General Assembly

Pre-Conference Workshop 1

EASO Workshop TBA

Pre-Conference Workshop 2

Clinical decision tools for internists /Telemedicine WGTBA

Pre-Conference Workshop 3

Early Career WG Career development for Internists-Finding your Path

Chair :
Lucia Ordieres Ortega (Spain) Speakers:
TBA

Pre-Conference Workshop 4

Point-of-Care Abdominal Ultrasonography (POCUS)TBA

Pre-Conference Workshop 5

Young Internists Workshop: How to write and publish an article

TBA

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Parallel Session 1

Intestines` news

Celiac disease and gluten sensitivity-what is common and what is different?
Knut Lundin (Norway)


Fecal microbiota transplantation
Perttu Arkkila (Finland)

Parallel Session 2

Womens' Health in the ERA personolized medicine

Menopause problems in everyday
TBA


TBA
Jolanta Siller Matua (Austria)

Parallel Session 3

Stroke
Treat the patient, not the disease
George Ntaios (Greece)


In which patients do we still prefer vitamin K antagonists over direct oral anticoagulants?
Marco Proietti (Italy)

Parallel Session 4

Cerebrovascular Disease and Multimorbidity

Stroke patterns, etiology, and prognosis in patients with diabetes mellitus
Theodore Karapanayiotides (Greece)

Cerebrovascular complications of Hypertension:
Mario Daidone (Italy)

Parallel Session 5

Annual Updates on Internal Medicine - Young Internists POV

Parallel Session 6

Novel biomarkers of acute kidney injury in clinical practice: Expectations vs. Reality

Expectations
Rainer Oberbauer (Austria)


Reality
TBA

Parallel Session 7

Lifestyle and pharmacological interventions to prevent or delay type 2 diabetes in people with impaired glucose tolerance Lifestyle interventions
Javier Delgado (Spain)


Pharmacological interventions
Stefano Del Prato (Italy)

Parallel Session 8

The burden of MASLD

Chairs:
George Dalekos (Greece)
Dror Dicker (Israel) New nomenclature, diagnosis and stratification strategies
Gamal Shiha (Egypt)

Therapeutic strategies
Sven Francque (Belgium)

Parallel Session 9

Early Career Group / Shared Decision-Making: Balancing Clinical Judgment and Patient Preference

Chairs :
Gemma Ortiz Llaurado (Spain)
Alina Dima (Romania)Shared Decisions in Complex Patients: Prioritizing Care in the Context of Multimorbidity
Cristian Baicus (Romania)

Patient-Centred Decisions in the Emergency Room: Is There Time to Ask?
Sara Lİndberg (Sweden)

Parallel Session 10

Importance of detecting malnutrition in internal medicine patients

Speaker:
Alastair Forbes (Estonia)

Opening Ceremony

Plenary Session 1

Title - Bone, Sex, and Mammalian Evolution Speaker:
Josef Penninger (Austria)

Networking Event

Meet the Expert Session 1

Management of individuals with abnormal liver biochemistrySpeakers:
Eirini Rigopoulou (Greece)
Nikolaos Gatselis (Greece)

Meet the Expert Session 2

What was the cause of ischemic stroke in my patient?

Speakers:
Patrik Michel (Switzerland)
George Ntaios (Greece)

Meet the Expert Session 3

HIV infection: What’s new?

TBA

Meet the Expert Session 4

Internists in the future hospital
TBA

Meet the Expert Session 5

Management of antithrombotic and anticoagulant therapy in patients with comorbidities linked to a potential high haemorrhagic risk.

Speaker:
Antonino Tuttolomondo (Italy)

Meet the Expert Session 6

Hospital Medicine and Acute Care Pathways: Innovations to Improve Patient Flow and Outcomes

Chairs:
Manuel Mendez Bailon (Spain)
Michael Wheble (UK)Empyema Management in the 21st Century: A Hospitalist’s Perspective
Jose Manuel Porcel (Spain)


Management of Pulmonary Embolism in the Acute Setting
Nick Murch (UK)

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Plenary Session 2

Care beyond treatment

Chair:
Eva Masel (Austria)Speakers:
Andrew Elder (UK)

Joint Session 1

EASD Joint Session

Precision Medicine in Diabetes

New technologies and devices
Julia Mader (Austria)


New drugs
Stefano Del Prato (Italy)

Parallel Session 11

Immune Checkpoint inhibitors (ICI):Complications in internal medicineInduced hepatitis: Diagnosis and management
Raul Andrade (Spain)


Endocrine complications:
Thomas Scherer (Austria)

Joint Session 2

ESH
Contraversies in the management of hypertension

Chair:
Filomena Pietrantonio (Italy)Hypertension and atrial fibrillation
Teemu J Niiranen (Finland)


Blood Pressure threshold and target for drug treatment
Giuseppe Mancia (Italy)

EFIM ACADEMY SESSION

Chronic Kidney Disease CKD- what every internist needs to know

TBA

Parallel Session 12

Balancing Clotting and Bleeding: Advances in hemostasis, thrombosis, and antithrombotic therapy

Advances in anticoagulant therapy
Giancarlo Agnelli (Italy)


AI and precision medicine in thrombosis and hemostasis
Michael Nagler (Switzerland)

Parallel Session 13

Endocrine emergencies- what to know as an internist?Thyroid Storm/Myxedma:
Dagmar Führer (Germany)


From adrenal insufficiency to Addison Crisis:
Peter Wolf (Austria)


Diabetic Ketoacidosis:
Harald Sourij (Austria)

Parallel Session 14

Update on the management of autoimmune rheumatic diseases

Axial spondyloarthritis
Victoria Navarro Compán (Spain)


Personalized approaches in rheumatoid arthritis
Hans Kiener (Austria)

JOINT SESSION EFIM YOUNG INTERNISTS- AUSTRIAN YOUNG INTERNITS

AI in Healthcare: A Friend or a Foe?

Introduction to AI from a Non-Medical Perspective
Nicolaou Grigorio

Practical Applications to Enhance Medical Practice
Samy Mady

Industry Supported Session- Plenary Symposium

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Parallel Session 15

Infectious diseases: The immunocompromised host

Approach to the immunocompromised patient with fever and pulmonary infiltrates
Sara Georgiadou (Greece)


Post-viral pulmonary aspergillosis
Martin Hoenigl (Austria)

Parallel Session 16

Viral hepatitis: Past, Present, and Future

Hepatitis B and D
TBA


Hepatitis A, C and E.
Carmen Fierbinteanu-Braticevici (Romania)

Parallel Session 17

Unlocking the mystery of fibromyalgia

Definition and diagnosis
Alina Dima (Romania)


Modern approaches to treatment
Tamara Filipovic (Serbia)

RAPIDFIRE SESSION

Plenary Session 3

Thrombophilia screening: Who, when and how to test?

Speaker:
Deepa J Arachchillage (UK)

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Joint Session 3

Society of Hospital Medicine
What is hospitalist?

Chair:
Fredrik won Wowern (Sweden)
Ricardo Gomez Huelgas (Spain) American perspective:
Chad Whelan (US)


European perspective:
Arantzazu Alvarez de Arcaya (Spain)

Parallel Session 18

Pregnancy emergencies: What an Internist should know

Diabetes
Nikolaos Tentolouris (Greece)


Hypertension
Lina Bergman (Sweden)


Abnormal liver enzymes
Eirini Rigopoulou (Greece)

Parallel Session 19

Cutaneous manifestations of systemic diseases

In autoimmune rheumatic diseases
Francois Maillot (France)


In infectious and neoplastic diseases
Anna Lopez (Spain)

RAPIDFIRE SESSION

Controversies Debates-1

Atrial fibrillation and cognitive decline: Is there a causal link?

Pros:
Eleni Koromboki (Greece)


Cons:
Fernanda Leite (Portugal)

Controversies Debates-2

Corticosteroids use in septic shock: Improved outcomes vs. Increased Risks

Pros:
Djillali Annane (France)


Cons:
Matteo Guarino (Italy)

Controversies Debates-3

Intraveneus albumin use in clinic : Whats the evidence?

TBA

RAPIDFIRE SESSION

Joint Session 4- EASO

The EASO Guidelines and the Lancet Commission perspective

The new EASO Framework and obesity management Guidelines:
Dror Dicker (Israel)


Lancet Commission:
TBA

Controversies Debates-4

Gender equality in Healthcare leadershipPros:
Cecilia Polidi (Italy)


Cons:
Ranieri Guerra (Italy)

Controversies Debates-5

Economic Priorities vs patients' expectations and needs

Pros:
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Cons:
Daniela D'Angela (Italy)

RAPIDFIRE SESSION

Parallel Session 20

Targeting IL-1 and/or IL-6 in disease

Still disease, gout and pseudogout
Ahmet Gül (Türkiye)


Autoinflammatory disorders
Panagiotis Skendros (Greece)

Parallel Session 21

Clostridioides difficile infection

Preventive strategies
Agnes Lefort (France)

European practice
Guillermo Maestro (Spain)

Parallel Session 22

Updates in autoimmune cholestatic liver diseases

New treatment strategies in primary biliary cholangitis
Maria Carlota Londono (Spain)



Unmet needs and emerging therapies in primary sclerosing cholangitis
Michael Trauner (Austria)

Critical Appraisal Parallel Session

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Joint Session 5

ACP and EFIM Joint Session

AI in Internal Medicine: Reducing Physician Burdens, Diagnostic Dilemmas & Burnout to Improve Global Outcomes
TBA

Parallel Session 23

Community-based Interventions for health promotion and protection in response to climate change

Speaker:
Ellina Lytvyak Edmonton (Canada)

Parallel Session 24

Common problems in ER and ICU

The poisoned patient: The importance of clinical toxicology
TBA


Which vasoactive drug?
Mervin Singer (UK)

RAPIDFIRE SESSION

Plenary Session 4

Precision management of sepsis: the time has come

Speaker:
Evangelos Giamarellos (Greece)

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Parallel Session 25

Strategies to combat multidrug-resistant pathogens

Diagnostic stewardship in infectious diseases
Stefano Bassetti (Switzerland)


Antimicrobial Theraphy Stewardship
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