This one day conference will highlight approaches to improve the quality and quantity of life of solid organ transplant recipients.
Solid organ transplantation is a great success story with more recipients than ever being alive. However, the improvement in short term survival has not been matched by similar increases in long term survival; premature loss of graft and life is related to many factors including recurrent disease, de novo cancers, infection, rejection and cardiovascular disease.
Topics covered in this conference will include a review of the main causes of premature death and simple interventions to improve outcomes, focussing on non-adherence, transition from paediatric to adult care and cardiovascular mortality and morbidity. The impact of rising obesity and the challenge of increasing an active life will be discussed in detail with emphasis on the benefits of sport and discussion on how to help transplant recipients take a more active lifestyle.
We are sure this will prove to be very popular and of interest to consultants and specialist registrars, specialist nurses and other senior healthcare professionals caring for solid organ transplant recipients.
The Royal Colleges of Physicians has approved this course for 6 CPD credits.
Event Programme
| Friday 12th October |
| 09:30 |
Registration and Refreshments |
| 10:00 |
Welcome
Professor James Neuberger |
| 10:05 |
Improving outcomes after transplant – the COMMIT Guidance
Dr James Neuberger, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham |
| 10:30 |
Non-adherence: recognition and risk factors
Dr Rachel Hilton, Guys Hospital, London |
| 10:50 |
Lessons from transition clinics
Dr Paul Harden, University of Oxford |
| 11:15 |
Using IT effectively to manage follow-up
Dr James Ferguson, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham |
| 11:40 |
Refreshments |
| 12:00 |
Cardiovascular disease in the allograft recipient
Professor Patrick Mark, Glasgow |
| 12:20 |
Obesity: prevalence, impact and interventions
Dr Ian Rowe, Leeds |
| 12:40 |
Lunch |
| 13:30 |
Beneficial effects of sport - physiology
Dr James Fisher, University of Birmingham |
| 14:00 |
Beneficial effects of sport – clinical studies |
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Pre-transplant: Dr Matthew Armstrong, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham |
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Post-transplant: Dr Adnan Sharif, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham |
| 14:45 |
How I became a Paralympic Champion
Liz Johnson, Paralympic Gold Medallist |
| 15:15 |
Nudge Theory – helping people make the right choice
Professor Ivo Vlaev, University of Warwick |
| 16:00 |
Close |
Programme subject to change.