Program Organizing Committee

Full Professor of Endocrinology at the Endocrine Division, Medical School, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Chief, Thyroid Unit, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Leader of studies on molecular diagnosis and genotype–phenotype correlations in MEN2 patients in Brazil.
Research interests also include thyroid hormone metabolism, clinical and pathological features of thyroid carcinomas.
Past President of the LATS, Member of the Board of Directors of the Brazilian Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism (SBEM), Member of the American Thyroid Association and Endocrine Society.

Principal Researcher of the Argentinian National Research Council (CONICET).
Associated Professor of the Faculty of Chemical Sciences, National University of Cordoba (FCQ-UNC).
Director of the Posgraduated Career of Endocrinology specialization for Biochemists (FCQ-UNC).
Past President of the Cordoba Endocrinology and Metabolism Society (SEMCO), past Secretary of LATS.
Honored with the Young Researcher Award from the Latin American Thyroid Society (LATS) in 1997.
Honored with the Senior Researcher Award from the Latin American Thyroid Society (LATS) in 2023.
Leader of a research group involved in the study of thyroid hormone action in the immune system, and in the role of the cellular microenvironment in the development of thyroid cancer.

Senior Investigator, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, USA.
Previous Associate Professor of Human Genetics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York.
Former Board member of the American Thyroid Association.
Merck Prize, ETA and Van Meter Award, ATA.
Associate editor or editorial board, for journals including Endocrinology, Frontiers in Endocrinology and Thyroid.
Research interests: the developmental functions and disorders of thyroid hormone; thyroid hormone receptors; deiodinase enzymes.

Professor of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, The Ohio State University, Columbus OH USA
Vice Chair, Diversity and Inclusion for the Department of Internal Medicine
Medical Director, James Comprehensive Cancer Center Neuroendocrine Service Line
Guidelines Committees: ATA Thyroid Nodule Task Force, NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology Thyroid Carcinoma Panel, International Thyroid Nodule Ultrasound Working Group (I-TIRADS), AAES Thyroidectomy Guideline Writing Task Force
Research interests: Clinical trials of MTKIs; Molecular analysis of indeterminate thyroid nodules; Salivary damage from radioactive iodine; Sonographic and preoperative of malignancy in nodules with indeterminate cytology; Long-term outcomes of indeterminate nodules; Radiation-induced thyroid injury, Thyroid cancer heritability

Chief of the Division of Endocrine Surgery and a Professor of Surgery, Otolaryngology and Biochemistry at NYU Langone Health.
Director of the Thyroid Interdisciplinary Program, particular expertise in the multidisciplinary treatment of Thyroid and Parathyroid disease along with other head and neck tumors.
Director of Mentoring and Faculty Development in the Department of Surgery.
Member of the editorial board of several prominent journals.
Past President of the NY Head and Neck Society, Recorder of the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons, Founding member and Treasurer of the North American Society of Interventional Thyroidology (NASIT).
Research interests: molecular pathogenesis of thyroid carcinoma, changes in intracellular pathways that lead to the progression of thyroid cancer, relationship of autoimmune thyroiditis to thyroid cancer, thermal ablative techniques in the management of benign and malignant thyroid disease.

Chief, Professor in Endocrine and Diabetes Center, vice president of Jiangsu Province Hospital on Integration of Chinese and Western Medicine, Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Research and Clinical Expertise: Thyroid nodules, Thyroid cancer, Thyroid dysfunction, Autoimmune thyroid disease, Diabetes remission, Calorie restriction.
Member of AOTA, ADA, EASD, Chinese Medical Association, Chinese Endocrine Society, Chinese Thyroid Society.

Professor & Chairman of Department of Endocrine Surgery, Nippon Medical School Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo.
Active member of the International Association of Endocrine Surgeons (IAES), corresponding member of the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons (AAES) and of the American Thyroid Association (ATA), member of the Endocrine Society, member of the advisory committee of the Asian Association of Endocrine Surgeons (AsAES), council member of the Asia Oceania Thyroid Association (AOTA), vice-chairperson of the board of directors for the Japan Association of Endocrine Surgeons (JAES), member of the board of directors for the Japan Thyroid Association (JTA), member of the board of directors for Lift Ecologic Endoscopy & Minimal Incision Surgery.
Representative organizer of the Anaplastic Thyroid Carcinoma Research Consortium of Japan (ATCCJ).
Research interest: clinical studies for thyroid cancer including active surveillance of low-risk papillary microcarcinoma, risk stratification of papillary thyroid carcinoma, clinical trials for anaplastic thyroid carcinoma.

Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of the Philippines-College of Medicine.
Vice Chair for Postgraduate Training and Training Officer, Department of Medicine of the Philippine General Hospital.
Secretary, Philippine College of Physicians (PCP).
Council Member, Asia & Oceania Thyroid Association (AOTA).
Past President of the Philippine College of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism (PCEDM), Philippine Thyroid Association (PTA) and Philippine Association For The Study of Overweight and Obesity (PASOO).
Technical committee member of the Philippine clinical practice guidelines on thyroid disorders in pregnancy, well-differentiated thyroid cancer and obesity.

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• Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Cell Metabolism at the HUN-REN Institute of Experimental Medicine in Budapest.
• Past member of the editorial board of Endocrinology and the ATA Taskforce on Approaches and Strategies to Investigate Thyroid Hormone Economy and Action.
• Past member of the Executive Committee of the European Thyroid Association.
• Research interest: regulation of TH economy in the brain and related peripheries in health and disease with special respect to hypothyroidism; molecular and cellular aspects of TH action and deiodination mediated thyroid hormone metabolism; and generation of transgenic mouse models for studies on cell-type specific TH economy that also resulted the Thyroid Hormone Action Indicator (THAI) Mouse.

Full Professor of Endocrinology at the Department of Medical Biotechnology & Translational Medicine (BIOMETRA).
Director of the Postgraduate School of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases, University of Milan.
Head of the Department of Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases & Lab of Endocrine and Metabolic Research, IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano; Piazzale Brescia 20, Milano.
Research interests and skills: identification and characterization of the biological mechanisms and genes relevant for development and function of pituitary, thyroid and gonads. Characterization of molecular mechanisms accounting for several disease states, including central hypothyroidism or hyperthyroidism and congenital thyroid diseases, several task forces.
Ordinary member of ETA, Associazione Italiana della Tiroide (AIT), corresponding member of the ATA, European Society of Endocrinology, Endocrine Society USA. Editor in Chief of European Thyroid Journal.

Associate Professor of Endocrinology in Pisa University.
Director of the Endocrine 2 Unit of the University Hospital of Pisa.
Responsible for the Oncology Section of the Endocrine 2 Unit of the University Hospital of Pisa.
Director of the Postgraduate School of Endocrinology and Metabolism.
President of the Italian Thyroid Association .
Corresponding member of the American Thyroid Association.
Member of the Italian Society of Endocrinology.
Member of the European Society of Endocrinology.
Expert clinician involved in the management of thyroid cancer patients.
Principal Investigator of 16 phase 2/3 clinical trials of drugs for the treatment of thyroid cancer.
Numerous international awards; author and co-author of more than 300 peer reviewed papers.

Professor of Endocrinology, Translational & Clinical Research Institute Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Editor-in-Chief for European Thyroid Journal, and currently President of the British Thyroid Association.
Research interests: new treatments for Graves’ disease and Addison’s disease, understanding the basis for autoimmune endocrine disease and improving the long-term management of thyroid diseases.

• Former LATS President
• Chief of the Thyroid Section, Division of Endocrinology, Hospital de Clinicas, University of Buenos Aires
• Member of:, LATS, ATA, ITOG, SAEM
• Expertise: thyroid cancer

Head of the Thyroid Section, Endocrinology Division, Hospital Carlos G Durand, Buenos Aires.
Deputy director of the Career of Endocrinology Specialists, Faculty of Medicine, University of Buenos Aires. UDM Hospital Durand.
Past director of the Career of Endocrinology Specialists, Argentine Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism.
Coordinator Thyroid Department, Argentine Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism 2021-2024.
Member of: LATS, Argentinian Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism (SAEM), and Argentinian Commission of Endemic Goiter.
Expertise: thyroid disease and pregnancy.

• Full Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sao Paulo.
• Member of the executive committee of the Latin American Thyroid Association (LATS).
• Coordinator of the Basic and Translational Sciences Committee at LATS.
• Current President of the Department of Basic and Translational Endocrinology at the Brazilian Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism (2023-2024)
Research interest: Molecular basis of thyroid hormone actions and its therapeutic potential; Thyroid dysfunction and Diabetes mellitus; Endocrine disruptors and Thyroid function