Vasculitis Patient Symposium 2015
Speakers:
Dr Neil Basu (Aberdeen)
Dr Nina Brown (Manchester)
Dr Maria Cinta Cid (Barcelona)
Dr Thomas Hauser (Zurich)
RNS Julie Ingall (Portsmouth)
Dr Rachel Jones (Cambridge)
Dr Peter Lanyon (Nottingham)
Dr Peter Merkel (Philadelphia)
Dr Nataliya Milman (Ontario)
Dr Janice Mooney (UEA)
Professor Ann Morgan (Leeds)
Dr Fiona Pearce (Nottingham)
Dr Jo Robson (Oxford)
Prof Caroline Savage (GSK)
Professor David Scott (Norwich)
Dr Louise Watson (GOSH)
Dr Richard Watts (Ipswich)
Dr David Younger (New York)
Topics:
Getting a diagnosis - 'the challenge for patients and doctors'
ANCA vasculitis [Wegener's (GPA), MPA, Churg Strauss (EGPA)] - Preventing Relapse - staying well
Giant Cell Arteritis
Drugs and Side Effects
Who gets Vasculitis?
Less Common types of vasculitis - Takayasu's Arteritis, HSP, Behçet's, CNS,
Vasculitis and Neuropathy
Living and Coping with Vasculitis
Holistic and Long Term Care
Fatigue
Patient Experiences
"What Comes Next"
Vasculitis as a long term condition - New developments in diagnosis and treatment
A mixture of short presentations, plus parallel "workshops" on specific groups of topics (Small Vessel Vasculitis; Large Vessel Vasculitis; Less common types of Vasculitis; Ongoing care in Vasculitis)
Plus "Meet the Doctors" - panel discussions.
An update on where and what Vasculitis UK are about at the moment...
Merely an Accounting Problem
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