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Workshop Options

   
Scottish Osteoporosis Conference
Workshop Options

Wednesday October 13, 2004
Hilton Dunblane Hydro
   
Delegates to select one workshop from ‘regional experiences/implementation’ and one workshop from the ‘other’ category. Places allocated on a first come first serve basis as per date of registration.

More information about each workshop will be updated on this website shortly.
   
REGIONAL EXPERIENCES/IMPLEMENTATION
   
1. The Fife Experience
  Falls, fractures and osteoporosis - a multidisciplinary approach to development of a service.

Lead - Sister Lynn Gordon, Osteoporosis Specialist Nurse, Fife
Facilitator - Dr Jane Gibson, Consultant Rheumatologist, Cameron Hospital, Windygates, Fife
   
2. The Coatbridge Audit
  A primary care service

Lead - Caroline Mitchell, Osteoporosis Audit Nurse, Coatbridge LHCC
Facilitator - Dr Eamon Brankin, GP, Church St Practice Coatbridge
   
3. The Lothian Experience
  Evidence for Services

Lead - Gena deLara, Osteoporosis Specialist Nurse, South Central, LHCC, Edinburgh
Facilitator - Dr Donald Farquhar, Consultant Geriatrician, St Johns Hospital, Livingston
Facilitator - Dr Jim Hannan, Physicist, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh
   
4. What's Glasgowing on?
  What's happening in Glasgow

Lead - Sister Mayrine Fraser, Osteoporosis Specialist Nurse, Western Infirmary
Facilitator - Dr Alastair Mclellan, Western Infirmary, Glasgow
   
OTHER
   
Management of Patients
   
5. Falls and Fractures
  Lead - Carol McQuillian, Osteoporosis Specialist Nurse, Southern General Hospital, Glasgow
Facilitator – Dr Stephen Gallacher, Southern General Hospital, Glasgow
   
6. Exercise
  Exercise, fitness and fractures in Glasgow - results from recent service development.

Lead – Ann Murray, Senior Physiotherapist, Royal Infirmary, Glasgow
Facilitator – Dr Sarah Mitchell, Department of Physiotherapy, Royal Infirmary, Glasgow
   
7. Management of Pain
  Chronic Pain – learning to cope
Verebroplasty and Kyphoplasty, a therapeutic role in acute vertebral fracture management

Lead - Anne Simpson, NOS Manager for Scotland
Facilitator - Margaret West, Clinical Nurse Specialist for Chronic Pain Management, Fife
Presenter - Dr Richard Edwards, Consultant Interventional Radiologist, Gartnavel General Hospital, Glasgow
   
8. Management of Osteoporosis in Men
  Genetics

Lead & Presenter - Stuart Ralston, Consultant Physician, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary
   
Management of Change
   
9. Tools
  Implementation tools in GP practices

Lead – Dr Tricia Donald, GP, Chair of SIGN 71 Development Group
Facilitator – Dr Sara Twaddle, SIGN Director