In response to popular demand!
Medical Update for the
Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
A practical focus on the management of difficult medical disorders relevant to Child and
Adolescent Psychiatric practice on Monday 14 and Tuesday 15 September 2009
at Hammersmith Conference Centre, Hammersmith Hospital, London

Please click here to register your interest for the next running of this Course in 2010
 

• Dr Ruth Garcia, Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry,
  Bromley Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services

About the Course:

• Aimed at Consultants, Registrars and Staff Grades working in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
• A practical focus on the management of difficult medical disorders relevant to Psychiatric practice – what you won’t find in the textbooks.
• An excellent Faculty of leading consultants with a proven track record in the dissemination of medical know-how to front-line Clinicians
• Six Discussion Forums for detailed, practical discussion of grey cases in Psychiatric practice, in the clinic or on the wards, involving the medical specialities addressed in the lectures earlier in the day
• Submit or bring your own real grey cases for discussion in the Forums

• Dr Tammy Hedderly, Consultant Paediatric Neurologist, Evelina Children's Hospital, London

• Dr James Gnanapragasam, Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist, Wessex Cardiac Unit,
  Southampton General Hospital

• Professor Frank Besag, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist,
  Bedfordshire & Luton Community NHS Trust

• Dr Paramala J Santosh, Consultant in Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry
  and Psychopharmacology; Head of the Centre for Interventional Paediatric Psychopharmacology, Department of Child & Adolescent Mental Health, GOSH, London

• Dr David McCormick, Consultant Paediatrician, Neurorehabilitation and Epilepsy Clinical Director, Child Health King's College Hospital, London

• Dr Krystyna Matyka, Paediatric Endocrinology Consultant , University Hospital Coventry
  and Warwickshire and Senior Clinical Lecturer at The University of Warwick

• Dr Janet Barter, Consultant in Sexual and Reproductive Health, Enfield PCT

• Dr Esther Crawley, Consultant Paediatrician and Clinical Lead, Bath Paediatric CFS/ME Team,
  Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases; Clinical Senior Lecturer, Bristol University

• Dr Dasha Nicholls, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist; Joint Head of Feeding &
  Eating Disorders Service Department of Child & Adolescent Mental Health, GOSH, London

• Dr Margaret DeJong, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Honorary Senior Lecturer; Service Lead, Parent and Child Teams Department of Child and Adolescent Mental Health, GOSH

• Dr Mima Simic, Consultant, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Eating Disorder Service, Maudsley Hospital, London

• The General Physical Examination

• Neurology

• Cardiology

• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ME

• Endocrinology

• Safeguarding children

• Update on Sexual and Reproductive Health

• Eating Disorders

Six Discussion Forums - 3 Each Day

Delegates split into three groups on both days. Each group rotates six Forums, A, B, C, D, E & F so each delegate attends every Forum. Each Forum involves detailed, practical discussion of grey cases in Child and Adolescent Psychiatric practice, in the clinic or on the wards, involving the medical specialities addressed in the lectures earlier in the day.

PDF copy of the Course programme ▼