About this event

  • Date and time Thu 5 Dec 2024 from 10:00am to 5 Dec 2024 at 4:40pm
  • Location Royal Society of Medicine
  • Organised by Senior Fellows Forum

Please note that registration will take place between 10:00am and 10:25am, and you are welcome to register at any time within this period. To allow sufficient time for event preparations and to minimise waiting, we kindly ask that you do not arrive before 10:00am.

We are pleased to invite you to this one-day annual symposium that offers a series of reviews of clinical topics which have seen recent advances, given by speakers who are experts in their respective fields. This event will provide an update on a wide range of topics that will deliver broad, accessible and stimulating updates on topics that hold key clinical importance and current interest, directly relevant to physicians, surgeons, GPs and others involved in healthcare.

It will be a full day featuring keynote insights and eight main sessions, interspersed with regular refreshment breaks and opportunities to meet network and discuss with others attending.

Among the subjects to be addressed this year are: 

  • Faecal incontinence
  • The role of the obstetric physician
  • Parathyroid surgery in 2024
  • The dangers of Sunshine
  • Beware of your pets
  • Present and future of MRI in cardiology
  • Dementia: time for a rethink
  • Facial reconstruction

Participants will be able to:

  • Know about recent developments across a wide field of subjects of topical interest.   
  • Learn about new techniques in areas of medical and surgical practice.   
  • Help appreciate the value of a multidisciplinary approach in modern medicine.

This event is available to attend in person or virtually. Please select your preference below.

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Tickets (In Person)

Standard pricing available until 03 December 2024.

All in-person lunch packages are now sold out.

If you wish to attend in-person, please select the option without lunch. You will be able to eat in the onsite Restaurant or Lounge Bar. Alternatively you may choose to have lunch at one of the many nearby establishments.

Member

RSM Fellow
Day 1
£100.00 Event
£75.00 Event with no lunch included
RSM Associate
Day 1
£60.00 Event
£45.00 Event with no lunch included
RSM Retired Fellow
Day 1
£60.00 Event
£45.00 Event with no lunch included
RSM Trainee
Day 1
£50.00 Event
£38.00 Event with no lunch included
RSM Student
Day 1
£20.00 Event
£15.00 Event with no lunch included

Non - Member

Consultant / GP / SAS Doctors
Day 1
£167.00 Event
£75.00 Event with no lunch included
Non Healthcare Professional
Day 1
£100.00 Event
£45.00 Event with no lunch included
AHP / Nurse / Midwife
Day 1
£100.00 Event
£45.00 Event with no lunch included
Trainee
Day 1
£83.00 Event
£38.00 Event with no lunch included
Student
Day 1
£33.00 Event
£15.00 Event with no lunch included

Tickets (Virtual)

Standard pricing available until 04 December 2024.

All in-person lunch packages are now sold out.

If you wish to attend in-person, please select the option without lunch. You will be able to eat in the onsite Restaurant or Lounge Bar. Alternatively you may choose to have lunch at one of the many nearby establishments.

Member

RSM Fellow
Day 1
£75.00 Event with no lunch included
£75.00 Event
RSM Associate
Day 1
£45.00 Event with no lunch included
£45.00 Event
RSM Retired Fellow
Day 1
£45.00 Event with no lunch included
£45.00 Event
RSM Trainee
Day 1
£38.00 Event with no lunch included
£38.00 Event
RSM Student
Day 1
£15.00 Event with no lunch included
£15.00 Event

Non - Member

Consultant / GP / SAS Doctors
Day 1
£75.00 Event with no lunch included
£75.00 Event
Non Healthcare Professional
Day 1
£45.00 Event with no lunch included
£45.00 Event
AHP / Nurse / Midwife
Day 1
£45.00 Event with no lunch included
£45.00 Event
Trainee
Day 1
£38.00 Event with no lunch included
£38.00 Event
Student
Day 1
£15.00 Event with no lunch included
£15.00 Event

Key speakers

Miss Carolynne Vaizey

MBChB MD FRCS (Gen) FCS (SA)

Speaker's biography

Consultant Colorectal Surgeon. Qualified in South Africa, Consultant Surgeon, The Middlesex and UCLH, then Consultant Surgeon St Mark's. Previously Divisional Clinical Director for Surgery, Theatre, Anaesthesia, ITU & St Mark's at LNWUH (during Covid) then Co Medical Director for St Mark's. Special interests - intestinal failure, proctology and pelvic floor.

Dr Lucy MacKillop

BM BCh MA FRCP FRCOG Ad Eundem

Speaker's biography

Dr Mackillop is a Consultant Obstetric Physician, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, Nuffield Department of Women’s and Reproductive Health, University of Oxford; Fellow of  The Royal College of Physicians and The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists; President of the UK’s MacDonald Obstetric Medicine Society and Chief Medical Officer – Data & Research at EMIS plc. Dr Mackillop trained in General, Renal and Obstetric Medicine in Oxford, London and Sydney before taking up her consultant post in 2008.

Professor Fausto Palazzo

MS FRCS(Gen)

Speaker's biography

Professor Fausto Palazzo is clinical lead for endocrine & thyroid surgery at The Hammersmith Hospital & Imperial College Healthcare.  His main interests are thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal surgery. He has held executive office positions in the British, European and currently International endocrine surgical societies.   He was an advisor to NICE on primary hyperparathyroidism management guidelines.

Dr Hiva Fassihi

MA(Cantab.) MD FRCP

Speaker's biography

Dr Fassihi is a Consultant Dermatologist and Head of the Photodermatology Unit at St John’s Institute of Dermatology, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital. She is also Clinical Lead for the UK National Xeroderma Pigmentosum (XP) Service. Nationally, she is the Chair of the British Photodermatology Group, a special interest group of the British Association of Dermatologists. As an Honorary Reader at King's College London, she is involved in translational research in Xeroderma Pigmentosum and other disorders of abnormal DNA repair. She has published widely on different aspects of photodermatology and inherited skin disorders.

John Chitty

BVetMed CertZooMed CBiol MRSB MRCVS

Speaker's biography

Graduated from London University 1990. RCVS Certificate in Zoological Medicine 2000. RCVS Advanced Practitioner in Zoological Medicine 2015. Until recently practice owner (100% avian/ exotics/ small mammal/ zoo caseload) in Hampshire. Currently providing consultancy and advisory services to vets, zoo collections and Local Authorities. Past Board member of AAV and founding chair of AAV International Committee. Past president of Veterinary Invertebrate Society, EAAV and also of the British Small Animal Veterinary Association. Numerous publications on a variety of species including writing/ editing five textbooks (sixth on the way!). Currently Hon Secretary and trustee of Vetlife.

Professor Dudley Pennell

MD FRCP FACC FESC FRCR FAHA FSCMR FMedSci

Speaker's biography

Dudley Pennell is Professor of Cardiology at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London. He is Director of CMR at Royal Brompton Hospital, the largest CMR Unit in the world. He has been President of the Society for CMR and is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. His research interests are in measurement of myocardial iron, cardiomyopathy, and diffusion tensor imaging of myocardial architecture. He has worked in CMR for >30 years and published >650 research papers as well as the 3rd Edition of the textbook “Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance” as part of the Braunwald cardiology series.

Professor Martin Rossor

MD FRCP FMedSci

Speaker's biography

Martin Rossor trained in Neurology at the National Hospital, Queen Square and undertook research into the neurochemistry of degenerative dementia at the MRC Neurochemical Pharmacology Unit, Cambridge.

He is Professor of Clinical Neurology at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, and established a specialist cognitive disorders clinic which acts as a tertiary referral service for young onset and rare dementias.   Clinical research interests are in the degenerative dementias and particularly in familial disease.   He was editor of the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, and President of the Association of British Neurologists.  Martin was the NIHR National Director for Dementia Research and Director NIHR UCLH Biomedical Research Centre Dementia Theme.

Hiroshi Nishikawa

MA MD FRCS

Speaker's biography

Hiroshi Nishikawa was born in Japan and was educated from an early age in England. He studied medicine at Cambridge University and Kings College Hospital London. He carried out microsurgical transplantation research on the effects of antioxidants and free radicals on warm ischaemia for his MD thesis. He underwent plastic reconstructive, craniofacial and cosmetic surgery training in the UK, Australia, Japan and Taiwan. He has been a consultant plastic reconstructive and Craniofacial Surgeon since 1996. He was appointed  first in Leeds and then to the  Birmingham Children’s Hospital. He was the clinical lead of the Birmingham craniofacial unit from 2010 to 2015 and was on the Intercollegiate exam board for plastic surgery. He has lectured widely on his specialist interests and has worked with the charity Facing Africa in Ethiopia for the treatment of Noma patients with severe facial deformity. He retired from the NHS in 2020.  He is presently a director of the Westbourne Centre and now deals primarily with cosmetic patients and patients with facial deformity.

Agenda

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Registration, tea and coffee
Welcome and introduction

Dr Jeffrey Rosenberg, Chairman, Senior Fellows Forum, Royal Society of Medicine

Session One

Chair: Catherine Sarraf, Honorary Editor, Senior Fellows Forum

The role of the obstetric physician

Dr Lucy MacKillop BM BCh MA FRCP FRCOG Ad Eundem

Discussion
The dangers of sunshine

Dr Hiva Fassihi MA(Cantab.) MD FRCP

Discussion
Incompetence treating incontinence

Miss Carolynne Vaizey MBChB MD FRCS (Gen) FCS (SA)

Discussion
Lunch

Session Two

Chair: David Goldsmith

Beware of your pets

John Chitty BVetMed  CertZooMed CBiol MRSB MRCVS

Discussions
Dementia: time for a rethink

Professor Martin Rossor  MD FRCP FMedSci

Discussion
Present and future of MRI in cardiology

Professor Dudley Pennell MD FRCP FACC FESC FRCR FAHA FSCMR FMedSci

Discussion
Tea and coffee break

Session Three

Chair: Professor Robin Williamson

Facial reconstruction

Hiroshi Nishikawa MA MD FRCS

Discussion
Parathyroid surgery in 2024

Professor Fausto Palazzo MS FRCS(Gen)

Discussion
Close of meeting

Location

Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole St, Marylebone, London, W1G 0AE, United Kingdom

Registration for this event will close on Thursday 28 November 2024 at 1:00am (GMT) for the in-person event and 3 December 2024 for the live stream. Late registrations will not be accepted.

The agenda is subject to change at any time.

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

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