About this event
- Date and time Thu 6 Jun 2024 from 9:00am to 5:00pm
- Location Royal Society of Medicine
- Organised by Paediatrics and Child Health, London School of Paediatrics
This event gathers a range of experts in paediatric infectious diseases, delivering targeted teaching for trainees aiming to equip them with the right tools for their level of practice to correctly manage children with infections in acute settings.
By attending, you will:
- Know about current best practice for the clerking and initial management of children presenting with prolonged fevers, fevers in the returning traveller, and fevers on background of immunodeficiencies ('Quick Fire' updates)
- Be able to take a sensitive sexual health history from teenagers (teaching by adolescent medicine consultant Dr Najette Ayadi O'Donnell)
- Recognise the clinical signs of congenital infections and know when to escalate to the paediatric infectious diseases (ID) team
- Understand the initial management of neonates born to mothers with known vertically transmissible infections
- Value families' perspectives on chronic infectious disease conditions and understand how to best support patients and their carers when seeing them in A&E / clinic (by charity CMV Action)
- Gain a practical understanding of how to apply for infectious diseases special interest (SPIN) and sub-specialty (GRID) training
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Agenda
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Registration, tea and coffee
Welcome and introduction
Chair: Dr Amedine Duret, National Institute for Health and Care Research Academic Clinical Fellow in Paediatrics, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Session 1
Chairs: Dr Amedine Duret and Dr Kirsty Gray
Quick fire update 1: Prolonged fevers, fever of unknown origin
Presenting virtually: Dr Alison Kent, Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology Consultant, Evelina London Children’s Hospital
Quick fire update 2: Fever in returning traveller
Dr Bhanu Williams, Consultant Paediatrician and Specialist in Paediatric Infectious Diseases, London North West Healthcare University NHS Trust
Quick fire update 3: Immunodeficiencies
Dr Elizabeth Rivers, Consultant in Paediatric Immunology, Great Ormond Street Hospital
Tea and coffee break
Session 2
Chairs: Dr Rosalie Lear and Dr Amedine Duret
Congenital infections: Lecture and case studies
Professor Hermione Lyall, Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology Consultant, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Patient perspective on congenital infections
Sarah Dewar, Chair, CMV Action
Lunch
Session 3
Chairs: Dr Sara Farhat Dominguez and Dr Kirsty Gray
Sexually transmitted infections: Lecture and case studies
Dr Michael Butler, SpR, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Pre-recorded talk: Dr Najette Ayadi O'Donnell, Consultant Paediatrician and Specialist in Adolescent Health and Safeguarding, University College London NHS Healthcare Trust
Pre-recorded talk: Ms Julie Griffith, Specialist Nurse, University College London NHS Healthcare Trust
Panel discussion: SPIN and GRID training in paediatric infectious diseases
Dr Elizabeth Whittaker, Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology Consultant, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Dr Rebecca Faber, Senior Registrar in Paediatrics with a special interest in Infectious Diseases, Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Dr Fionnuala Ryan, Senior Registrar in Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Closing remarks
Close of meeting
Location
Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole St, Marylebone, London, W1G 0AE, United Kingdom