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DAY 2 - Wednesday, 25 July 2007

8.30am – 09.30am

Plenary Lecture 1: Impact of Human Genomics on the Practice of Medicine

Edison Liu, Executive Director, Genome Institute of Singapore

Ballroom, Level 2

9.30am – 10.30am

Plenary Lecture 2: Preventive Strategies in Anogenital Cancers

Franco Guidozzi, Academic Head, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Johannesburg Hospital and Medical School, University of Witwatersrang, South Africa

Ballroom, Level 2

10.30am – 11.00am

Morning Tea Break & Poster Presentation

Concourse, Level 3

11.05am – 12.35pm

Symposium 1: World Family Medicine Showcase 1

Key Issues in the Development of General Practice/Family Medicine in the United Kingdom
Mayur Lakhani, Chair, Royal College of General Practitioners, United Kingdom

A Primary Care Doctor’s Registry for Hong Kong
Donald Li, Past President, Hong Kong College of Family Physicians, Hong Kong

Family Medicine Developments in Australia
Vasantha Preetham, President, The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, Australia

 MR 325,
Level 3

11.05am – 12.35pm

Symposium 2: Primary Care Research: A Symposium to Make Help you Get Ready

Chairperson: Ryuki Kassai, Founding Professor and Chair, Department of Community and Family Medicine, Fukushima Medical University, Japan

Publications in Primary Care and their Impact
Domhnall MacAuley, Senior Editor, British Medical Journal, United Kingdom

Current Activities and Potential Future Research Projects of the Asia Pacific Research Network
Goh Lee Gan, President, College of Family Physicians Singapore  & Department of Community, Occupational & Family Medicine, National University of Singapore

Encouraging and Promoting General Practice Research
Chris Del Mar, Dean of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University Australia

Building Family Medicine Research Capacity through Training: Experience of the Combined Resident-Researcher Training Programme in Nijmegen
Chris van Weel, Professor of General Practice, University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Improving Health Globally, Wonca 2003 Kingston Conference: Wonca’s Research Working Group’s Role in Implementation
Walter W. Rosser, Professor and Chair, Department of Family Medicine, Queen’s University Canada

MR 326, Level 3

11.05am – 12.35pm

Symposium 3: Pain and Analgesia: Evidence for its Use and Misuse

What Does the Community Know about Analgesias and what Primary Care Physicians Prescribe for Chronic Pain?
Chia Yook Chin, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Rational Use of Analgesia in the Patient with Cardiovascular Disease: What Does the Evidence Tell Us?
Allison L Jones, Professor of Medicine and Clinical Toxicology, University of Newcastle, Australia

Recognition of Pain and Analgesia use in Cognitively Impaired Older People
Duncan Forsyth, Consultant Geriatrician, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, United Kingdom

MR 305, Level 3

11.05am – 12.35pm

Symposium 4: Children’s Health and the Environment: Clinical Skills through the WHO Modules

Chairperson: Alan Abelsohn, Chair, Wonca Special Interest Group for the Environment

Alan Abelsohn, Chair, Wonca Special Interest Group for the Environment

Peter David Sly, Head, Division of Clinical Sciences, Telethon Institute of Child Health Research and Director of WHO Collaborating Centre for Research on Children’s Environment Health

Roberto Romizi, President and Founding Member, Italian Association of Doctors for the Environment

MR 306, Level 3

11.05am – 12.35pm

Symposium 5: Prediction of Future Episodes of Depression in Family Practice Attendees – Original Research Findings

Chairperson: Irwin Nazareth, Scientific Director, Medical Research Council General Practice Research Framework (MRC GPRF), United Kingdom

Study Methodology and Baseline Prevalence of Common Mental Disorders Across Six European Countries
Svab, Head of Department of Family Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Development of a Risk Algorithm for Future Episodes of Major Depression in European General Practice Attendees
Michael King, Professor of Primary Care Psychiatry and Head of Department Hampstead Campus, University College London, United Kingdom

Risk of Depression in Primary Care Attendees – the 5-HTTLPR s/s Genotype at the Serotonin Transporter Gene (SLC6A4): PREDICT-GEN
Irwin Nazareth, Scientific Director, Medical Research Council General Practice Research Framework (MRC GPRF), United Kingdom

MR 303, Level 3

11.05am – 12.35pm

Symposium 6: Ethical Issues in the Era of Genomics

Chairperson: Manfred Maier, Chair, Wonca Special Interest Group of Ethical Issues and Chair of General Practice, Medical University of Vienna, Austria

The Human Genome and Curative Medicine: A Cause of Inequities in Health
Rick Botelho, Professor of Family Medicine and Nursing, University of Rochester, USA

Genetic Consultations in Primary Care
Manfred Maier, Chair, Wonca Special Interest Group of Ethical Issues and Chair of General Practice, Medical University of Vienna, Austria

Ethics in Health Profession Education
Fatma Goksin Cihan, Sanliurfa Balikligol State Hospital, Turkey

Genetic Tests and Patient Autonomy
Tonka Poplas-Susic, Health Centre of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Genetic Tests and Social Justice
Iona Heath, Chair International Committee, Royal College of General Practitioners, United Kingdom

MR 302, Level 3

11.05am – 12.35pm

Symposium 7: Improving Genetic Literacy of Family Doctors

Chairperson: Nadeem Qureshi, Clinical Associate Professor, School of Graduate Entry Medicine and Health, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

Overview of Effective Educational Approaches in Primary Care
Brenda Wilson, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa, Canada

Effectiveness of Genetic Outreach Visits to British General Practice
Nadeem Qureshi, Clinical Associate Professor, School of Graduate Entry Medicine and Health, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

New Zealand Experience: Implementing Familiar Cancer Guidelines
Jim Vause, President, Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners, New Zealand

Engaging Family Doctors in Antenatal Carrier Screening
Joe Kai, Chair in Primary Care, School of Graduate Entry Medicine and Health, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

Canadian Primary Care Genetics Education Projects
June Carroll, Associate Professor, Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada

Primary Care Genetic Education Programmes in Australia, United Kingdom and United States
Sylvia Metcalfe, Associate Professor, University of Melbourne, Australia

MR 301, Level 3

11.05am – 12.35pm

Workshop 1: Enhancing Leadership Skills in Facilitation

Chairperson: Amanda Howe, Professor of Primary Care, University of East Anglia and member of WONCA Working Party Executive

with colleagues from the Wonca Working Party for Women in Family Medicine

MR 307, Level 3

11.05am – 12.35pm

Workshop 2: Quality Matters in Chocolate: Why Not in General Practice

Cheryl Levitt, Professor, Department of Family Medicine McMaster University, Canada
Angela Barbara and Linda Hilts, McMaster University, Canada

MR 308, Level 3

11.05am – 12.35pm

Workshop 3: Postgraduate Accreditation Standards: What Can We Learn from Each Other

Chairperson: Allyn Walsh, Department Education Coordinator, Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University, Canada

Allyn Walsh, Department Education Coordinator, Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University, Canada
Erica Bell, University of Tasmania, Australia
Lee Kheng Hock, Head, Department of Family Medicine and Continuing Care, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore

MR 309, Level 3

11.05am – 12.35pm

Workshop 4: Balancing Biology and Humanity in General Practice - The EURACT Approach

Egle Zebiene, President, European Academy of Teachers in General Practice; Vilnius University, Lithuania
Roger Price, East Midlands Healthcare Workforce Deanery, United Kingdom
Job Metsemakers, Masstrich University

MR 304, Level 3

11.05am – 12.35pm

Workshop 5: How can Family Physicians Address the Social Determinants of Health

Jan De Maeseneer, Head, Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, Ghent University, Belgium

MR 314, Level 3

11.05am – 12.35pm

Workshop 6: Using Secure Distributed Electronic Searches to find Eligible Patients for RCTs

Chairperson: Brendan Delaney, Professor of Primary Care, The University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

The Challenges of recruiting and Sustaining Large Randomised Controlled Trials in Primary Care
FD Richard Hobbs, Professor of Primary Care and General Practice, Department of Primary Care and General Practice, The University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

The Electronic Primary Care Research Network: A Resource for Primary Care RCTs
Kevin Peterson, Associate Professor of Family Medicine, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, The University of Minnesota, USA

The Primary Care Research Object Model
Theodoros N Arvanitis, Senior Lecturer in Distributed and Adaptive Systems, Department of Electronic, Electrical & Computer Engineering, The University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

MR 310, Level 3

12.45pm – 2.15pm

Lunch Symposium: How the Family Practice Physician can Prevent Cervical Cancer?

Chairperson: Franco Guidozzi, Academic Head, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Johannesburg Hospital and Medical School, University of Witwatersrang, South Africa

Faculty:
Margaret Stanley, Professor of Epithelial Biology, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Marc Steben, Department of Medicine, Institut National de Sante Publique du Quebec, Canada

Sponsored by Merck Sharp and Dohme

Ballroom, Level 2

12.45pm – 2.15pm

Free Paper Sessions

2.30pm – 3.30pm

Plenary Lecture 3: Confronting the Epidemic of Type 2 Diabetes: Can Novel Therapies Addressing Islet Dysfunction Help Patients Get to Goal?

Michael Nauck, Head Physician, Diabeteszentrum Bad Lauterberg im Harz, Germany

Ballroom, Level 2

3.30pm – 4.30pm

Plenary Lecture 4: Deep Ancestry: An Asian Perspective

Spencer Wells, Population Geneticist, National Geographic, USA

Ballroom, Level 2

4.30pm – 5.00pm

Afternoon Tea Break & Poster Presentation

Concourse, Level 3

5.00pm – 6.00pm

Keynote Lecture on Genomics: Genomics, Medicine and Society

Francis Collins, Director, National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), USA

Ballroom, Level 2

6.30pm – 8.00pm

Dinner Symposium: Resistant to Insulin, Resistance to Treatment: The Physician’s Dilemma

Chairperson: Goh Lee Gan, Associate Professor, Department of Community, Occupational & Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Don Chisholm, Clinical Head, Diabetes Group, Diabetes and Metabolism Research Program, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Professor of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Australia

Stefano Del Prato, Professor, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Section of Metabolic Disease and Diabetes, University of Pisa, Italy

Neil Munro

Sponsored by GlaxoSmithKline

 Ballroom, Level 2

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