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SUMMARY:General Internal Medicine – Core Topics (Autumn 2025)
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DESCRIPTION:2.00 pm\n\nA brief 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.\n\n2.05 pm  - 4.30 pm\n\nTheme: Pharmacological obesity management      \nProfessor Akheel Syed, Consultant Endocrinologist, NCA Foundation Trust (Salford Royal Hospital)\n\n\nAsthma diagnosis and misdiagnosis: solution lies within the 4th dimension \nDr Ran Wang, NIHR Clinical Lecturer, University of Manchester and ST7 Respiratory Medicine, Manchester University NHS FT\n\nTalk synopsis:\n\nAsthma is common affecting 10% of the UK population. Of 160,000 new diagnosis per year, up to one in three are misdiagnosed. Asthma is defined by symptoms and airflow obstruction that fluctuates over time. Despite the hallmark of asthma is its temporal variability, current clinical practice still approaches the condition as if it was a static disease.\n\nIn this lecture, I will summarise the current diagnostic challenges in asthma and highlight how time is the missing dimension in asthma care. I will demonstrate how diurnal, day-to-day and longer-term fluctuations can influence our clinical decision-making and present evidence that using domiciliary monitoring and demonstrate how longitudinal test measurements capturing the variability in asthma pathophysiology can better improve asthma care.\n\nThese findings underscore the need to move beyond static, one-size-fits-all approaches towards diagnostic strategies that recognise time as a critical dimension in asthma. In response to the mounting evidence, the Global Initiative for Asthma 2025 guidance has incorporated the influence of test timing into their diagnostic recommendations. Advances in digital health pave the way for harnessing temporal variability in diagnosis and treatment, opening new horizons for truly personalised asthma care.\n\n\nTheme: Drug allergies\nDr Marina Tsoumani, Consultant Allergist, Manchester University NHS FT (Wythenshawe)\n\n \n\nAttendees will receive a CPD certificate of attendance\n\n \n\n
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LOCATION:MANDEC - 3rd Floor, University Dental Hospital, Higher Cambridge Street, Manchester M15 6FH
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