'New Advances in Diagnosis and Treatment' Eastern Division Autumn Conference 2024

Overview

Join the Eastern Division Autumn Conference ‘New Advances in Diagnosis and Treatment’ for a stimulating day of continuing professional development.

Learn more about early identification of children’s mental health problems and the effect of social media on mental health. With talks on latest ICD classification of personality disorders and psychological and behavioural treatment of sleep disorders.

The newly licensed drugs for obesity, might pique your interest as we often manage the metabolic side effects of anti-psychotics in our patients. Hear snippets of research carried out within the Eastern region by our trainees and budding researchers.

If you are interested in psychological perspectives in mental health, come and listen to the talk on ‘Suggestion, hypnosis and functional and dissociative disorders’. This conference offers something for everyone.

Finally, you can grow your network and catch up with colleagues from around the region.

Book now for the 2024 Eastern Division Autumn Conference, taking place at the Fielder Centre, Hatfield.

Programme

The conference committee reserves the right to change the event programme.

Event Programme

We are delighted to announce the following speakers for the Eastern Division Autumn Conference:

Dr Anna Moore, Assistant Professor, Child Psychiatry and Medical Informatics, University of Cambridge

Dr Anna Moore is Assistant Professor in Child Psychiatry and Medical Informatics in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.  Dr Moore's goal is to develop personalised, preventative clinical pathways for children’s mental health. Approaching this by harnessing broad data types, including electronic health record, genetic, deep phenotyping and other data types relating to children and young people, and making it available for research purposes in a shared data environment called CADRE. CADRE has privacy preserving federated analytics capability, enabling access to data across a broad geography. This data will be available for use by trusted professionals to carry out ethically approved research. I am using this and other data to develop a range of novel digital tools to support personalised early identification and intervention for childhood mental health conditions. This includes exploring the value of different data types, including genetics. To enable this, she leads the NIHR BioResource’s D-CYPHR (DNA – children and young people’s health resource), the first re callable community of children volunteering to get involved in supporting childhood genetics research

Dr Adrian Park, Lead Obesity Consultant, Addenbrooke's Hospital 

Dr Park trained in Chemical Pathology (Metabolic Medicine) at Imperial College London. At Imperial, Dr Park undertook PhD investigating the effects of gut hormones on energy homeostasis, under Professor Bloom. Since 2009, Dr Park has been the Lead Obesity Physician at Addenbrooke’s Hospital

Professor Peter Tyrer, Emeritus  Professor, Imperial College London

Peter Tyrer is the Professor of Community Psychiatry in the Centre for Mental Health in the Division of Experimental Medicine.

His main interests are in models of delivering community psychiatric services, the classification and treatment of common mental illnesses, particularly anxiety and health anxiety, and the classification and management of personality disorders. He also leads on research into the management of patients with intellectual disability and on new psychological treatments for a common but largely unrecognised condition, health anxiety.

He is experienced in the management of those with severe mental illness, substance misuse and personality disorder and has developed a new treatment, nidotherapy, to help these people by making environmental, not personal, changes. Much of his recent work has been concerned with improving and extending the concept of personality disorder. Personality disturbance is very common, not just in psychiatric practice, and this importance has been largely unrecognised as the classification system for this group of disorders is so poor. Fortunately, a major reform of classification is under way and will both simplify, and, we hope, destigmatise a very common form of mental distress.

Dr Hugh Selsick, Consultant Psychiatrist, Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine

Dr Hugh Selsick is a consultant psychiatrist treating adults with sleep disorders, he has been involved in Sleep and Sleep Medicine for nearly 30 years. He has also founded and ran the Insomnia and Behavioural Sleep Medicine Clinic at UCLH, having worked for over a decade in the Sleep Disorders Centre at Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospitals. Dr Hugh Selsick has founded and chaired the Sleep Special Interest Group in the Royal College of Psychiatrists and he is a past president of the Sleep Section at the Royal Society of Medicine. He has expertise in treating all sleep disorders and has a special interest in the management of insomnia, nightmares, circadian rhythm disorders and restless legs. 

Dr Ruth Plackett, Senior Research Fellow, UCL Research Department of Primary Care & Population Health 

Dr Ruth Plackett is a senior research fellow at UCL in the Department of Primary Care and Population Health. Her research focuses on social media and young people’s mental health and her wider research interests include digital health, mixed methods research. Ruth is undertaking an NIHR Three Schools’ Mental Health Programme Fellowship at UCL where she is exploring the relationship between social media use and the mental health of young adults and how primary care can better support young people’s mental health.  

Dr Devin B. Terhune, Reader in Experimenter Psychology 

Devin B. Terhune, PhD, is a Reader in the Department of Psychology in the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, & Neuroscience at King’s College London. He completed his PhD on the cognitive neuroscience of verbal suggestion effects at Lund University and was previously a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford and a Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London. His research draws on methods and theories from cognitive neuroscience, experimental psychology, and psychiatry with an aim to characterise different features of awareness, with a focus on dissociative states, and how they can be modulated using verbal suggestion and pharmacological agents. 

Our speakers have advised the following learning objectives for their talks:

• Learn about controversies and debates regarding the link between verbal suggestion and dissociative psychopathology.
• Develop an understanding of verbal suggestion effects and recent research on the link between suggestion and dissociative psychopathology.
• Gain an appreciation for how verbal suggestion effects can inform our understanding of different features of dissociative psychopathology.
• Obesity is being increasingly recognised as a disease.
• Treatment pathways are available for patients (including pharmacotherapy and bariatric surgery).
• Pharmacotherapy is changing the treatment paradigm for obesity management.
• Understand the Dual Impact of social media on mental health: Attendees will gain a comprehensive understanding of both the positive and negative effects of social media on mental health across different age groups.
• Identify Therapeutic Strategies: Attendees will learn evidence-based strategies to leverage social media for therapeutic purposes, such as improving mental health awareness, reducing loneliness, and enhancing access to support.
• Learn how to harness innate physiological sleep drives to improve sleep.
• Have some simple psychological techniques optimise sleep.

More learning objectives to be advised.

The Eastern Division Executive Committee are delighted to offer a limited number of free Autumn Conference places for:

• Medical students

Availability is limited and is on a first come first serve basis.

Please email Michelle.Reid@rcpsych.ac.uk to enquire.

Fielder Conference Centre

Address: Fielder Conference Centre, Hatfield Business Park, Hatfield Ave, Hatfield AL10 9TP.

Parking: On-site car parking is available at the venue, with 200 complimentary spaces.

Train station: The nearest train station is Hatfield Station, which is located 15 minutes drive from the venue.

Venue accessibility:  Fielder Centre | AccessAble

The registration fees include refreshments and lunch.  Accommodation and/or travel costs are not included in the booking fees.

Please read our  terms and conditions before making your booking, which covers our:

• Event Cancellation Policy
• Privacy Policy
• Code of Conduct
• Event registrations are confirmed when payment is received in full
• Joining instructions are sent approximately 1 week in advance
  

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Please note, we're unable to invoice for delegate fees. If your Trust is making payment on your behalf and would like to pay by card, please call the Divisions Events team on 0208 618 4240 to make payment over the phone. 

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The Autumn conference is being delivered from the venue in Hatfield, and our exhibition package includes:

• exhibition stand (table and two chairs, with space for banner stand)
• refreshments and lunch for two stand staff each day
• Wi-Fi access.

Please contact Michelle Reid to discuss your requirements.

The Eastern Division are once again running their poster competition at this year's Autumn Conference.

There will be prizes for the best poster in each of the 4 categories:

• Medical Students
• FY Trainees
• General Medical
• Multidisciplinary

Please read the call for posters document for the full details on how to submit your abstract and poster.

Deadline for poster submissions: Friday, 4 October 2024