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