AHP & CNS Sessions

Wednesday 11 September 
Barbirolli Room
09:30 - 10:15  Registration and Welcome Refreshments
10:15  - 12:30  Session 1 

Chairpersons:  Anne-Margrethe Phillips, Fiona Huddy and Basma Greef

10:15 - 10:20  Welcome and Introduction - Anne-Margrethe Phillips, Specialist UGI Nurse (Oxford)

10:20 - 10:55  Cachexia: Systemic inflammation and nutrition in patients with UGI cancers  - Richard Skipworth, Consultant Oesophagogastric Surgeon (Edinburgh)

10:55 - 11:25  Managing anorexia and weight loss in UGI cancer patients - Jamie Weaver, Academic Clinical Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow, and Lindsey Foulkes, Specialist UGI Oncology Dietitian (The Christie, Manchester)   

11:25 - 11:45  Initiating a Cytosponge service at CHFT - Hannah Olejnik, Advanced Clinical Practitioner, and Claire McDonald, Physician Associate (Huddersfield)

11:45 - 12:15  Managing immunotherapy and chemotherapy related toxicities in patients with UGI Cancers - Trudy-Jane Guinan, Immunotherapy Nurse Consultant (Clatterbridge)

12:15 - 12:30  The Dietitian: Drivers for sustainability -  Natasha Guildford, Macmillan Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary (HPB) Dietitian, Churchill Hospital

15:20  - 17:00 Session 12

Chairpersons: Liz Ward, Louise Jones and Christopher Grocock

15:20 - 15:55 Proactive care of patients requiring surgery: Optimising the frail patient - Mark Johnstone, Consultant Geriatrician (Liverpool)

15:55 - 16:15 The role of an ACP/Pharmacist in Clinical Frailty Ruth Harris, ACP/Pharmacist in Clinical Frailty (Manchester)  

16:15 - 16:35  Laparoscopic Anti-Reflux Surgery (LARS) Day Case Model: A Single Centre Experience - Zoe Furber, Advanced Nurse Practitioner (Manchester)  

16:35 - 17:00  A Road Map to Advanced Clinical Practice in OG - Kellie Owen, Dietetic UGI Advanced Clinical Practitioner (Manchester)                                                     

Chairs:

  • Anne-Margrethe Phillips, Specialist UGI Nurse (Oxford)
  • Liz Ward, Specialist UGI Dietitian (Oxford)
  • Fiona Huddy, Specialist UGI Dietitian (Guildford)
  • Louise Jones, Specialist HPB Nurse (Liverpool)
  • Christopher Grocock, Consultant UGI Surgeon (Manchester)
  • Basma Greef, Consultant Medical Oncologist (Cambridge)

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