5 istaknutih predavačica i predavača i 1 aktivni moderator uz jednaku zastupljenost polova sa pažljivo izbalansiranim panelom stručnjaka

Walter Vena

Gratuated in Medical School @ Sapienza University of Rome with a thesis project on testosteorne replacement therapy and completed Endocrinology & Metabolism Disorders Residency @ Univerity of Milano with a thesis on Klinefelter Syndrome metabolic complications.

Now working Research Assistant @ Humanitas University and is focusing his research activity on male hypogonadism, testosterone replacement and consequences of hormonal deprivation.

Co-chair of the EYES committee and representative of Italian Andrology & Sexual Medicine Society (SIAMS) young branch (AndroYoung).

Juan Jimenez-Vacas

Juan Manuel Jiménez-Vacas, PhD in Biomedicine (2020), is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR), London. He holds a BSc in Biology (2015), an MSc in Translational Biomedical Research (2016), and a PhD in Biomedicine (2020) from the Maimonides Institute for Biomedical Research (IMIBIC)/University of Córdoba, Spain, where he worked under the mentorship of Dr. Manuel Gahete and Prof. Raúl Luque.

Since October 2020, Juan has been working under the mentorship of Dr. Adam Sharp and Prof. Johann de Bono at ICR, focusing on identifying vulnerabilities associated with treatment resistance in hormone-driven tumours, particularly castration-resistant prostate cancer.

In April 2021, he was awarded the prestigious Prostate Cancer UK Travelling Prize Fellowship (£300,000), enabling a six-month research placement in Prof. Steven Balk’s laboratory at BIDMC/Harvard, Boston. Recently, he received a US Department of Defense grant ($300,000) to continue his research between ICR (London, UK) and Harvard (Boston, US).

Juan has significantly contributed to the field of endocrine-related cancers, with over 40 publications (original papers and reviews) and more than 70 presentations at national and international conferences. He has received 10 national and international research awards, including the European Society of Endocrinology (ESE) Young Investigator Award, and holds a patent.

In addition to his research, Juan is actively involved in leadership roles. He serves as a member of the ESE Science Committee, co-chair of the ESE Young Endocrinologists & Scientists (EYES) Committee, Editor of EYES News, and coordinator of the ESE Young Endocrinologists & Scientists (EYES) Research Observership Program.

Elena Armeni

Consultant in Endocrinology and Diabetes, Royal Free Hospital NHS Trust London UK
Honorary Assistant Professor, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
2^nd Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Aretaieio Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens Greece

Dr Eleni Armeni is working as a Consultant in Endocrinology and Diabetes in the Diabetes and Endocrinology Department in Royal Free Hospital NHS Trust in London and Honorary Assistant Professor at Birmingham University.

She is currently serving as:

Treasurer of the European Menopause and Andropause Society, Associate Editor of the Journal Maturitas, JCEM case reports and Frontiers of Endocrinology,
Deputy Editor of the Journal Editor Views of the European Society of Endocrinology.

She has published 103 full papers in peer-review international journals. Her main research interests include male and female reproductive endocrinology, endocrine and metabolic complications of pregnancy, menopausal transition, and neuroendocrinology

Punith Kempegowda

Dr Punith Kempegowda is an Associate Professor and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy at the University of Birmingham. He is also an honorary consultant at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham with a special interest in reproductive endocrinology and acute diabetes. His research interests are providing the best possible care to people with diabetes and endocrine conditions and developing innovative and evidence-based programmes to teach and learn from each other. He is the chair for SIMBA, which provides simulation-based learning opportunities and Chair for CoMICs, which creates short evidence-based videos on various medical topics. He is also the lead for DEKODE, a multicentre cloud-based quality improvement programme for diabetes-related emergencies and PCOS SEVa, a multicentre programme aimed at understanding and improving models of care in PCOS.

Ljiljana Marina

Dr. Ljiljana Marina is a Senior Research Associate (equivalent Associate Professor) at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, and an interninst endocrinologist at the University Clinical Centre of Serbia. She is an expert in adrenal and women’s reproductive health.

Dr. Marina is member of the ESE Clinical Committee and member of the ESE Adrenal and Cardiovascular Endocrinology Expert Panel. She is an active member of the European Network for the Study of Adrenal Tumors (ENSAT) since 2014, and chair of Working Group 5 in the COST Action Harmonis@tion.

She founded the EYES Newsletter and the EYES Observership Programmes, facilitating training for early-career endocrinologists across Europe. She has also co-authored the 2023 ESE guideline on adrenal incidentalomas.

She received the ESE Special Recognition Award in 2022 and the European Journal of Endocrinology Rising Star Award in 2024.

Mina Hagen

Mina Hagen completed her undergraduate, master’s and doctoral studies in Psychology at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade. She works as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Media and Communications in Belgrade, where she teaches Psychometrics, Advanced Statistics and Psychology of Intelligence and Creativity.
She has been a licensed marriage and family counselor for over 15 years, and her research and counseling work for the past six years has focused on women’s reproductive health, particularly understanding the effects of sex hormones on mental health.
In March 2020, she founded the NGO „TU SMO Balkan,“ which provided free psychological first aid throughout the Balkans to hundreds of people. Her pro bono activities also include science popularization, human rights activism and support for vulnerable groups.
She is currently engaged in a scientific analysis of the social understanding of menopause in Serbia, advocating for the reduction of prejudice and stigma around peri/menopause in cooperation with Dr. Ljiljana Marina.