Scientific Programme

The ESICON 2026 scientific programme has been meticulously designed to reflect the full scope and ongoing advances in Endocrinology and Diabetes, with content curated to meet the needs of a diverse audience, including Endocrinologists, Physicians, Endocrinology trainees, early-career academicians and researchers. The conference will host over 15 internationally renowned experts alongside approximately 250 eminent national faculty members, offering perspectives that span the translational spectrum - from fundamental research to real-world clinical practice. Over four days, ESICON 2026 will deliver an intensive academic experience featuring keynote addresses, prestigious orations, plenary lectures, thematic symposia, case-based panel discussions and structured debates. The programme covers endocrine disorders across the entire life course, with a strong emphasis on relevance and applicability within the Indian healthcare context.

• Obesity: from translational science to clinical management
• Diabetes across the life span, including atypical and complex forms
• Critical care endocrinology
• Pituitary and adrenal disorders
• Dyselectrolytemias
• Metabolic bone diseases
• Endocrine dysfunctions associated with systemic therapies

• What's on the horizon for Graves' disease management
• From pathophysiology to management of primary adrenal insufficiency
• Primary aldosteronism: recent updates
• Pheochromocytoma - paraganglioma: updates
• Hypogonadism: from genetics to clinics
• Anabolic steroid-induced male hypogonadism.
• Cushing's syndrome (diagnosis, treatment & newer therapies)

Special Symposia:

• Controversies in Obesity
• Should remission be a part of Type 2 DM management?
• MASLD: Bench to bedside
• Dyslipidaemia: Challenges in management
• Non-diabetic hypoglycaemia
• Diabetes in young
• Osteoporosis: Gen Z to Geriatrics
• Fracture risk assessment
• Evaluation of short stature
• Pubertal induction

Workshops:

• Insulin pump and closed loop systems
• Genetics & molecular endocrinology
• Nuclear imaging in endocrinology
• Setting up endocrine lab
• Endocrine career as a future
• Clinical-radio-pathological correlation

Debates:

• Are we over-treating Gestational Diabetes?
• Should all micropapillary carcinomas undergo surgery?
• Do HbAtc targets matter anymore?

Clinical Case Seminars:

• Recurrent cushing syndrome
• PCOS mimics
• Non-Classic congenital adrenal hyperplasia
• Hypophysitis spectrum
• Challenging prolactinomas
• Male subfertility
• Shift workers: endocrine issues