Tuesday June 25

Welcome Reception (Devere Hall)

Registration Desk Open (Devere Hall)

 

Wednesday June 26

Scientific Sessions (Boole Theatre Complex)

Welcome and Opening Remarks

• M. Kiely and K. Cashman, Meeting Co-Chairs
• J. Fleet, Workshop CEO and J. Welsh, Workshop CFO

 

Day 1 Theme: Impact of Vitamin D on Disease Pathogenesis, Prevention and Treatment

Session 1: Type 2 Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease

• Carlos Bernal-Mizrachi - Epigenetic programming of immune cells to cause insulin resistance and  hypertension
• Robert Scragg - Clinical Trials Synthesis (cardiovascular disease outcomes)

• Promoted Speakers

Session 2: Cancer Prevention, Treatment, Survival

• Larisa Nonn - Vitamin D, prostate cancer and disparities
• Rachel Neale - Clinical Trials Synthesis (cancer mortality outcomes)
• Promoted Speakers

General Poster Session I with Lunch

Session 3: Respiratory illness including COVID-19 

• Martin Hewison - Progress in understanding of Vitamin D & immune function during the COVID-19 pandemic
• Adrian Martineau - Vitamin D for respiratory infections: lost in translation?
• Promoted Speakers

Session 4:  Updated Endocrine Society Clinical Guidelines  

• Anastassios Pittas - Outcomes and data synthesis from the Endocrine Society update of clinical guidelines for vitamin D
• Panel Discussion - Anastassios Pittas, Robert Scragg, Mairead Kiely, Dan Bikle

 

Thursday June 27

Day 2 Theme: Vitamin D and Healthy Life Course

Session 5: Reproductive Health/Perinatal outcomes

• Martin Blomberg Jensen -  Latest data on vitamin D and reproduction in men
• Hope Weiler - Vitamin D during Pregnancy and functional outcomes
• Promoted Speakers

 

Session 6: Vitamin D in Brain Development and Decline

• Darryl Eyles - Vitamin D and brain: early circuity development during pregnancy & autism
• Francois Feron – Vitamin D and cognition in the ageing brain
• Promoted Speakers

                 

General Poster Session II with Lunch

Session 7:  Vitamin D in Musculoskeletal Development and Maintenance

• Kevin Cashman - New FAO-WHO Vitamin D recommendations for prevention of childhood rickets prevention
• Lieve Verlinden - A comprehensive perspective on the role of vitamin D signaling in maintaining bone homeostasis
• Promoted Speakers                          

 

Session 8: 

• Mark Meyer - Exploiting the genomic mechanism of renal vitamin D metabolism to understand the consequences of supplementation on non-renal calcitriol production

Young Investigator Awards Ceremony

Reception and Conference Dinner (Aula Maxima, UCC)

 

Friday June 28

Day 3 Theme: Prevention of Vitamin D Deficiency in Clinical & Public Health Settings

Session 9: Vitamin D Supplementation and Dosing

• James Fleet - Absorption and metabolism of vitamin D₂, D₃, and 25OHD
• Maria Luisa Brandi -  Calcifediol: efficacy and safety  
• Promoted Speaker   

 

Session 10: Vitamin D Fortification of Food

• Janice Daoust- Translation & implementation: the Canadian experience of vitamin D food fortification
• Maaike Bruins - Vitamin D as a fortificant - applications, cost, uptake by the food industry
• Mairead Kiely - Why co-design of nutrition policy is key: case of vitamin D
• Round table discussion                    

 

Closing Remarks