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Hosted by St Christopher’s and King’s MND Care and Research Centre, this popular annual one day conference will focus on the multidisciplinary management of motor neurone disease. Topics will include a clinical trials update, novel areas of research, symptom management and the impact on carers.
Dr Cathy Ellis, Consultant Neurologist, King’s College Hospital MND Care and Research Centre
Dr Louise Exton, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, St Christopher’s Hospice
Dr Tom Burke, Clinical Psychologist, Research Fellow, Trinity College, Dublin
‘Psychological aspects of caregiver resilience and burden’
Dr Sean Cross, Managing Director, Maudsley Learning, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust; Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist, King’s College Hospital, London
‘Staff wellbeing’
Dr Nikhil Sharma, Consultant Neurologist, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology/National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London
‘The gut microbiome in MND’
Suzanne Simpson, Senior Occupational Therapist & MND Wellbeing and social support advisor, The Walton Centre, Liverpool
‘Social Prescribing in MND’
Emily Jay, Team Lead Physiotherapist for Neurology, King’s College Hospital
‘Exercise after diagnosis: a review of the evidence and guidance’
Dr Cathy Ellis, Consultant Neurologist, King’s College Hospital
Richard Cave, MND SLT Project Manager, Motor Neurone Disease Association
More speakers to be confirmed
The conference is aimed at:
other professionals involved in the care of people with MND.
08:45 | Arrive, registration and refreshments |
09:30 | Welcome and introduction
Dr Cathy Ellis, Consultant Neurologist, King’s College Hospital Dr Louise Exton, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, St Christopher’s |
09:40 | Clinical trials update
Dr Cathy Ellis, Consultant Neurologist, King’s College Hospital |
10:10 | The gut microbiome in MND
Dr Nikhil Sharma, Consultant Neurologist, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology/National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London |
10.50 | Refreshment break |
11:15 | Psychological aspects of caregiver resilience and burden
Dr Tom Burke, Clinical Psychologist, Research Fellow, Trinity College, Dublin |
11.55 | Exercise after diagnosis: a review of the evidence and guidance
Emily Jay, Team Lead Physiotherapist for Neurology, King’s College Hospital. |
12.30 | Lunch |
13:20 | Social prescribing in MND
Suzanne Simpson, MND Psychological Wellbeing and Social Support Advisor, Walton Centre, Liverpool |
14:00 | The ethical and legal challenges towards the end of life.
Dr Rachel Burman, Consultant in Palliative Care, King’s College Hospital Foundation Trust Dr Sam Lund, Medical Director, Royal Trinity Hospice Hazel Polat, Senior Healthcare Solicitor, King’s College Hospital |
15.00 | Refreshment break |
15:20 | Google’s Project Euphonia: focusing on helping people with dysarthria to keep talking – and be understood
Richard Cave, MND SLT Project Manager, Motor Neurone Disease Association |
15:50 | Staff wellbeing
Dr Sean Cross, Managing Director, Maudsley Learning, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust; Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist, King’s College hospital, London |
16:30 | Closing remarks and Evaluation |
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If you have any questions about this or any of our other courses, please contact the Education team who will be happy to help
At St Christopher's, a registered charity, it is important for us to maximise any surpluses to reinvest in the objectives of the charity.
Unfortunately, the manner in which we undertake our training currently means we are not able to invest as much of our surplus as possible, therefore from the 1 December 2017, St Christopher’s Education Centre will charge VAT at the standard rate on our training courses, the reason for this change in pricing is twofold:
i) We want to be able to reinvest any surpluses made from training back into all of our charitable objectives rather than only Education
ii) We want to be able to reclaim the VAT on costs relating to developing and running the training courses