Lifestyle Medicine for Preventing and Treating Chronic Disease GP Event
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Description
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