Courses & Conferences

Who should attend?

This course is aimed at the entire multidisciplinary team responsible for the care of patients with fragility fractures:

• Orthopaedic Surgeons
• Geriatricians
• Osteoporosis Specialists - rheumatologists, endocrinologists
• Nurses, AHPs and managers in fracture units and fracture liaison services
• General Practioners
• Commissioners

This course retains the basic structure of underlying science, multidisciplinary management, secondary prevention and policy change, while emphasising the following themes:

• Anabolic treatment for bone muscle
• Fragility fractures in men
• Prevention and treatment of delirium
• Obesity and fragility fractures
• Conundrums in osteoporosis treatment - drug holidays, atypical fractures, cardiovascular risk, etc
• The QOF and FLS in primary and secondary care
• Expansion of NHFD to include FLS
• The Fragility Fracture Network of the Bone and Joint Decade
• BPT and other national developments

Workshops/Breakout Sessions also included

Programme Committee

• Professor David Marsh
• Professor Roger Francis

Invited Speakers include:

• Finbarr Martin - President, British Geriatrics Society
• Alistair Burns
• Richard Keen
• Keith Willet
• Juliet Compston
• Eugene McCloskey
• Graham Russell
• Paul Mitchell
• Avan Aihie Sayer
• Colin Currie
• Richard Griffiths
• Mathias Toth
• Colin Currie
• Matt Costa
• Opinder Sahota
• Terry Aspray
• Alun Cooper
• Graham Davenport
• Jonathan Bayly
• Gavin Clunie
• James Elliot
• Gary Heyburn
• Karen Hertz
• Maggie Pattridge
• Fay Plant
• Andy Williams
• Ken Poole
• Debbie Stone
• Mary Elliot

Date of Course: 

24th - 25th April 2012

Reference Number: 

12041

Cost: 

£250 - Doctors & Industry £100 - Allied Health Professionals (incl Nurses and Physiotherapists) and Scientists FAMILY TICKET - Surgeon & Geriatrician from the same unit bring a Nurse or AHP for free ! Fee is inclusive of course materials, lunch, refreshment and course dinner.