The genetic basis of respiratory diseases

Wednesday 12 May 2010

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

A joint meeting with the Medical Genetics Section

Early Bird rates expire on 12 April 2010

Registration Details:
RSM Fellow: £80
RSM Associate: £40
RSM Trainee: £40
RSM Retired Fellow: £40
RSM Student: £30
Consultant/GP: £150
AHP/Nurse/Midwife: £50
Trainee: £50
Student: £35
RSM Early Bird Fellow: £65
RSM Early Bird Associate: £30
RSM Early Bird Trainee: £30
RSM Early Bird Retired Fellow: £30
RSM Early Bird Student: £20
Early Bird Consultant/GP: £135
Early Bird AHP/Nurse/Midwife: £40
Early Bird Trainee: £40
Early Bird Student: £25

Meeting ref: RMA04

CPD (Applied for)




9.00 am

Registration and coffee

SESSION ONE
Chair: Dr Noemi Eiser, President, Respiratory Medicine Section, RSM

9.30 am

New developments in Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia
Dr Hannah Mitchison, Senior Lecturer in Molecular Genetics, Institute of Child Health, UCL

10.10 am

Genome wide screening for respiratory disease
Prof William Cookson, Professor of Respiratory Genetics, Imperial College London; Associate Head of NHLI and Campus Dean, Royal Brompton Campus.

10.50 am

Coffee break

11.10 am

New developments in genetics of asthma and COPD
Prof Ian Hall, Professor of Molecular Medicine, Dean of the Medical School, University of Nottingham

11.50 am

Gene therapy in cystic fibrosis
Prof Eric Alton, Professor of Gene Therapy and Respiratory Medicine, National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London and Honorary Consultant Physician, Royal Brompton Hospital

12.30 pm

Lunch

SESSION TWO
Chair: Dr Anand Saggar, President, Medical Genetics Section, RSM

1.30 pm

Importance of genetic considerations in contracting TB and responding to treatment
Prof Melanie Newport, Professor in Infectious Diseases & Global Health, Brighton and Sussex Medical School

2.10 pm

Mechanisms of innate immunity to pulmonary infections
Dr Olivier Neyrolles, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale, Toulouse, France

2.50 pm

Tea break

3.10 pm

Gene expression profiling to provide insight into disease mechanisms in sarcoidosis
Dr Ling-Pei Ho, Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Respiratory Medicine, MRC Human Immunology Unit, Oxford University

3.50 pm

New developments in management and genetics of lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM)
Dr Simon Johnson, Reader in Respiratory Medicine, Honorary Consultant Physician, University of Nottingham

4.30 pm

Completion of evaluation forms

4.35 pm

Closing remarks

4.40 pm

Close of meeting

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