Conferences
Spring 2015 - Masterclass
Fri 8th May
MASTERCLASS
Friday 8 May 2015. The Imperial Hotel, Llandudno
PRESENTATIONS
Epilepsy, behaviour and the psychiatrists (not available)
Professor Mike Kerr, Professor of Learning Disability Psychiatry, Institute of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, Cardiff University School of Medicine
New treatment approaches for people with psychosis
Professor Shôn Lewis, Professor of Adult Psychiatry, University of Manchester
Preventing suicide: societal and mental health perspectives
Professor Navneet Kapur, Professor of Psychiatry and Population Health at the University of Manchester, and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust.
Professor Gill Livingston, Prof of Psychiatry of Older People, University College London, and Consultant Psychiatrist at Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust.
Dr Melanie Abas, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, Consultant Psychiatrist at the Centre for Anxiety Disorders and Trauma, South London and Maudsley NHS Trust.
POSTER PRIZES
New Research Ideas
1st Prize: Joanna McGregor -A national population-based e-cohort of people with psychosis (PsyCymru) linking prospectively ascertained phenotypically rich and genetic data to routinely collected records: Overview, recruitment and linkage.
2nd Prize: Menna Brown - The development and evaluation of an online emotional wellbeing module in the Champions for Health programme to complement and enhance lifestyle improvements.
Research Findings
1st Prize: Daniel McNamara - Barriers and facilitators to providing mental health care to indigenous peoples in Colombia: the experiences and opinions of key informants.
2nd Prize: Amanda Marchant - Recent trends in the incidence of anxiety and use of anxiolytics/hypnotics in children and young people: an e-cohort study.
Audit
1st Prize: Dr Sabarinath Radhakrishnan - Re-audit of the appropriateness and documentation of psychiatry on call handover by junior doctors.
2nd Prize: Dr David Williams - Compliance with NICE guidance on completion of a basic dementia screen prior to treatment initiation.