Consultants from King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, St George's University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Royal Free Hospital NHS Foundation Trust are pleased to invite General Practitioners to a FREE event on Lifestyle Medicine for Preventing and Treating Chronic Disease.

12.30- 13.20 Registration & Networking Lunch

13.20- 13.30 Welcome and Introduction - Dr Shireen Kassam, Consultant Haematologist, Honorary Senior Lecturer and Lifestyle Medicine Physician, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

13.30-14.05 Diet and lifestyle: The impact on cardiovascular disease

Dr Nesan Shanmugam, Consultant Cardiologist and Honorary Senior Lecturer, St George’s University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London

14.05-14.40 Menopause and Beyond (Living Longer Living Better)

Dr Nitu Bajekal MD FRCOG DIP IBLM, Consultant Gynaecologist and Women’s Health Expert, Lifestyle Medicine Physician, Royal Free Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

14.40-15.15 Tackling the Obesity Epidemic in the Community

Leila Dehghan, MD, MSc (Nutr), AfN

Coffee 15.15-15.25

15.25-16.00 Lifestyle Medicine- A Framework for Delivering Effective Lifestyle Advice in Your Consultation to Improve and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes

Dr. Farhan Rabbani MBBS MRCGP BSc Hons Dip Cert, Lifestyle Medicine GP, GP Partner - Wallington Medical Centre

16.00-16.35 How to avoid spinal diagnostic disaster- demystifying red flags and Lifestyle help for your back pain patient

Mr Rajiv Bajekal Orthopaedic Surgeon and Lifestyle Medicine Physician, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

16.35-17.10 How to improve health, well-being and survival in patients with cancer

Dr Shireen Kassam, Consultant Haematologist, Honorary Senior Lecturer and Lifestyle Medicine Physician, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

17.10-17.15 Close of meeting

Vegan lunch and refreshments will be available throughout the afternoon.

For more information, please contact Evelina Mart, Primary Care Liaison Manager on evelina.mart@nhs.net