RCPE Symposium Edinburgh
Date: Friday, 2nd November, 2012
Venue: Classroom A&B,
Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre Lahore
The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (RCPE) is organizing a symposium on Gastroenterology on Friday, November 2, 2012. Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre (SKMCH&RC) will telecast this event live, all times listed are Lahore times. There is no fee for attendance at the SKMCH venue but pre-registration is required, especially for outside participants. There will be an opportunity to ask questions of the speakers in Edinburgh in real time.
Message from the Organizers
This is an exciting time for gastroenterology, with new understandings and/or treatments emerging for common gastrointestinal and liver diseases.
This symposium – the first on gastroenterology from the RCPE for 2 years – provides a comprehensive update from an expert international faculty on these developments and will appeal to established consultants and trainees, both gastroenterologists and non-specialists, wishing to keep abreast of these rapidly moving fields.
Friday 2nd November 2012
| 14.00 | REGISTRATION |
| 14.25 | WELCOME & INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
by President, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh |
SESSION 1 - GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY - SCIENCE & PRACTICE
Chair: Dr Nigel Reynolds, Consultant Gastroenterologist, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee
Local Chair: Prof. Ghias-un-Nabi Tayyab
| 14:30 | IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME: DO WE KNOW YET WHAT IT IS?
Professor Robin Spiller, Lead Director of NIHR Biomedical Research Unit in Gastrointestinal Diseases, Nottingham University
* psychological stress * gastrointestinal infection * serotonin |
| 15:00 | IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME: DO WE KNOW YET HOW TO MANAGE IT?
Dr Anton Emmanuel, Consultant Gastroenterologist, University College Hospital, London
*doctor-patient interaction in a real life consultation * drug therapies: what to use and when * non-drug therapies: placebo or unavailable panacea |
| 15:30 | WHAT CAUSES RIGHT UPPER QUADRANT PAIN AND WHAT IF THE ULTRASOUND IS NEGATIVE?
Professor Owen Epstein, Professor of Gastroenterology and Consultant Gastroenterologist, Royal Free Hospital, London
*imaging *differential *treatment |
| 16:00 | COFFEE /TEA BREAK |
Session 2 - ENDOSCOPY - BEST USE OF NEW MODALITIES
Chair: Dr Nick Church, Consultant Gastroenterologist, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
| 16:30 | UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING: THE FIRST 24 HOURS
Dr Adrian Stanley, Consultant Gastroenterologist, Glasgow Royal Infirmary
*early risk assessment * optimal use of drugs * endoscopic therapies |
| 17:00 | CYSTIC LESIONS OF THE PANCREAS: MODERN DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT
Dr Ian Penman, National Endoscopy Lead for Scotland and Consultant Gastroenterologist, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
*different cyst types * how to evaluate *resection, surveillance or discharge? |
| 17:30 | MANAGEMENT OF DIFFICULT COLONIC POLYPS
Mr Mark Potter, Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh |
| 18:00 | HI TEA |
SESSION 3 - LIVER DISEASE - CHANGING AND CHALLENGING TIMES
Chair: Dr Alastair MacGilchrist, Consultant Gastroenterologist, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
| 18:45 | SYDNEY WATSON SMITH LECTURE
Chair: Dr Neil Dewhurst, President, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
HEPATITIS B: NEW UNDERSTANDING, NEW TREATMENTS
Professor Harry Janssen, Professor of Hepatology and Chief of Liver Diseases and Transplantation, Erasmus MC Univeristy Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
*when to give nucleoside analogues or immunemodulation by Peg-IFN *can we prevent liver failure and liver cancer by treatment * how to use HBsAg quantification |
| 19:30 | NEW THERAPIES FOR HEPATITIS C
Professor Matthew Cramp, Consultant and Honorary Professor of Hepatology, South West Liver Unit and Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry
*when and when not to use the new oral anti-virals * what about non-1 genotypes * will all HCV be curable in the future? |
| 20:00 | LIVER DISEASE: A NATIONAL CONCERN
Dr Martin Lombard, Director of the National Liver Strategy for England and Consultant Hepatologist, Royal Liverpool Hospital
*what are the issues? *how can they be addressed? *what outcomes can we expect? |
| 20:30 | SYMPOSIUM FEEDBACK/TEA |
SESSION 4 - INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE - MANAGEMENT DILEMMAS
Chair: Professor Jack Satsangi, Professor of Gastroenterology, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh
| 20:55 | RATIONAL USE OF BIOLOGICAL THERAPIES IN INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE
Dr Charlie Lees, Consultant Gastroenterologist, and Honorary Senior Lecturer, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh
*patient selection for use of anti-TNFs early in disease course *optimisation and monitoring of anti-TNF therapy *withdrawal of anti-TNF therapy in selected patients |
| 21:25 | MEETING THE CHALLENGES OF INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE IN ADOLESCENTS
Dr Richard Russell, Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist, Yorkhill Hospital, Glasgow
*specific treatment and disease differences in adolescents with IBD * transition and transfer * how to deal and not to deal with your next teenage IBD patient |
|  22:55
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