Geriatric Medicine Severn Deanery SpR Training Day

Category: Medicine - Other

Date: October 25th 2012 9:15am until 4:00pm

Location: Elderly Care Conference Room (Rehab Ward 2), Gloucestershire Royal Hospital

 

  9.15am         Tea/Coffee on Arrival & Welcome

                       

 

  9.30am         Skin problems in the elderly

                                    Dr Tom Millard, Consultant Dermatologist, GRH

 

 

10.30am         Pharmacology and prescribing issues in the elderly

                                Mrs Kat Waskett, Senior Pharmacist, GRH

                                             

 

11.15am         Tea/Coffee

 

 

11.30am         How and why should we measure frailty?

                              Dr Ian Donald, Consultant in Old Age Medicine, GRH

                       

12.15pm       Case histories

                               Dr Michelle Price, ST5, GRH

 

12.45pm         Lunch

 

 

 1.30pm          Renal disease in the elderly

                                    Dr Preetham Boddana, Consultant Nephrologist, GRH

 

 

 2.15pm          Management of paraproteinaemias in the elderly

                                    Dr Sean Macpherson, Consultant Haematologist, GHNHST

 

 

 3.00pm          Litigation in Elderly Medicine and how to avoid it

                                    Dr Robbie Dedi, Consultant Acute Physician and Director Clinical

                                           Negligence Expert Ltd

                                Jo Hunt, Legal Manager and Director Clinical Negligence Expert Ltd

 

 4.00pm          Close

 

Representative Sponsorship provided by:

Richard Hudson – Amgen Ltd

 

For Further Information Contact:  Sharon Batchelor, Secretary to Dr Andy Monro,

Dept of General and Old Age Medicine, Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, Great Western

Road, Gloucester, GL1 3NN, Tel:  08454 22645. Email: Sharon.batchelor@glos.nhs.uk