DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES THIS MEETING HAS BEEN POSTPONED.
9.00 am
Coffee and Registration
9.30 am
The Annual General Meeting of the Section of Medicine will take place immediately prior to the symposium to formally elect new Office bearers and members of Council.
9.35 am - 12.30 pm
The programme will include the following talks:
Theme: Pharmacological obesity management
Professor Akheel Syed, Consultant Endocrinologist, NCA Foundation Trust (Salford Royal Hospital)
Cystic Fibrosis; Carnage to cure?
Professor Kevin Webb, Clinical Director, Manchester Adult Cystic Fibrosis Unit, Wythenshawe Hospital South Manchester
Talk synopsis:
This talk will cover the evolution over 45 years of the Regional Manchester Adult CF centre based at Wythenshawe hospital. The complexities of multisystem disease and the requirements for multidisciplinary care will be discussed. The political difficulties of setting up the unit and maintaining funding will be covered. Finally recent life changing therapeutic advances will be considered.
Learning objectives:
- Cystic fibrosis is an inherited genetic disease (autosomal recessive). The basic genetic defect is expressed in all ductal systems causing multisystem pathology.
- Focused Multidisciplinary care is crucial for survival and requires dedicated facilities
- Recent genetic therapeutic advances (modulators) may extend survival in CF adults by decades and potentially provide a cure for paediatric CF patients
Further speakers to be confirmed.
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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.
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