UK v TB: New strategies to win the battle
Wednesday 20 March 2013
Venue: Royal Society Of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, LONDON, W1G 0AE
Registration for this meeting has now closed. Places are still available and you are welcome to register on the day. Please note that we cannot provide lunch for delegates who register on the day.
Please contact Chanel Roachford on 020 7290 3942 for further information.
9.30 am |
Registration tea and coffee |
10.00 am |
Welcome and introduction |
| Professor Peter Davies, Consultant Chest Physician, Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital | |
| Chair: Dr Onn Min Kon, Consultant Physician, St Mary's Hospital, London | |
10.05 am |
New drugs and new drug combinations |
| Dr Martin Dedicoat, Consultant ID Physician, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital | |
10.30 am |
News from the laboratory |
| Dr Grace Smith, Consultant Microbiologist, Birmingham Heartlands hospital | |
11.00 am |
Tuberculosis Cohort review: where have we got to? |
| Ms Christine Bell, Specialist TB Nurse, Manchester Royal Infirmary | |
11.30 am |
Refreshment break |
11.50 am |
Policy and commissioning issues for Tuberculosis in the restructured health service |
| Mr Mike Mandelbaum, CEO TB Alert | |
12.25 pm |
Spitting Blood; A history of Tuberculosis |
| Ms Helen Bynum, Medical Historian and Author | |
1.00 pm |
Lunch |
| Chair: Professor Peter Davies, Consultant Chest Physician, Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital | |
2.00 pm |
Sir John Crofton lecture |
| Professor Ibrahim Abubakar, Consultant Epidemiologist, HPA, London | |
| Chair: Professor Ajit Lalvani, Chair of Infectious Diseases, National Heart and Lung Institute | |
2.40 pm |
Turning the tide on UK TB; Tackling imported latent infection |
2.55 pm |
We can eliminate LTBI if we get organised |
| Dr Gerrit Woltmann, Consultant Chest Physician, Leicester General Hospital | |
3.25 pm |
Refreshment break |
3.40 pm |
How should we screen? |
| Dr Onn Min Kon, Consultant Physician, St Mary's Hospital, London | |
4.05 pm |
Who should we screen and when? |
| Dr John P Watson, Consultant Physician, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | |
4.30 pm |
Where should we screen? |
| Dr Heather Milburn, Consultant Respiratory Physician, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust | |
4.55 pm |
Complete evaluation forms |
5.00 pm |
Close of meeting |
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Meeting ref: RMD02 CPD (Applied for) |
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