DAY ONE

Wednesday 5 June 2024

All times are GMT +1

09:20 - 09:30

Introduction to Webex and PACS

Jack Hodson

Online and IT Services Manager, Infomed Online

09.30 – 10.15

Advances in the understanding of autism - A clinically oriented update
Professor William Mandy

Clinical Psychologist, University College London, and GOSH

  • Differentials
  • Guideline update
  • Getting the diagnosis right
  • When to admit or send home

10.15 – 11.00

Neurology
Dr Marietta Pal-Magdics
Dr Marietta Pal-Magdics

Consultant Paediatric Neurologist, King's College Hospital London, NHS Foundation Trust

  • Guidance for neurological examination
  • Movement disorders update (e.g. management)
  • Autoimmune encephalitis
  • Complex neuro-disability

11:00 - 11:30

Break

11.30 – 12.15

Growth and puberty
Dr Harshini Katugampola

Consultant Paediatric Endocrinologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital

  • What is normal and what is abnormal?
  • Investigations and management
  • When to refer

12.15 – 13.00

Overview of recent developments in infection and immunity in children
Dr Seilesh Kadambari

Consultant in Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Great Ormond Street Hospital and Honorary Associate Professor, UCL GOSH Institute of Child Health

  • This session will provide an overview of recent developments in infection and immunity in children

13.00 – 13.45

Lunch

13.45 – 14.30

Paediatric Gastroenterology
Dr Edward Gaynor

Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterology, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children

  • Differentials
  • Guideline update
  • Getting the diagnosis right
  • When to admit or send home

14.30 – 15.15

Radiological Features of Child Abuse
Professor Amaka Offiah

Consultant Paediatric Radiologist, University of Sheffield & Sheffield Children’s Hospital

  • Prevalence of types of abuse in the UK
  • Imaging protocol when abuse is suspected
  • Common and rare presentations of physical abuse in infants and children
  • Mechanisms of injuries seen in abused children
  • Radiological dating of fractures
  • Conditions that the Radiologist may confuse with abuse
  • Areas of contention between experts
  • Common and rare presentations of physical abuse in infants and children

15.15 – 15.30

Break

15.30 - 16.15

Update on Food Allergy
Dr Tom Marrs

Consultant in Paediatric Allergy, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

  • The Allergic March in childhood
  • The Food Allergic March in childhood
  • Prevention of Food Allergy
  • The child at risk
  • Management and when to refer the allergic child

16.15 – 17.00

Respiratory – Top Tips
Dr Atul Gupta

Consultant in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine,
King's College Hospital, London

  • Wheezy infants and pre-schoolers - When is it asthma?
  • The child with recurrent chest infections or chronic cough
  • What tests are useful

DAY TWO

Thursday 6 June 2024

All times are GMT +1

09.15 – 10.00

Paediatric Mental Health

Speaker TBC

  • Current pressures and dilemmas on children
  • Possible consequences of the lockdown
  • Key issues for Paediatricians

10.00 – 10.45

Cardiology
Dr Alessandro Giardini

Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist

  • Differentials
  • Guideline update
  • Getting the diagnosis right
  • When to admit or send home

10.45 – 11.15

Break

11.15 – 12.00

Rheumatology
Professor Athimalaipet Ramanan

Consultant Paediatric Rheumatologist, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children

  • Approach to children with joint pains
  • Update on JIA
  • Hypermobility syndromes
  • Confidence in diagnosis and missed diagnosis

12.00 – 12.45

Paediatric Chronic Fatigue/ME and Long Covid
Dr Terry Segal

Consultant in General Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, University College London Hospitals

  • Common presentations, investigations, diagnosis, and epidemiology
  • On the path to recovery – setbacks/relapses
  • NICE guidelines update.
  • Long Covid, what we see, diagnosis and management.

12.45 – 13.30

Lunch

13.30 – 14.15

Paediatric Surgery
Ms Dhanya Mullassery

Consultant Neonatal and Paediatric Surgeon, GOSH and
Honorary Consultant Paediatric Surgeon at Royal Free Hospital NHS Trust

  • When to involve the surgeon and when to hold on
  • Surgical emergencies - early recognition and management
  • Bilious vomiting - pitfalls in diagnosis
  • Abdominal pain - pitfalls in diagnosis
  • Hernias and other "minor" surgical problems

14.15 – 15.00

Neonatal
Dr Simon Hannam

Head of Neonatal Services and Consultant Neonatologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children

  • Respiratory failure in the newborn
  • Neonatal hypotension
  • Cardiac conditions
  • When to refer

15.00 – 15.30

Break

15.30 – 16.15

Nephrology
Professor Stephen Marks

Professor of Paediatric Nephrology and Transplantation, Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London

  • Update on UTI management - medical vs surgical
  • Persistent haematuria and proteinuria - common dilemmas
  • Measuring blood pressure in children - when to worry

16.15 – 17.15

Legal Issues and Consent in Paediatrics
Dr Sally Old

Medicolegal Adviser, MDU Services Limited

  • Refusal to treatment - What are the child's rights?
  • Current legislation - Knowing your rights
  • Who can consent to treatment
  • Avoiding problems in practice - some cases (e.g. around GMC guidelines)

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