About this event

  • Date and time Mon 22 Jan 2024 from 8:50am to 4:30pm
  • Location Online
  • Organised by Sport and Exercise Medicine, Respiratory Medicine

Join us for this educational event bringing together eminent sports and exercise medicine clinicians to explain the benefits of physical activity and discuss the importance of and the practicalities of integrating exercise medicine into clinical services.

The purpose of this virtual meeting is to educate healthcare professionals about the benefits of physical activity and share knowledge of how to encourage patients to increase their physical activity levels safely during consultations.

The main outcomes participants will gain from joining the meeting are, understanding the key benefits of physical activity, particularly in relation to respiratory conditions, and learning the skills and techniques for discussing physical activity with patients.

The Sport Exercise Medicine and Respiratory Medicine: Clinical exercise medicine prize will also be presented and awarded at this meeting.

Benefits of attending:

  • Enhance your understanding on how to prescribe physical activity safely. 

  • Be able to describe the benefits of physical activity for the prevention and management of different conditions including lung cancer and COPD. 

  • Be able to describe ways of integrating exercise medicine into clinical practice. 
  • Understand the different causes of breathlessness during physical activity. 

The primary aim of this meeting is to provide healthcare professionals with education around physical activity and the prevention and management of chronic disease.

 

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We would like to thank our sponsor BASEM for their support of this meeting.
Please note that the scientific programme and content has not been influenced in any way by the sponsor.

Agenda

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Welcome and introduction

Exercise medicine theory

The benefits of physical activity and moving medicine

Dr William Wynter Bee, President, Sports and Exercise Medicine Section, Royal Society of Medicine

The use of exercise testing in clinical practice

Dr Gulam Haji, Consultant Pulmonologist, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust 

Exercise medicine and mental health

Dr Brendan Stubbs, National Institute for Health and Care Research Clinical Researcher, Kings College London

Panel discussion
Comfort break

Exercise medicine and respiratory health

Exercise-induced laryngeal obstruction

Dr Emil Walsted, Specialist Registrar, Bispebjerg Hospital, Copenhagen

Your COVID recovery - COVID recovery and physical activity

Professor Sally Singh, Consultant Clinical Scientist, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

Panel discussion

Exercise medicine in action - case studies from clinical practice

Sport Exercise Medicine and Respiratory Medicine: Clinical exercise medicine prize presentations

Oral presentation 1: Development and implementation of the fit4surgery prehabilitation service for Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland.

Dr Heather MacKinnon, Prehabilitation Clinical Service Lead and Physiotherapist, University Hospitals of Leicester 

Oral presentation 2: Primary care vaccination as opportunistic physical activity promotion in 'at risk' populations

Dr Joseph Morwood, General practitioner, Downing Street Group Practice

Oral presentation 3: Introducing exercise medicine consultations to a weight management service

Dr Andy Richardson, Sport & Exercise Medicine ST4 Registrar, Barts Health NHS Trust

Comfort break

How to integrate exercise medicine into respiratory services

Prehab4cancer- pre-operative physical activity in lung cancer

Dr John Moore, Consultant in Critical Care and Anaesthesia, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust 

Activity unlimited in cystic fibrosis – from bedside to clinics to pitch side

Professor Craig Williams, Professor of Paediatric Physiology and Health, University of Exeter 

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and pulmonary rehabilitation – where have we come from and where are we going?

Professor William Man, Consultant Chest Physician, The Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust 

Panel discussion
Comfort break

Delivering exercise medicine in services

Motivational interviewing and active conversations

Dr Sam Thistleton, Consultant in Sports and Exercise Medicine, Nuffield Health Manchester Institute of Health and Performance

Close of meeting

Sponsors

Location

Online

 

 

Registration for this webinar will close 1 hour prior to the start time. You will receive the webinar link 1 hour before the meeting. Late registrations will not be accepted.

Webinar recordings will be available for registered delegates up to 60 days after the live webinar, via Zoom. The link will be sent 24 hours after the webinar takes place.

This webinar 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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