Clinical update: Tropical and travel medicine for General Physicians and GPs in the UK
Tuesday 29 April 2008
Venue: The Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London, W1G 0AE
The aim of this Clinical Update conference on tropical medicine is to provide the specialist knowledge and skills necessary for general physicians and GPs to recognise and manage acute presentations of tropical diseases in the UK.
With the greater mobility of populations and changing patterns of disease, tropical diseases are being seen more frequently in the UK. It is obviously important that those working on the frontlines of medicine feel confident in the safe acute management of these problems, before specialist help is available.
This conference will examine some common problems, the emphasis throughout being on practical management.
Registration Details:
Fellow: £130
Associate: £100
Trainee - Fellow: £100
Retired Fellow: £100
Student Members: £40
Non-Fellow: £240
Allied Health Professional: £125
Nurse: £125
Trainee - Non-Fellow: £125
Student: £55
CPD: 5 credits
Please note the change of time for the Lloyd Roberts Lecture.
9.30 am |
Registration and coffee |
9.55 am |
Welcome address |
| Dr John Scadding, Dean, RSM | |
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Session One |
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| Chair: Dr Stephen Wright, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, London | |
10.00 am |
Diagnosis and prevention of Malaria |
| Professor Peter Chiodini, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, London | |
10.25 am |
Questions |
10.35 am |
Febrile in the returning traveller |
| Professor Chris Whitty, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, London | |
11.00 am |
Questions |
11.10 am |
Coffee break |
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Session Two |
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| Chair: Professor Diana Lockwood, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, London | |
11.40 am |
Skin infections in the returning traveller |
| Professor Francisco Vega-Lopez, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, London | |
12.05 pm |
Questions |
12.15 pm |
Diarrhoea |
| Dr Stephen Wright, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, London | |
12.40 pm |
Questions |
12.50 pm |
Lunch |
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Session Three |
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| Chair: Professor Francisco Vega-Lopez, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, London | |
1.50 pm |
Clinical issues in migrant health: Leprosy |
| Professor Diana Lockwood, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, London | |
2.15 pm |
Questions |
2.25 pm |
Clinical issues in migrant health: Strongyloidiasis |
| Dr Michael Brown, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | |
2.50 pm |
Questions |
3.00 pm |
Coffee break |
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Session Four |
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| Chair: Dr John Scadding, Dean, RSM | |
3.20 pm |
Some lurking dangers of the tropical environment |
| Professor David Warrell, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford. To book for the Lloyd Roberts Lecture, please contact Mrs Joanna Rose on 0207 290 2902. | |
4.15 pm |
A Cook's tour of tropical parasites |
| Dr Tom Doherty, Hospital for Tropical Disease, London | |
4.40 pm |
Questions |
5.00 pm |
Close of meeting |
