PROGRAMME


Tuesday 26 November

10.00am REGISTRATION and COFFEE


10.25am Welcome and introduction
Professor William Dunlop, President, RCOG

Session 1 – Maternal medicine
Chair: Professor James O Drife, Professor and Honorary Consultant, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Leeds General Infirmary

10.30am Maternal morbidity and mortality
Professor Jim Neilson, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Liverpool & Liverpool Women’s Hospital

11.00am Hypertension
Miss Lelia M Duley, Obstetric Epidemiologist, Institute of Health Sciences, Oxford

11.30am Thromboembolism
Professor Ian Greer, Regius Professor and Head of Department, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Glasgow Royal Infirmary

12.00pm Cardiac disease
Dr David Williams, Senior Lecturer in Maternal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London

12.30pm LUNCH

Plenary 1
1.30pm Cerebral palsy – causes and prevention
Professor Malcolm Levene, Professor of Paediatrics and Child Health, University Department of Paediatrics, Leeds General Infirmary

2.30pm Breakout Sessions

Hypertension in pregnancy
Miss Lelia M Duley

Thromboembolic disease
Professor Ian Greer

Cardiac disease in pregnancy
Dr David Willams

Preterm labour
Professor Phillip Bennett, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Queen Charlotte’s Hospital, London

Induction of labour
Professor Jim Neilson

Sexual Assault
Miss Maureen Dalton, Consultant, Sunderland Royal Hospital

Ovarian Cancer
Professor Ian Jacobs, Department of Gynaecological Oncology, Barts and The London

Recent advances in cervical screening
Mr Robin Crawford, Consultant Gynaecological Oncologist, Department of Gynaecology, Addenbrooke’s Hospital NHS Trust, Cambridge

Recurrent miscarriage
Professor Lesley Regan, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Imperial College School of Medicine, St Mary’s Hospital, London

Polycystic ovary syndrome
Mr Adam Balen, Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist and Specialist in Reproductive Medicine and Surgery, Leeds General Infirmary

Menorrhagia
Miss Jenny Higham, Senior Lecturer, Imperial College School of Medicine, St Mary’s Hospital, London

RCOG guidelines
Miss Jane Thomas, Director, National Collaborating Centre for Womens and Children’s Health & Honorary Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Oxford

Information Skills Workshop: Obstetrics and Gynaecology on the Internet
Information Services Department


3.30 pm TEA

4.00pm Medicolegal forum
Dr Alan Brown, Consultant Gynaecologist and Obstetrician, Simpson Centre for Reproductive Health, New Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh

5.30pm CLOSE with DRINKS RECEPTION



Wednesday 27 November

8.30am COFFEE

Session 2 – Forensic gynaecology
Chair: Miss Maureen Dalton


9.00am Rape and the law
Professor Jennifer Temkin, Professor of Law, School of Law, University of Sussex

9.30am Clinical examination
Dr Debbie Rogers, Honorary Senior Lecturer, Forensic Medicine Unit, St George’s Hospital Medical School, London

10.00am Supporting the victim
Dame Helen Reeves, Chief Executive, Victim Support, London

10.30am COFFEE

Parallel Workshops

I Gynaecological oncology
Chair: Professor Allan MacLean, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Royal Free Hospital, London

11.00am Lichen sclerosus and vulval cancer
Dr Chris Perrett, Lecturer (non-clinical), Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Royal Free and University College Medical School, University College, London

11.20am Glandular abnormalities of the cervix
Mr Pat Soutter, Reader in Gynaecological Oncology, Department of Gynaecological Oncology, Hammersmith Hospital, London

11.40am New techniques in cervical cytology
Dr E McGoogan, Associate Medical Director, Lothian University Hospitals Trust and Senior Lecturer, Department of Pathology, Edinburgh University

12.00pm Discussion

II Menopause
Chair: Miss Margaret Rees, Honorary Senior Clinic Lecturer in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, women’s Centre, Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford

11.00am Recent Advances in HRT
Professor David Purdie, Head of clinical Research, Centre for Metabolic Bone Disease, Hull York Medical School, Hull

11.20am Management of osteoporosis
Professor Cyrus Cooper, Professor of Rheumatology, MRC Environmental Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton & Southampton General Hospital

11.40am Management of abnormal bleeding
Miss Margaret Rees

12.00pm Discussion

11.00am III Information Skills Workshop: Searching Medline
Information Services Department


12.30pm LUNCH

Plenary 2 -William Blair Bell Lecture
1.30pm Surgery for intersex: Where is the evidence?
Miss Sarah Creighton, Consultant Gynaecologist, University College London Hospitals

2.30pm RCOG Forum

3.30pm TEA

Session 3 – Educational and Training
Chair: Dr Matt Carty, Senior Vice President, RCOG

4.00pm RCOG Education division: recent developments
Dr Rob Finch, Head, Education Division, RCOG

4.30pm Distance Learning and StratOG
Mr Sean Duffy, Leeds

5.00pm Postgraduate training in O&G – where are we going?
Mr Lawrence Wood, Training Programme Director, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Hospitals, Coventry

5.30pm Drinks Reception


Thursday 28 November

8.30am Coffee

Session 4 – Care in labour
Chair: Professor J J Walker, Professor of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, St James’ Hospital, Leeds

9.00am Repeat Caesarean section or induction of labour?
Dr Sarah Vause, Consultant in Fetal Maternal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics, St Mary’s Hospital, Manchester

9.30am Recent advances in fetal monitoring
Professor S Arulkumaran, Head of Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, St George’s Hospital Medical School, London

10.00am Treatment of eclampsia
Professor J J Walker

10.30pm Coffee

Parallel Workshops

IV Prolapse and incontinence
Chair: Mr Ash Monga, Consultant Gynaecologist, Princess Anne Hospital, Southampton

11.00am Elective Caesarean section as a preventative strategy
Mr Abdul Sultan, Consultant, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Mayday University Hospital, Croydon

11.20am Out-patient management of prolapse
Mr Ash Monga

11.40am New treatments for female incontinence
Mr Mark Slack, Consultant Gynaecologist, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Hinchingbrooke & Addenbrookes, Cambridge

12.00pm Discussion

V Adolescent gynaecology
Chair: Professor Anne Garden, Professor of Medical Education and Honorary Consultant Gynaecologist, University of Liverpool

11.00am Teenage sex and emergency contraception
Miss Ailsa Gebbie, Consultant in Community Gynaecology, Family Planning Services, Edinburgh

11.20am Primary amenorrhoea – inducing puberty
Professor Anne Garden

11.40am Ovarian preservation
Mr Tony Rutherford, Consultant Gynaecologist, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Leeds General Infirmary

12.00pm Discussion

11.00am VI Information Skills Workshop: Searching Medline
Information Services Department

12.30pm LUNCH

Plenary 3 – Historical Lecture
1.30pm The re-emergence of the vaginal approach to hysterectomy
Mr Karl Olah, Consultant and Honorary Senior Lecturer, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Warwick Hospital

Session 5 – Modern management of menstrual disorders
Chair – Professor Iain Cameron

2.30pm Menorrhagia
Dr Andrew Prentice, Senior Lecturer, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Rosie Hsopital, Cambridge

3.00pm Dysmenorrhoea
Dr Mary Ann Lumsden, Reader, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Glasgow, The Queen Mother’s Hospital, Glasgow

3.30pm Premenstrual Syndrome
Professor P M S O’Brien, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Keele University and North Staffordshire Maternity Hospital, Stoke-on-Trent

4.00pm T