Community Child Health – Autumn 2024
13th Nov - 14th Nov 2024
Our long-running conference, Community Child Health, keeps doctors and paediatrics professionals up to date with the latest developments in a wide range of topics across the speciality. It combines clinically-focused, evidence-based updates with national guidance and strategy, as well as some personal perspectives.
The presentations are valuable to anyone caring for children in a community setting.
The two-day conference will take place virtually in Autumn 2024.
Registration fees:
Full conference (2 days) —
Doctor / Consultant: £265
Speciality and Associate Specialist (SAS)/Trainee/nurse/AHP: £235
Single day —
Doctor / Consultant: £136
Speciality and Associate Specialist (SAS)/Trainee/nurse/AHP: £115
The full programme will be available soon.
Wednesday, 13 November 2024
| Prof Katherine Shelton: The mental health and neurocognitive profile of children adopted from care: support needs in the context of family life |
| Dr Patricia D. Jackson: Why making a diagnosis of FASD matters |
| Prof Ming Lim: A clinical update in PANS/PANDAS |
| Dr Finella Craig: Community palliative care |
| Dr Allison Ward: (How) We can do better: safeguarding children and young people seeking asylum in the UK |
| Dr Sophie Dewar: Psychological Management of Functional Seizures |
| Dr Vicky Ho: Health Update on Children and Young People with Down Syndrome |
Thursday 14 November 2024
| Dr Jade Thai: Advances in our understanding of neurodiversity from neuroimaging studies in autism |
| Dr David Elliman: Update on Childhood Immunisations |
| Dr Shankar Rangan: Auditory Processing – do you always need a diagnosis to help the child? |
| Dr Lotta Borg Skoglund: ADHD in girls |
| Dr Elaine Clark: Genomics and Autism |
| Dr Katherine Pettinger: Developmental Outcomes in Children Born Before Full Term |
| Dr Michael Ogundele: Do Clinicians need to pay attention to Subthreshold Neurodevelopmental conditions? |
CHAIRS
| Dr Katarina Harris | Consultant Community Paediatrician, Designated Doctor for safeguarding, Islington, Northern Health Centre, London |
| Dr Nicole Horwitz | Consultant Neurodevelopmental Paediatrician – Whittington Health NHS Trust, Northern Health Centre, London |
| Dr John Loftus |
SPEAKERS
| Dr Lotta Borg Skoglund | MD PhD Senior Consultant in Family Medicine & Psychiatry Associate Professor of Psychiatry Department of Women’s & Children’s Health, Uppsala University, Sweden Department of Neuroscience Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden |
| Dr Elaine Clark | Consultant in Neurodevelopment, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London |
| Dr Finella Craig | Consultant in Paediatric Palliative Medicine, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London |
| Dr Sophie Dewar | Lead Clinical Psychologist Paediatric Psychology Service, Evelina London Children’s Hospital Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust |
| Dr David Elliman | Clinical lead for National NIPE & NBS Screening Programmes, Consultant, Great Ormond Street Hospital and Hon. Consultant in Community Child Health, Whittington Health & CNWL |
| Dr Vicky Ho | Consultant Community Paediatrician, Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust and Steering Group Member for the Down Syndrome Medical Interest Group UK |
| Dr Patricia D. Jackson | Institution University of Edinburgh Dept. of Child Life and Health. |
| Prof Ming Lim | Consultant and Professor of Paediatric Neurology Children’s Neuroscience Centre, Evelina London Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, King’s College London |
| Dr Michael Ogundele | Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Halton, North West England |
| Dr Katherine Pettinger | Department of Health Sciences, University of York |
| Dr Shankar Rangan | Consultant Audiovestibular Physician, Wirral University Teaching Hospital |
| Prof Katherine Shelton | School of Psychology, Cardiff University |
| Dr Jade Thai | Senior Research Lead Mersey Care Research & Innovation Mental Health Research for Innovation Centre Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust |
| Dr Allison Ward | Consultant Paediatrician (Royal Free London), Clinical co-lead of Respond: Integrated Refugee Health Service (UCLH) |
Conference proceeds
Proceeds from all of our conferences support our research into problems with fertility, pregnancy and birth. Our scientists at the Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology at Imperial College London continue to lead the world in this field of research. Many major findings at the site have contributed to the understanding of fertility and fetal development. This has improved in utero and newborn babies’ health.
Please see the Genesis Research Trust website for further information about us.