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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.

 

Agitation in dementia

Professor Gill Livingston, Prof of Psychiatry of Older People, University College London, and Consultant Psychiatrist at Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust.

 

Global mental health

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.

 

 

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