For those of you keeping count, this is the third time we’ve devoted an issue to highlights from ENDO, so it looks like this will be ongoing issue each year. And I’m just fine with that. I hope you are, too! Honestly, there was just so much happening at ENDO 2024 in Boston, that one issue might not contain it all. [Editor’s Note: It won’t!]
Senior Editor Derek Bagley spent some time wrangling some of the late-breaking studies presented at the meeting with a wrap-up called “Small Talk and Smart Talk: Lessons Learned at ENDO 2024.” Let’s face it, when the biggest endocrinology conference in the world takes place, it’s a challenging task to narrow the focus down to just a handful of studies, but Derek did a great job focusing on research about a new post-surgical headband to help those patients with Cushing’s; how telemedicine is leveling the playing field for so many people with endocrine disorders; the impact of the stress from living in violent neighborhoods on Black men with lung cancer; and even methods that endocrinologists can address medical misinformation through an effective social media strategy. Of course, this story doesn’t even scratch the surface of the information presented over the course of ENDO 2024 … but it’s a good start!
You might already be aware that the Endocrine Society and the European Society of Endocrinology have entered into a multi-year agreement to co-author a series of practice guidelines. It is hoped that the “European Society of Endocrinology and Endocrine Society Joint Clinical Guideline: Diagnosis and Therapy of Glucocorticoid-induced Adrenal Insufficiency” will better prepare endocrinologists to take the lead on a therapy used in virtually every medical discipline. Writer Eric Seaborg goes into detail about the guideline in “New International Guideline-Writing Partnership Debuts at ENDO 2024.” “Glucocorticoid-induced adrenal insufficiency necessitates careful education and management, and in the rare cases of adrenal crisis, prompt diagnosis and therapy,” the guideline notes. And this joint guideline provides a major step forward in providing the evidence-based advice needed for the many medical specialists prescribing glucocorticoids to achieve these goals, Seaborg writes.
For me, ENDO 2024 in Boston was my NINTH in-person annual conference, so it’s hard to remember my very first event (it was ENDO 2013 in San Francisco!). However, for some of our newer members, ENDO 2024 was their first time at an Endocrine Society annual conference. We’ve gotten into the habit of quizzing some of our first-time attendees about their experiences and impressions of their first ENDO meeting as part of the wrap-up, but this year it’s its own feature. In “First Impressions: First Time ENDO 2024 Attendees Share Their Experiences,” I got the chance to reach out to six attendees who told me what they thought of ENDO 2024, especially what they learned that they can use every day and what they found surprising about the meeting. Their responses are always endearing and sometimes eye-opening…even to a seasoned veteran like me!
In 2020, the Endocrine Society debuted the Endocrine Feedback Loop podcast hosted by Chase Hendrickson, MD, MPH. However, during ENDO 2024 there was an in-person version of the podcast broadcast live from Boston that Hendrickson hosted. We learn more about the podcast when Derek and Hendrickson have a Q&A for “In the Loop,” where the podcaster explains that the show is more than simply a “new and improved” journal club – although that was the inspiration – but it is a vehicle that strives to educate and inform, enlighten, and even inspire. And Hendrickson even finds himself getting educated by these podcasts: “I learn an incredible amount during each episode,” he says. “As a general endocrinologist, I have a broad knowledge base in endocrinology but not one that is as deep as a subspecialist. So, I am always in awe of our regular contributors and guest experts, who bring an incredible depth of knowledge, experience, and insight to these recordings.”
But as I alluded to at the top of this column, even though this issue is devoted to ENDO 2024, this won’t be the last time you see some of the amazing science presented in Boston on our pages. You can look forward to major features based on ENDO sessions in upcoming issues! See you next month!
Feel free to let me know what you think of this month’s content, and what sort of suggestions you have for future issues. You can always contact me at: [email protected].
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