Scientific Program

Chairmen: Rudolf Wu, Guang Ning

1. Kenneth Korach: Using Knock-out Mice to Understand Toxicological Mechanisms
2. Shuk-Mei Ho: Bisphenol A and Prostate Cancer Risk: From Model Systems to Human Disease
3. Ta-Chen Su: Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals and Health in Young Taiwanese Cardiovascular Cohort Study
4. Yufang Bi: Relationship of Urinary Bisphenol A Concentration with Risk for Prevalent Type 2 Diabetes in Chinese Adults
5. Wei Ge: Neonatal Exposure to BPA Mimics the Effects of Estradiol on Pituitary Gonadotropin Expression, Sex Differentiation and Ovarian Growth but not Hepatic Growth in the Zebrafish
6. Chris Wong : Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals, the Exposure and Their Multiple Effects on Reproductive Dysfunction

1. Tony Shek: Adoption of an Unified Pathology Template on Neuroendocrine Tumour in Hong Kong - Standardizing the Pathology Reports
2. Roland Leung : Latest Clinical Evidences on Neuroendocrine Tumour Management

1. Paul Lee: Elevated circulating adipocyte-fatty acid binging protein levels predict incident cardiovascular events in a community-based cohort: A 12-year prospective study
2. Xinting Yu: Brest milk ghrelin, adoipmetom, leptin, and insulin levels in gestational diabetes
3. Xiaojing Ma: Research on retinol binding protein 4 and coronary artery disease
4. Hongmei Yan: Relationship between serum retinol binding protein 4 and hepatic fat content and abdominal visceral Fat in subjects
5. Yen-Lin Chen: The effect of chromium on inflammatory markers, 1st and 2nd phase insulin secretion in type 2 diabetes

1. Weiqing Wang: Prevalence of and risk factors for primary aldosteronism among patients with resistant hypertension in China
2. Shiwu Cheng: Analysis of metabolic disorder and cardiovascular risk factors in 267 patients with Cushing's syndrome
3. Victor HF Hung: The incidence of adrenal insufficiency in newly diagnosed primary lung carcinoma
4. Tiange Wang: Low serum prolactin associates with type 2 diabetes and impaired glucose regulation in middle-ages and elderly adults
5. Joseph GS Tsun: Serum capacity to induce adenosine triphosphate binding cassette transporter G1-mediated cholesterol efflux is decreased in type 2 diabetic patients with nephropathy
6. Jing Liu: Association between calpain 10 gene polymorphism and type 2 diabetes mellitus among the Dongxiang Nationality in Gansu Province

1. Han-Wook Yoo: The Endocrinologist's Role in the Management of Treatable Lysosomal Storage Diseases
2. Xiaoping Luo: Management of Central Precocious Puberty
3. Kah-Yin Loke: Transitional Management for Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia
4. Pik-To Cheung: The Reversible Hypogonadisms

1. Keh-Sung Tsai: Osteoporosis in Chinese societies: Changing Epidemiology and Treatment Modalities
2. Jawl-Shan Hwang: Guidelines for the Management of Osteoporosis in Taiwan
3. Zhifeng Sheng: Obesity is not Protective Against Osteoporosis and Fractures
4. Tai-Pang Ip: A 15-year Experience of Osteoporosis Treatment in Hong Kong

Guangwei Li: The Da Qing Diabetes Prevention Outcome Study Update:
Long-Term Effect of Lifestyle Interventions to Prevent Diabetes and its Complications

Chairmen: Juliana Chan, Tjin-Shing Jap

1. Pei-Lung Chen: Genetic Study of Graves' Disease
2. Tjin-Shing Jap: Hypophosphatemicricket
3. Chloe Mak: Genetic Diagnosis of Endocrine Disorders
4. Weiqing Wang: Hyperaldosteronism - Basic and Clinical Research in Mainland China

Chairmen: Kam-Tsun Tang, Vincent Yeung

1. Annie Kung: Latest Advances in Thyrotoxic Periodic Paralysis
2. Jen-Der Lin: Gender-specific Variation in the Prognosis of Papillary Thyroid Cancer TNM Stages II to IV
3. Chun-Yau Lo: Approaches to Thyroid Nodule
4. David Siu: The Thyroid, the Heart: The Master and the Servant

Chairman: Ip-Tim Lau

1. Ronald Ma: Evidence from, and Clinical Implications of the ORIGIN Study
2. Juliana Chan: Early use of Insulin versus DPPIV Inhibitors in Type 2 Diabetic Patients Inadequately Controlled with Metformin

Chairman: Ying-Wai Ng, June Li

1. Lei Zhang: Addition of liraglutide improves metabolic control in patients with type 2 diabetes failing on oral hypoglycaemic agents
2. Yifei Mo: Glycemic variability is associated with subclinical atherosclerosis in type 2 diabetes
3. Elaine Cheung: Liquid meal replacement (MR) and glucose excursion in type 1 diabetes subjects
4. Fang Liu: H2S donor improves wound healing via restoration of Endothelial progenitor cell functions in type 2 diabetic mice
5. Pengfei Lv: Autophagy process in skeletal muscle of two kinds of hyperglycemia rats

Chairman: Wing-Yee So, Ka-Fai Lee

1. Yuhong Chen: Both serum apolipoprotein B and the apolipoprotein B/apolipoprotein A-I ratio were associated with carotid intima-media thickness
2. Rong Yang: Serum osteocalcin levels in relation to metabolic syndrome in Chinese postmenopausal women
3. Kan Sun: Active smoking and risk of metabolic syndrome: a meta-analysis of prospective studies
4. Shihang Wei: Association between uric acid and metabolic syndrome in geriatric Chinese female
5. Mingfeng Xia: The joint role of fat mass and lean mass on bone mineral density in a middle-aged and elderly Chinese population

Chairmen: Fen-Yu Tseng, Qiang Li

1. Chih-Jen Chang: Diabetic Autonomic Neuropathy
2. Sydney Tang: Diabetic Nephropathy: From Bench to Bedside
3. Guangwai LI: Diabetes and Impaired Glucose Tolerance, Who Drive the Risk of Mortality---Lesson from 23-year Follow-up of Daqing Diabetes Study
4. Ronald Ma: Genetics of Diabetic Complications

Chairmen: Xiaohui Guo, Sookja Chung

1. Wei-Shiung Yang: Adiponectin, Cardiometabolic Disorders and Beyond
2. Aimin Xu: Adipokines in Obesity-related Cardiometabolic Syndrome: Friend or Foe?
3. Lulu Chen: Adipogenesis/ Lipogenesis and Lipid Storage Imbalance: New Insight into the Mechanism of Insulin Resistance?
4. Simon Wong: From Bariatric to Metabolic Surgery