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Friday 19th February 2010: Toxicology: City Hospital

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Postgraduate Medical Centre

City Hospital, Birmingham

Convenor: Dr Steve George

09.30 – 10.30	Mass Spectrometry – Principles	Dr Loretta Ford
10.30 – 11.00	Coffee
11.00 – 12.00	Practical Applications in the Laboratory:	Vitamin D – Dr Loretta Ford Drugs of abuse screening – Dr Petros Kampanis
12.00 – 13.00	Forensic Toxicology	Mr Ted Sheehan
13.00 – 14.00	Lunch
14.00 – 15.00	Diagnosis and Management of Poisoning	Dr Alan Jones
15.30 – 16.45	Drugs of Abuse Screening	Dr Steve George

The Postgraduate Centre is located at the back of the City Hospital site, not far from the main visitor car parks. Postcode: B18 7QH
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Friday 29th January 2010: Calcium/Phosphate: Derby

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Convenor: Dr John Monaghan

Pathology Seminar room
Level 5
Pathology
Royal Derby Hospital
Uttoxexter Road
Derby DE22 3NE

Students should ask at reception and they will be let into the department.

http://www.derbyhospitals.nhs.uk/how-to-find-us.html

9.30-10.15	Calcium Homeostasis	Nigel Lawson
10.15-10.45	Measuring Calcium	John Monaghan
10.45-11.00	Coffee
11.00-11.30	Magnesium disorders	Nigel Lawson
11.30-12.00	Phosphate Disorders	John Monaghan
12.00-12.30	Markers of bone turnover	John Monaghan
12.30-13.15	Lunch
13.15-14.00	Hypocalcaemia	Paul Masters
14.00-14.30	Calcium calculations	Paul Masters
14.30-15.15	Hypercalcaemia	Paul Masters
15.15-15.30	Tea
15.30-16.30	Quiz

Friday 15th January 2010: Muscle: Post Grad Centre, QE, Birmingham

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Post Grad Centre, QE, Birmingham

Convenor: Dr Angela Haddon

0945-10.15	Basic Muscle Biochemistry	Dr A Haddon
10.15-11.15	IMD & Muscle Metabolism	Dr G Gray
11.30-12.30	Laboratory Investigationof Muscle Disease	Dr Huissoon
14.00-14.45	Clinical presentation of Muscle Disease	Dr Hendricsz
15.00-16.00	Rhabdomyolysis	Dr P Gosling
16.00-16.30	Clinical Cases	Dr A Haddon

Fri 12th February 2010: Bones: Postgraduate Centre, Nottingham City Hospital

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Fri 12th February 2010: Bones:Postgraduate Centre, Nottingham City Hospital

Nottingham City Hospital Site Map 2010

Time	Title	Lecturer
9:30 – 10:00	Introduction and Case Presentation	Mrs Leila Cornes (NUH)
10:00 – 10:45	Introduction to bone physiology	Dr Donna Fullteron (NUH)
Break
11:15 -12:00	PTH and Vitamin D methods	Dr Tony Hitch
12:00 – 12:45	Radiology	Dr Julia Fairburn
Lunch
14:00 – 14:45	Metabolic Bone Disease (1)	Dr Peter Prinsloo
Tea
15:00 -15:45	Metabolic Bone Disease (2)	Dr Peter Prinsloo
16:00 – 16:45	Renal Bone Disease	Dr Simon Roe (NUH)

Friday 26th March 2010: Exams: Venue: Medical School

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0930-1100	Essays
1130-1230	SAQ

Friday 5th February 2010: Enzymes: Wolverhampton Medical Institute

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Room 8: Wolverhampton Medical Institute. New Cross Hospital, Wolverhampton, WV10 0QP

9.30	Clinical Cases	M Griffiths, New Cross
10.00	Essay Planning workshop	M Griffiths, Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust
10.45	Coffee
11.15	ALP isoenzymes-their use and methods of measurement	C Webster, Heart of England NHS Trust
12.00	Standardisation of enzyme assays	D Bullock, UKNEQAS Birmingham
13.00	Lunch
14.00	Pathology Harmony and enzymes	G Roberts, Ceredigion and Mid Wales NHS Trust
14.45	Tea
15.15	Determinants of enzyme activity	M Petchey, University Hospital, Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust
16.00	Close

Friday 5th March 2010: Hypertension : Wolverhampton Medical Institute

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5th March 2010: Room 8: Wolverhampton Medical Institute. New Cross Hospital, Wolverhampton

Provisional

Time	Topic	Speaker
09.30- 11.30	Hypertension – Basics, Investigation and principles of treatment	Prof G Beevers. Professor of Medicine, City Hospital, Bham
11.30 -11.45	Coffee
11.45 -12.45	Clinical Cases (mineralocorticoid hypertension)	Prof R Gama, Clinical Chemistry, New Cross Hospital
12.45 – 13.45	Lunch
13.45– 14.45	Dynamic Function Tests	Dr Raashda Sulaiman Clinical Chemistry, New Cross Hospital
14.45-15.00	Tea
15.00– 15.45	Gynaecomastia	Prof R Gama, Clinical Chemistry, New Cross Hospital
15.45 – 16.30	MEN	Dr A ViswanathConsultant Endocrinologist, New Cross Hospi

Friday 26th February 2010: Analytical Methods: Good Hope Hospital

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Friday 26th February 2010

Venue: Harry Hollier Lecture Theatre,

Partnership Learning Centre, Good Hope Hospital.

Programme

9.30 – 10.00	Cases	Dr David Kennedy
10.00 – 11.00	Hierarchy of Analytical Methods	Dr Jonathan Middle
11.00 – 11.15	BREAK
11.15 – 11.45	Turbidimetry and Nephelometry	Miss Sarah Knowles
11.45 – 12.45	Atomic Spectrometry	Mr Ted Sheehan
12.45 – 13.45	LUNCH BREAK
13.45 – 14.45	Automated Chemistry Analysers and Pre- and Post- Analytical Systems	Mr Phillip Hurley
14.45 – 15.00	BREAK
15.00 – 16.00	Interferences in Methods on Automated Chemistry Analysers	Dr David Kennedy
16.00 – 16.30	Spectrophotometry	Dr Jessie Raju

Friday 12th March 2010: Cardiovascular Disease, Charles Wilson Building, University of Leicester

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Cardiovascular Disease

12 March 2010

Sparkenhoe and Goscote Room, Level 4, Charles Wilson Building, University of Leicester

Time	Title	Speaker
09.30 – 10.15	Laboratory markers of necrosis of the myocardium	Dr V Lee, Clinical Biochemist
10.15 – 11.00	Acute Coronary Syndrome	Dr R Pathmanathan, Consultant Cardiologist
11.00 – 11.15	Coffee/Tea
11.15 – 12.00	Laboratory approach to heart failure	Dr N Scott, Consultant Biochemist
12.00 – 12.45	Clinical approach to heart failure	Professor L L Ng Professor Pharmacology & Therapeutics Group, Cardiovascular Science
12.45 – 13.45	Lunch
13.45 – 14.30	Pathogenesis of atherosclerosis and the risk factors	Dr W Madira Consultant Chemical Pathologist
14.30 – 15.15	Atheromatous vessel disease – non-coronary (carotid, aorta, femoral, mesenteric)	Mr M McCarthy Consultant Vascular Surgeon/Honorary Senior lecturer
15.15 – 15.30	Coffee/Tea
15.30 – 16.15	Cerebrovascular disease/medicine	Professor T Robinson Professor of Stroke Medicine

Friday 22 January 2010: Pharma/CSF : Postgraduate Centre, New Cross Hospital, Wolverhampton

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Friday 22 January 2010

Postgraduate Centre, New Cross Hospital, Wolverhampton

Convenor: Mike Hallworth (Shrewsbury)

0945 – 1045	Pharmacokinetics	Mike Hallworth
1045 – 1100	Break
1100 – 1200	TDM	Mike Hallworth
1200 – 1300	Genetics and Drugs	Dr Tony Fryer (Stoke)
1300 – 1345	Lunch
1345 – 1445	Diagnostic Aspects of CSF – 1	Miss Carrie Chadwick (Liverpool)
1445 – 1500	Break
1500 – 1600	Diagnostic Apects of CSF – 2	Miss Carrie Chadwick (Liverpool)
1600 – 1630	TDM methods	Jon Flowerday