Meetings - Programme

Programme

09.30	Coffee
10.00	Session 1 Clinical Skills Lab Dr G Franklin (Group 1) Problems in Acute Medicine Dr M Wilson, Dr W Beadles (Group 2)
11.00	Coffee
11.30	Session 2 Clinical Skills Lab Dr G Franklin (Group 2) Problems in Acute Medicine Dr M Wilson, Dr W Beadles (Group 1)
12.30	Close

12.00	Registration, Posters and Lunch
13.45	Society Business (SSP members only)

Session Chair: Professor Gordon McInnes, Previous President, Scottish Society of Physicians

14.00	Welcome Professor Gordon McInnes
14.05	Acute Angioplasty Dr Nicholas Boon, Consultant Cardiologist, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
14.35	Challenges of Rural Health Provision Professor David Godden, Co Director, Centre for Rural Health, Inverness
15.05	Acute Medical Receiving - an update on the Paisley pattern Dr Alistair Dorward, Consultant Physician, Royal Alexandra Hospital, Paisley
15.35	Tea and posters

Session Chair: Professor David Webb, Committee Member, Scottish Society of Physicians

16.15

Imaging in Suspected Pulmonary Embolism: old myths and new facts
Dr John Reid, Consultant Radiologist, Borders General Hospital, Melrose

16.45	Systemic Lupus Erythematosus – outcome and origins Professor David Isenberg, Professor of Rheumatology, University College London
17.30	Close
19.30	Drinks and Dinner at the Drumossie Hotel (dinner 19:30 start)

Session Chair: Dr Alan Patrick, Committee Member, Scottish Society of Physicians

08.30	Registration, Posters and Coffee
09.00	Trials and Tribulations of Lipid Therapy Professor Rory Collins, Director of Clinical Trial Services Unit, University of Oxford
09.30	Current Problems in Liver Disease Dr Alastair MacGilchrist, Consultant Gastroenterologist, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
10.00	Scientific Presentations 1
(10.00 - 10.15)	Quality of care in the management of patients admitted with heart failure in Scotland SK Bhagra, M Barlow, S McKee, H Bilkhu, MC Petrie, HJ Dargie
(10.15 - 10.30)	Chronic Endothelin-A receptor antagonism reduces proteinuria, blood pressure and arterial stiffness in chronic kidney disease N Dhaun, IM MacIntyre, D Kerr, V Melville, NR Johnston, J Goddard, DJ Webb Winner of the Fitzgerald Peel Prize
(10.30 - 10.45)	Predicting stroke outcome using ABCD2 and CHADS2 scores LD Ferguson, MR Walters
(10.45 - 11.00)	HbA1c is a useful indicator of postprandial hyperglycaemia in diet-controlled type 2 diabetes SC McGeoch, AM Johnstone, GE Lobley, DWM Pearson, P Abraham, I Megson, SM MacRury
11.00	Coffee

Session Chair: Dr Malcolm Steven, President, Scottish Society of Physicians

11.15	Scientific Presentations
(11.15 - 11.30)	Self blood pressure monitoring – the new gold standard N McGowan, R Warren, P Padfield
(11.30 - 11.45)	High dose Allopurinol: A new anti-ischaemic therapy for angina pectoris A Noman, DSC Ang, CC Lang, AD Struthers
(11.45 - 12.00)	An Audit of One Year of CTPA Imaging Results at the Borders General Hospital V Li, R Murray Park, S Watkin, J Reid, J Faccenda
(12.00 - 12.15)	Can DXA images be used to diagnose and assess osteoarthritis? K Yoshida, J Gregory, R Barr, S Galeasoler, S Alesci, F Gilbert, RM Aspden, DM Reid
12.15	PMETB in 2010 – balancing service and training Professor Stuart Macpherson, Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board, Lister Postgraduate Institute, London The Scottish Society of Physicians Prize for the Best Poster was awarded to S – J Emmerson, F Wallace, P Burton, G McKay and M Field, University of Glasgow FY1 Led Tutorials Improve Medical Student Confidence and Competence in Prescribing.
12.45	Awarding of the Fitzgerald Peel and Poster Prizes Dr Malcolm Steven
13.00	Closing Address and Lunch

Abstracts of the presentations are published in the Scottish Medical Journal

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