Thursday April 19, 2007
15:00 Welcome
15:15 Plenery Session 1
New criteria in sex assignment and long-term perspectives for patients with disorders of sex differentiation
Ieuan Hughes (Cambridge, UK)
Coordinator: Santiago Muzzo (Santiago, Chile)
Symposium
Disorders of Sexual Development I
Coordinators: Selva Cigorraga & Titania Pasqualini (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
16:15 Defects of biosynthesis, signaling and action of gonadotropins
Ana Claudia Latronico (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
16:50 5 α-reductase defects: molecular diagnosis and clinical outcome
Berenice Mendonça (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
17:25 Aromatase deficiency: from clinical to molecular diagnosis
Alicia Belgorosky (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
18:00 Discussion
18:15 Coffee
18:45 Plenery Session 2
Ontogeny of gonadal peptides from birth through puberty
Stella Campo (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Coordinator: Hugo Fideleff (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Friday April 20, 2007
09:00 Plenery Session 3
Androgen synthesis defects: rational diagnostic approach in newborns with ambiguous genitalia
Marco Rivarola (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Coordinator: Gil Guerra (Campinas, Brazil)
10:00 Coffee
Symposium
Disorders of Sexual Development II
Coordinators: Silvia Gottlieb (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Pedro Esteves (Mendoza, Argentina)
10:30 Gonadal Dysgenesis: histoarchitecture, tissue karyotype and neoplastic potential
Héctor Chemes (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
11:20 Y chromosome in Turner syndrome
Silvia Copelli (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
11:50 Hormonal laboratory in newborn patients with ambiguous genitalia
Rodolfo Rey (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
12:15 Discussion
12:30 Lunch
14:30 Plenery Session 4
Sex determination: basis for the understanding of intersex conditions
J. Larry Jameson (Chicago, USA)
Coordinator: Ivo Arnhold (São Paulo, Brazil)
15:30 Coffee
Symposium
Gonadal Development
Coordinators: Esperanza Berensztein (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Fernando Cassorla (Santiado Chile)
16:00 Cell migration in the developing gonad
Blanche Capel (Durham, USA)
16:50 Cooperation between Sf1 and Dax1 receptors for testicular somatic cell differentiation
J. Larry Jameson (Chicago, USA)
17:30 Molecular genetic events that underlie ovarian development
Blanche Capel (Durham, USA)
18:15 Discussion
Saturday April 21, 2007
08:30 Plenery Session 5
Prenatal sex hormone effects on child and adult sex-typed behavior
Sheri Berenbaum (Pennsylvania, USA)
Coordinator: M. Eugenia Escobar (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Symposium
Psychological Aspects in Patients with Disorders of Sex Differentiation
Coordinators: Laura Gruñeiro (Buenos Aires), Liliana Ongaro (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
09:30 Family environment and sex of rearing
Marcelo Silberkasten (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
10:00 What evidence do we need to provide optimal psychological support to patients?
Sheri Berenbaum (Pennsylvania, USA)
10:30 Discussion
10:45 Coffee
Symposium
Follow-Up of Patients with Disorders of Sex Differentiation
Coordinators: Verónica Mericq (Santiago, Chile), Luis Pascual (Mendoza, Argentina)
11:15 Androgen insensitivity: new concepts and long-term outcome
Ieuan Hughes (Cambridge, UK)
11:45 Surgery of external genitalia: decision making and functional outcome
Miguel Podestá (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
12:15 Lessons from growth in patients with disorders of sex development
Juan Jorge Heinrich (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
12:45 Discussion
13:15 Conclusions
