Mood disorders: Emerging evidence and evolving care

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08May

One Day Event

Timings 9:25am - 5pm
Location The Edwardian Hotel, Manchester
CPD 1 point per hour of educational activity can be allocated, pending peer approval
Non-Member Fee£208
Consultant Fee£187
SAS Doctor / Higher Resident Fee£161
Core Resident / Retired / Subsidised Member Fee£108
Medical Student & Foundation Doctors / Patient and Carer Fee£28
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Mood disorders: Emerging evidence and evolving care

Event Information

This year the North West Spring Conference will cover the topic of 'Mood disorders – Emerging evidence and evolving care'.

This conference will offer psychiatrists at all stages an overview of updates on mood symptoms and disorders, bringing together established knowledge and emerging developments to support evidence-based, personalised practice. The programme will focus on core diagnostic understanding, address assessment and management challenges with co-morbidities and explore future directions in mood disorder care across clinical settings. 

Time Presentation
8.30 – 9.25am Registration
9.25 – 9.30am
  		Chairs’ welcome
Dr Nish Babu Mathew, Chair of the RCPsych North West Division
9.30 – 10.15am Lithium: new research on the old element
Professor Allan Young
Head of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London
10.15 - 11am

Assessment and management of depression in older adults
Dr Suhana Ahmed

11 – 11.30am Comfort break
11.30am – 12:15pm Managing Difficult to Treat Depression: Treatment Sequencing, Augmentation, and Novel Pharmacotherapies
Dr Baxi Sinha
12:15 – 1pm Oral Poster Presentations
1 - 2pm Lunch break
2– 2.45pm Talk 4
Speaker tbc
2.45 – 3.30pm Talk 3
Speaker tbc
3.30 – 3.45pm Comfort break
3.45 - 4.30pm Introduction to neuromodulation
Dr Richard Barnes
4.30 – 4.40pm Poster Prize Presentations
4.40 – 4.45pm Final Comments and Close of Day
Dr Nish Babu Mathew
Chair of the RCPsych North West Division
4.45pm-6.30pm Drinks Reception
*Please note this is a draft programme and is subject to change

Professor Allan Young

Professor Allan Young is Chair of Academic Psychiatry and Head of the Division of Psychiatry in the Department of Brain Sciences in the Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London.

Professor Young’s research interests focus on the cause and treatments for severe psychiatric illnesses, particularly mood disorders. He has received research grants from many funding agencies and has over 800 peer-reviewed publications, including several books about psychopharmacology and affective disorders. His H-index is 149 with over 123000 citations of his papers (Google Scholar). Recent publications have been in the New England Journal of Medicine, Nature Medicine, JAMA Psychiatry, World Psychiatry and Lancet Psychiatry. Professor Young is a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher: this highly anticipated annual list identifies researchers who demonstrated significant influence in their chosen field or fields through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last decade. Their names are drawn from the publications that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and publication year in the Web of Science™ citation index.

This year's conference will be held at The Edwardian Hotel located in Manchester’s city centre near Spinningfields business district.

Venue website: Book 5* The Edwardian Manchester, A Radisson Collection Hotel

Venue address: Free Trade Hall, Peter Street, Manchester, Manchester, M2 5GP, United Kingdom

On the day: 

All lectures will take place in the Halle Suite.

All refreshment breaks and lunch will be served in the Halle Lounge Bar.

How to get to the venue:

Car: 

Sat Nav address: Free Trade Hall, Peter St, Manchester M2 5GP.

There are two parking options available nearby to The Edwardian Manchester.

Great Northern NCP Car Park: located on Watson Street, Manchester, M3 4EE (about 5 minute walk) and this ranges from £29-50 per 24 hours and payment is made directly at the NCP.

Q-Parks, First St Car Park, M15 4FN: located off Medlock St (about 10-15 minute walk) which is approximately £13-25 per 24 hours. We advise you to book this in advance via the car park webpage where you can also get a discount of 25% using code: REHQPFS25

Train or Tram: 

The nearest tram station to The Edwardian Manchester, A Radisson Collection Hotel is St Peter's Square (Metrolink). The nearest mainline stations are Manchester Piccadilly (1 mile) and Manchester Victoria (1 mile). 

Plane:

The hotel is about 14 km from Manchester airport and takes around 20 minutes by car via the M56.

The hotel is about 53 km from Liverpool John Lennon Airport and takes around 50 minutes by car via the M62.

Each year the North West Division runs a poster competition for medical students, foundation doctors, resident doctors, and SAS doctors at the Division's Conference.

There are three categories, which will be dependent on the entrants taking part and will include:

  • Best medical student/FY1-2 poster
  • Best resident (core) poster
  • Best resident (higher)/SAS doctor poster

Up to three first-place entrants, one from each category, will be selected to give a seven-minute presentation plus three minutes for questions at the North West Division Conference.  Each winner will receive a £100 prize and a certificate of merit.

Find out more and how to apply via the Competition webpage

Please read our terms and conditions before making your booking.

For further information, please contact:

Email: division.events@rcpsych.ac.uk

Contact Name: Division Events Team

Contact number: 0208 618 4240

Event Location

Location: The Edwardian Hotel, Manchester