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WELCOME FROM THE CHAIRMAN
On behalf of the Co-Chairmen and members of the Scientific Committee I cordially invite you to
the 2nd Swiss Symposium on Thyroid Eye Disease (SSTED) from December 8 to 11, 2010
in Pontresina/St. Moritz. It is aimed at residents in training, fellows and clinicians from endocrinology
and ophthalmology, internists and general practitioners, being an educational clinical symposium
discussing mainly diagnostic and therapeutical issues of Graves’ orbitopathy.
On Saturday, Decemer 11, the Patient Plenary Session will be held at 13:30, answering the
most frequent questions encountered from interested patients with Graves’ orbitopathy. This session
will be videotaped and uploaded on our website (www.basedow.ch) after the symposium.
The SSTED is paralleled by a Special Interest Symposium on Autoimmune Disease (SISAD),
discussing mainly pathogenetic issues of autoimmune disease in general and its implications on
novel therapies of Graves’ orbitopathy in particular. The SISAD is aimed at basic and clinical scientists
in immunology, rheumatology, endocrinology and ophthalmology. Keynote lectures will be
given by key opinion leaders from different specialities, followed by ample discussions to engross
arising questions and controversies. For sustained impact, minutes of all sessions and discussions
will be distributed to the participants at the end of the symposium and be later published.
It is a special honor for the organizing committee, to host the faculty and executive committee of
the European Group on Graves’ Orbitopathy (EUGOGO), which will hold its scientific executive
meeting in Pontresina during our symposium. Its members are worldwide renowned experts
in the field and guarantee for outstanding lectures and discussions.
On behalf of the Scientific Committee, I would like to warmly welcome all participants, particularly
all our lecturers and colleagues from EUGOGO in the highest-altitude conference centre in Europe,
hopefully with lots of snow and a few sunny days.
George F. von Arx, Symposium Chairman
Co-Chairmen:
Beat Hammer, Hirslanden Medical Center,
Aarau
Jürg Lareida, Aarau
Scientific Committee:
Marian Ludgate, University of Cardiff, UK
(Chair)
Rebecca S Bahn, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN,
USA (Co-Chair)
J. Paul Banga, King’s College, London, UK
Ulrich Bürgi, University Hospital Berne, CH
Mario Salvi, University of Milan, IT
Matthias Stahl, Kantonsspital Olten, CH
Alan Tyndall, University of Basel, CH