Calman (GIM) training Day 6th July 2005.

This meeting is free of charge and lunch is provided. To register for attendance please contact: Gill Ruane at Hillingdon Hospital On: 01895-279265 before July 1st 2005

Hillingdon Hospital Postgraduate Medical Centre.

9.00 Welcome

09.30 – 10.15 “West Nile Virus” – Here there and everywhere. Professor Ernie Gould – Professor at the Centre of Ecology & Hydrology at Oxford.
10.15 – 11.00 GLP-1 The future target for diabetes? Dr Mark Edwards – Consultant Physician -Hillingdon Hospital, Uxbridge, Middlesex.

11.00 COFFEE

11.15 – 12.00 “Health Forecasting” – Can we really predict Illness Dr William Bird - Meteorological Office.
12.00 – 13.00 OPEN FORUM Professor Dame Carol Black – President of the Royal College of Physicians.

13.00 LUNCH

14.00 – 14.45 Cardiac Disease in Pregnancy Dr Catherine Nelson-Piercy – Consultant Obstetrician, St Thomas’ Hospital, London
14.45 – 15.45 REGIONAL LECTURE “The New Therapies for Vasculitis & Lupus” Dr David Jayne – Consultant in Nephrology & Vasculitis at Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge.
15.45 – 16.30 “World Pandemic of Obesity” – Possible cure? Professor Steve Bloom – Professor in Metabolic Medicine. Imperial College Hospital, London