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Programme
Scottish Osteoporosis Conference

Wednesday October 13th, 2004
Hilton Dunblane Hydro
   
8:30 - 9:15 Registration/coffee/biscuits

9:15 Session 1
Welcome
SIGN 71 - Working Together

Chair - Dr Patricia Donald, GP, Chair of SIGN 71
Development Group

9:30 Address by Dr David Steel, NHS Quality Improvement Scotland

9:40 Think Global - Act Local a European Perspective Professor Juliet Compston, Professor of Bone Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge

10:00 The Scottish Osteoporosis Services Audit
Dr Alastair McLellan Consultant Endocrinologist, Western Infirmary, Glasgow

10:20 Questions

10:30 Coffee Break

10:50 Session 2
Management of Osteoporosis - Update & Future

Chair - Dr Andrew Jamieson Consultant Physician, Hairmyres Hospital, East Kilbride

Management of Fragility Fractures, Priorities
Dr Stephen Gallacher Consultant Endocrinologist, Southern General Hospital, Glasgow

11:10 Pharmacological Management Update
Professor David Reid, Professor of Rheumatology
University of Aberdeen

11:30 HRT - Evidence to date
Dr Ailsa Gebbie Consultant Community Gynaecologist, Edinburgh

11:40 Session 3
Non-pharmacological Management of Osteoporosis

Chair - Dr Anne Payne Dept of Nutritional Diebetics, Caledonian University

Nutrition and Bone Research Update
Dr Helen Macdonald, Research Nutritionist, Osteoporosis Unit, University of Aberdeen

12:00 Physiotherapy and Osteoporosis - the Guideline Revised
Dr Sarah Mitchell, Dept of Psychology, Royal Infirmary, Glasgow

12:20 Summary
Dr Sara Twaddle, SIGN Director

Questions

12:40 Lunch - Poster Viewing

1:45 Session Four

Workshop One

2:50 Workshop Two

3:55 Session 5
Looking to the Future

Chair - Jim Eadie, ABPI Scotland Director

Link to Falls
Nikki College, Consultant Physician Geriatric Medicine, Lothan University Hospitals Division

Summary
Dr Patricia Donald, GP, Chair of SIGN 71 Development Group

In Your Area
Anne Simpson, NOS Manager for Scotland

4:20 Conference close