The first clinical congress of the gulf chapter of the American association of clinical endocrinologists, october, 3rd-5th 2013, St Regis Hotel, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Abstract

The first clinical congress of the Gulf Chapter of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists was held in October 2013. The declared educational objective of the congress is to give a “state of the art in endocrine practice”. To this end, the organizing committee invited international and regional key opinion leaders to meet the objectives of the congress. In this article, we present the abstracts of the congress as submitted by the authors after minimal restyling and editing to suit the publication requirements of the journal. Major issues and topical themes with wide interests in the profession were addressed in 6 plenary lectures. More focused issues were included in several parallel symposia to suite the specific educational needs of the target audience subgroups. Practical issues were addressed in “Meet the Expert” type of interactive workshops. A selection of free communications from abstracts submitted by delegates, reflecting mostly the regional epidemiology and clinical practice in diabetes care and endocrinology, were presented as either oral or poster presentations. The abstracts are presented under their relevant groups. We hope that by publishing them in this journal we extend the benefit to those who could not make it to the live presentations.