FPM Symposium on Immunopsychiatry - 2nd November 2015 in London

A symposium is being organised by Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine to reflect the emergence of an exciting new area of research into the aetiology of psychiatric disorders, new advances with potentially large clinical implications. 

There has been a recent rapid increase in the understanding of the potential role of immune dysfunction in CNS disorders –  via both ‘acquired’ (antigen-specific) and ‘innate’ (relatively non-specific) immune processes – affecting ‘higher’ functions resulting in cognitive and behavioural symptoms. 

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These developments complement the already well-established role of the immune system in neurological disease, as  reflected in the investigation, diagnosis and treatment of many syndromes to the point of immune dysfunction (mostly via autoimmunity) being a differential diagnosis for almost any neurological disorder.

There is now increasing evidence that the immune system is implicated in many disorders at the interface of neurology and psychiatry (E.g. encephalitis, Tourette’s and dementias such as Alzheimer’s disease) and there is even evidence that ‘core’ psychiatric disorders such as OCD, schizophrenia and even depression might have a significant immune contribution to the disorder. 

This has major potential ramifications for the management of these disorders with potential for a wide range of new diagnostic tests and new both disease-modifying  (immunomodulation) and even preventative treatments.

This evidence, and future directions, will be reviewed at a level accessible to the generalist to bring them up to date with this fast moving field. The speakers include a genuinely world-class list of authorities on these subjects.

This seminar is aimed at psychiatrists, and clinicians in other related areas (especially neurology & immunology), interested in this emerging area. Neuropsychiatrists, Early Intervention Psychosis Psychiatrists & Old Age Psychiatrists should be particularly interested in these developments. It will also be of appeal to neuroimmunologists and related scientists.

Register for 90th Anniversary Symposium for the Postgraduate Medical Journal

The FPM is organizing a symposium to mark the 90th Anniversary of the PMJ.

Venue: Medical Society of London  Date:  Thursday 1st October, 2015

Speakers:  Peter Ashman, Publishing Director at BMJ, Professor Peter Barnes FRS, London, Professor Dame Carol Black, Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge, FPM Fellow Cardiac Surgeon Wade Dimitri, Professor Alison Halliday, Oxford, Professor Melanie Davies, Leicester, FPM Fellow Professor Andrew Marsh, Dr Paul Nunn, London, former Director of the WHO Tuberculosis Programme, Professor Dudley Pennell, Imperial College, London, FPM Fellow Professor Munir Pirmohamed, Liverpool, Dr June Raine, MHRA, London, Professor Terence Ryan, Oxford, Professor Karol Sikora, London, FPM President Professor Donald Singer, Dr David Wilkinson, President, World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists, London.

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Symposium to mark 90th Anniversary for the Postgraduate Medical Journal

The Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine is organising a Symposium in London on 1st October 2015 to mark the 90th Anniversary of its first official journal, the Postgraduate Medical Journal. The meeting will be held at the Medical Society of London.

Places are limited for the day. Register online for the Symposium
 

Early Registration (to 1st Sep) including lunch, coffee and tea
£25 for trainees in clinical or academic health-related disciplines (£40 after 1st Sep)
£50 for senior delegates in clinical or academic health-related disciplines (£70 after 1st Sep)
£100 for other delegates (£120 after 1st Sep)
Speakers on the day will comment on what medicine was like in the 1920s, current progress in their field, and what is in prospect over the next 90 years.

Speakers will include FPM Fellows Professor Sir Munir Pirmohamed who will discuss Progress in Personalised Medicine and Professor Peter Barnes FRS, who will speak on Advances in Respiratory Medicine.

Sir Munir Pirmohamed was awarded a Personal Chair in Clinical Pharmacology at The University of Liverpool in 2001, and in 2007, was appointed to the NHS Chair of Pharmacogenetics.  He was appointed the Head of the Department of Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Liverpool in 2010.  

Peter Barnes has been Professor of Thoracic Medicine since 1987 and is Head of Respiratory Medicine at the National Heart and Lung Institute and Honorary Consultant Physician at Royal Brompton Hospital, London. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2007, the first respiratory researcher to be elected FRS for over 150 years.  

Other speakers will include Peter Ashman, Publishing Director at BMJ, who will discuss the future for publishing medical journals, Professor Dame Carol Black, Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge and Past-President of the Royal College of Physicians who will discuss opportunities to improve public health through a focus on health in the workplace, FPM Fellow cardiac surgeon Wade Dimitri (Coventry) who will discuss early development of heart surgery, vascular surgeon Professor Alison Halliday (Oxford) on carotid surgery to prevent stroke,  Professor Melanie Davies (Leicester) on progress in managing diabetes, FPM Fellow Andrew Marsh, who will discuss new approaches drug discovery, Dr Paul Nunn (London), former Director of the WHO Tuberculosis Programme, on advances in managing tuberculosis, Professor Dudley Pennell (London) on advances in imaging the heart, FPM Fellow Professor Munir Pirmohamed (Liverpool) who will discuss Progress in Personalised Medicine, Dr June Raine (MHRA, London) on vigilance and risk management of medicines, Emeritus Professor Terence Ryan (Oxford) on Sir William Osler,  Professor Karol Sikora (London) on cancer - a disease of our time, FPM President Professor Donald Singer on preventing heart disease, and Dr David Wilkinson, President of the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (London) on development of anaesthesia over the past 90 years.
 
The Postgraduate Medical Journal publishes topical reviews, commentaries and original papers on themes across the medical spectrum. It provides continuing professional development for all doctors, from those in training, to their teachers, and active clinicians, by publishing papers on a wide range of topics relevant to clinical practice.

Papers published in PMJ describe current practice and new developments in all branches of medicine; describe relevance and impact of translational research on clinical practice; provide background relevant to examinations; and papers on medical education and medical education research.  

The FPM is a British non-profit organisation founded in the autumn of 1919 as a merger of the Fellowship of Medicine and the Postgraduate Medical Association, with Sir William Osler as its first president. Its initial aims were the development of educational programmes in all branches of postgraduate medicine. 

The FPM now organises clinical and research meetings and publishes two journals. The FPM has since 1925 published the international journal, the Postgraduate Medical Journal. In 2012 the Fellowship launched a new international journal, Health Policy and Technology, published on the Fellowship's behalf by Elsevier.