3rd International Trainee Online Meeting
Hosted by the European Thyroid Association and American Thyroid Association on March 26, 2025
We invite trainees and early career professionals from around the world with common interests in various aspects of Thyroidology to join us for our 3rd International Thyroid Trainees Online Meeting.
This three-hour online session is specifically timed to accommodate attendees from across the globe.
9:00 AM PDT – 12pm PDT
12:00 PM EDT – 3 PM EDT
5:00 PM CET – 8:00 PM CET
Agenda – All sessions will be held via Zoom
Wednesday, March 26th, 2025 [9am PT; 12pm ET; 5pm GMT+1]
All times displayed in PDT (West Coast USA), EDT (East Coast USA) and CET (Central Europe) time zones.
9:00am
12:00pm
5:00pm
Session 1
Chairs: Maaike Vangerwen, PhD and Henrique Carmona Alexandrino, MD
12-minute presentations + 3-minute Q&A
9:00am – 9:15am
12:00pm – 12:15pm
5:00pm – 5:15pm
Mirco Armenti, MD (ETA)
University of Milan, Milan, Italy
Title: “Lymphocytes’ immunophenotype guided treatment in a Thyroid Eye Disease patient successfully treated with Rituximab”
9:15am – 9:30am
12:15pm – 12:30pm
5:15pm – 5:30pm
Ye Liu, PhD (ATA)
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Title: “Neuronal Cell Types That Express T3-Degrading DIO3 Deiodinase Identified Using Dio3-Cre Knockin Drivers”
9:30pm – 9:45pm
12:30pm – 12:45pm
5:30pm – 5:45pm
Sara Maioli, PhD student (ETA)
University of Milan, Milan, Italy
Title: “Specific patterns of orbital-resident B and T lymphocytes are related to different clinical presentations of Thyroid Eye Disease”
9:45am – 10:00am
12:45pm – 1:00pm
5:45pm – 6:00pm
Ricardo Loor Torres, MD (ATA)
Mayo Clinic, USA
Title: “Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Categorize Thyroid Cytology Results from Fine-needle Aspiration Biopsy Reports within a Large Healthcare System”
10:00am – 10:15am
1:00pm – 1:15pm
6:00pm – 6:15pm
15-minute break
10:15pm – 11:15am
1:15pm – 2:15pm
6:15pm – 7:15pm
Session 2
Chairs: Freddy Toloza Bonilla, MD and Tim Brandenburg, MD
12-minute presentations + 3-minute Q&A
10:15am – 10:30am
1:15pm – 1:30pm
6:15pm – 6:30pm
Ronik Kothari, MD (ATA)
Stanford University
Title: “Composition and Priorities of Pediatric Thyroid Programs: A Consensus Statement”
10:30am – 10:45am
1:30pm – 1:45pm
6:30pm – 6:45pm
Ozge Bas Aksu, MD (ETA)
Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey
Title: “Active Surveillance Of Bethesda IV Nodules”
10:45am – 11:00am
1:45pm – 2:00pm
6:45pm – 7:00pm
Ziyu Zhu, PhD candidate (ATA)
The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA
Title: “Effects of Thyroid Hormone on Oligodendrocyte Progenitor Cell Differentiation”
11:00am – 12:15pm
2:00pm – 2:15pm
7:00pm – 7:15pm
Alessandro Prete, MD (ETA)
Pisa University Hospital, Pisa, Italy
Title: “Thyroidectomized patients on LT-4 therapy with advanced medullary thyroid carcinoma treated with selpercatinib show peculiar variations of thyroid function tests”
11:15am – 12:00pm
2:15pm – 3:00pm
7:15pm – 8:00pm
11:00am – 11:15am
2:00pm – 2:15pm
7:00pm – 7:15pm
Breakout room discussions
Room 1. Hypothyroidism – monotherapy vs combination (clinical case discussion)
Facilitators:Julie Chen, MD – Stanford
University Medical Center
Lizette Blankers, PhD student – Erasmus Medical Center
Room 2. Basic approaches to study the immunology of Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis
Facilitators:
Nicola Viola, MD – University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Jarod Olay, MSc – University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Kyleigh Kimbrell, BS – University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Rhitajit Sarkar, MSc, PhD – National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA