Alex Comfort lecture: Novel multidisciplinary approaches to falls and syncope and AGM

Tuesday 4 May 2010

Venue: Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, LONDON, W1G 0AE

Professor Rose Anne Kenny was appointed to Trinity College Dublin and St. James's Hospital in 2005 as Head of the academic Department of Medical Gerontology, Director of the new Falls and Blackout Unit at St. James's Hospital, Director of the new Centre for Successful Ageing and is visiting Professor of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Formerly Professor of Geriatric Medicine at the Institute for Ageing & Health, Newcastle upon Tyne in the UK, she has been a world leader in research into cardiovascular and mobility disorders in ageing. She has published in excess of 200 papers, 40 book chapters and 3 text books and currently chairs the Falls Prevention Working Party for the American and British Geriatric Societies and the National Falls collaborative Working Group in Ireland. She has presented her field on international groups for heart failure, syncope and falls. Since her appointment at Trinity College (Oct 2005) she is lead principal investigator for three major research studies in falls and ageing.

Registration Details:
Optional meal: £30
Allied Health Professional: £15
Trainee: £15
Consultant/GP: £35
RSM Student: Free of charge
RSM Trainee:: Free of charge
RSM Associate: Free of charge
RSM Fellow:: Free of charge
Student: £5
Optional meal: £30

Meeting ref: GGA05

CPD: 2 credits