Spring Meeting 2023

Thursday 16^th March – Stormont Hotel

Registration 10:00 -10: 30

10:40 Opening Remarks

 

Session 1 – Colorectal 

Chairs: Jill Somerville and Patrick Allen

10:45 – 11:15: Bowel Cancer Screening- Is it FIT for purpose? – Professor Padraic MacMathuna

11:15- 11:45: Colon capsule – Dr James Turvill

11: 45 Panel Q & A

 

12:00 – 13:00 – Lunch

 

13:00 – 13:30: Symposium

 

Session 2 

13:30 -15:00: Local updates in Gastroenterology

Chairs: Dr Graham Turner and Dr Emma Clarke

13:30 – 14:00: Update in the Clinical Diagnosis and Management of Hepatocellular carcinoma – Dr Roger McCorry

14:00 – 14:30: IBD: ‘Five rights for IBD drugs’ – Dr Andrew Murdock

14:30 – 15:00: Timing of surgery in IBD – Mr William Wallace

 

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee

 

Session 3 – Updates from MDT Colleagues

15:30 – 16:30

Chairs: Dr John McGoran and Dr Lisa McNeill

15:30 – 16:00: Checkpoint inhibitor/ Immunotherapy colitis-  Dr Catherine Davidson

16:30- 16:30: GI Bleeding – The role of the Interventional Radiologist- Dr Anton Collins

16:30: Closing Remarks

Event Date

March 16, 2023

Event Location

Upper Newtownards Rd, Belfast BT4 3LP

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