Tuberculosis: The forgotten plague
Wednesday 24 March 2010
Venue: Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, LONDON, W1G 0AE, England
Registration Details:
Student: £35
Trainee: £50
AHP/Nurse/Midwife: £50
Consultant/GP: £150
Retired Fellow: £40
RSM Student: £30
RSM Trainee: £40
Associate: £40
Fellow: £80
Meeting ref: RMA03
CPD: 5 credits
9.30 am |
Registration and coffee |
10.00 am |
The role of the All Party Parliamentary Group |
| Mr Nick Herbert MP | |
10.25 am |
No headlines for TB |
| Ms Glenda Cooper, Journalist and former health correspondent for the BBC | |
10.50 am |
Overshadowed by AIDS |
| Ms Louise Holly, Deputy Director, Results UK | |
11.20 am |
Coffee break |
11.50 am |
Awareness and beyond: The role of the voluntary sector |
| Mr Mike Mandelbaum, CEO, TB Alert | |
12.15 pm |
Sir John Crofton, TB Alert Memorial Lecture - 'Should the UK move to more targeted treatment of LTBI in new entrants?' |
| Prof Peter Ormerod, Consultant Physician in Respiratory and General Medicine, Royal Blackburn Hospital | |
1.00 pm |
Lunch |
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What I would like to see changed in the NICE guidelines |
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2.00 pm |
The patient |
| Ms Ann Dennis | |
2.20 pm |
The chest physician |
| Dr John P. Watson, Consultant Respiratory Physician, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | |
2.40 pm |
The ID doctor |
| Dr Guy Thwaites, Imperial College London | |
3.00 pm |
The consultant in communicable disease control |
| Dr Philip Monk, Leicester | |
3.20 pm |
The nurse specialist |
| Ms Sue Jamieson, Liverpool | |
3.40 pm |
The microbiologist |
| Dr Grace Smith, Birmingham | |
4.00 pm |
Tea break |
4.20 pm |
The paediatrician |
| Dr Steven Welch, Consultant in Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham | |
4.40 pm |
Completion of evaluation forms |
4.45 pm |
Closing remarks |
| Prof Peter Davies, Council Member, Respiratory Medicine Section, RSM | |
5.00 pm |
Close of meeting |
