About this event

  • Date and time Thu 23 Jan 2025 from 8:00am to 5:00pm
  • Location Royal Society of Medicine
  • Organised by Cardiology, Vascular, Lipid and Metabolic Medicine Section

Register for our third General Day to learn about the importance of cardiovascular disease prevention in both primary and secondary care. This training day explores risk factors, particularly lipids, for the development of cardiovascular disease and how to address them.

Attendees will build on their skills in the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease, learning more about where the future might lie in these areas. Through a series of lectures from some outstanding speakers, this will assist attendees in improving their skills.

By attending, you will understand:

  • The role of risk factors in the development of cardiovascular disease.
  • How to assess risk factors in both primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease
  • To understand how to treat hyperlipidaemias 

Information will be updated closer to the date, including the addition of a programme. Timings are subject to change.

 

Trainees: Claiming reimbursement

Once you have booked your place for this event, claim reimbursement for the full amount from your employing Trust via their usual local study leave processes. The relevant approval code to claim reimbursement for these events is MED0008.

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Tickets

Standard pricing available until 22 January 2025.

Trainees: Claim back the price of your ticket from your trust

Trainees are required to pay to attend RSM meetings however are eligible to claim funds back through the usual study leave processes at your trusts. The code to claim reimbursement for these events is MED0008.

Member

RSM Fellow RSM Associate RSM Retired Fellow RSM Trainee RSM Student
£96.00 £57.00 £57.00 £57.00 £30.00

Non - Member

Consultant / GP / SAS Doctors AHP / Nurse / Midwife Trainee Student
£176.00 £105.00 £105.00 £55.00

Agenda

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Registration, tea and coffee
Welcome and introduction

Dr Dan Sado, Consultant and Clinical lead for Cardiology, Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Session 1: Introduction and Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease (CVD)

Cardiovascular risk and lipids: An introduction

Riyaz Patel  

Primary prevention of CVD: Whom and how ? National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and European Society of Cardiology (ESC) guidelines

Paul Flynn 

Cardiovascular risk prediction models
Lifetime and genetic risks of CVD

Aroon Hingorani 

Familial Hypercholesterolaemia: All you need to know

Jai Cegla 

Tea and coffee break

Session 2: Risk Factors For CVD

Autoimmune disease and cardiovascular risk

Luke Dancy 

Fat attenuation index: A novel marker of CVD

Ken Chan

Visceral Fat and CV disease

Jiliu Pan 

Was I right if I had my Lipoprotein A measured at the British Cardiology Society meeting?
The role of Race, socioeconomic class and gender in CVD

Tom Almond 

Triglycerides and triglyceride-rich lipoprotein: Are they a risk factor?

Ayesha Siddiqi 

Lunch break

Session 3: Lifestyle Interventions

Dietary impacts on lipids and CVD: What's in, what's out, what do I advise my patients?

Wendy Hall 

Exercise and cardiovascular risk: What and how much?

Raghav Bhatia

Psychological interventions for lowering CVD risk

Sophie Butler 

Session 4: Secondary prevention

Secondary prevention: Guidelines, treatments and targets

Fizzah Choudhry 

Emerging and novel therapies for lipids and CVD risk reduction

Abhishek Joshi 

Glucagon-like peptide-1 agonists: A silver bullet for CVD ?

Andrew Krentz 

Cardiovascular rehabilitation: Why it matters 

Ian Waite

Close of meeting

Location

Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole St, Marylebone, London, W1G 0AE, United Kingdom

Disclaimers:

Registration for this event will close on 22 January 2025 at 1:00am (GMT). Late registrations will not be accepted. 

The agenda is subject to change at any time  

All views expressed at this event are of the speakers themselves and not of the Royal Society of Medicine, nor the speaker's organisations. 

We are only able to share presentations that we have received permission to share. This is at the presenter and the RSM’s discretion. 

This event will be recorded and stored by the Royal Society of Medicine and may be distributed in future on various internet channels. 

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