American Thyroid Association Annual Meeting 2023

Ridgway Trainee Conference

The E. Chester Ridgway Trainee Conference will be held on September 27, 2023. This full day of lectures and networking will assist trainees and other healthcare professionals from around the world advance their understanding of thyroid disease and thyroid cancer. View past virtual recordings here.

2023 Ridgway Conference Basic Science and Clinical Agendas

Wednesday, September 27, 2023
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM

(Agenda subject to change)

This event is complimentary for ATA member trainee and non-member trainee registrants. All other attendees are invited to add the Ridgway Conference to their registration (additional fee). 

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Important Dates

Abstract Submissions

Late Breaking

– Late Breaking Abstracts Call Open – Wednesday, May 10

– Late Breaking Abstracts Deadline – Sunday, June 25

– Late Breaking Notification Date – Friday, August 4th

E. Chester Ridgway Trainee Day

Wednesday, September 27, 2023

All Trainees

8:00 AM – 8:15 AM

Introduction

  • Julie Ann Sosa, MD, President
  • F. Thurston Drake, MD & Meredith Hartley, PhD, Trainee & Career Development Co-Chairs

8:15 AM – 9:00 AM

How Do Thyroid Hormones Work?

Bryan Haugen, MD

9:00 AM – 9:30 AM

Thyroid Cancer – Bench to Bedside

  • Mimi Hu, MD

9:30 AM – 10:00 AM

Hyperthyroidism – Bench to Bedside

  • Terry Davies, MD

10:00 AM – 10:15 AM

Break

10:15 AM – 11:00 AM

Elevator Pitch Workshop: Presenting Your Science to a General Audience

  • Meredith Hartley, PhD

11:00 AM – 11:30 AM

How to Write a Great NIH Aims Page

  • Aime Franco, PhD

11:30 AM – 12:00 PM

Get Your Work Published

  • Anna Sawka, MD, PhD

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

Lewis E. Braverman Lunch
Round-table Discussions

Basic Science and Clinical Tracks Break-Out Groups:

Medical & Surgical Thyroidology Clinical Symposium

1:00 PM – 1:30 PM

Pre-operative Management of Thyroid Nodule

  • Sarah Mayson, MD

1:30 PM – 2:00 PM

Operating for Recurrent Thyroid Cancer

  • Martha Zeiger, MD

2:00 PM – 2:30 PM

ATA Risk Stratification, RAI Treatment and Response to Therapy

  • Michael Tuttle, MD

2:30 PM – 3:00 PM

Long Term Follow Up of Thyroid Cancer

  • Megan Haymart, MD

3:00 PM – 3:15 PM

Break

3:15 PM – 4:00 PM

Keynote

  • J.P. Brito Campana, MD

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Keys to Building a Practice:

  • Moderator: F. Thurston Drake, PhD
  • Academic Endocrinology – Stephanie Smooke Praw, MD
  • Community Endocrinology – Reena Thomas, MD
  • Surgical – Elizabeth Cottrill, MD
  • Q&A

Thyroid Research and Basic Science Symposium

1:00 PM – 2:30 PM

Trainee Research Presentations

  • Aizhan Kozhakhmetova – Role of Conformational States of the CD40 Receptor in its Activation by CD40 Ligand: Implications for Thyroid Autoimmunity.
  • Eunmi Hwang  – Thyroid Hormone Receptor α1: A Novel Regulator of Thyroid Cancer Cell Differentiation
  • Takahito Kimura – Potentiated Suppression of Cancer Stem Cell Activity of BRAF Inhibitors by MEK Inhibitors in Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer
  • Linyu Bao – Defects in thyroid hormone transporter due to slc7a5 knockout causes Paneth cell dedifferentiation toward stem cells.
  • Andrea Ross – Upregulation of CLDN1 in Thyroid Nodules and its Association with BRAF V600E Mutation
  • Sonam Kumari – Metabolic Plasticity is One of the Mechanisms of Thyroid Cancer Resistance to Lenvatinib
  • Zhaoyi Peng – Protein arginine methyltransferase 1, a coactivator for thyroid hormone receptor, regulates adult intestinal epithelial cell proliferation and enteroendocrine cell differentiation.
  • Martin Read –    Exploiting Endocytic Factors as Druggable Targets to Enhance Sodium Iodide Symporter Activity with Clinical Implications for Radioiodide Therapy
  • Anette Roxana Gastelum Quiroz – The Presence of Punctate Echogenic Foci in Thyroid Nodules is Associated with CLDN1 and TIMP1 Overexpression.

2:30 PM – 2:45 PM

Break

2:45PM – 3:45 PM

Keynote Basic Science Address – Sex, Drugs, & Thyroidology: Leveraging Basic Science for New Insights into Thyroid Disease

  • Melissa Lechner, MD, PhD

3:45 PM – 4:00 PM

Break

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Basic Science Career Tracks Panel

  • Moderator: Iñigo Landa, PhD
  • Emily Cordas, PhD
  • David Sharlin, PhD
  • Silvania Teixeira, PhD

5:00 PM – 6:30 PM

Networking

Thursday, September 28, 2023

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM

US Imaging of Thyroid Nodules

  • Susan Mandel, MD

Friday, September 29, 2023

3:00 PM – 4:30 PM

Bench to Bedside Case Presentations: Hypothyroidism Case and Hyperthyroidism Case

  • Hyperthyroidism Case Discussion
    • Moderator: Kharisa Rachmasari, MD
    • Panelists:  Dr. Marius Stan, Dr. Vaninder Dhillon, Dr. Lily Wagner
  • Hypothyroidism Case Discussion
    • Moderator: Danica Vodopivec Kuri, MD
    • Panelists: Dr. Maria Papaleontiou, Dr. Tim Korevaar, Dr. Christine Cherella