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Paediatrics Annual Meeting – Presentations, Presidential Address & Symposium

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9.30 am          
REGISTRATION & COFFEE

RESEARCH AND AUDIT PRESENTATIONS:

10.00 am        
Abdul-Hadi Kafagi - Evaluating the impact of the children's appendicitis score on the management of paediatric appendicitis at a district general hospital

10.20 am        
George Aldersley - Gene therapy in metachromatic leukodystrophy – where next for Manchester?

10.30 am        
Thomas Smith - Time to treatment of paediatric optic neuritis and effect on visual outcome in a single tertiary centre

10.40 am        
Aarushi Wuppalapati - A phenomenological study on the experiences of children with limb deficiencies

11.00 am         COMFORT BREAK 

RESEARCH AND AUDIT PRESENTATIONS:

11.15 am        
Lauren Saych - Seafood allergy in children: the importance of hospital based oral food challenges in confirming diagnosis

11.25 am       
Eleanor Buxton - Outcome of babies admitted to RPH NICU over 3 years with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy

11.35 am       
Zainab Shah - Can pre-operative snappe-ii scores predict mortality in newborns with surgical necrotising enterocolitis?

11.45 am       
Dalia Abdalla - An audit into the management of children leaving before clinical assessment

12.15 pm       
The Annual General Meeting of the Section of Paediatrics will take place immediately prior to the Presidential Address to formally elect new Office bearers and members of Council

12.20 pm       
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS of Dr Sandeep Dharmaraj, Consultant Neonatologist, Royal Preston Hospital
"Challenges in Neonatal Intensive Care: The new and the old"

Talk synopsis:

This lecture will address the challenges associated with the management of extremely preterm infants at the threshold of viability (22-weekers). This will include consensus approaches where available and some local/regional data and outcomes. The talk will address current incidences of BPD and will also review the respiratory outcomes of these babies when they develop Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia and Chronic Lung disease of prematurity.

1.00 pm          
LUNCH

AFTERNOON SESSION 

2.00pm
CATHERINE CHISHOLM MEMORIAL LECTURE: RCPCH-facing the future together
Professor Steve Turner, RCPCH President

Talk synopsis:

Professor Turner will give an overview of present and future issues the college is working towards.

Learning objectives:

  1. To understand present issues RCPCH is currently working towards
  2. To understand future issues RCPCH is currently working towards
  3. For members in the audience to ask Steve questions  

2.35pm 
Immune mediated inflammatory diseases - genes, biome and treatments (mabs and nibs)
Professor Athimalaipet Ramanan, Consultant Paediatric Rheumatologist at the Bristol Royal
Hospital for Children

Talk synopis:
Professor Ramanan will touch on the concept of Immune mediated inflammatory diseases and the novel treatments that are available now

3.10pm
BREAK

3.30pm
Socioeconomic health inequalities of childhood: old problem, new solutions
Professor Ian Sinha, Consultant Respiratory Paediatrician at Alder Hey Childrens Hospital

4.05pm
Reducing Alcohol Exposed Pregnancies-Greater Manchester approach
Róisín Reynolds, GM Integrated Care Board Strategic Lead for Alcohol Harm, Population Health NHS Greater Manchester
Nazia Rehman, GM Integrated Care Board Policy and Project Manager for Alcohol Harm, Population Health NHS Greater Manchester

Talk synopis:

An overview of how Greater Manchester has developed a proof-of-concept programme to reduce the number of women using alcohol in pregnancy and how they responded to NICE Quality Standard 204.  Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.  

4.40pm
MEETING CLOSE

   CPD certificates will be made available to all attendees.

This meeting has been supported by Proveca with
Subsistence and Exhibition space only and had no involvement with the agenda or content.

*Venue directions:  https://www.mandec.co.uk/contact/

MANDEC is built on the roof of the Dental Hospital and has its OWN ENTRANCE in Bridgeford Street. PLEASE NOTE: Access is NOT available through the Dental Hospital Patient Entrance – the MANDEC entrance door is to the left of this.  On entering the building take the lift or stairs to the 3rd floor.

PARKING

Please note: Booth Street West car park is chargeable.  Access is from HIGHER CAMBRIDGE STREET. SATNAV postcode M15 6AR. The entrance road to the multi storey car park is opposite the Trinity High School and behind the Hyatt Regency Hotel.

For further information regarding Manchester University Campus parking see link https://www.manchester.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/open-days-visits/open-days/travel/parking/

Prices

This event is free for MMS members. For non-members, please find a list of tickets for this event below.

Ticket Price
Any non-member £50.00

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