Vacancy: PhD Candidate Endocrinology

Looking for an interesting research opportunity? The Division of Endocrinology of the Department of Medicine at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) has a PhD position available in a dynamic, multidisciplinary clinical research team, in which you will study rare endocrine conditions through real world data collected in registry based European projects, including EuRRECa and EuRR-Bone. Are you the candidate we are looking for?

For more information about this vacancy please click here

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ERN interactive map

The interactive map hosts a searchable interface with details about the ERNs, including multi-lingual factsheets about ERNs and locations of members and affiliated partners.

The data concerned includes ERN names and details, ERN clinical centers names and details (Members, Associated National Centers, Hubs). No personal data are included, functional mailboxes are indicated for the ERNs which provided one. You can look for the information from different points of views: by selecting one or more ERNs, one or more countries, one or more clinical unit. You can also select one or more ERNs, and then restrict to one or more countries, [...]

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Endo-ERN webinar: Understanding Lipodystrophy

On Wednesday July 8th 15:00 – 16:00 CET an Endo-ERN webinar about “Understanding Lipodystrophy” is organised.

The webinar will be held by Prof Giovanni Ceccarini from Obesity and Lipodystrophy Centre, Endocrinology Unit, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Pisana in Italy and Dr. Rebecca Sanders, patient representative of Lipodystrophy UK & representative of European patients inside the Registry Board of ECLip.

Lipodystrophy syndromes are a group of rare (estimated prevalence of 3/1.000.000 if excluding HIV-related forms) and heterogeneous disorders characterized by the complete or partial loss of adipose tissue, in the absence of a nutritional deprivation or [...]

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Rare diseases: how the European Reference Networks support health professionals

The video from the EU Commission’s DG Health & Food Safety (SANTE) with Endo-ERN Coordinator prof. Alberto Pereira, prof. Franz Schaefer (ERKNET), prof. Marta Mosca (ReCONNECT) & prof. Jean-Yves Blay (EURACAN) is illustrating what the activities and the added value of the European Reference Networks are, particularly from the health professionals’ point of view.

The video is available HERE

 

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Webinar series: COVID-19 and Intensive Care Medicine, 2 June 2020 at 17:00 CET

In the context of COVID-19 pandemic and launching of the ‘COVID-19 Clinical Management Support System’, DG SANTE is organising a series of webinars to support clinicians and other healthcare professionals at the frontline who treat patients with COVID-19.

The next webinar will be held by Prof. Maurizio Cecconi, President Elect of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine and Head of Department Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Units, Humanitas Research Hospital, Lombardy in Italy, and by Prof. Jozef Kesecioglu, President of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, expert on ethics and intensive care, Head of Intensive Care [...]

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Recorded Webinar: COVID-19 & Endocrine conditions with increased risk – Endo-ERN

On May 12th 2020, a successful Endo-ERN webinar about COVID-19 & Endocrine conditions with increased risk was organized. The webinar was chaired by coordinator of Endo-ERN Prof. Alberto Pereira, Prof. Eelco de Koning, both from Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands and by Prof. Wiebke Arlt from University of Birmingham in the UK.

The recording of this webinar and presentations are published on the website of the European Commission. View the recording and presentations here.

For an overview of all previously organized & upcoming scheduled Endo-ERN webinars, click here.

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Webinar: COVID-19 Endocrine conditions with increased risk – Endo-ERN

In the context of COVID-19 pandemic and launching of the ‘COVID-19 Clinical Management Support System’, DG SANTE is organising a series of webinars to support clinicians and other healthcare professionals at the frontline who treat patients with COVID-19.

Feel free to forward this invitation to any other colleague that might be interested in the topic.

We would like to invite you to the webinar that will take place on:

Tuesday 12 May at 18.00 CET

6th Webinar: ‘COVID-19: Endocrine conditions with increased risk – Endo-ERN’

The webinar will be held by Prof. Alberto Pereira, Coordinator of Endo-ERN, [...]

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