2008

Programme <word file>

3rd MEDICAL DERMATOLOGY CONFERENCE

Joint Meeting of the Royal College of Physicians
and the British Association of Dermatologists

Thursday 27th March 2008


09:00 – 09:45 Registration, coffee & exhibition

09:45 – 10:00 Introduction and welcome - Professor Ian Gilmore PRCP

Session 1: Chair – Professor Ian Gilmore/Dr Colin Holden

10:00 – 10:35 Urticaria- an immunologist’s view
Professor Richard Powell (Nottingham)

10:35 – 11:10 Drug Eruptions
Dr Ian Coulson (Lancashire)

11:10 – 11:40 Coffee and exhibition

Session 2: Chair Professor Christopher Griffiths

11:40 – 12:10 New treatments for pemphigoid and pemphigus
Dr Karen Harman (Leicester)

12:10 – 12:40 A society for Medical Dermatology
Professor Jonathan Barker, Dr Mark Goodfield, Dr Susan Burge, and
Professor Chris Griffiths

12:40 – 13:30 Lunch and exhibition

Session 3: Chair – Professor David Gawkrodger

13:30 – 13:55 Use of biologics in skin diseases other than psoriasis
Professor Nick Reynolds (Newcastle-Upon-Tyne)

13:55 – 14:20 Developing treatments for cutaneous T-cell lymphoma
Dr Sean Whittaker (London)

14:20 – 14:45 Fresh focus on photodermatoses
Dr Sally Ibbotson (Dundee)

14:45 – 15:10 Tea and exhibition

Session 4: Chair – Dr Jane Sterling

15:10 – 15:35 Food allergy and skin disease
Professor John Warner (London)

15:35 – 16:00 Present and future management of leg ulcers
Professor Keith Harding (Cardiff)

16:00 Close