Joining Forces 2012

 'Responding to new challenges'

MORNING PROGRAMME

0900 Coffee and registration

0945–1000 Introduction and welcome
Dr Martin James
Clinical Lead of the Peninsula Heart & Stroke Network and the South West Stroke Research Network 

1000 -1045 Keynote Address
Professor Tony Rudd
Professor of Stroke Medicine, Department of Health and Social Care
Kings College London

Session Chair: Dr Damian Jenkinson
National Clinical Lead NHS Stroke Improvement and Consultant Stroke Physician Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals 

1045-1115 ~ Coffee and posters / stand viewing

PARALLEL SESSIONS 1 - 11.15 - 1200 - please choose one to attend

a. ~ Debate: Warfarin should be replaced by the new anticoagulants as soon as possible
Opposing the motion:  Dr Neil Baldwin  FRCP(London)  - Consultant and Clinical lead for Stroke North Bristol NHS Trust
Proposer: To be confirmed
Chair:  To be confirmed
b. ~ 'The TRACS trial results'
Ann Forster-  Professor of Stroke Rehabilitation, University of Leeds and Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Chair;- to be confirmed
c. ~ Psychological Support post stroke
Dr Stephen Margison Consultant Neuro Psychologist, Torbay Care Trust and Ms Sara Leonard Network Manager Dorset Cardiac and Stroke Network
Chair: Ms S Gillham – Service Improvement Team

PARALLEL SESSIONS 2 - 1210 - 1300 -  please choose one to attend

a. ~ Role of vascular diseases in the causation and progression of Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia
Professor Nitin Purandare - Professor of Old Age Psychiatry, Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry University of Exeter
Chair: to be confirmed
b. ~ Stroke rehabilitation: Hi-tech vs. Low-tech what is the evidence?
Professor Jane Burridge - Professor of Restorative Neuroscience, University of Southampton
Chair to be confirmed
c. ~ The Stroke Improvement Programme - Project Showcase
National Stroke Improvement Team
Chair: to be confirmed

1300-1400 ~ Lunch and poster / stand viewing

AFTERNOON PROGRAMME

PARALLEL SESSIONS 3 - 1400 - 1445 - please choose one to attend

a. ~ Quantitative MRI of Acute Stroke
Professor Risto Kauppinen -Chair in Imaging, University of Bristol
Chair: to be confirmed
b. ~ "Hemianopia and neglect - new concepts and therapies"
Professor Christopher Kennard - Head, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences University of Oxford
Chair: to be confirmed
c. ~ Stroke follow up: The Greater Manchester Experience
Dr Pippa Tyrell - Senior Lecturer in Stroke Medicine, University of Manchester and Honorary Consultant Stroke Physician at Salford Royal Foundation Hospitals' NHS Trust.
Chair: to be confirmed

1445 - 1515 - Coffee and posters / stand viewing

1515 - 1600 ~ SHORT SESSIONS

  • 1515-1530 - Research Project Update
    Dr David Strain
  • 1530-1545 - Service Improvement session
    Speaker to be confirmed
  • 1545-1600  - NHS South of England   - An update on Stroke
    Simon HH Cook, Associate Director of Programme - Acute Care, NHS South of England

1600 -1630 - Networks Report and Progress - Research and Service Improvement across the South West
Dr Martin James

CLOSE & DEPART

NB. Posters to be collected by authors before 17.30 please.