News – North East Endocrine Network

A commended poster, detailing a challenging case of Gitelman Syndrome in pregnancy

Owain Leng — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 20:37:31 +0000

Congratulations to Mudassir Ali, Muhammed Pervez, Shafie Kamaruddin, Praveen Partha, Giridhar Tarigopula, John Sayer, and Paul Peter for their poster detailing a challenging case of Gitelman Syndrome in pregnancy which was selected as among the top 10 posters at the AACE (EMBRACE) conference (USA)! A great achievement.

Do have a look at their commended poster and have a read of their abstract

New consultant member of CME team

Owain Leng — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 14:48:55 +0000

The CME committee is excited to welcome Dr Suhel Ashraff (James Cook University Hospital) as a new consultant member, joining D r Ashwin Joshi and the trainee representatives Owain Leng ,Mudassir Ali, Yasir Ishan, Mona Abouzaid, and Waqar Ahmed.

Suspension of Regional Training Meetings – CME, MERIT and NERRAG meetings currently suspended

Owain Leng — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 14:42:43 +0000

Due to the COVID-19 / coronavirus pandemic, it is necessary to currently cancel regional training events. This includes the planned June CME and the 2020 NERRAG meeting. In addition, the regional MERIT programme is currently on hold.

This is rightly to allow us to focus on the important priority of clinical care in the face of the challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic. It will also help to avoid non-essential travel and social contact.

The North East has a very proud track record of excellent regional training events, and whilst this temporary suspension of the programme is a sad necessity, we look forward to re-starting the programme with all our enthusiasm on the other side of the current crisis.

In the meantime, lets get on with the work of looking after our patients, each other and ourselves.

Stay well everyone,

Owain

New NERRAG organisational committee member

Owain Leng — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 14:35:39 +0000

Congratulations to Catherine Napier for her appointment to the organisational committee of our highly0valued regional conference – NERRAG.

Success of National Taster Day

Owain Leng — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 11:39:44 +0000

Kerri Devine led a dynamic and diverse team to deliver the third YDEF National Taster Day here in Newcastle at the Centre for Life on 28th September. Speakers including Prof Simon Pearce, Prof Steve Ball, Dr Anna Micthell, Dr Catherine Napier, Dr Sath Nag, and Dr Arutchelvam shared their time, experience and enthusiasm with potential future trainees. There was a great turn out and engaged attendees, and hopefully more than a few minds were made up that a career in Diabetes & Endocrinology is a great choice!

Ongoing Research in the North East Update – Study of predicting remission in Graves’ disease (SPRING)

Owain Leng — Thu, 04 Jul 2019 10:18:16 +0000

Standard medical practice is to treat Graves’ disease with antithyroid drugs for 12-18 months and then to stop treatment. However, predicting who will relapse and who will remain in prolonger remission following antithyroid drugs is not robust. TRAb antibodies are predictive of relapse and these are secreted from terminally differentiated B lymphocytes, known as plasma cells. A cohort of 120 Graves’ disease patients who are about to stop taking antithyroid (thionamide) medication following at least 12 months of treatment will be recruited. Following recruitment, details of patient presentation including baseline serum thyroid function, thyroid stimulating hormone receptor antibody levels and peroxidase antibodies will be recorded. Serum and blood for DNA and peripheral blood mononuclear cells will be taken twice; immediately before stopping antithyroid drugs and 6 weeks later. Patient phenotype of remission or relapse one year after cessation of antithyroid medication will be used to categorise for analysis of B lymphocyte markers and RNA-sequencing, aiming to have up to 50 or more patient samples available per group. We will develop a predictive test that may allow us to determine which patients will remain in remission following antithyroid drugs and also allow us to understand more about the B lymphocyte biology behind remission.

Laura Lane

Simon Pearce

Endodiabology

Owain Leng — Sun, 14 Apr 2019 04:16:56 +0000

Make sure you keep up to date with news across region through our Endodiabology newsletter – accessible through the Education tab at the top of the website. The next issue is due in October.

Endodiabology October 2018

Owain Leng — Thu, 18 Oct 2018 21:50:57 +0000

Check out the latest news from across the region in the latest edition of ENDODIABOLOGY.

Virtual Medical Educators

Owain Leng — Tue, 09 Oct 2018 19:38:07 +0000

Virtual Medical Educators is an innovative online educational tool to disseminate quality “bite-sized” open-access educational material using online social media platforms. Their facebook page is up and running, search for “Virtual Medical Educators”. The twitter account will be following soon – watch this space!

Congratulations and thanks to Azmi Mohammed and his team of contributors, which already includes the likes of Prof Simon Pearce, Dr Richard Quinton, Dr Ayat Bashir and many more!

Sponsor David’s Great North Run for Diabetes UK!

Owain Leng — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 20:57:13 +0000

Our region’s David Bishop is raising money for Diabetes UK by taking part in the Great North Run! He would greatly appreciate your support in raising money for this great cause:

“Dear all,

I am raising money for Diabetes UK by doing the Great North Run. It is just over a month away and my training is going reasonably well (although my knees are giving me a bit of bother!) and hopefully I will be able to limp all the way round!

I would be grateful for any sponsorship you could offer.

My sponsor ship page is: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/david-bishop17

Many thanks,

David”