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Opening Ceremony
Keynote lectures
Broadcast live + recorded
Progress and future challenges for artificial intelligence
Marta Kwiatkowska (UK)
Good things happen when people of different backgrounds meet
Jack Hirsh (Canada)
Concert
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Grand Final
Welcome & opening lecture
Broadcast live + recorded
08:00–08:10
Welcome and introduction
08:10–08:30
Getting your work published: How to survive the journal peer review process
Christine Laine (USA)
PART 1
Broadcast live + recorded
Category: Nephrology
David Connellan (Ireland)
Profound muscle weakness from severe hypokalaemia: A hidden culprit
Mareé (Alida Maria) Hugo (South Africa)
Shoshin beriberi presenting during the perioperative kidney transplant period
Fatima Benbekhma (Algeria)
Hypereosinophilic syndrome revealing systemic IgA vasculitis: A complex case associating linear IgA dermatosis and glomerulonephritis
Bettina Gabrielle Tenorio (USA)
Double trouble: Wunderlich syndrome complicated by Page kidney in a patient with pyelonephritis
Piero Saieva (South Africa)
Hypokalaemic rhabdomyolysis due to clay geophagia during pregnancy
Luke Harris (Ireland)
A dynamic case of acute kidney injury: A diagnosis in flux
Category: Infectious Diseases
Ruhul Kuddus (Bangladesh)
Kala-azar meets leprosy: Clinical lessons from a rare tropical co-infection
Category: Cardiology
Liang-Chun Wang (Taiwan)
From rash to heart: Rapidly progressive varicella-associated pericarditis leading to cardiac tamponade in a young male
Angel Fabian Leon-Chavez (Colombia)
Transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis without TTR gene mutations: Wild-type TTR cardiac amyloidosis
Ryan Carroll (UK/Scotland)
Too breathless to sit up
Refreshment break
PART 2
Broadcast live + recorded
Category: Endocrinology
Cheng-Yeh Yang (Taiwan)
Cushing disease initially presented as macronodular adrenal hyperplasia: A case report and review of literature
Aleksandra Gamrat-Żmuda (Poland)
Severe, refractory hypokalemia in small-cell lung cancer is a red flag for ectopic hypercortisolemia
Josefa Alfonso Arecheta (Chile)
The invisible patient: A case of asymptomatic retroperitoneal paraganglioma mimicking postoperative sepsis
Gabriela Mejia (Colombia)
Extreme hyperinsulinemia: Not always an insulinoma
Category: Gastroenterology
Damian Arabasz (Poland)
How many drops of blood are needed to determine that the patient has crumpled paper in the liver?
Category: General Internal Medicine
Maja Nowicka (Poland)
Fulminant liver failure following marathon run
Yousef Alabrach (United Arab Emirates)
Recurrent syncope and cardiac arrest: Not the cause you think
Prawesh Adhikari (Nepal)
Midline mystery: An unusual urachal seminoma presenting as a large abdominopelvic mass
Mohammad Najjar (Israel)
The black swan effect in internal medicine: 4 cases that changed patients’ lives, changed our perspective, and might change yours
Zeeshan Khan (Pakistan)
Beyond Bell’s palsy: A diagnostic enigma
Lunch break
PART 3
Broadcast live + recorded
Category: Hematology
Anna Ürgeová (Slovakia)
A case that makes your blood run cold
Visakha Revana Irawan (Indonesia)
Rare, lethal, and reversible: Upper-extremity phlegmasia cerulea dolens in metastatic breast cancer
Abdirahman Ahmed (USA)
Triple-negative essential thrombocythemia in a 29-year-old presenting with multifocal stroke and arterial thrombosis: A diagnostic challenge beyond a patent foramen ovale
Rodrigo Funes-Ferrada (Chile)
Anasarca of unusual etiology: Clinical clues pointing to POEMS syndrome
Andreea Asaftei (Romania)
Immune sparks and pathogenic fires: A case of fulminant warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia
Category: Rheumatology
Gergely Péter Máté (Hungary)
The association of systemic lupus erythematosus and cutaneous leishmaniasis
Alexander Jančuška (Slovakia)
First case of VEXAS syndrome transfer by hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
Djihad Dina Amamri (Algeria)
Challenges in the management of Hughes-Stovin syndrome balancing risk and innovation
Ruth Airiel Ho (Singapore)
The gut feeling: A rare cause for postprandial abdominal pain
Iyed Oğuz (Turkey)
Unexplained severe hyperCKemia in a young woman: A case of genetically confirmed dysferlinopathy
Refreshment break
Peer Award Specialty Finals
PART 1
Available later on platform
Conference Hall | S4 is divided into two separate rooms. Presentations in Blocks A and B run in parallel.
Block: A1 | 8:00-8:50
Category: Infectious diseases
Manuela Delgado (Argentina)
Multiple brain lesions in HIV, not always infection
Filip Sadurski (USA)
Fulminant meningococcemia presenting with shock and early disseminated intravascular coagulation
Wiktoria Lewandowska (Poland)
A patient with lymphoma history presents with lymphadenopathy that turns out to be a rare animal acquired disease — tularemia
Harry Quin (USA)
Severe babesiosis with splenic infarction and coagulopathy in a patient with Brugada syndrome
Bohdana Halunka (Poland)
Sudden vision disturbances with ANCA antibodies — is it always systemic vasculitis?
Valentina Palazzesi (Argentina)
Beyond the usual suspects: Mycobacterium abscessus peritonitis in peritoneal dialysis
Bernardita Valenzuela (Chile)
Cardiac tamponade due to invasive pneumococcal disease: A rare but potentially fatal condition
Maria Carmen Galaka (Argentina)
Acute paracoccidioidomycosis presenting as chylous ascites and cutaneous dissemination: A rare manifestation in an endemic area
Fiona Murphy (Ireland)
An unwell adult on targeted immunosuppression
Block: A2 | 8:50-9:20
Category: Gastroenterology
Attila Szűcs (Hungary)
Abdominal resistance and anemia without malignancy: A misleading clinical picture
José Miguel Ortega Fuenzalida (Chile)
Severe lupus enteritis presenting as multifocal ileitis with ascites and acute kidney injury
Laura Michalková (Slovakia)
Chylous ascites and hypoalbuminemia: From symptom to diagnosis
Lilla Lichtblau (Hungary)
Acute complication and malignant transformation of a long-standing complex hepatic cyst: A diagnostic dilemma and the consequences of non-decision
Muhammad Haris Khan (Pakistan)
A young man with fever, cytokines, cytoses and “hepatocellular carcinoma”: The diagnosis that wasn’t
Jakub Jurica (Slovakia)
Non-traumatic left-sided atrioesophageal fistula
Block: B1 | 8:00-8:50
Category: Endocrinology
José Antonio López Hernández (Mexico)
Neurovegetative symptoms: A journey to find their etiology
Lucia Kubíková (Slovakia)
Endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty as an effective method of treating the patient with grade 3 obesity
Gasmi Mohamed Islem (Algeria)
PTH resistance revealed by acute hypocalcemia
Réka Bánki (Hungary)
IgG4-associated hypophysitis
Maria Komisarz-Calik (Poland)
Insulinoma mimicking pheochromocytoma
Fedir Laniush (Ukraine)
Secrets that harm: A case of concealed diuretic and laxative use causing hyperaldosteronism and hypokalemia
Sarah Zafar (Pakistan)
An unusual initial manifestation of pituitary macroadenoma: Refractory headache with occipital swelling
Nai-Rong Kuo (Taiwan)
From familial chylomicronemia-like phenotype to multifactorial chylomicronemia: A novel LPL variant with recurrent pancreatitis and portal hypertension
Sinéad Cadogan (Ireland)
“If the pregnant patient can’t concentrate, the physician needs to”: Relapsed central diabetes insipidus in pregnancy
Block: B2 | 8:50-9:20
Category: Nephrology
Monika Górska (Poland)
Time after time: Diagnostic pitfalls of paroxysmal hemolytic anemia coinciding with hyperlipidemia
Petra Anna Kurucz (Hungary)
Dual challenge in the diagnosis and management of a patient with skin lesions, pericardial effusion and the nephritic syndrome
Ivan Andre Hartono (Indonesia)
Preventing permanent renal damage, early recognition and management of post-traumatic rhabdomyolysis
Eva Zvárová (Czechia)
Acute kidney injury induced by synthetic cannabinoids
Refreshment break
Lunch break
PART 2
Available later on platform
Conference Hall | S4 is divided into two separate rooms. Presentations in Blocks C and D run in parallel.
Block: C1 | 17:10-17:50
Category: Rheumatology
Mehran Imtiaz (Pakistan)
Pulseless young woman: A clinical clue that should not be missed
Dominika Wasik (Poland)
Elderly-onset adult-onset Still’s disease triggered by transurethral resection of the prostate
Khouloud Benkhedda (Algeria)
Hypercalcemia revealing lymphomatous transformation in Sjögren’s syndrome
Aleksandra Opinc-Rosiak (Poland)
Massive cutaneous calcinosis in systemic sclerosis treated with ciclosporin: A diagnostic and therapeutic challenge
Meave Higgins (Ireland)
Giant cell arteritis, beyond the temporal artery
Block: C2 | 17:50-18:30
Category: Hematology
Václav Faměra (Czechia)
Amyloidosis presenting as a tumor-like lesion
Wei-Chiu Lin (Taiwan)
Amyloid light-chain (AL)–type diffuse parenchymal amyloidosis presenting as recurrent right side pleural effusion
Vicente Rayo Bastias (Chile)
Waldenström macroglobulinemia–associated renal amyloidosis with a persistent hypervascular renal mass: A diagnostic challenge
Wiktoria Ryżewska (Poland)
The wrong place, the right diagnosis: Multiple myeloma diagnosed from pleural effusion
Rodrigo Augsburger (Argentina)
All the iron, none of the red: Diagnostic reasoning in autoimmune pure red cell aplasia
Lina García (Colombia)
Unmasking cardiac involvement in hairy cell leukemia
Abd Alnaser Bsoul (Israel)
Refeeding syndrome and hemolytic anemia
Block: D1 | 17:10-17:45
Category: Cardiology
Saroj Ghimire (Nepal)
Unrepaired TOF in the seventh decade: A rare survival case
Nadhir Soltane Touchent (Algeria)
When the heart finally breathes: Reversible sinoatrial block in obstructive sleep apnea
Agnieszka Tusznicka-Pawlak (Poland)
Too tall, too young, too hypertensive — Abraham Lincoln’s disease in a 19-year-old patient. When should we suspect Marfan syndrome?
Ivana Lengyelová (Czechia)
When CRP is the only clue: An unusual presentation of aortic dissection
Block: D2 | 17:45-18:50
Category: General Internal Medicine
Leonid Rabinovich (Israel)
How many physicians do you need before the internist makes the diagnosis of acute porphyria
Daniela Dussan (Colombia)
Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia with hepatic involvement and splenic infarcts as atypical manifestation
Israa Mutasim Abdalla Mohamed (United Arab Emirates)
From dermis to deficit: A rare case of PRES triggered by skin lesion
Krystian Mirowski (Poland)
Chronic lithium toxicity precipitated by dehydration in an elderly patient
Natalia Rios Turek (UK/Scotland)
A case of sun-induced hypercalcemia in sarcoidosis patient
Marcin Kutek (Poland)
Diagnostic utility of point-of-care lung ultrasound using the BLUE protocol in transfusion-associated circulatory overload (TACO): A report of two cases
Kata Rebeka Utassy (Hungary)
Treatment of an acute metabolic crisis in an adult with maple syrup urine disease (MSUD)
Ondrej Cernocky (Czechia)
Extreme diabetes: A struggle between life and death
Abhishek Tiwary (Nepal)
A rare case of electrical storm after accidental poisoning of Delphinium species (Nirmasi)
Terézia Krausová (Slovakia)
Nutritional deficiency as a diagnostic trap
Award ceremony
Lunch break
Young Talents in Internal Medicine World Contest: Award ceremony
Program
Thursday, May 7
Satellite event: Young Talents in Internal Medicine World Contest Finals (8:00-15:10)
Grand Final
Presentations of the 30 highest-scored case reports
8:00–8:10
Welcome and introduction
8:10–8:30
Lecture by Christine Laine
8:30–10:20
Part 1
10 presentations with Q&As and commentaries
10:40-12:30
Part 2
10 presentations with Q&As and commentaries
13:20–15:10
Part 3
10 presentations with Q&As and commentaries
More info about the Contest at youngtalents.one
SESSION I: Acute hospital medicine (16:30-18:30)
Some hospitalized patients will deteriorate and become critically ill: How to prevent it
Chairs: Roman Jaeschke (Canada)
16:30-16:45
Level of troponin is elevated after surgery: What next?
Wojciech Szczeklik (Poland)
16:45-17:00
My patient is agitated and confused: Please help
Bram Rochwerg (Canada)
17:00-17:15
How to support a patient with respiratory failure outside of intensive care unit
Simon Oczkowski (Canada)
17:15-17:30
This is my patient: When should I call for help and whom to call?
Kimia Honarmand (Canada)
17:30-17:45
Too much or too little fluid? How to find out?
Michael Czekajlo (USA)
17:45-18:05
Dealing with sepsis: The most crucial points
Waleed Alhazzani (Saudi Arabia)
18:05-18:30
Questions & Answers
All speakers
Opening ceremony (19:00-21:30)
19:00-20:00
KEYNOTE LECTURES
Progress and future challenges for artificial intelligence
Marta Kwiatkowska (UK)
Good things happen when people of different backgrounds meet
Jack Hirsh (Canada)
20:15-21:30
Concert
Information about concert can be found here.
Friday, May 8
Satellite event: Young Talents in Internal Medicine World Contest Finals (8:00-9:20 and 17:15-18:45)
Peer Award Specialty Finals
Presentations of case reports in subspecialty categories
8:00-9:20
Part 1
17:15-18:45
Part 2
More info about the Contest at youngtalents.one
Meet the professor: Open forum on critical care, shock, and organ failure (8:00-9:20)
8:00-9:20
Waleed Alhazzani (Saudi Arabia)
Michael Czekajlo (USA)
Kimia Honarmand (Canada)
Roman Jaeschke (Canada)
Simon Oczkowski (Canada)
Bram Rochwerg (Canada)
Wojciech Szczeklik (Poland)
SESSION II: Endocrinology (9:40–11:05)
In collaboration with the Polish Society of Endocrinology
9:40–10:00
Hypothyroidism in pregnancy: When guidelines meet reality
Robin Peeters (The Netherlands)
10:00–10:20
Primary aldosteronism: Current management
Ally Prebtani (Canada)
10:20–10:40
Hypercortisolemia: Current management according to clinical practice guidelines
Aleksandra Gilis-Januszewska (Poland)
10:40–11:05
Questions & Answers
All speakers
SESSION III: The Multimorbid Patient (9:40–11:05)
Under the auspices of the European Federation of Internal Medicine
9:40–10:00
How to modify pharmacotherapy of primary arterial hypertension in multimorbid patients
Krzysztof Narkiewicz (Poland)
10:00–10:20
GLP1-RA and multimorbidity: Beyond expectations
Michał Holecki (Poland)
10:20–10:40
Management of chronic pain in multimorbid patients
Marcin Chwistek (USA)
10:40–11:05
Questions & Answers
All speakers
SESSION IV: Annual Update in Cardiology (11:25-16:50)
In collaboration with the Polish Cardiac Society
Part 1
11:25–11:45
2025 international guidelines on resuscitation: The most important practical messages
Bernd W. Böttiger (Germany)
11:45–12:05
Management of pericarditis: Key messages from the ESC guidelines
Massimo Imazio (Italy)
12:05–12:25
Management of myocarditis: Key messages from ESC guidelines
To be announced
12:25–12:50
Questions & Answers
All speakers
Part 2
13:40–14:00
Mitral regurgitation: Management according to ESC practice guidelines
Margarita Brida (Croatia)
14:00–14:20
Aortic stenosis: Management according to ESC practice guidelines
Wojciech Wojakowski (Poland)
14:20–14:40
How to select an antiarrhythmic drug or ablation for atrial fibrillation and for ventricular tachycardia
Paulus Kirchhof (Germany)
14:40–15:05
Questions & Answers
All speakers
Part 3
15:25–15:45
Broken-heart syndrome: Current management
Thomas Lüscher (Switzerland)
15:45–16:05
Optimal use of lipid-lowering therapy in patients with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease according to current practice guidelines
Richard Češka (Czech Republic)
16:05–16:25
Coronary artery disease: Which diagnostic test to choose and when
Matthew Sibbald (Canada)
16:25–16:50
Questions & Answers
All speakers
SESSION V: Annual Update in Rheumatology (11:25-16:50)
Part 1
11:25–11:45
Key decision points in management of rheumatoid arthritis
Ernest Choy (UK)
11:45–12:05
Key decision points in management of Sjögren disease
Elizabeth Price (UK)
12:05–12:25
Artificial Intelligence in rheumatology: 2026 update
Thomas Hügle (Switzerland)
12:25–12:50
Questions & Answers
All speakers
Part 2
13:40–14:00
Vasculitis: From suspicion to diagnosis
To be announced
14:00–14:20
Key decision points in management of the GCA PMR Takayasu LVV spectrum
Bhaskar Dasgupta (UK)
14:20–14:40
Approach to interstitial lung disease in people with systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases
Michal Tomcik (Czechia)
14:40–15:05
Questions & Answers
All speakers
Part 3
15:25–15:45
Key decision points in management of axial spondyloarthritis
Elena Nikiphorou (UK)
15:45–16:05
Key decision points in management of psoriatic arthritis
William Tillett (UK)
16:05–16:25
Key decision points in management of osteoporosis
Alexandra Papaioannou (Canada)
16:25–16:50
Questions & Answers
All speakers
Saturday, May 9
Satellite event: Young Talents in Internal Medicine World Contest Finals (8:00-9:20)
Peer Award Specialty Finals
Presentations of case reports in subspecialty categories
8:00-9:20 | Part 3
More info about the Contest at youngtalents.one
SESSION VI: Gastroenterology (9:30-10:55)
9:30–9:50
Gastroenterology update 2026: Key messages from the latest practice guidelines
Paul Moayyedi (Canada)
9:50–10:10
Celiac disease: Current management
Maria Pinto-Sanchez (Canada)
10:10–10:30
Screening for all cancers (with a focus on all GI cancer) with blood tests or total body scans: Is it worth it?
David Weinberg (USA)
10:30–10:55
Questions & Answers
All speakers
SESSION VII: Infectious diseases (9:30-10:55)
9:30–9:50
Vaccinations for people with severe comorbidity: Current state of the art
Mark Loeb (Canada)
9:50–10:10
HIV and AIDS in 2026: An update for non-specialists
Monika Bociąga-Jasik (Poland)
10:10–10:30
Applying antibiotic stewardship in patient care
Nishma Singhal (Canada)
10:30–10:55
Questions & Answers
All speakers
SESSION VIII: Annual Update in Nephrology (9:30-17:00)
Under the auspices of Mayo Clinic
Part 1
9:30–9:50
Nephrology update 2026
Jurgen Floge (Germany)
9:50–10:10
New drugs in chronic kidney disease
Maria José Soler (Spain)
10:10–10:30
Artificial intelligence in nephrology
Ziad Zoghby (USA)
10:30–10:55
Questions & Answers
All speakers
Part 2
11:10–11:30
Hyperglycemia and kidney disease
Aleksandra Kukla (USA)
11:30–11:50
Bleeding complications and thrombosis events in kidney disease
Hatem Amer (USA)
11:50–12:10
Nephrotoxicity of new anti-cancer agents
Sandra Herrmann (USA)
12:10–12:35
Questions & Answers
Part 3
13:35–13:55
New paradigms in the treatment of renovascular disease
Lilach Lerman (USA)
13:55–14:15
Blood pressure goals and treatment in pregnancy
Andrea G. Kattah (USA)
14:15–14:35
Preeclampsia: What internist should know
Vesna D. Garovic (USA)
14:35–15:00
Questions & Answers
All speakers
Part 4
15:15–15:35
Lupus nephritis: Redefining treatment goals
Fernando Fervenza (USA)
15:35–15:55
Monoclonal gammopathy and kidney
Ladan Zand (USA)
15:55–16:15
When to think about genetic testing in kidney disease
Mireille El Ters (USA)
16:15–17:00
Open panel discussion
SESSION IX: Pulmonology (11:10-12:35)
11:10–11:30
Current management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: 2026 update
Jadwiga Wedzicha (UK)
11:30–11:50
Asthma diagnosis: A complex pathway to clarity
Imran Satia (Canada)
11:50–12:10
To be announced.
12:10–12:35
Questions & Answers
All speakers
SESSION X: Thrombosis & Anticoagulation (11:10-12:35)
11:10–11:15
Introduction
Jack Hirsh (Canada)
11:15–11:40
When not to use DOACs
Stephanie Carlin (Canada)
11:40–12:05
Factor XI inhibitors: The future of anticoagulation?
Jeffrey Weitz (Canada)
12:05–12:10
Conclusion
Jack Hirsh (Canada)
12:10–12:35
Questions & Answers
All speakers
SESSION XI: Annual Update in Diabetology (13:35-17:00)
Under auspices of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes and the International Diabetes Federation Europe
Part 1
13:35-13:55
A Type 1 diabetes management consensus report by the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD): What can we expect from the 2026 update?
Tomasz Klupa (Poland)
13:55-14:15
Is there still a place for insulin therapy in type 2 diabetes in 2026?
Maciej Małecki (Poland)
14:15-14:35
Diabetic patient admitted to hospital for non-diabetic reason
Ally Prebtani (Canada)
14:35-15:00
Questions & Answers
All speakers
Part 2
15:15-15:35
Prediabetes: really just “Pre”? Pharmacological treatment options based on the patient's phenotype and clinical profile
Leszek Czupryniak (Poland)
15:35-15:55
Diabetes treatment in older age groups: Is there consistency between guidelines and common sense?
Tali Cukierman-Yaffe (Israel)
15:55-16:15
What are the evidence-based recommendations for the dietary management of diabetes?
Dario Rahelić (Croatia)
16:15-16:35
In the era of drugs that effectively reduce body weight and normalize glycemia, is there still a place for bariatric surgery?
Johanna Brix (Austria)
16:35-17:00
Questions & Answers
All speakers
How does it really look?
We have selected 4 excellent lectures as a sample of what you can expect:
- Prof. Serena Gundy, McMaster University, Canada: Management of nephrological and hematological complications of pregnancy
- Prof. Alejandro F. Frangi, University of Manchester, UK: Primum non nocere, secundum simulare! Ethical imperative of in silico evidence in the digital era
- Prof. Janusz Jankowski, University College London, UK: GI cancer prevention: From evidence to practice
- Prof. Mark Loeb, McMaster University, Canada: Highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1): An update
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