About this event

  • Date and time Tue 19 Nov 2024 from 9:15am to 4:45pm
  • Location Online
  • Organised by Intellectual Disability, The Research in Developmental Neuropsychiatry (RADiANT) network
This webinar will update participants on recent research and best practices in managing mental and physical health issues for people with intellectual disabilities and their carers.
Attendees will learn about innovative service delivery and developments in the field with a blend of academic and practical talks, offering initiatives that can be implemented in their services.

By attending this webinar, you will:

  • Understand the presentation and management of common health conditions in people with an intellectual disability
  • Appreciate the impact of ill health and accessing healthcare as a person with an intellectual disability
  • Learn about how health services can meet the health needs of people with an intellectual disability and work towards reducing health inequalities

This webinar is available for on-demand viewing. The webinar recording will be available for registered event participants up to 60 days after the live webinar broadcast via Zoom. The link will be sent 24 hours after the webinar takes place. 

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Agenda

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Welcome and introduction

Chair: Professor Regi Alexander, President, Intellectual Disability Section, Royal Society of Medicine, Consultant Psychiatrist, Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust & School of Life & Medical Sciences, University of Hertfordshire   

Learning from lives and deaths - people with a learning disability and autistic people (LeDeR)

Dr Rory Sheehan, Senior Clinical Lecturer, Kings College London, and Consultant Psychiatrist, Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust 

Oral health and aspiration pneumonia in intellectual disability

Dr Una Monaghan, Associate Medical Director, Clinical Director Special Care Dental Service, Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust 

Panel discussion
Comfort break
Antipsychotics and intellectual disabilities: Lessons from big data, little data, and missing data

Professor Yona Lunsky, Senior Scientist, Director of the Azrieli Adult Neurodevelopmental Centre, and Director of the Health Care Access Research and Developmental Disabilities (H-CARDD) Program at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto and Adjunct Scientist at ICES 

Anticholinergic burden in people with learning disability and mental health difficulties

Reena Tharian, Principal Clinical Pharmacist & Non Medical Prescriber (NMP) and Mel Hicks, Clinical Team Leader & Professional Nurse Educator, Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) 

Panel discussion
Comfort break
Introduction

Chair: Dr Kamalika Mukherji, Clinical Director, Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust and Council Member, Intellectual Disability Section, Royal Society of Medicine 

Autism spectrum disorders in adult outpatients with obsessive compulsive disorder

Professor Naomi Fineberg, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Hertfordshire, and a Consultant Psychiatrist at Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) 

The mental health experiences of adult/older carers of adults with learning disabilities

Dr Martina Smith, Postdoctoral Research Associate School of Education, The University of Sheffield 

Panel discussion
Comfort break
Hypothyroidism in Intellectual Disability: What do we Know?

Verity Chester, Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust 

The introduction of cancer screening within an enhanced physical health clinic for people with intellectual disabilities prescribed psychotropic medication

Ms Elizabeth Patteril, Research Assistant, Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust 

Panel discussion
Closing remarks
Close of meeting

Location

Online

Registration for this event will close 1 hour before the start of the webinar.  Late registrations will not be accepted.

The agenda is subject to change at any time

If the event is recorded, we are only able to share presentations that we have received permission to share. There is no guarantee that all sessions will be available after the event, this is at the presenter’s and RSM’s discretion.

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

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