Registration

8.00 AM- 8.30 AM Registration-Continental Breakfast–Visit Exhibits

8.30 AM- 9.30 AM Diagnosis and Management of Pre-Diabetes in the Continuance of Hyperglycemia: When do the Risks of Diabetes Begin?
Speaker: Alan J. Garber, MD, PhD, FACE
Objectives

1. To determine the clinical risks of not treating pre-diabetes
2. To identify goals and treatment modalities as the focus of pre-diabetes management

9.30 AM- 10.30 AM Nutrition Complications Following Bariatric Surgery
Speaker: Daniel L. Hurley, MD, FACE
Objectives

1. Review bariatric procedures for treatment of medically complicated obesity, and their anatomical risk for malabsorption and/or malnutrition
2. Discuss common short- and long-term nutritional risks following bariatric surgery, their presentations and effect on health
3. Discuss recommendations for laboratory monitoring of potential vitamin, mineral and trace element deficiencies following bariatric surgery

10.30 AM- 10.50 AM Break – Visit Exhibits

10.50 AM- 11.50 AM Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
Speaker: Abraham Thomas, MD, MPH
Objectives

1. To review the epidemiology of polycystic ovary syndrome
2. To review about the diagnostic evaluation of polycystic ovary syndrome
3. To review treatment options for polycystic ovary syndrome

11.50 AM- 12.50 PM Update on Pituitary Tumors
Speaker: Ariel Barken, MD
Objectives

1. Define MRI characteristics of frequent pituitary lesions
2. Outline principles of diagnosis and treatment of hypopituitarism
3. Outline principles of diagnosis and treatment of pituitary hormone hypersecretion

12.50 PM- 1.00 PM Concluding Remarks

1.00PM Lunch and Adjourn