023 | Led by Martin Savage and Kate Davies |
This continuing medical education activity has been approved by the International Council of Nurses (ICN) for the award of 4.5 International Continuing Nursing Education Credits (ICNECs).
Springer Healthcare Ltd – Independent Medical Education
Chairs
Martin Savage
Emeritus Professor, Professor of Paediatric Endocrinology
Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry
London, United Kingdom
Kate Davies
Associate Professor, Paediatric Prescribing & Endocrinology
London South Bank University
United Kingdom
Speakers
Gary Butler
Consultant in Paediatric and Adolescent Endocrinology, University College Hospital, London, UK
Paul Carruthers
Lead Nurse, Gender Identity Development Service & Children’s Endocrine Nurse Specialist Team, Leeds Children’s Hospital, Leeds, UK
Stephanie Kemp
Gender Nurse Clinician, British Columbia’s Children’s Hospital, Vancouver, Canada
Justin Davies
Consultant Paediatric Endocrinologist, Southampton Children’s Hospital, Southampton, UK
Raja Padidela
Consultant in Paediatric Endocrinology and Metabolic Bone Disorders, Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, Manchester, UK
Helen Storr
Professor of Paediatric Endocrinology, Centre for Endocrinology, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine, Queen Mary University London, London, UK
Ian Tucker
Paediatric Endocrine (Bone) Clinical Nurse Specialist, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, Bristol, UK
Lee Martin
Clinical Nurse Specialist in Paediatric Endocrinology, The Royal London Children’s Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, UK
