60 minutes

Drugs used in Gastrointestinal/Liver Disease that cause Psychiatric symptoms

Prof Kevin Moore

Consultant Hepatologist, Royal Free Hospital

  • The relevant drugs, including INFα and steroid-based drugs, as used for: Hepatitis, Cirrhosis, Other disorders
  • Psychiatric medications that impact on gastro hepatology:
  • Anti depressants, antipsychotics, anxiolytics
  • Absorption and metabolism characteristics
  • Disruption of the metabolism and disruption of the gut
  • Drug-induced injury
  • Interplay between gastroenterology and hepatology and psychiatric medications

60 minutes

Cardiovascular Pharmacology Update

Dr Dan Bromage

Consultant Cardiologist, King's College Hospital, London

  • Ischaemic heart disease, anti-platelets and anti-anginals
  • Anti-arrhythmics , QTc, clozapine-induced tachycardia and acetyl-cholinesterase inhibitors
  • Treatment of atrial fibrillation, including anti-coagulation
  • What’s new in heart failure?

60 minutes

Neuropharmacology Update

Dr Graziella Quattrocchi

Consultant Neurologist, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queens Square, and North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust

  • Headache and other non-nociceptive pains
  • Epilepsy
  • Depression and psychosis
  • Antidepressants, antipsychotics
  • Parkinson's
  • Alzheimer's and other dementias
  • MS
  • Rarities

60 minutes

Advances in Endocrine Pharmacology and the Pharmacology of Diabetes

Dr Alison Wren

Consultant Endocrinologist, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London

  • Diabetes
  • Which Drugs have hypo risk and which promote weight gain or weight loss
  • Focussing on how to improve adherence
  • Focussing on newer drugs with evidence for cardiovascular risk reduction, including GLP-1 agonisist and SGLT-2 inhibitor
  • Diabetes
  • Mood effects of dopamine agonists for prolactinoma and interaction with antipsychotics
  • Hyprerprolactinaemia in patients on antipsychotics
  • Drug treatment of thyrotoxicosis and common side effects
  • Strategies for non-adherence in thyroxine therapy
  • Vitamin D

60 minutes

Psychotropic medicines and the pandemic

Dr Siobhan Gee

Principal Pharmacist in Liaison Psychiatry and Honorary Senior Lecturer, South London and Maudsley & King's College Hospital, London

  • Key medications
  • Safe and informed prescribing
  • Pharmacological guidelines for management
  • Recommended monitoring
  • Risks and lessons to date

60 minutes

Clinical Pharmacology of HIV

Dr Lucy Garvey

Consultant in HIV Medicine, St Mary's Hospital, London

  • Update on ARVs and neuropsychiatric side effects: NRTI, NtRTI, NNRTI, Integrase I, PI, Entry I
  • Neuroleptic medication in patients with HIV
  • Interplay between psychotropic medication and ARVs
  • Medication for HIV related neurocognitive impairment and psychotic symptoms
  • The HIV patient and Covid