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  • This meeting is open to BPNS members and other professionals working in relevant areas, but not to patients or members of the general public without advance permission.
BPNS Teaching Course on Peripheral Neuropathy 2021
Start Date
End Date
Thursday 18 Mar 2021 09:30 AM
Thursday 18 Mar 2021 13:00 PM
Location
Zoom meeting
Details

This teaching course is aimed primarily at registrars in neurology and clinical neurophysiology, but in providing an update on clinical diagnosis and management will also be of value to consultant neurologists and neurophysiologists, general physicians, and any professional seeing patients with peripheral neuropathy.  Similar to previous BPNS Teaching Courses, this half day event will include comprehensive lectures on the most important clinical topics in peripheral nerve disease, but is shorter and on Zoom in response to the current COVID-19 pandemic.  Speakers are leading UK experts in their fields.  Don't miss this opportunity to hear them all together.

Programme (can change before the event)
DateTimeType Presenter
Thu 18 Mar 202109:25Lecture Welcome and introduction Dr Rob Hadden
Thu 18 Mar 202109:30Lecture How to assess a neuropathy Prof Lionel Ginsberg
Thu 18 Mar 202110:00Lecture Working with neurophysiology Dr David Allen
Thu 18 Mar 202110:30Lecture Vasculitic neuropathy (including nerve biopsy) Dr Rob Hadden
Thu 18 Mar 202111:00Refreshment Comfort break  
Thu 18 Mar 202111:15Lecture Small fibre neuropathy Dr Mohamed Mahdi-Rogers
Thu 18 Mar 202111:45Lecture CIDP Prof Yusuf Rajabally
Thu 18 Mar 202112:15Lecture Inherited neuropathy Dr Katie Brennan
Thu 18 Mar 202112:45Close  

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