Pharmacogenomics and psychiatry - 2024

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16Oct

Pharmacogenomics and psychiatry 2024

Timings 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Location Virtual event, Online
Non-member£34
Consultant£23
Higher Trainees / SAS Doctors£18
Core Trainees / Subsidised / Retired£12
Medical Students / Foundation Year Doctors£12
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Pharmacogenomics and psychiatry - 2024

Event Information

In this webinar you will be hearing from special guest speaker Professor Sir Munir Pirmohamed - David Weatherall Chair of Medicine and NHS Chair of Pharmacogenetics. 

Professor Sir Munir Pirmohamed (MB ChB, PhD, FRCPE, FRCP, FFPM. FRSB, FBPhS, FMedSci) is David Weatherall Chair in Medicine at the University of Liverpool, NHS Chair of Pharmacogenetics, and a Consultant Physician at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital. 

He is Director of the Centre for Drug Safety Sciences, and Director of the Wolfson Centre for Personalised Medicine.  He is also Director of HDR North.  He is an inaugural National Institute for Health and Care Research Senior Investigator, Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in the UK, and Chair of the Commission Human Medicines.. He is a medical trustee for the British Heart Foundation. 

He was President of British Pharmacological Society from January 2020-December 2021, and is currently President of the Association of Physicians.  He was awarded a Knights Bachelor in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2015. His research focuses on personalised medicine, clinical pharmacology and drug safety in a variety of disease areas, including cardiovascular medicine.

What this webinar will cover:

  • Evidence of pharmacogenetics in psychiatry
  • Current state of pharmacogenetic testing in psychiatry practice
  • Future development in pharmacogenetics

Key learning objectives:

  • The evidence for pharmacogenetics in psychiatry
  • Challenges in implementing pharmacogenetics into clinical practice
  • Future research areas for improving the evidence base 

Please kindly note that the event will be recorded and the recording made available within two weeks of the event. The recording will not be automatically available after the event has taken place. 

The recording will be sent out to delegates via email. The link will be sent to the email address used at the time of registering. If you are unsure whether your email address is up to date, please update this via your membership account. 

We would encourage those who register to attend on the day of the event, should they wish to ask questions to our speakers.

The webinar recording will be available to registered delegates for up to two months. 

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For further information, please contact:

Email: division.events@rcpsych.ac.uk

Contact Name: Division Events Team

Contact number: 0208 618 4240

Event Location

Location: Virtual event, Online