WPS Clinical Meeting 2021
Event details
The next Welsh Paediatric Society Clinical Meeting will take place on Friday 18th June. Due to the ongoing pandemic the event will be held virtually using Microsoft Teams.
Our 1 day event showcases the latest scientific presentations from paediatricans across Wales and neighbouring deaneries together with lectures from guest speakers that include:
Dr Camilla Kingdom, President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
Dr Louise Phillips and Menna Jones, Glan Clwyd Hospital
Dr Sarah Mayell, Alderhey Children's Hospital
Dr Emma McCann, Liverpool Women's Hospital
There is a nominal fee to attend therefore please register on the website to ensure that you receive the link to attend. The link will be provided to delegates on the week commencing Monday 14th June.
Keynote speakers
Camilla has been Vice President for Education and Professional Development since July 2018. In December 2020, she was elected as President elect, and will assume the post in Spring 2021.
She graduated from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and trained in paediatrics in London. She has been a consultant neonatologist since 2000. She works at the Evelina London Children's Hospital and has sub-specialty interests in neonatal nutrition, donor milk banking and neurodevelopmental follow up of high risk neonates.
She has a longstanding involvement in medical education at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She was Head of the London School of Paediatrics and Child Health for 5 years and this gave her unique opportunities to see first hand the highs and lows of working in Paediatrics and all its subspecialties, in a wide range of different clinical settings.
Camilla has a particular interest and expertise in medical careers support. She completed a Masters in Medical Careers Management at the University of Brighton in 2013 and currently co-leads the RCPCH Careers Advisors network. She is especially interested in enhancing working lives of Paediatricians, team morale and ideas to combat burnout and disillusionment with Medicine.
Dr Louise Phillips – Consultant Paediatrician with a specialist interest in Gastroenterology and Paediatric lead for the North Wales regional Specialist CAMHS Eating Disorder Team (SPEED).
Louise Phillips has been a Consultant at Glan Clwyd Hospital since 2007 and developed an interest in working with young people with an eating disorder in 2014. She played a significant role in setting up the SPEED service with other enthusiastic members of a multi-disciplinary team and the service launched in 2016 as a hub and spoke model for early intervention in eating disorders. The team provide centralised assessments and intervention for all young people across North Wales with, in particular, Anorexia Nervosa. The team use the evidence based Maudsley Model of Family Based Treatment. The service has been highly successful in its aim to reduce inpatient admission numbers and lengths of stay in both psychiatric and paediatric units.
The service and its outcomes have been presented in various settings including; Quality Network for Community CAMHS (QNCC) Conference London, All Wales Eating Disorder Specialist Interest Group (AWEDSIG) and the International Eating Disorder conference in London. Louise also dedicates as much time as possible to training a whole range of professionals in the medical management of young people with eating disorders with the aim of improving services across the country.
Dr Menna Jones, National Lead for Eating Disorders in Wales
Menna Jones is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and is currently undertaking the role of National Lead for Eating Disorders, based with the NHS Wales Health Collaborative and part of the Mental Health Network. Prior to taking on this role in January 2021, she worked for 10 years as the clinical lead of a Tier 3 adult eating disorders service (the Service for High-risk Eating Disorders), for Cardiff and Vale UHB and Cwm Taf Morgannwg UHB. The team supported and provided treatment for adults with severe eating disorders both in the community and in local psychiatric and medical inpatient settings. She was also Chair of the Eating Disorders Sub-group for Wales for a number of years. During this period, the sub-group developed recommendations for inpatient medical refeeding admissions for young people, and has led on the delivery of the early phases of improving early intervention for eating disorders across Wales.
Dr Emma McCann is a Consultant Clinical Geneticist and Clinical Director of Liverpool Centre for Genomic Medicine (LCGM) and Clinical Support Services. Her interest in genetic medicine started in Medical School in Belfast where under the tutelage of Professor Norman Nevin she undertook a BSc in Medical Genetics. She graduated in Medicine and initially pursued a career in Paediatrics. She took the opportunity to train in Clinical Genetics in Liverpool. Her first consultant post was in the All Wales Medical Genetics Service and she is currently in Liverpool Centre for Genomic Medicine.
She works mainly as a general geneticist seeing adult and children who may have a genomic condition. She has an interest in cancer, paediatric and renal genomics. She contributes to genomic MDTs interpreting complex genomic results. Dr McCann has led the development of LCGM’s Genomic Strategy. She has published on a number of different conditions, recruited to the 100 000 Genome Project and set up systems and processes to deal with the results. She was a member of the team that bid to procure the North West Genomic Laboratory Hub (NWGLH) and continues to work with the NWGLH to ensure patients have access to genomic testing.
Sarah has been a Consultant in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital since 2010. She graduated from University of Wales College of Medicine and completed paediatric training in South Wales, Birmingham and Mersey regions. Sarah’s interest in paediatrics started during an undergraduate placement at Llandough Hospital.
Sarah is the Departmental Lead for Respiratory Medicine at Alder Hey and her clinical interests include Cystic Fibrosis and Childhood Interstitial Lung Disease. She is part of the Cystic Fibrosis Regional Service for Merseyside, Cheshire and North Wales which looks after 300 patients and is the lead Alder Hey clinician for the North Wales Cystic Fibrosis clinics. Together with specialist pharmacy and nursing colleagues, Sarah has been responsible for the rollout of CFTR modulator therapy to children and young people in the regional network. She also has an interest in newborn screening for Cystic Fibrosis and is a member of the European Cystic Fibrosis Society Newborn Screening Working Group.
Location
Due to the pandemic this will be a virtual event using Microsoft Teams and a link will be provided to all those that register in advance of the clinical meeting. For further information please contact Lisa Roberts
Accommodation details
Due to the pandemic this will be a virtual event using Microsoft Teams. For further information please contact Lisa Roberts
