Thursday 11th October 2007

Charles Hastings Education Centre, Worcestershire Royal Hospital, Worcester.

TORTURE, TURKEYS, TYPHOONS AND TRIDENT

How are these relevant to your everyday professional life?
 
How are these major global threats ?
 
Are doctors part of the cause or the cure?
 
Find out some answers and widen your clinical knowledge. Meet leading medical experts in the fields of conflict, refugee and torture care, environmental change, avian flu. Restore your professional morale – there is more to life than QUOF
 
COST £60 WHOLE DAY  /   £40 HALF DAY   /  STUDENTS £5

This meeting is not sponsored by pharmaceutical companies.
 
If you would be interested in attending please e.mail Jenny Murray on This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or complete and return slip with cheque made payable to GP Education Account to Jenny Murray.  

Course Organiser - Dr. Frances Hogwood 

PROGRAMME

08.30 -09.00 : Registration and Coffee
 
09.00 - 12.30 : Climate Chaos, Environmental Justice and Global Health
John Middleton – Director for Public Health, Sandwell.  Hon Reader in Public
Health, University of Birmingham.  Writer on Terrorism and Health  
 
Health Data and its use in influencing policy
Dr Marion Birch – Director, Medact – UK charity for Global Health
   
10.30 - 11.00 : Coffee and Biscuits
 
Nuclear Weapons – Evidence based ?  Cost effective ?
Dr Rebecca Johnson – Specialist in international relations and disarmament
diplomacy.  Former special adviser WMD commission chaired by Hans Blix
   
Patents or Patients? – Access to medicines in the UK and in poor countries
Dr Gilles de Wildt.  Birmingham GP.  Writer, teacher and adviser on global health issues 
 
Medical Care of Victims of Torture
Dr Juliet Cohen – Medical Director of The Medical Foundation for Care of Victims of Torture
    
12.30 – 14.00 : Lunch including Grand Rounds presentations from organisations taking part in study day
 
14.00 – 17.00 : ‘Beyond comprehension and decency’ – Healthcare of immigration detainees, including victims of torture
Dr Jonathan Fluxman, GP in Central London and volunteer doctor for Medical Justice
 
Does nuclear energy provide the answer to global warming ?
Ian Fairlie – Adviser to UK Government, WHO, BNFL, Scottish Environmental Protection Agency
 
Break for Tea and Biscuits
 
Political Violence and Health
Dr Jack Piachaud – Psychiatrist.  Editor, ‘Medicine, Conflict and Survival’
 
Avian ‘flu and Pandemics
Member of Health Protection Agency
 
Input also from Brian Johnson-Thomas.  UN weapons inspector and war correspondent for The Times.
 

 
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Return to:  Mrs. Jenny Murray, Medical Education Manager, Charles Hastings Education Centre, Worcestershire Royal Hospital, Charles Hastings Way, Worcester WR5 1DD.