Ulster Thoracic Society Winter Meeting



Ulster Thoracic Society Special Winter Meeting

Bushmills Inn

November 19th-20th 2010

-Theme-

Maximizing Radical Treatment of Lung Cancer in the UK

Target Audience

•Chest physicians and Physicians in training

•Thoracic surgeons and UK lung cancer networks

•Respiratory Oncologists

Costs

The UTS has an educational grant to fund the venue and the speakers Conference Dinner at Bushmills Inn £35.

Limited Accommodation is available at the Bushmills Inn at Conference rates: (Telephone 028 20733000, mail@). The Causeway Hotel (Telephone 02820731226, reception@giants-causeway-hotel.co.uk) offers more rooms. There is other accommodation locally. Enquires to the local Tourist Board.

Transport: With prior warning we will provide transport to any visitors to Northern Ireland from Belfast International Airport to and from the venue. The current plan is to pick up visitors to Northern Ireland at 11.30am and at 2.30pm and to return after lunch on Saturday.

Interested parties should contact Wendy.anderson@northerntrust.hscni.uk to register for the meeting and ensure airport transport.

Timetable

Friday 19th November

12.30 lunch

1.30 Welcome Dr Julian Leggett. Secretary Ulster Thoracic Society

1.35 Palliative care of COPD Dr Angela Garvey consultant in Palliative care Altnagelvin Hospital

2.20 New Drug therapies in COPD Dr Joe Kidney consultant in Respiratory Medicine Belfast Mater Hospital

3.00 Why Pulmonary Rehabilitation works Dr Nick Hopkinson of Imperial College and Royal Brompton Hospital

3.50 Afternoon tea

4.10 Radical Treatment and Survival for lung Cancer in UK . Dr Wendy Anderson Lead Clinician for Lung Cancer Northern Health on Social Care Trust .

4.30.Maximising Radical surgery in lung cancer. Mr Kieran McManus of The royal Victoria Hospital Belfast and Mr David Waller Consultant Thoracic Surgeon, University Hospitals of Leicester

5.50 Radical Oncology Options in lung cancer. Dr Joe Maguire Oncologist at Clatterbridge Hospital.

6.40-7.30 How can we maximise our use of Radical Treatments for Lung Cancer local and national discussion groups

8.00 Dinner

Saturday 20th November

9.30  Difficult Lung Cancer Case discussion.

10.30 Stuart Elborn- Bronchiectasis

11.30 Liam Heaney -Difficult Asthma

12.30 lunch and close

Curriculum Vitae:

Julian Leggett. Consultant Respiratory and General Medicine Northern Health and Social Care Trust and Secretary of the Ulster Thoracic Society

Angela Garvey. Consultant in Palliative Care Alnagelvin Hospital. Angela has had long term interest in the palliative care of Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease and has been spoken widely on this subject both locally and nationally

Joe Kidney. Consultant in Respiratory Medicine in the Mater Hospital and Belfast City Hospital. He has a long standing published interest in the role of inflammation in Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease and is an experienced speaker.

Nick Hopkinson has been a Clinical Senior Lecturer at Imperial College since 2006. He is also an Honorary Consultant Chest Physician at The Royal Brompton Hospital and Chelsea & Westminster Hospitals. He qualified in Medicine at Cambridge and The London Hospital Medical College and went on to train in Respiratory and General Internal Medicine at St George’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals. He is clinical lead for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) at The Royal Brompton Hospital and runs a tertiary referral advanced COPD clinic with Professor Mike Polkey and Dr Matthew Hind where patients are assessed for novel treatments for their disease including endobronchial emphysema therapies. He has established a smoking cessation clinic in the trust and is responsible for developing pulmonary rehabilitation services.

Wendy Anderson Lead Clinician for Lung Cancer Northern Health and Social Care Trust. Wendy has a long term published interest in local and national lung cancer survival and in the use of radical treatment to achieve long term survival.

David Waller is a Consultant Thoracic Surgeon, University Hospitals of Leicester and an Honorary Senior Lecturer, Depts Medicine & Surgery, University of Leicester. Special clinical interests include pulmonary and oesophageal malignancy, and VATS. His recent publications advance the use of radical surgery in lung cancer.

Kieran McManus is a Consultant in Thoracic Surgery Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast. He graduated in Tasmania and was a Thoracic Fellow in the Mayo Clinic. His has specialist interests include lung cancer, oesophageal cancer, benign oesophageal disease, thoracic trauma and triathlon.

Joe Maguire Consultant in Oncology at Clatterbridge Hospital, The Wirral with a long standing interest in maximising the radical treatment of lung cancer

Stuart Elborn is Professor of Respiratory Medicine, QUB. He is also director of the Adult CF Centre, Belfast City Hospital and chairman of Research and Medical Advisory Committees of the Cystic Fibrosis Trust, UK. He trained in Belfast and helped develop the Cystic Fibrosis Centres in Nottingham and Cardiff.  On return to Belfast in 1995 started a new Adult Cystic Fibrosis Centre providing care for all adults with cystic fibrosis in Northern Ireland. The Belfast Centre also has an active research programme in basic science of inflammation and infection and clinical research in airways clearance, self-management programmes and undertakes a range of clinical trials examining new treatments for cystic fibrosis. He also runs a non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis service providing regional care for patients with bronchiectasis.

Liam Heaney is a Consultant in General and Respiratory Medicine in Belfast City Hospital and a Senior Lecturer at Queens University Belfast. He is Co-ordinator of National Registry in Difficult/Severe Asthma (BTS) and Chair BTS / SIGN Guidelines Evidence Review Group for Difficult Asthma .Member of Steering Committee for BTS / SIGN Guidelines on Asthma Management. Member of British Thoracic Society (BTS) Research Committee

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