Dear Collegues, dear Friends
I am contacting you to update you on some important news regarding the 13th International
Workshop on Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia (IWMEN), Liège, Belgium, from 5 to 8 September
2012.
Firstly, I am pleased to say that Abstract Submission is now open for your submissions. Our
submission system is all online and can be accessed easily via the IWMEN 2012 website (seebelow for instructions).
We welcome submissions of abstracts to be considered for oral or poster presentation on avery wide series of topics related to endocrinology, oncology, basic science and therapeuticsrelated to endocrine neoplasias. Please note that to present your data in September you willneed to be registered for the meeting, so I encourage you to register as early as possible totake advantage of reduced registration prices. If you have data that you believe to be ofparticular importance, you can have it considered for the Hot Topic session which will bescheduled in the Program once the abstract submission process has finished. To have thetopic considered, please submit your abstract via the system as an oral presentation and also
contact by email the Local Organizing Committee (including the text of the abstract and a brief
description of why you believe it is of importance) at registration@iwmen.org.
Secondly, you will be happy to know that attendance of the IWMEN2 2012 meeting cancontribute to your Continuing Medical Education (CME) needs in Europe, the United Statesand elsewhere:
The 13th International Workshop on Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia is accredited by theEuropean Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME) to provide thefollowing CME activity for medical specialists. The EACCME is an institution of theEuropean Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS), www.uems.net. The '13th International
Workshop on Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia' is designated for a maximum of (or 'for up to') 17
hours of European external
CME credits. Each medical specialist should claim only those hours of credit that he/she
actually spent in the educational activity. Through an agreement between the European Unionof Medical Specialists and the American Medical Association, physicians may convert EACCME
credits to an equivalent number of AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Information on the process
to convert EACCME credit to AMA credit can be found atwww.ama-assn.org/go/internationalcme. Live educational activities, occurring outside ofCanada, recognized by the UEMS-EACCME for ECMEC credits are deemed to be AccreditedGroup Learning Activities (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program ofThe Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
Furthermore, for those working in the oncology specialties, the IWMEN 2012 has sought andobtained endorsement of the event for CME purposes by the Accreditation Council ofOncology in Europe (ACOE). As noted on their website (www.acoe.be), the ACOE is theunique European multidisciplinary accreditation body in oncology. ACOE accreditation offers
participants of CME events in oncology a guarantee of a high quality and unbiaised educational
programme. The IWMEN 2012 is now listed as approved for these various CME approvals on
the websites of the EAACME (www.eaccme.eu) and the ACOE (www.acoe.be).
Again I look forward to welcoming you in Liège to a premier scientific meeting on thisfascinating area of endocrine oncology.
Prof. Albert Beckers,
Chairman, Local Organizing Committee
Abstract Submissions
Registration website: www.iwmen.org/event/Liege2012