Programme

The week long course is structured to reflect the FRCPath exam. Part 1 being covered Monday-Wednesday, with Part 2 on Thursday and Friday concluding with a mock exam style session.

The course will present a varied and comprehensive programme, speakers are highly regarded consultants and experts in their field with a track record of excellence in presentation.

Monday 3rd September

Mondahy
 08.30 Coffee and Registration 
 09.30 Management of CML in 2012
Professor Charles Craddock
 10.30 Pharmacy Tips
Nick Duncan 
 10.30 How to identify / screen appropriate patients for new anticoagulants
Dr Matt Fay
 
 11.30 Refreshments 
 11.45 Immunophenotyping in the diagnosis of haematological malignancies 
Dr Fiona Clark
 12.45 Lunch
 13.45 Paediatric Haematology 
Dr Phil Darbyshire 
 15.45 Refreshments  
 16.15 Advances in the investigation and management of anaemia  
Dr Tim Littlewood
 17.30 Advances in the management of aplastic anaemia
Professor Judith Marsh  
 18.30 Close

 

 

Tuesday 4th September

Tuesday
 08.30 Coffee and Registration 
 09.00 Management of AML  
Dr Manoj Raghavan
 09.45 Advances in the management of myeloma
Dr Guy Pratt 
 10.30 Refreshments
 11.00 Management dilemmas in myeloma 
Dr Mark Cook
 12.00 Treatment of Hodgkin’s lymphoma 
Dr Sridhar Chaganti 
 12.45 Lunch 
 13.30 Low Grade Lymphomas 
Dr Ram Malladi  
 14.15 The 4 most important papers in haemostasis, thrombosis and general haematology
Dr Deepak Chandra 
 15.00 Refreshments 
 15.30 High grade lymphomas 
Dr Andrew McMillan 
16.30 Case discussions in malignant haematology 
Drs Cook & McMillan
20.00 Course dinner Maharajah Restaurant in Birmingham

 

 

Wednesday 5th September

Wednesday
 08.30 Coffee and Registration 
 09.00 Structure of the FRCPath Exam 
Dr Jim Murray
 10.00 Myelodysplastic syndromes 
Dr Juliet Mills 
 10.45 Refreshments
 11.15 Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia 
Dr Fiona Clark 
 12.00 The 4 most important papers in haemato-oncology this year 
Dr Salim Shafeek
 12.45 Lunch
 13.45 Management of CLL and its Variants 
Dr Jeff Neilson 
 14.30 Platelets 
Prof Steve Watson & Dr Gillian Lowe
 15.30 Refreshments
 15.45 Anti-coagulants 
Dr Peter Rose   
 16.45 Thrombosis 
Dr Will Lester
17.30 Close

 

 

Thursday 6th September

Thursday
 08.30 Coffee and Registration for Part 2  
 09.00 Transfusion Topics  
Dr Neil Smith
 11.00 Refreshments
 11.15 Transfusion Topics continued 
Dr Neil Smith 
 12.15 Lunch 
 13.00 Thrombosis 
Dr Will Lester
 15.00 Refreshments
 15.15 Haematological Short Cases  
Dr Nigel O’Connor 
 16.15 Haemostasis 
Dr Jonathon Wilde
 18.15 Close

 

  

Friday 7th September

Friday
 08.30 Coffee and Registration 
 09.00 Haemoglobinpathy  
Dr Nick Jackson
 10.30 Refreshments
 10.45 Haemoglobinpathy continued 
Dr Shivan Pancham 
 12.45 Lunch 
 13.30 Mock Exam 
Dr Andrew Stewart
 16.00 Close

 

 

Programme subject to change.