The Great North Paediatric Conference

Thursday 22nd, Friday 23rd and Saturday 24th September 2016

Civic Centre, Newcastle upon Tyne and The Great North Children’s Hospital (GNCH), Royal Victoria Infirmary

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

0930-1015 - PLENARY

Dr Alan Craft

Consultant Paediatrician

Sir James Spence Institute

A reflection on paediatrics in the North of England

0830-0915 Registration, tea and coffee

0915-0930 Welcome and introduction

1045-1115 - Endocrinology

Dr Tim Cheetham

Consultant Endocrinologist

GNCH

Short stature—what’s new?

1115-1145 - Psychiatry

Dr Ginny Birrell

Consultant Paediatrician

James Cook University Hospital

Eating disorders

1145-1215 - Surgery

Mr Bruce Jaffrey

Consultant Paediatric Surgeon

GNCH

Bayes, sex and appendicitis

1015-1045 TEA AND COFFEE BREAK

Day 1—Thursday 22 September 2016

1045-1130

Professor Janet Eyre

Consultant Neurologist

GNCH

Plasticity in the corticospinal tract

and how that relates to the

interventions for cerebral palsy

1130-1215 - Genetics

Dr Michael Wright

Consultant Clinical Geneticist

The Institute of Human Genetics

Advances in genetic diagnostics:

bringing clarity or confusion?

1215-1315 LUNCH

LECTURE FLASH RAPID LEARNING SESSION

1600-1645 - PLENARY

Dr Bobby McFarland

Consultant Paediatric Neurologist GNCH

Mitochondrial disease

1315-1345 -ENT

Mr Steven Powell

Consultant ENT Surgeon

Freeman Hospital

Common paediatric upper airway

problems

1345-1415 - Rheumatology

Dr Sharmilla Jandial

Consultant Paediatric Rheumatologist

GNCH

Approach to a child with joint pain/

fever/rash

Growing pains - do they exist?

1415-1445 - Immunisations

Dr Marieke Emonts

Consultant in Paediatric Infectious

Diseases and Immunology

GNCH

Update on immunisations

1315-1400

Dr Venkateswaran Ramesh and Dr Paul

McArdle

Consultant Paediatric Neurologist and

Consultant Child and Adolescent

Psychiatrist

GNCH and Northgate Hospital

Managing functional disorders in

children and adolescents; a

pragmatic approach

1400-1445 - ASD

Dr Jeremy Parr/Prof Ann LeCouteur

Consultant Paediatric Neurologist/

Profession in Child Psychiatry

GNCH/Walkergate Park

1445-1515 TEA AND COFFEE BREAK

1515-1600

Dr Alan Colver

Research with children with cerebral

palsy and their families facilitated by

the North of England register

1500-1530 - Oncology

Dr Simon Bailey

Consultant Paediatric Oncologist

GNCH

Red flags in paediatric oncology

1530 –1600 - Tongue tie

Mrs Anne Lawson

Consultant Paediatric Surgeon

GNCH

LECTURE FLASH RAPID LEARNING SESSION

FLASH RAPID LEARNING SESSION LECTURE

The Great North Paediatric Conference

0930-1015 - PLENARY Oncology

Dr Quenton Campbell Hewson

The Great North Children’s Hospital

1045-1115 - Urology

Mr Milan Gopal

Consultant Paediatric Urologist

GNCH

Evaluation and management of the child with urinary incontinence

1115-1145 - Renal

Dr Yincent Tse

Consultant Nephrologist

GNCH

“Nephrotic syndrome - acute

management and stopping

relapses”

1145-1215 - Ophthalmology

Mr Mike Clarke

Consultant Ophthalmologist

The Great North Children’s Hospital

Red flags in ophthalmology

0830-0915 Registration, tea and coffee

0915-0930 Welcome and introduction

1045-1130 -

Ophthalmology

Dr Michael Clarke

Consultant Paediatric Ophthalmologist

GNCH

Visual impairment in children—from

lazy eyes to lazy brains

1130-1215 - Renal

Dr Sally Johnson

Consultant Paediatric Nephrologist

GNCH

HUS

1015-1045 TEA AND COFFEE BREAK

1215-1315 LUNCH

Day 2—Friday 23 September 2016

LECTURE FLASH RAPID LEARNING SESSION

1315-1400 - Respiratory

Dr Matthew Thomas

Consultant Respiratory Paediatrician

GNCH

Pneumonia and empyema

1400-1445 - Neonates

Dr Win Tin South Tees Hospital The Edmund Hey Memorial Lecture

1315-1345 - Haematology

Dr Tina Bliss

Consultant Haematologist

GNCH

Management of thrombosis in children

1345-1415 - Radiology

Dr Leigh McDonald and Dr Garan Riley

Consultant Radiologists

GNCH/North Tees Hospital

Craniosynostosis

1415-1445 - Orthopaedics

Mr Antoine De Gheldere

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon

GNCH

DDH and SUFE

1515-1600 - Diabetes

GNCH

The management of chronic illness in adolescence

1500-1530 - Dermatology

Dr Natarajan

Consultant Dermatologist

GNCH

Naevi and pigmentry disorder

1530-1600 - Gastroenterology

Dr Anne Dale and team

Consultant Paediatrician

Queen Elizabeth Hospital

Constipation—NICE and beyond

1600-1645 - PLENARY

Multisystem Allergic Inflammation of Childhood

Dr Louise Michaelas

Consultant Paediatric Immunologist

GNCH

IgE and non IgE mediated food allergy, FPIES, and systemic disease

LECTURE FLASH RAPID LEARNING SESSION

1445-1515 TEA AND COFFEE BREAK

LECTURE FLASH RAPID LEARNING SESSION

The Great North Paediatric Conference

0930-1015 - PLENARY Dr Caroline Grayson

Consultant Paediatrician and Named Doctor for Child Protection

GNCH

Safeguarding in the 21st century from Climbie to CSE…….. What we have learnt?

1045-1115 - Haematology

Dr Tina Biss

Consultant Haematologist

GNCH

Coagulation testing in NAI

1115-1145 - Radiology

Dr Alan Sprigg (Guest Speaker)

Consultant Radiologist

Sheffield Children’s Hospital

Skeletal injuries

1145-1215 -

Dr Kim Barrett

Consultant Forensic Paediatrician

GNCH

Female genital mutilation and sexual

exploitation

0830-0915 Registration, tea and coffee

0915-0930 Welcome and introduction

1045-1130 - Looked After Children

Dr Alison Steel and Dr Raghu Lingam

Consultant Paediatrician/Designated

Doctor for Child Protection and

Consultant Paediatrician

GNCH

Background epidemiology

Outcomes

SOLID

1130-1215 - Radiology and

Ophthalmology

Dr Alan Sprigg (Guest Speaker) and

Dr Michael Clarke

Consultant Radiologist and Consultant

Ophthalmologist

Sheffield Children’s Hospital and GNCH

Inflicted head injury

1015-1045 TEA AND COFFEE BREAK

1215-1300 - LECTURE

Legal

Dr Camille Lazaro and Judge Judy Moya

Protecting childhood - where have we been and where are we going?

Day 3—Saturday 24 September 2016

1300-1400 LUNCH AND CLOSE

LECTURE FLASH RAPID LEARNING SESSION