Program

Tuesday 22nd Oct. (Pre-congress course)
7.00 hs. | Open Secretary desk
From 8.00 hs | Pre-congress course NEWBORN SCREENING
  • 8:30 hrs Newborn Screening Laboratory Performance: From Pre-Analytical to Post-AnalyticalGustavo Borrajo 🇦🇷
  • 8:55 hs Assessment of Laboratory Performance: The Experience of the Newborn Screening Quality Assurance Program (NSQAP) – Ernesto Gonzalez 🇺🇸
  • 9:20 hs Accreditation of a Newborn Screening Laboratory. Experience in quality management – Sergio Obando 🇨🇷
  • 9:45 hs Questions
  • 10:20 hrs The Importance of the First Steps: Pre-Analytical Phase in the Neonatal Screening – Martha Ascurra 🇵🇾
  • 10:45 hs Unraveling the Complexity of the Analytical Phase of the Newborn Screening Laboratory- Isabel Ibarra 🇲🇽
  • 11:10 hs Post-analytical Factors That Can Affect the Quality of Newborn Screening Program- Amy Gaviglio 🇺🇸
  • 11:35 hs Preguntas
  • 13:20 hrs Expanded Newborn Screening with Mass Spectrometry – Cecilia Queijo 🇺🇾
  • 13:45 hs Confirmatory Studies for Expanded Newborn Screening – Mildred Jiménez 🇨🇷
  • 14:10 hs New Technologies in the Newborn Screening Laboratory and Their Analytical Performance – Raquel Yahyaoui 🇪🇸
  • 14:35 hs Questions
  • 15:10 hrs Newborn Screening experiences in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua – Pablo Tzorín 🇬🇹
  • 15:25 hs Newborn Screening experiences in Haiti, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Caribbean Islands – Ceila Pérez 🇩🇴
  • 15:40 hs ENewborn Screening experience in Costa Rica – Manuel Saborio Rocafort 🇨🇷
  • 15:55 hs Newborn Screening experiences in Colombia, Paraguay, Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru Martha Ascurra 🇵🇾
  • 16:10 hs Newborn Screening experience in Brazil – Ida Schwartz 🇧🇷
  • 16:25 hs Newborn Screening experience in Uruguay – Graciela Queiruga 🇺🇾
  • 16:40 hs Questions and conclusions
From 8.00 hs | Pre-congress course INBORN ERRORS OF METABOLISM AND KETOGENIC DIET: IMPLEMENTATION AND APPLICATION CHALLENGES
  • 11:00 hrs Implementation of the ketogenic diet – Sara Guillen 🇲🇽
  • 11:30 hs Chilean experience in ketogenic diet and GLUT-1 – Verónica Cornejo 🇨🇱
  • 12:00 hs State of the art of the ketogenic diet in another IEM – María Jesús Leal-Witt 🇨🇱
  • 12:30 hs Discussion and questions. Conclusions.
  • 13:00 hs Lunch Brak
  • 14:30 hrs Survey results on the use of ketogenic diet in Latin America – María Jesús Leal-Witt 🇨🇱
  • 14:45 hs Clinical case and discussion. Patient Glut-1 Soraia Poloni 🇧🇷
  • 15:30 hs Break
  • 16:00 hs Case report and discussion. Mitochondrial disease Marisa Armeno 🇦🇷
From 13.00 hs | Pre-congress course HEREDITARY METABOLIC DISORDERS WITH ADULT PRESENTATION

18.30 to 19.15 | Opening Lecture.
  • Quo vadis now in Inherited Metabolic Diseases – Eva Morava 🇺🇸
19.15 to 20.00 hs. | Opening Ceremony
20.00 to 22.00 hs. | Welcome cocktail
Wednesday 23th Oct.
7.00 hs. | Open Secretary desk
  • Collect your accreditation.
  • Obtain information about the sessions and speakers.
  • Make inquiries and resolve any doubts you may have about the congress
8.30 to 10.30 hs. | Lysosmal diseases
10.30 to 10.45 | Coffe Break
10.45 to 12.30 hs. | Room 1: Energy metabolism and neurotransmitters defects / Room 2: NBS: Update on the basic NBS panel

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Room 2

12.45 to 13.45 hs. | SIMPOSIOS
14.00 to 15.30 hs. | Sala 1: IEM of phenylalanine / Sala 2: Tools to improve results

Room 1

Room 2

15.30 to 16.00 hs. | Coffe Break
16.00 to 16.50 hs. | Oral Presentations
16.50 to 17.45 hs. | Sala 1: Equity for IEM in Latin America / Sala 2: NBS: New diseases included in the NBS panels

Sala 1

Sala 2

17.45 to 18.30 hs. | CONGENITAL DISORDERS OF GLYCOSYLATION
  • [17.45 hs] CDG: CDG: New phenotypes and therapiesEva Morava 🇺🇸
  • [18.15 hs] Questions
18.30 to 20.30 hs. | After-meeting with Poster Presentation Tour

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Thursday 24th Oct.
7.00 hs. | Open Secretary desk
  • Collect your accreditation.
  • Obtain information about the sessions and speakers.
  • Make inquiries and resolve any doubts you may have about the congress
8.30 to 10.15 hs. | IEM INTERMEDIARY UPDATE
  • [8.30 hs] Technological advances in newborn screening and new diagnostic methods including omicsGiancarlo La Marca 🇮🇹
  • [9.00 hs] New treatments for intermediary metabolic diseasesAngels García-Cazorla 🇪🇸
  • [9.30 hs] Clinical manifestations, long-term outcomes and newborn screening for citrin deficiency. Kimitoshi Nakamura 🇯🇵
  • [10.00 hs] Questions
10.15 to 10.45 hs. | Coffe Break
10.45 a 11.40 hs. | Room 1: Enfermedades Lisosomales / Room 2: PN: Tendiendo redes

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Room 2

11.40 to 12.30 hs. | Oral presentations
12.45 to 13.45 hs. | Simposios
14.00 to 15.30 hs. | Room 1: Novedades en EIM / Room 2: Pesquisa Ampliada de la organización al panel de estudios

Room 1

Room 2

15.30 to 16.00 hs. | Coffe Break
16.00 to 17.15 hs. | ADVANCES IN NEUROMETABOLIC DISEASES     
17.30 to 19.00 hs. | ASSEMBLY SLEIMPN
20 hs. | CLOSING DINNER
Friday 25th Oct.
07.30 hs. | Open Secretary desk
  • Collect your accreditation.
  • Obtain information about the sessions and speakers.
  • Make inquiries and resolve any doubts you may have about the congress
9.00 to 10.15 hs. | EXOME AND GENOME IN NBS AND IEM
  • [9.00 hs] Precision metabolic medicine: genetic diagnosis and targeted therapy for IEM. – Belén Pérez 🇪🇸
  • [9.30 hs] Ethical, legal and social equity aspects in the era of genomic newborn screening. – Amy Gaviglio 🇺🇸
  • [10.00 hs] Questions
10.15 to 10.45 hs. | Q&A
10.45 to 11.15 hs. | Coffe Break
11.15 to 12.00 hs. | Confernce Dr. Néstor Chamoles

Mucopolysaccharidosis: progress achieved and challenges to overcome – Roberto Giugliani 🇧🇷

12.00 to 12.15 hs. | Awards ceremony
12.15 to 12.30 hs. | Closing ceremony