Community Child Health has been running for nearly 25 years and continues to offer the latest developments in a wide range of topics across the speciality. It is one of Genesis’s most popular meetings.

The conference will be taking place face-to-face this Spring from 3th – 4th April 2025

This conference is valuable to all doctors and medical professionals caring for children in the community setting. This 2-day course will help delegates to update their knowledge across a variety of topics relevant to Community Paediatrics. It combines clinically-focused, evidence-based updates with national guidance and strategy, as well as some personal perspectives, in order for community paediatricians to learn about the latest developments in community child health.

Registration fee:  

£415 – Consultant (2 days)

£384 – Specialty and Associate Specialist (SAS)/Trainee/nurse/AHP (2 days)

£210 – Consultant (1 day)

£195 – Specialty and Associate Specialist (SAS)/Trainee/nurse/AHP (1 day)

This is the final Programme:

 

THURSDAY 3 April

Dr Theresa Renwick
Head of Vulnerable Adults, Whittington Hospital, London
The Mental Capacity Act 2005 and its relevance for 16 and 17 year olds

Dr Pooja Harijan
Consultant Paediatric Neurologist, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge
Newer treatments in epilepsy

Dr Sarah Eisen
UCLH/Hospital for Tropical Diseases, UCL/LSHTM
Respond, an integrated health system for people seeking asylum and refugees

Prof Helen Bedford
Honorary Professor, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Health
Co-Director MSc Paediatrics and Child Health, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
Child and Adolescent Vaccination: An Update

Dr Richard Brown
Consultant Paediatrician, Cambridge University Hospitals, UK
Advances in Epilepsy Genetics

Dr Stone Hsieh
Department of Psychology, Kingston University London
Exercise as lifestyle strategy for ADHD – what does science tell us so far?

Dr Anna Sarkozy
Dubowitz Neuromuscular Centre, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy – Multisciplinare care and novel therapies

 

FRIDAY 4 April

Prof Emily Jones
King’s College London & Birkbeck, University of London
Mapping trajectories in developmental neurodiversity: prospective studies from infancy

Dr Jo Saul
UCL, London
Language development in autism

Ms Maria Rodriguez Perez
PhD Candidate on Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Research at King’s College London
Can extreme deprivation cause Autism?

Dr Mary Salama and Dr Hannah Nicholson
Mary Salama: Consultant Paediatrician,
Medical lead for Children with Medical Complexities (CMiC) team
Medical lead for Human Factors, Chair of Colab
Hannah Nicholson: Paediatric Neurodisability Consultant at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital
Children with medical complexity: Improvement through partnerships

Dr Simone Last
Designated Safeguarding Lead, Blackburn, UK
Spotting the Signs of Child Exploitation

Dr Arvind Nagra
Consultant Paediatric Nephrologist, Southampton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
“Ready Steady Go” – how to start and improve transition to adult care for disabled children in the UK

Dr Gabriel Whitlingum
Consultant Paediatrician in Neurodisability, Evelina London Children’s Hospital
ARFID – fear, disinterest and disgust

 

 

 

 

 

 

Venue

Cavendish Conference Centre, 22 Duchess Mews, London W1G 9DT

Google Map: https://maps.app.goo.gl/4Gnt2aXa5TYhytjKA

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: Consultant Community Paediatrician, Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Children Services, Diagnostics & Outpatients Division, Hackney Ark

Registration fee: 

£415 – Consultant (2 days)

£385 – Specialty and Associate Specialist (SAS)/Trainee/nurse/AHP (2 days)

£210 – Consultant (1 day)

£195 – Specialty and Associate Specialist (SAS)/Trainee/nurse/AHP (1 day)

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.

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