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Muscle Disease and Genetics Study Day
Child-Neuro.Org.Uk
Guy's Hospital, London
Fri, 12 May 2006, 10:27
Wednesday 8th November 2006.9.30am – 4.40pm at Guy’s Hospital
The meeting is designed for SpRs, Consultants and Nurse Practitioners
in the specialities of Paediatrics, Clinical Genetics and Neurology.
The talks will include overviews of the main types of muscular
dystrophies and myopathies, and their cardiac and respiratory
management.[CPD at RCP applied for].NUMBERS WILL BE LIMITED, SO
APPLICATIONS WILL BE ON A “FIRST COME FIRST SERVED” BASIS
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Programme
9.30 – 10am Registration and coffee
10.00 – 10.40 Duchenne and Becker Muscular Dystrophy
Elizabeth Wraige, Consultant Paediatric Neurologist Evelina Children’s Hospital
10.40 – 11.20 Myotonic Dystrophy
David Hilton-Jones, Consultant Neurologist
Radcliffe Infirmary
11.20 – 12.00 Congenital Muscular Dystrophies
Francesco Muntoni, Professor of Paediatric Neurology
Hammersmith Hospital
12.00 – 1.00 LUNCH
1.00 – 1.40 Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy
Dr Peter Lunt, Consultant Clinical Geneticist
St.Michaels Hospital, Bristol
1.40 – 2.20 Congenital Myopathies Dr Heinz Jungbluth, Paediatric Neurology Consultant
Evelina Children’s Hospital
2.20 – 3.00 Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophies
Professor Kate Bushby, Act. Res. Chair of Neuromuscular Genetics, Newcastle
3.00 – 3.20 COFFEE BREAK
3.20 – 4.00 Respiratory Management of Muscular Dystrophies
Dr Anita Simonds, Consultant in Respiratory Medicine
Royal Brompton Hospital
4.00 – 4.40 Cardiac Management of Muscular Dystrophies
John Bourke, Consultant & Senior Lecturer in Cardiology
Freeman Hospital, Newcastle
4.40 CLOSE