Events:

23rd March 2012 10:00 - 23rd March 2012 17:00

Marie Curie annual palliative care research conference

The Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London, W1G 0AE, United Kingdom

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Overview

The challenge of symptom control in advanced progressive disease: what can we do?

We know from clinical practice that people with advanced, progressive disease who are approaching the end of life experience numerous distressing symptoms that are often difficult to control. The burden is similar in both cancer and non-cancer diagnoses, although in many non-cancer diagnoses, such as dementia, symptoms are poorly recognised by clinicians.

For patients, research into how we can identify and attempt to manage these symptoms and their consequences is a high priority. Such research includes understanding how and why symptoms occur, which treatments might be most effective for which patients, how these treatments can be put into practice, and what the long-term effects on patients and families might be.

At our Marie Curie Annual Palliative Care Research Conference this year, we shall update our thinking in these areas. We shall hear talks from expert researchers working on a range of common symptoms, including pain – the one which many of us fear the most.

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Event description

There will be more free research papers than ever before as well as 20 posters – all chosen in open competition. We will end the day with an interactive session in which we explore issues of how we might put new knowledge into practice.

Invited Speakers

Professor Mike Bennett, St Gemma’s Professor of Palliative Medicine, Leeds Institute of Health Sciences School of Medicine, University of Leeds

Dr Joy Ross, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Royal Marsden and Royal Brompton Palliative Care Service Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Imperial College London

Professor Frances Mair, Professor of Primary Care Research and Head of General Practice and Primary Care, Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow

Professor Alex Molassiotis, Professor and Chair of Cancer and Supportive Care, University of Manchester

Joanna Eley, NCRI Consumer Liaison Group Representative

Rates for 2012

The Marie Curie Annual Palliative Care Research Conference is run in partnership with the Royal Society of Medicine. Fees are as follows (£):

RSM members
Fellow – 70.00
Associate – 55.00
Trainee – 55.00
Student – 30.00
Retired – 55.00

Non RSM members
Consultant / GP – 130.00
Allied Health Professional – 85.00
Trainee – 85.00
Student – 45.00
Marie Curie places – 65.00

How to book

Please register by February 24, 2012 through the Royal Society of Medicine website