Programme director: Professor Margaret Johnson, academic vice president, Royal College of Physicians
Monday 8 February
09.30 Registration and coffee
09.55 Welcome and introduction
Professor Jane Dacre, president, Royal College of Physicians
Session 1: Cardiology – what’s new and what’s changed
Chair: Dr Roby Rakhit, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
10.00 Inherited cardiomyopathies
Professor Pier Lambiase, Barts Heart Centre
10.30 Acute coronary syndromes
Dr Roby Rakhit, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
11.00 Heart failure
Professor Andrew Clark, Castle Hill Hospital, University of Hull
11.30 Coffee
Session 1 (continued): Cardiology – what’s new and what’s changed
Chair: Dr Roby Rakhit, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
12.00 Valvular heart disease
Dr Mamta Buch, University Hospital of South Manchester
Session 2: Dermatology
12.30 Toxic epidermal necrolysis
Professor Chris Bunker, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
13.00 Lunch
Linacre lecture
Chair and vote of thanks: Professor Jane Dacre, president, Royal College of Physicians
13.55 Beyond pills and tests: addressing the social determinants of tuberculosis
Dr Tom Wingfield, The Monsall Infectious Diseases Unit, Manchester
Session 3: Infection
Chair: Professor Robert Read, University of Southampton
14.45 HIV – is eradication a possibility?
Professor John Frater, Oxford University
15.15 Vaccination - who, what, when
Professor Robert Read, University of Southampton
15.45 Tea
The Lady Estelle Wolfson lecture
Chair and vote of thanks: Professor Jane Dacre, president, Royal College of Physicians
16.05 Matchmaking in Medicine – using genomic data for discovery and diagnosis
Dr Helen Firth, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
17.05 Close of day and drinks reception
Tuesday 9 February
Session 4: Respiratory disease
Chair: Professor Paul Corris, Newcastle University
09.15 Cystic fibrosis
Professor Eric Alton, Imperial College London
09.45 Cough
Professor Ashley Woodcock, University of Manchester
10.15 Lung transplantation
Professor Paul Corris, Newcastle University
10.45 Interstitial lung disease
Dr Joanna Porter, University College London
11.15 Coffee
Session 4 (continued): Respiratory disease
Chair: Professor Paul Corris, Newcastle University
11.35 Pulmonary hypertension
Dr David Kiely, University of Sheffield
Goulstonian Lecture
Chair: Professor Jane Dacre, president, Royal College of Physicians
12.05 Motor Neurone Disease - biomarker development for
an expanding cerebral syndrome
Professor Martin Turner, John Radcliffe Hospital
13.00 Lunch
Session 5: Neurology
Chair: Dr Jeremy Chataway, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
14.00 Multiple sclerosis – is it a treatable disease?
Dr Jeremy Chataway, National Hospital for Neurology
and Neurosurgery
14.30 Stroke
Dr David Cohen, Northwick Park
15.00 Autoimmune encephalopathies – latest advances
Professor Belinda Lennox, University of Oxford
15.30 Tea
Session 6: Ethics
Chair: Professor Margaret Johnson, academic vice president, Royal College of Physicians
15.50 The law, the doctor and the patient – which is the
elephant in that room
Bertie Leigh, Hempsons
Session 7: Pregnancy
16.20 Medical problems in pregnancy
Professor Catherine Nelson-Piercy,
Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
16.50 Close of day
Wednesday 10 February
Session 8: Gastroenterology and liver disease
Chair: Dr Ian Forgacs, British Society of Gastroenterology
09.15 Drug-induced liver disease
Dr Sumita Verma, Brighton and Sussex Medical School
09.45 Care bundles - improving the care of patients with
decompensated cirrhosis on the acute take
Dr James O’Beirne, Royal Free London NHS Foundation
Trust
10.15 Gut microbiota in health and disease
Dr Ailsa Hart, St Mark’s Hopsital
10.45 Coffee
Session 9: Endocrinology
Chair: Professor John Wass, University of Oxford
11.05 Management of hyponatraemia
Professor Stephen Ball, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals
NHS Foundation Trust
11.35 Hormone replacement therapy in 2016
Professor John Wass, University of Oxford
Croonian Lecture
Chair: Professor Jane Dacre, president, Royal College of Physicians
12.05 A translational neuroscience approach to the problem
of Motor Neuron Disease
Professor Dame Pamela Shaw, University of Sheffield
13.00 Lunch
Session 10: Diabetes and renal medicine
Chair: Professor John Wass, University of Oxford
14.00 Acute kidney injury
Dr Andrew Lewington, Leeds NHS Foundation Trust
14.30 Chronic kidney disease
Professor Maarten Taal, University of Nottingham
15.00 Advances in medical therapies for diabetes mellitus
Professor Philip Home, Newcastle University
15.30 Tea
Session 11: Critical care
Chair: Professor Tim Evans, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust
15.50 ICU management of patients with severe acute
respiratory failure
Professor Mark Griffiths, Imperial College London and
Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust
16.20 Diagnosis and management of sepsis
Dr Simon Baudouin, Newcastle University
16.50 Close of day
Thursday 11 February
Session 12: Older people’s care
Chair: Dr Simon Conroy, University of Leicester
09.30 Osteoporosis: recent advances in risk assessment and
management
Professor Juliet Compston, Cambridge Biomedical
Campus
10.00 Alzheimer’s – prospects for treatment
Professor Nick Fox, University College London
10.30 Delirium
Dr Elizabeth Teale, Bradford Institute for Health
Research
11.00 Coffee
Session 12 (continued): Older people’s care
Chair: Dr Simon Conroy, University of Leicester
11.30 Falls
Dr Jonathan Treml, University Hospitals Birmingham,
NHS Foundation Trust
Session 13: Pharmacology and therapeutics
Chair: Professor Sir Munir Pirmohamed, University of Liverpool
12.00 A place for new anticoagulants in medicine
Professor Beverley Hunt, King’s College London and Guy's
& St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
12.30 Important drug interactions
Professor Sir Munir Pirmohamed, University of Liverpool
13.00 Lunch
Session 14: Haematology and oncology
Chair: Professor Charles Craddock, University of Birmingham
14.00 Leukaemia - new approaches
Professor Paresh Vyas, University of Oxford
14.30 Stem cell transplant
Professor Charles Craddock, University of Birmingham
15.00 Lymphoma- turning biology into cures
Professor Peter Johnson, University of Southampton
15.30 Immunotherapy for cancer - a new horizon
Dr Katia Boleti, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
16.00 Close of conference