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

 

Register Here

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