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2008 CHAIRS AND SPEAKERS
 | Dr Magda Cullen Magda Cullen has been a GP principal since 1982. She qualified at UCH in 1977 returning to Worcestershire to train as a GP. Her particular interests have been in Women’s health and Family Planning. She has been involved in teaching for many years starting as an instructing doctor in Family Planning then in the practice teaching registrars and more latterly medical students. Recently she has been extending her interests in travel medicine by accompanying school trips on high altitude treks as an expedition doctor.
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 | Dr Elizabeth Nyholm Liz Nyholm is a GP Principal in Birmingham, having qualified at UCH in 1973. Teaching has become a major part of her life as a GP Trainer and Instructing Doctor in Family Planning, delivering sexual health training in a variety of formats. Currently Sexual Health Clinical Lead for Birmingham East and North PCT, Liz is working to deliver the ‘sperms and germs’ agenda jointly between primary and secondary care and develop the educational support for GPs to provide sexual health services in the area. She retains an interest in general medicine as a Hospital Practitioner in Gastroenterology at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital.
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Dr Susan Hill Susan Hill is a Consultant in Paediatric Gastroenterology at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. She has a special interest in nutrition and intestinal failure and the role of food allergy in common gastrointestinal disorders. | |
 | Dr Mark Beattie Mark Beattie has been a Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist in Southampton since 2000. He is honorary senior lecturer in Nutrition in Southampton General Hospital. He qualified from the Medical College of St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, in 1986. His clinical and research interest is the nutritional management of inflammatory bowel disease.
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 | Dr Helen Goodbyear Helen Goodyear is a Consultant Paediatrician with a special interest in Paediatric Dermatology at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital. She qualified and did SHO jobs in Bristol before moving to the Hospitals for Sick Children, London where she trained in Paediatric Dermatology for 7 years. Her MD was about herpes simplex virus infections in children with atopic eczema. She has a strong interest in Medical Education and is an Associate Dean in the West Midlands leading on flexible training and careers as well as being Head of the School of Paediatrics. |
 | Dr Saleem Taibjee Saleem Taibjee is a consultant paediatric dermatologist and honorary senior lecturer at Birmingham Children’s Hospital. He is also as a dermatologist treating adults at Selly Oak Hospital, University Hospital Birmingham. Trained at Birmingham Medical School in 1992-8, Dr Taibjee initially took posts in Paediatrics and Neonatology, leading to Membership of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (MRCPCH). He subsequently completed Specialist Training in Dermatology from 2003-7, including dedicated training in Paediatric Dermatology at Birmingham Children’s Hospital. His other sub-specialty interest is Dermatopathology in which he has passed the Royal College of Pathologists’ Diploma in Dermatopathology. He is married to a fellow dermatologist, and in his free time enjoys playing sports and travelling. |
Dr Alison Kemp Alison Kemp is currently Clinical Reader in Child Health in the School of Medicine at Cardiff University. She is also Director of the Welsh Child Protection Systematic Review Group (www.core-info.cf.ac.uk) which is currently undertaking a rolling programme of systematic reviews in the diagnosis and investigation of physical child abuse. Dr Kemp is also a Clinical Advisor to NICE Child Maltreatment Guidance and a Consultant in Community Paediatrics. | |
Dr Kerry Milligan Kerry Milligan is a general practitioner with a special interest in child protection based within the Child Protection Unit at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children's in Glasgow. In this role she is responsible for leading GP training in child protection for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and providing direct advice and support to primary care colleagues on child protection issues. Kerry has developed considerable experience in recognising and meeting the needs of vulnerable children and families as the general practitioner for the Homeless Families Health Care Team in Glasgow, a role she continues to work in on part time basis. In both of these roles Kerry is involved in child protection at both strategic and operational levels on a daily basis while remaining focused on the role of the GP in this challenging area.
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 | Dr Mary Pillai Mary Pillai has been a Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Trust since 1996. She works closely with the Sexual and Reproductive Health Service, taking a lead in community gynaecology. Her special interests include pelvic ultrasound, menstrual disorders, paediatric and adolescent gynaecology, and forensic gynaecology. In addition to her work within the NHS, Dr Pillai provides a service for forensic examination of alleged child and adult sexual assault cases to Gloucestershire Constabulary. |
 | Mr Ali Kubba Ali Kubba is a Consultant/Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Guy’s, King’s, and St Thomas’ School of Medicine.
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 | Dr Marian Everett
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Dr Mark Pakianathan
He is chair of the BASH media committee and has extensive experience in working with the media. He is particularly passionate about delivering high quality sexual health services to young people. | |
Dr Karen Rogstad
She is Chairman of the Education Committee of The British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH), and also previous Chairman of Adolescent Special Interest Group of BASHH. She is the co-author of BASHH guidelines on Management of Suspected Sexually Transmitted Infections in Children and Young People, RCP Guidelines on HIV testing in General Medicine, BASHH guidelines on HIV testing in sexual health services, RCPath guidelines on chain of evidence, RCPCH Guidance on Confidentaility. She also co-authored the RPCH Guidelines on Physical Signs in Child Sexual Abuse.
Her special interests are children and adolescents, travel-associated STIs, vulval disease and HIV. |
2007 speakers included:
| Dr Anthony Harnden is a GP in Oxfordshire, and a university lecturer at the Department of Primary Health Care at Oxford University. |
| Aziz Sheikh BSc is a GP trained in epidemiology with a particular interest in the epidemiology and primary care management of asthma and allergic disorders. He is Professor of Primary Care Research and Development at the University of Edinburgh, Research Adviser to Education for Health, chairs the Research Committees of the British Thoracic Society, and serves on the General Practitioners in Airways Group Research Committee. Aziz is Editorial Adviser to the British Medical Journal, serves on the International Editorial Board of the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, and is Assistant Editor of the Primary Care Respiratory Journal. |
| Ann McPherson has been a GP in Oxford since 1979. She is also a lecturer in the Department of General Practice at the University of Oxford, where she runs the DIPEx research group which looks at people’s experiences of health and illness. She has edited a book on women’s health for GPs and is co-author, with Aidan Macfarlane, of books for teenagers and their parents. She is Chair of the Adolescent Task Force of the Royal College of General Practitioners, and a member of the Independent Advisory Group on Teenage Pregnancy. She has written the websites www.youthhealthtalk.org, www.dipex.org, www.teenagehealthfreak.org |
| Deborah Waller is a GP in a group practice in Oxford. She has particular interests in women’s health and eating disorders. She was a member of the Eating Disorders Guideline Development Group for the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence. She is involved in research into the treatment of eating disorders with Professor Fairburn’s group at the Oxford University Department of Psychiatry. |
| Mr Tim Child is a Gynaecologist and Subspecialist in Reproductive Medicine. He trained in London, Montreal, Cambridge, and Oxford and is a Director of the Oxford Fertility Unit. He is lead clinician for the multidisciplinary Oxford Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome Clinic. |
| Miss Marsden is a Consultant Breast Surgeon at Kings College NHS Foundation Hospital, London. Her research interest is in the management of oestrogen deficiency in survivors of breast cancer. She is the principal investigator of the UK randomised trial of HRT in symptomatic women with early stage breast cancer and is also on the Council of the British Menopause Society. |
| Dr Hodson is a General Practitioner in Stratford upon Avon with a special interest in the menopause, HRT and osteoporosis. She developed and continues to run a primary care osteoporosis risk assessment clinic at Bridge House Medical Centre, Warwickshire. Dr Hodson was a Clinical Research Fellow at the Menopause Unit, Leicester Royal Infirmary from 1996 to 2005, which involved clinical work with menopause patients and research into headache at menopause. She was also a Council member of the British Menopause Society from 2000 to 2006, and lectures regularly at BMS road shows and other menopause courses. |
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