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