Tele-Cardiology: Bringing cardiology closer to the patient
Tuesday 8 September 2009
Venue: The Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London, W1G 0AE
A meeting in association with Cardiology Section
Online registration for this meeting has now closed
You may still be able to attend (please contact the Section Coordinator on 020 7290 3947 to check availability) although at this late stage we may not be able to offer you lunch on the day. We cannot offer a discounted rate in this instance.
Registration Details:
Fellow: £80
Associate: £60
Trainee - Fellow: £60
Student Members: £30
Non-Fellow: £140
Trainee - Non-Fellow: £90
Student: £40
Allied Health Professional: £100
Meeting ref: TE-G10-2
CPD: 4 credits
9.00 am |
Registration with tea and coffee |
9.30 am |
Opening address |
| Dr Eileen Brebner, President of Telemedicine and eHealth Section | |
| Chair: Dr Eileen Brebner, President, Telemedicine and eHealth Section | |
9.40 am |
Videoconferencing in a tertiary referral centre; current practice and future goals |
| Dr Michael Rigby, Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist , Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Trust | |
10.00 am |
Telemedicine in foetal cardiology: prerequisites, pitfalls and prospects |
| Dr Helena Gardiner, Director & Senior Lecturer in Perinatal Cardiology, Imperial College at Royal Brompton and Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospitals, London | |
10.20 am |
Economic evaluation of telemedicine for cardiology |
| Hema Mistry, Research Fellow in Health Economics, HERG, Brunel University | |
10.40 am |
Requirements to make research projects into routine service provision |
| Dr Gwyn Weatherburn, Reader in Medical Imaging, Faculty of Society & Health, Buckinghamshire New University | |
11.00 am |
Round table panel and discussion |
11.25 am |
Coffee break |
| Chair: Dr John Brebner | |
11.40 am |
Telemedicine and heart failure |
| Professor John Cleland, Foundation Chair in Cardiology, University of Hull | |
12.00 pm |
Telemedicine for heart failure: the HOME-HF Study in West London |
| Professor Martin Cowie, Professor of Cardiology, Consultant Cardiologist, Royal Brompton Hospital | |
12.20 pm |
What monitoring of CHF means to carers |
| Glenis Johnston, Buckinghamshire New University | |
12.40 pm |
Round table panel and discussion |
1.05 pm |
Lunch |
| Chair: Dr Carl Shakespeare, President Elect, Telemedicine and eHealth Section | |
2.05 pm |
Saving hearts in Scotland |
| Dr Karyn Webster, Clinical Research Fellow in Telemedicine, Scottish Centre for Telemedicine | |
2.25 pm |
Wireless telemedicine in primary care - The Greater Manchester experience |
| Karen Gibbons and Luke Coleman, Greater Manchester & Cheshire Cardiac & Stroke Network | |
2.45 pm |
A patient's experience of a self operated 12-lead ECG unit |
| Glenis Johnston, Buckinghamshire New University | |
3.05 pm |
Round table and panel discussion |
3.30 pm |
Completion of evaluation forms |
3.40 pm |
Close of meeting |
