Programme
Advanced Medicine Monday 11 – Thursday 14 February 2019
Royal College of Physicians, 11 St Andrews Place, Regent’s Park, London NW1 4LE
Programme organiser: Dr Robin Lachmann and Professor Alan Salama, University College London
Monday 11 February
09.30 Registration and coffee
09.55 Welcome and opening remarks Professor Andrew Goddard, president, Royal College of Physicians
Each speaker slot should include a minimum of 5-8 mins Q&A
Session 1: Aging Chair: Professor Adam Gordon, University of Nottingham
10.00 Biology of aging: the aging individual Professor Avan Aihie Sayer, Newcastle University
10.30 Epidemiology of aging: the aging population Professor Kay-Tee Khaw, University of Cambridge
11.00 Healthcare and an aging population Dr Simon Bottery, Kings Fund
11.30 Coffee
Session 2: Clinical aspects of aging Chair: Dr Robin Lachmann, University College London
11.50 Frailty and Resilience Professor John Gladman, University of Nottingham
12.10 Delirium Dr Tom Jackson, University of Birmingham
12.40 Lunch
Linacre lecture Chair and vote of thanks: Professor Andrew Goddard, president, Royal College of Physicians
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13.40 TBC
Session 3: Drugs Chair: TBC
14.30 Pharmacology of aging Professor Stephen Jackson, Kings College London
15.00 Primary and secondary prevention in the elderly: what’s the evidence? Dr Terry Quinn, University of Glasgow
15.30 Tea
The Lady Estelle Wolfson Lecture Chair and vote of thanks: Professor Andrew Goddard, president, Royal College of Physicians
15.50 TBC
16.50 Close of day and drinks reception
Tuesday 12 February
Session 4: Clinical Trials Chair: Dr Robin Lachmann, University College London
09.30 Phase III clinical trials, what are they good for? Professor Alan Boyd, Boyd Consultants
10.00 Drug development in rare diseases Dr Elaine Murphy, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
10.30 Designing clinical trials for real life Professor Ashley Woodcock, University of Manchester
11.00 Coffee
Goulstonian Lecture Chair and vote of thanks: Professor Andrew Goddard, president, Royal College of Physicians
11.30 TBC
12.30 Lunch
Session 5: Patient Safety Chair: Dr John Dean, East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
13.30 Improving care by learning from deaths Dr Andrew Gibson, University of Sheffield
14.00 News about sepsis Dr Matt Inada-Kim, NHS England
14.30 Patients as partners in an inpatient setting Dr Chris Subbe, Ysbyty Gwynedd and Bangor University
15.00 Tea
Session 6: TBC Chair: Novel Therapeutics
15.30 Artificial livers TBC
16.00 Stem cell therapy Professor Emma Morris, University College London
16.30 TBC
17.00 Close of the day
Wednesday 13 February
Session 7: How to treat update on rheumatological diseases
09.15 GCA/Large vessel vasculitis TBC
09.45 SLE Professor David Isenberg, University College London
10.15 Anti-phospholipid syndrome Professor Ian Giles, University College London
10.45 Coffee
Session 8: Innovations in service delivery Chair: Dr John Dean, East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
11.05 Safe care for older people Dr Alison Cracknell, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
11.35 Understanding behaviours to improve services Dr Anna Burhouse, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Croonian Lecture Chair and vote of thanks: Professor Andrew Goddard, president, Royal College of Physicians
12.05 Keratinocyte cancers – a growing problem TBC
13.00 Lunch
Session 9: Investigation and management of non-infectious fevers Chair: TBC
14.00 Pyrexia of unknown origin Dr Mike Brown, University College London
14.30 Hyperferritinaemia and hyperinflammation Dr Rachel Tattersall, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals
15.00 Systemic autoinflammatory diseases Dr Helen Lachmann, University College London
15.30 Tea
Session 10: Falls Chair: TBC
16.00 The multifactorial nature of falls Professor Tahir Masud, Nottingham University Hospitals
16.30 How to assess an individual faller Dr Adam Darowski, Nuttfield Health
17.00 Close of day
Thursday 14 February
Session 11: How to treat thromboembolism Chair: TBC
09.30 DVT TBC
10.00 Pulmonary embolism Dr Gerry Coghlan, Royal Free
10.30 Stroke Dr Anthony Pereira, St George’s Hospital
11.00 Coffee
Session 12: How to treat epilepsy Chair: TBC
11.30 Medical management of epilepsy Dr Meneka Sidhu, University College London
12.00 Brain imaging for epilepsy Professor John Duncan, University College London
12.30 Surgical treatment of epilepsy Ms Anna Miserocchi, University College London
13.00 Lunch
Session 13: How to treat cardiology
Chair: Dr Chris Baker, The London Clinic
14.00 Arrhythmias Dr Julian Jarman, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust
14.30 Acute coronary syndromes Dr Chris Baker, The London Clinic
15.00 Heart failure Dr Carla Plymen, Imperial College Healthcare
15.30 Tea
Session 14: How to treat diabetes Chair: TBC
15.50 Medical devices in diabetes TBC
16.20 Insulin: a not so simple molecule TBC
16.50 Close of conference