About this event

  • Date and time Tue 14 Jan 2025 from 9:30am to 5:00pm
  • Location Online
  • Organised by Paediatrics and Child Health, London School of Paediatrics

This study day will cover non-malignant paediatric haematology conditions and will provide you with the latest updates available in the field of paediatrics haematology to trainees. It will be an engaging session with specialists and wider multidisciplinary team involved in paediatric haematology in which experts will discuss the conditions that are regularly encountered by a trainee in accident and emergency department, paediatric wards as well as in outpatient clinics. You will also have the opportunity to hear from a GRID/SPIN trainee who will give an insight into sub-specialising in haematology 

By attending, you will:

  • Review paediatric bleeding disorders and their management 
  • Recognise Neutropenia and its management
  • Develop an understanding of bone marrow transplant, failures and patient’s experience.
  • Identify the causes of anaemia in children and the indication for tertiary referrals
  • Manage haemoglobinopathies and its complications 
  • Attain further insight into sub-specialising in haematology

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Tickets

Standard pricing available until 14 January 2025.

Member

RSM Trainee
£35.00

Non - Member

Trainee London School of Paediatrics
£55.00 £45.00

Agenda

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Welcome and introduction

Chairs:

Anna Hutchins, Paediatrics Speciality Trainee Year 3, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Hephzibah Ogunro, Paediatrics Speciality Trainee Year 2, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Kiran Surdhur, Paediatrics, Reg, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Manisha Kumar, Paediatrics Speciality Trainee Year 5, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Bleeding

Dr Julia Sikorska, Consultant Paediatric Haematologist, St George’s University Hospital NHS Trust

Haemoglobinopathies 

Dr James Masters, Consultant Haematologist, St George’s University Hospital NHS Trust

Panel discussion
Comfort break
Bone marrow failure

Dr Lars Hanssen, Academic Clinical Fellow in Paediatrics Haematology, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, with contribution from Dr Deena Iskander, Honorary Consultant Haematologist, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Specialist haematology training and SPIN

Dr Srinivasa Rambhatla, Haematology Speciality Trainee Year 3 North Central London Deanery

Panel discussion
Lunch
Afternoon introduction

Chairs: Anna Hutchins, Hephzibah Ogunro, Kiran Surdhur, and Manisha Kumar

Bone marrow transplant and patient’s experience

Dr Leena Karnik, Consultant Haematologist, Imperial College NHS Trust and Dr Becky Armstrong, Clinical Psychologist in Paediatric Haematology, Imperial College NHS Trust

Comfort break
Nutritional anaemia

Dr Sue Height, Consultant Haematology, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 

Neutropenia

Dr Samantha Hughes, Consultant Haematologist, Birmingham Children’s Hospital

Panel discussion
Close of meeting

Closing remarks 

Location

Online

Registration for this event will close at 7:00am on Tuesday 14 January 2025. Late registrations will not be accepted.

The agenda is subject to change at any time

If the event is recorded, we are only able to share presentations that we have received permission to share. There is no guarantee that all sessions will be available after the event, this is at the presenter’s and RSM’s discretion.

All views expressed at this event are of the speakers themselves and not of the Royal Society of Medicine, nor the speaker's organisations.