Organisers: European Calcified Tissue Society and ERN BOND
Topic: Mastocytosis
Speaker: Prof Dr Heide Siggelkow, University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany
Hosts: Dr Tiago Azenha Rama, Centro Hospitalar de São João, Portugal and Prof Morten Frost Nielsen, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

Date & Time: 6 September 2023, from 16:00 to 17:00 CET

Learning Objectives

After watching this webinar, participants will:

• Have better knowledge of key clinical features for indolent systemic mastocytosis
• Be able to describe the bone complications of indolent systemic mastocytosis
• Improve their skills on the management of osteoporosis in indolent systemic mastocytosis

Registration

This webinar is free and open to everyone with an interest in the field.

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Accreditation

An application for CME accreditation has been submitted to the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME®).

Acknowledgements

This programme is supported by Kyowa Kirin in the form of an educational grant. The scientific programme has not been influenced in any way by its sponsor.

About the Speaker

Prof. Dr. Heide Siggelkow is associate professor for Endocrinology at the Clinic of Gastroenterology, Gastrointestinal Oncology and Endocrinology, Head of the Working Group of Molecular Endocrinology and Osteology at the University Medical Center, Göttingen and Medical Director of the MVZ Endokrinologikum. She works in an outpatient clinic for endocrine or metabolic bone diseases including osteoporosis, hypoparathyroidism, hyperparathyroidism and rare bone diseases. Between 2011 and 2015, she was head of the Association of German Language Societies in the special Field of Osteology (DVO). In this position, she initiated and supported the development of the Osteologic Research Centers DVO. She has been president of the German Society of Osteology (DGO) from 2017–2019, since then she serves as vice-president. In 2017, the Intensive Course for Clinical Endocrinology of the German Society of Endocrinology (DGE) took place in Göttingen under her leadership, and in 2019 she hosted the yearly congress of the society DGE in Göttingen. Since 2018, she has been spokesperson of the German network of rare bone diseases, “Netzwerk für seltene Osteopathien NetsOs”. 2017-2020 she was member of the European Calcified Tissue Society (ECTS) Website and Social Media Action Group, since 2021 she joined the ECTS Action group of Rare Bone Diseases. Since 2020 she is member of the ESE Education committee and representative in the PARAT programme of the European Society of Endocrinology (ECE). Her basic scientific work focuses on molecular and metabolic mechanisms important for the interplay between fat and bone in primary and secondary forms of osteoporosis, with a special focus on cortisol and bone. Another main topic was the investigation of mechanisms of osteoporosis in chronic inflammatory bowel diseases. Her clinical research is now concentrated on secondary forms of osteoporosis and on hypoparathyroidism with a special focus on quality of life. invited speaker at international conferences (Gordon, ASBMR, Keystone).