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Title:
St George’s Gastroenterology Teaching Day 2010
When:
19.04.2010 - 19.04.2010 09.00 h - 17.00 h
Category:
Regional Group Meetings

Description

Monday 19th April 2010

Michael Heron Lecture Theatre, Hunter Wing, St George’s, University of London

Metabolic Liver Diseases

  • Osteoporosis in chronic liver diseases
  • Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis
  • Wilson’s disease
  • Iron storage disorders

Debate

‘Top-down’ use of biological treatment should be the standard of care for patients with Crohn’s disease in the NHS

For: Dr S Bloom (University College Hospital)
Against: Dr T Orchard (St Mary’s Hospital)

Bryan Brooke Lecture

Stem cells in liver disease - a promise soon to be realised?
Prof S Forbe (University of Edinburgh)

Colonic Diseases

  • IBS symptoms in IBD: how common and how to manage
  • Clostridium difficile infection: update
  • The place of leukapheresis in inflammatory bowel disease

Bowel cancer screening: current status

  • Bowel cancer screening: the first 3 years
  • Alternative methods for colonic cancer screening
  • Colorectal cancer – the future

Course fee, including lunch: £70
£40 for trainees

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