Leeds Children's Hospital Junior Doctors' Forum

05/06/2021

The Rapid Interpretation of Paediatric ECGs (RIPE) course will take place virtually on 4th and 5th October this year. Please see attached flyer and contact Dr Sampath directly if you have any queries or email paedsecgcourse@gmail.com to book your place!

21/05/2021

The ILAE SpR Epilepsy Teaching Weekend will take place virtually on 18th and 19th September this year. This comes highly recommended by Dr Jeavons, one of our secondary epilepsy consultants. Further details at https://www.epilepsyteachingweekend.com/

12/04/2021

Interested in research, and in collaboration between human and veterinary medicine? The free one-day "One Medicine" symposium from the Humanimal Trust on 6th May looks like a great great opportunity to learn more (and features Prof Noel Fitzpatrick aka Supervet!)

12/04/2021

The next Yorkshire Paediatric Renal Network Meeting will take place (virtually) on 27th April from 13:00-17:00. Please contact Tracy.Blackett@nhs.net to register.

19/03/2021

Want to be the next Chief Registrar at Leeds Children's Hospital? The vacancy for next year's post is now open at: https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/xi/vacancy/916436987 Please contact current Chief Registrar Amanda or last year's Chief Registrar Bex if you have any questions about the role!

Location: The Leeds General Infirmary, Salary: £32,478 to £51,069 pa

19/03/2021

Want to be the next Chief Registrar at Leeds Children's Hospita? The vacancy for next year's post is now open at: https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/xi/vacancy/916436987 Please contact current Chief Registrar Amanda or last year's Chief Registrar Bex if you have any questions about the role!

Location: The Leeds General Infirmary, Salary: £32,478 to £51,069 pa

10/03/2021

The first virtual Yorkshire Renal Network meeting will take place on 27th April and looks set to be a great learning experience. Contact Tracy.blackett@nhs.net to register.

01/12/2020

🛑We have been informed that some junior doctors have been expected to work hours that are not reflected in their generic work schedule.

💡If this is happening to you, please let us know!

⏱Please check your eroster hours and ER what you are working outside of that.

30/11/2020

📢🥁Attention paeds trainees at LCH!!

JDF meeting today at 4pm in the Paediatric Education Centre coffee room, and also on Zoom!

Should you want to join us in zoom, please send us a message and we will share the link!

18/11/2020

Attention all budding neurologists! The annual meeting will take place virtually on the 6th-8th January. Go to https://bpna.org.uk/conference/2021/index.php?contentid=1259 to view the full programme and register!

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Professor Helen Cross, London

‘Moving forward in childhood epilepsy’



Professor Russell Dale, Australia

‘Immune-Brain interactions beyond auto-immunity: Epigenomics, inflammation and microglia’



Professor Gabrielle de Veber, Canada

‘Paediatric stroke: A mechanism-based approach to treatment’



Professor Trish Greenalgh, Oxford

‘Video consultations – the evidence base’



Professor Sarosh Irani, Oxford

‘From autoantibodies to B cells: how germinal centres generate neuroglial surface antibodies’



Dr Sandeep Jayawant, Oxford

‘An overview of advances across the board in paediatric neurology’



Dr Tony Hart, Sheffield

‘Hot topics in perinatal neurology – what’s new?’



Professor Mary King, Dublin

‘Reflection on 40-years in paediatric neurology’



Professor Charles Newton, Oxford & Kenya

‘Tropical child neurology’



Professor Finbar O’Callaghan, London

‘Cannabinoids and epilepsy: what is the evidence?’



Professor Andrew Pollard, Oxford

‘Development of COVID-19 vaccine’



Professor Mary Reilly, London

‘Inherited neuropathies: new insights’



Professor Tom Solomon, Liverpool

‘Neurological disease associated with COVID-19’



Professor Jon Stone, Edinburgh

‘Hot topics in functional neurological disorders’



Ronnie MacKeith Prize: Professor Francesco Saverio Tedesco, London





PERSONAL PRACTICE SESSIONS

· Ataxia diagnosis and management

· Gene therapy for neuromuscular disorders

· Sleep disorders

· Tips on how to develop a research portfolio and how to get your work published

14/10/2020

47th BPNA Annual Conference
To be held Virtually on 6-8 January 2021
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:

Professor Trish Greenalgh, Oxford
‘Video consultations – the evidence base’

Professor Sarosh Irani, Oxford
‘From autoantibodies to B cells: how germinal centres generate neuroglial surface antibodies’

Professor Mary King, Dublin
‘Reflection on 40-years in paediatric neurology’

Professor Charles Newton, Oxford & Kenya
‘Tropical child neurology’

Professor Andy Pollard, Oxford
‘Development of Covid-19 vaccine’

Professor Mary Reilly, London
‘Peripheral neuropathies’

PERSONAL PRACTICE SESSIONS
· Ataxia diagnosis and management
· Gene therapy for neuromuscular disorders
· Sleep disorders
· Tips on how to develop a research portfolio and how to get your work published

Register at https://bpna.org.uk/conference/2021/index.php

Registration fees include access to all 3 days of the conference (6-8 January 2021). Registered attendees will also be able to access recordings of all sessions for 30 days following the conference. We are not offering single day registration.

Attendees from high income countries £75.00

Allied health professionals (nurses, therapists), Neuropsychologists, PhD candidates, medical students £25.00

Attendees from low & middle income countries £15.00

For further information or help regarding registration, please email sameena.rashid@bpna.org.uk

12/10/2020

Hi all,

Sharing this on behalf of LUMPS (Leeds University Medical Paediatric Society).

To whom this may concern,

We are contacting you as the founding committee of the National Paediatric Society Fundraising Week. The NPSFW is formed from 28 medical schools across the UK, including Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales. This is the first ever NPSFW!

The COVID-19 pandemic has left many charities struggling for donations. This week hopes to uplift communities whilst raising money for charity on a local and national scale.

The week commencing the 12th October 2020, we are inviting members of hospital staff, patients (if fit and healthy!), relatives, everyone and anyone to participate in our national initiative. As a collective, we hope to unite people to travel 16 million metres; representing the number of children within the UK. This could be through running, walking, skipping, swimming - anything, as long as it can be measured!

We have attached our information pack which outlines this initiative which will run over the week. We would appreciate it if you would be able to share this information with colleagues/ friends etc so we can get as many people involved as possible! For example if people usually cycle to work, go for an evening run or just track their steps around the hospital, get them involved!

We are really excited for this week.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions!

Kind regards

LUMPS, Leeds university reps