2015 Programme

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Registration is from 9.00am on Wednesday 21 January 2015, with the first session beginning at 10.00am, and the final session of the conference will finish on Friday 23 January at 16.00.

Wednesday 21 January 2015

Registration from 9am

THE RONNIE MACKEITH PRIZE LECTURES

This prize is awarded to those who have made a significant contribution to Paediatric Neurology as judged by published work and who were under the age of 40 years or within 5 years of obtaining a CCST, whichever was later.

Congratulations to Dr Andrew Mallick (Bristol Children's Hospital) and Dr Michael Absoud (Evelina Children's Hospital, London) who have been jointly awarded this prize by the BPNA Scientific Meetings committee.

Previous Ronnie MacKeith prize lecturers

Wednesday evening social programme: We hope you will join us for an evening Reception at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art. Enjoy drinks and canapés from 6.30pm until 8.00pm. Your evening is your own to explore the many restaurants Newcastle has to offer.

Thursday 22 January 2015

Child Brain Mile: 7.30am from The Sage. Please join us for the 2015 Child Brain Mile fun run to raise money for the research arm of the BPNA, Child Brain Research. Run or walk 1 mile along the scenic Tyne river from the Sage taking in the views of the Tyne Bridge, along Newcastle’s Quayside and back over the iconic Millennium Bridge to the Sage. Full details are available from the Child Brain Research stand at the conference. Child Brain Research t-shirts will be available to purchase for £10. Make a donation at justgiving.com

Personal Practice Sessions 8am-9am:

Managing functional disorders in children and adolescents: a pragmatic approach
Hall 2 (main lecture theatre)
Led by: Dr Paul McArdle, Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist, Newcastle & Dr Ramesh, Consultant Paediatric Neurologist, Newcastle
Paul McArdle is a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist based in Newcastle. He was first introduced to paediatric neurology as a student in Dublin. However, he chose a subspecialty of paediatric neurology, child and adolescent psychiatry! As a result of his inpatient work adjacent to a tertiary paediatric centre and join neuro-psychiatric clinics, he has extensive experience of complex presentations from the borderlands of paediatrics and psychiatry. He believes that accurate psychiatric, as well as paediatric, diagnosis is key to understanding these presentations, that most of them become comprehensive and a pathway to recovery is often discoverable. He has researched and published in other borderlands too, notably ADHD and child and adolescent substance abuse.

Neuro-rheumatology-immunology joint clinic – 15 year experience
Venue: C19 on the lower ground floor
Led by: Dr Mario Abinun, Consultant Paediatric Immunologist, Great North Children’s Hospital, Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust & Dr Rob Forsyth, Consultant Paediatric Neurologist, Great North Children’s Hospital, Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

We hope to relate, in the interactive session, our experiences of running a neuro-rheumatology-immunology joint clinic since 2000 (Abinun et al. Lancet 2000; 355: 1186). Over the last several years, this has primarily focussed on children with antibody-mediated neurological disease, CNS vasculitdes of various kinds, and CNS manifestations of systemic connective tissue disease. Although progress in understanding disease pathogenesis allows for better diagnosis and tailored treatments with classical drugs and new biologics; small numbers and heterogeneity pose challenges for clinicians, and families, who can sometimes feel isolated. National and international collaboration is very useful in overcoming anxieties of hospital administrators and bureaucratic hurdles such as individual funding requests.

THE RONNIE MACKEITH GUEST LECTURE: Professor A James Barkovich, Professor of Radiology, Neurology, Pediatrics, and Neurosurgery, University of California, San Francisco

"New concepts in developmental abnormalities of the brain"

Previous Ronnie MacKeith guest

Thursday social programme: the Annual Dinner will be held at the Hilton Gateshead. Reception from 7pm with dinner being served at 8pm, followed by a ceilidh.

Friday 23 January 2014

Personal Practice Sessions 8am-9am:

Doing and diagnosing: practical interventions in tertiary neurodisability

Venue: Hall 2 (main lecture theatre)

Led by: Dr Jill Kisler, Consultant Neurodisability Paediatrician, Newcastle

This session will use video illustrations of practical interventions for children with abnormalities of tone, posture and movement to support function. A range of therapeutic, orthotic, pharmaceutical and permanent interventions will be discussed – in challenging clinical cases. There will be opportunity for members of the audience to interact and discuss their own clinical cases, 1 or 2 short videos (less than 2 minutes) can be reviewed for discussion at the end of the session. Please contact Jill Kisler (j.e.kisler@ncl.ac.uk) by 14.00 on Thursday 22 January if you would like to contribute a video.

Respiratory failure in muscle clinic

Venue: Room C19 on the lower ground floor

Led by: Dr Christopher O’Brien and Dr Michelle Eagle

TO LTV or not to LTV

There are common themes in the assessments and investigations in patients with various NMDs both long term in the stable phase and acutely when the child is unwell. This talk will inform on the various investigations that may be conducted in the clinic to monitor respiratory function, and give indications to when the appropriate time is to introduce NIV. The role of NIV during critical illness and planned ventilation for surgical procedures will be discussed. Advice on how to avoid making common errors will be given. The role of the MDT with specialist therapists and nurses will be advocated as well as seamless communication and long term follow up with a specialist team. Finally the impact on the family and patients will be discussed.

Updated 14 January 2015