Future type 1 diabetes therapies, women’s CV health among plenary sessions at ENDO 2022
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Experts from across the field of endocrinology will gather in Atlanta beginning Saturday for the first in-person Endocrine Society annual meeting in 3 years.
ENDO 2022 will kick off Saturday and continue through Tuesday at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta. This year’s meeting will have a hybrid format, with more than 100 sessions livestreamed to a virtual platform for attendees wishing to view the conference remotely. The ENDO annual meeting was entirely virtual in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Everybody is very excited about seeing each other,” Stephen R. Hammes, MD, PhD, the Louis S. Wolk Distinguished Professor of Medicine, chief of the division of endocrinology and metabolism, and executive vice chair of the department of medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, and chair of the ENDO annual meeting, told Healio. “People may be more excited about being together than the content of the meeting. What everyone wants to do is reconnect and reform collaborations. The whole meeting is designed for that to happen.”
There is a vaccine mandate in place for those attending the meeting in person. All in-person attendees are required to submit proof of vaccination using the Clear Health Pass third-party app. Attendees are also encouraged wear face masks during the conference.
With ENDO returning to an in-person format, conference organizers decided to debut a new event called the all-attendee social. On Sunday at 5 p.m. EDT, attendees can enjoy a happy hour-style event and socialize in the Endo Expo area. No registration is required, and the event is open to everyone attending the conference.
Attendees who opt to watch the meeting virtually will have access to more than 100 livestreamed sessions across the 4-day meeting. Livestreamed sessions will be available on demand 72 hours after they are originally broadcast. Product theaters and the communications and career center will also include virtual components.
“We realized a lot of content can be done on virtual platforms and can be really successful and helpful for people who are unable to attend the meeting because of COVID, because they live too far away, because of financial reasons, there’s a lot of reasons why,” Hammes said. “It’s a win-win opportunity for people who can’t come to participate, receive continuing medical education credit, still get to learn and still get to be part of the meeting. The hope is they’ll have such a great time that next year, they’ll come in person.”
The move to hybrid has led to some changes in this year’s meeting. One of those changes is the introduction of digital poster pods. Positioned in 12 different locations in the ENDO expo area, the pods will give attendees access to every abstract being presented at the meeting. The pods will also be the location for a series of rapid-fire poster presentations that will be held each day.
The conference will kick off Saturday at 8 a.m. EDT with a plenary session on future therapies for type 1 diabetes. Carol H. Wysham, MD, the 2021-2022 Endocrine Society president, will give the presidential address and moderate the session. The Fred Conrad Koch Lifetime Achievement Award will also be presented to Henry M. Kronenberg, MD, physician in the endocrine unit at the Massachusetts General Hospital and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Other highlights in this year’s meeting:
- Cardiovascular health in women will be the focus of a plenary session Sunday at 2:30 p.m. EDT. C. Noel Bairey Merz, MD, will discuss equity and inclusion with CV health for women, and Philip Shaul, MD, will give a presentation on endothelial estrogen receptor signaling in cardiometabolic health and disease.
- Transgender care will be highlighted during a plenary session Monday at 8 a.m. EDT. Guy T’Sjoen, MD, PhD, will discuss contemporary care for transgender people, and Yannis Pitsiladis, PhD, will give a presentation on how to integrate transgender women with female athletes in elite sporting competitions.
- The final plenary session Monday at 1:30 p.m. EDT will focus on women’s fertility and reproductive health. Genevieve Neal-Perry, PhD, MD, will give an overview of current challenges in fertility and reproduction, and Jacob Hanna, MD, PhD, will discuss ex utero systems for mammalian reproduction.
“What I’m going to get the most out of is getting an opportunity to see everybody again, catch up and hear about the amazing things in their science and clinical world that is going on,” Hammes said. “Being with the society that is so important to me is what I’m looking forward to most.”
The Healio | Endocrine Today staff will provide live coverage from the ENDO annual meeting with reports on the presentations, video interviews and more. For more information on the ENDO agenda and registration, visit https://endo2022.endocrine.org.
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