There is a Registration Fee of £50 for Non-Members of the Manchester Medical Society – Medical/health related Undergraduate Students can attend free but must register in advance at admin@mms.org.uk using their student email. No charge for members.
1.30 pm
Coffee, Registration & Viewing of Posters
2.00 pm
Switching antipsychotic medication to improve physical health comes-evidence based approach
Professor Saeed Farooq, Professor of Psychiatry and Public Mental Health, Keele University, Staffordshire; Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
2.35 pm
Neuroimmunology and treatment of psychosis
Professor Bill Deakin, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, University of Manchester
3.10 pm
Coffee Break & Viewing of Posters
3.30 pm
Can We All Be Precision Prescribers?
Professor Richard Drake, Professor of Clinical Adult Psychiatry, University of Manchester; Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist in Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS FT Early Intervention Service
- What is precision prescribing and how can we apply it? A range of things are possible – tighter dose control using plasma monitoring, like clozapine; better staging; tighter clozapine dosing; pharmacotherapeutics; increasing patient choice; tighter symptom control. But which are worth doing? What can we do in practice?
4.05 pm
Review of the evidence base for psychopharmacological treatments for borderline personality disorder: NICE guidance of clinical practice
Dr Inti Qurashi, Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, Merseycare NHS Trust
4.40 pm
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