9:30am - Welcome - Dr Raghuvaran Mani
9.35am - 10.15am
Session 1: Surviving, thriving and inspiring – the role of the medical registrar
This opening plenary session focuses on how to make the most of your med reg years and reviews what it means to be a good leader. This plenary session ends with a panel discussion where we consider audience comments and questions.
Dr Mumtaz Patel
Dr Mumtaz Patel graduated from the University of Manchester with honours in 1996, obtained MRCP (UK) in 2000 and a PhD in 2006. She went on to attain FRCP in 2011 and was awarded MSc in medical education with distinction in 2014. Mumtaz’s educational research interests include assessment, doctors in difficulty, quality assurance, differential attainment, and global health. She has published work in medical education and presented at national/international conferences.
Mumtaz was appointed as a consultant nephrologist at Manchester University Hospitals in 2007 and has held various educational roles including renal training programme director, RCP regional advisor, clinical lead for quality on the Joint Royal Colleges of Physicians' Training Board (JRCPTB) and RCP Global vice president (2020–2023). Mumtaz is currently postgraduate associate dean at HEE, and vice president of education and training in the RCP. She oversees the educational management of a number of trusts and schools in the north-west region, and is the educational research and scholarship lead developing a more programmatic themed approach to the research in the region. Mumtaz is also the regional lead for the NIHR Academic Programme.
Dr Mumtaz Patel
RCP vice president for education and training
Dr Raghuvaran Mani
Dr Raghuvaran Mani completed his undergraduate medical training in India and is currently an IMT2 of Severn deanery and associate college tutor for the South-West region.
Dr Raghuvaran Mani
RCP associate college tutor, South West
Dr Khaled Abuelenain
Dr Khaled Abuelenain is an acute medicine consultant at Worcestershire Royal Hospital.
Khaled graduated from Ain Shams School of Medicine in Cairo, Egypt and has demonstrated an early interest in both internal medicine and healthcare quality improvement. This led him to pursue a professional diploma in healthcare quality management, complementing his medical expertise.
Khaled’s passion for internal medicine saw him achieve his MRCP (UK) before moving to the UK to join the NHS in 2017.
He then joined the Health Education England dual acute internal and general internal medicine training pathway in the West Midlands deanery and gained his certificate of completion of training (CCT) last year.
During his training, Khaled was appointed as the Royal College of Physicians chief registrar for University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust in 2021/22, where he led several projects to improve patient care, junior doctor wellbeing and education, and to further develop his leadership skills. Khaled has also undertaken training in point of care ultrasound and is now one of a UK network of supervisors for focused acute medical ultrasound (FAMUS).
Dr Khaled Abuelenain
acute medicine consultant, Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
10:15am - Morning break (10 minutes)
10.25am-12.10pm
Session 2: Clinical skills
Our first clinical session will focus on decompensated liver failure, the management of anticoagulation in an emergency setting and sodium disorders. This session will run in parallel with session 3 – but please note that you can watch both sessions on-demand post-broadcast.
Dr Francesca Yeldham
Dr Francesca Yeldham is an ST7 acute medicine registrar currently acting up as an acute medicine consultant at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital (CWH). Francesca graduated from Cambridge University in 2013 and worked in hospitals across London during her training, as well as spending 18 months working in Whangarei, New Zealand. She is currently the RCP chief registrar at CWH and is interested in medical education, especially simulation training.
Dr Francesca Yeldham
acute medicine registrar (currently acting up), Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Toby Delahooke
Dr Toby Delahooke has been a consultant hepatologist at Leicester Royal Infirmary since 2006. He originally graduated from the University of Edinburgh and completed his gastroenterology and hepatology specialty training principally in the Liver Transplant Unit of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. Toby’s MD thesis was based around the natural history of HCV infection. He has participated in delivering postgraduate education throughout his career, initially as a training programme director in gastro/hep and then as an assistant programme director in the east Midlands. His current interests are in screening for liver fibrosis in the community and local liver mortality trends.
Dr Toby Delahooke
consultant hepatologist, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
The immediate management of decompensated liver cirrhosis
Dr Sinthiya Punnialingam
Dr Sinthiya Punnialingam is a consultant haematologist currently working at Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust.
Dr Sinthiya Punnialingam
consultant haematologist, Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust
Management of anticoagulation in an emergency setting – ‘bleeding obvious’
Dr Narendra Reddy
Dr Narendra Reddy is a consultant endocrinologist, head of service, and an honorary senior lecturer in University Hospitals of Leicester. He completed endocrinology specialist training in Oxford and undertook 'Endocrine determinants of brown fat' research for an MD from the University of Warwick. Narendra’s areas of interest are adrenal, pituitary and electrolyte disorders. He has authored multiple publications in leading journals and is a co-author of the national guideline for pituitary apoplexy management. Narendra has written book chapters; notably is an editor of the endocrinology chapter of Kumar and Clarke’s textbook of medicine. He is currently East Midlands lead for the Clinical Research Network (NIHR) of metabolism and endocrinology portfolio, and is involved in the management and conduction of clinical research studies. Narendra is part of the Society for Endocrinology Clinical Committee and is on advisory panel for Parathyroid UK.
Dr Narendra Reddy
consultant endocrinologist and head of service, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
Sodium disorders for medics
10.25am-12.10pm
Session 3: Clinical skills
This clinical session will focus on polypharmacy and deprescribing for the older patient in an acute setting, sickle cell emergencies and and how to work with the on-call dermatologist. This session will run in parallel with session 2 – but please note that you can watch both sessions on-demand post-broadcast.
Dr Susannah Long
This biography will be added shortly.
Dr Susannah Long
Geriatric medicine registrar (ST6) /GIM, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Lucy Pollock
Dr Lucy Pollock trained at Cambridge and Barts and worked in the east end, Camden and Lambeth. She’s grateful to an early boss who said he hoped she wouldn’t be offended if he suggested she should become a geriatrician. Lucy moved to Somerset in 1997 and is proud to have contributed to a tiny part of the Medicine for Older People syllabus for Bristol University Medical School, which she confidently believes to be the most comprehensive, effective and popular undergraduate training in geriatric medicine in the world. She wrote The Book About Getting Older, published by Penguin in 2021, and her second book, The Golden Rule, will be released this July.
Dr Lucy Pollock
consultant geriatrician, Somerset NHS Foundation Trust
Polypharmacy and deprescribing
Dr Ryan Mullally
This biography will be added shortly
Dr Ryan Mullally
consultant haematologist, Whittington Health NHS Trust
Dr Shilan Jmor
Dr Shilan Jmor is an ST6 dermatology registrar training in the Merseyside deanery. Prior to this, she worked as a dermatology fellow in St John’s dermatology institute in London.
Dr Shilan Jmor
dermatology registrar (ST6), Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Dermatology for the medical registrar
12:10pm - Comfort break (15 minutes)
12.25pm -1.15pm
Session 4: Finding your work life balance and enhancing your career
Whilst much of the conference content aims to increase your clinical confidence, we hope this session will provide insight into the options and tools available to enhance your career at this stage and support your wellbeing. You’ll hear from two individuals who will respectively cover a portfolio training career, and the lived experience of taking an out of programme career break.
Dr Dheya Biswas
Dheya studied medicine at Cambridge University and then Oxford Medical School, going on to work in the Oxford and then East Midlands region. During her registrar years Dheya trained in acute and general medicine and intensive care medicine and now works as a consultant in acute and general medicine in Leicester with an interest in medical high dependency and the sick medical patient. Dheya has undertaken education roles throughout her career including a period as the East Midlands rep on the RCP Trainees Committee, RCP College Tutor at the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust and most recently as TPD for IMT stage 1 at HEE East Midlands (during the roll out of the new IMT programme and the pandemic!).
Dr Dheya Biswas
consultant acute physician, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
Dr Amanda Mootoo
Dr Amanda Mootoo is an ST7 rheumatology and general internal medicine specialist registrar in the south London region. She is currently working as an RCP chief registrar at the Royal Surrey Hospital in Guildford, which she is doing as an out of programme training (OOPT) to develop her interest in medical leadership. During her speciality training, Amanda has completed a masters in rheumatology, worked at tertiary rheumatology centres including King’s College Hospital and Guy’s and St Thomas’, and is the London trainee representative for the British Society of Rheumatology. Her out of programme pause (OOPP) facilitated her to undertake a 3-month musculoskeletal ultrasound fellowship in Lisbon and travel the world.
Dr Amanda Mootoo
rheumatology and GIM registrar (ST7), Royal Surrey Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
OOPP – Taking a different path for a year
Dr Salam Al-Alousi
Dr Salam Al-Alousi is a consultant in acute medicine in Leicester with a special interest in point-of-care ultrasound. When he isn’t on AMU he is probably in a gym lifting heavy weights!
Dr Salam Al-Alousi
consultant in acute medicine, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
1:15pm - Lunch break (30 minutes)
1.45pm-3.15pm
Session 5: Professional skills for the medical registrar
We’ll be covering a wide range of topics in this session, including how to provide medical advice for surgical patients, principles for effective debriefing, how to deal with mental health patients in the acute medicine unit (AMU), and a session focused on supporting your decision-making around patient discharge.
Dr Rohan Mehra
Dr Rohan Mehra is an RCP clinical education fellow, as well as an infectious diseases and microbiology registrar in the Kent, Surrey and Sussex deanery. He graduated from Cardiff Medical School in 2016 and is passionate about teaching. Rohan has made education one of his main priorities throughout training.
Dr Rohan Mehra
RCP clinical education fellow, infectious diseases and microbiology registrar, Kent, Surrey and Sussex
Dr Rebecca Kuruvilla
Dr Rebecca Kuruvilla is an ST7 clinical pharmacology and general medicine physician based in Merseyside. She is currently out of programme working for the RCP as a clinical education fellow. Rebecca has completed an academic clinical fellow post and postgraduate certificate in medical education, and has experience teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. She is passionate about medical education and how to improve medical training, and has been involved in projects with this theme as part of her role at the RCP.
Dr Rebecca Kuruvilla
RCP clinical education fellow, clinical pharmacology and general medicine registrar (ST7), Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Barbara Onen
Dr Barbara Lachana Onen is an acute and general internal medicine consultant and medical same day emergency care lead at the Royal London Hospital. She has a keen interest in the improvement of service delivery in same day emergency care and is part of the RCP Emerging Women Leaders Programme. She holds a masters in tropical medicine and international health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Barbara’s thesis focused on ambulatory care in low and middle income countries and won the Oxford Sir Richard Peto prize. She served as RCP chief registrar at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, carrying out quality improvement work in same day emergency care, and was part of the Oxford Emerging Leaders Programme.
Dr Barbara Onen
acute and general internal medicine consultant, SDEC lead, Barts Health NHS Trust
Who is safe for discharge?
Dr James Jegard
Dr James Jegard trained as a geriatrician in the east of England deanery, rotating through hospitals in Essex, including Southend where he now works as a consultant and Foundation Training Programme director. His interest in perioperative care originally stemmed from the excellent training he had in orthogeriatrics in the region, and James now runs a HSJ award-winning service providing pre-operative comprehensive assessment of older adults undergoing elective colorectal and urology cancer surgery, as well as perioperative review of emergency laparotomy patients. James also participates in the GIM consultant rota, regularly supporting internal medicine trainees when asked to see surgical patients, and is a staunch advocate for the importance of retaining a highly trained workforce of consultants with expertise in general internal medicine. His advice to you all – whatever organ you might ultimately specialise in, remember that it is attached to the rest of the patient! Be mindful that, above all else, you are their physician.
Dr James Jegard
consultant geriatrician and perioperative physician, Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Providing medical advice to surgical patients
Dr Alistair Gilmore
This biography will be added shortly
Dr Alistair Gilmore
consultant physician in acute medicine, Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Zara Wrightson
Dr Zara Wrightson is a specialty doctor in liaison psychiatry, at Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
Dr Zara Wrightson
Specialty doctor in liaison psychiatry, Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Mental health emergencies in the AMU
3.30pm-5pm
Session 6: Clinical skills
Session 6 will provide an update in acute rheumatology, how to handle renal emergencies, and an overview on seizures. This session will run in parallel with session 7 – but please note that you can watch both sessions on-demand post-broadcast.
Dr Latif Rahman
Dr Latif Rahman graduated from Dhaka Medical College Hospital in 2014. He is currently working as the chief registrar (specialist medicine) at University Hospitals of Leicester and is an acute medicine higher specialty trainee. Latif is also working as the trainee rep for the east midlands at the RCP Trainee Committee and as the trainee rep for acute medicine at the Society for Acute Medicine, UK. He has special interest in medical education and leads a point of care ultrasound and echocardiogram teaching programme at University Hospitals of Leicester, as well as a teaching programme for locally employed doctors. Latif is also working voluntarily as the secretary for international affairs at the Acute and Critical Care Physicians Foundation, Bangladesh with the purpose of developing acute medicine as a specialty in Bangladesh. Latif holds a PGCert degree in critical care and is completing an MSc in medical education at University of Nottingham.
Dr Latif Rahman
RCP Trainees Committee representative - East Midlands, RCP chief registrar, University Hospitals Leicester NHS Trust
Dr Mariyam Adam
Dr Mariyam Adam is a ST5 registrar working in Royal Liverpool University Hospital, where she is also the RCP chief registrar 2023/2024. Mariam's areas of interest include improving patient flow and audit and QI engagement in junior doctors. She is also a member of the RCP Trainees Committee, representing the Mersey deanery.
Dr Mariyam Adam
RCP Trainees Committee representative - Mersey, renal registrar, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Megan Rutter
Dr Megan Rutter is a rheumatology and general medicine ST7 training in the West Midlands. Her specialist interest is complex, multi-system rheumatic diseases such as lupus. Megan is an RCP Trainee Committee co-chair and the British Society of Rheumatology Trainee Committee chair.
Dr Megan Rutter
RCP Trainees Committee co-chair, rheumatology and general medicine registrar (ST7), South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust
First presentation with lupus: Questions for registrars
Dr Tom Hayton
This biography will be added shortly
Dr Tom Hayton
consultant neurologist, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
3:20pm - Comfort break (10 minutes)
3.20pm-5pm
Session 7: Clinical skills
This clinical session will provide an overview on tackling common pleural emergencies, top tips for managing a pregnant patient, and a talk on endocarditis syncope.
Dr Viola Asimba
Dr Viola Asimba is a CESR registrar in acute internal medicine at Nottingham University Hospitals. She has a particular focus on acute oncology, where she attempts to bridge the care for patients transitioning from acute medical issues to oncological treatments. Voila has been actively involved in numerous projects aimed at enhancing junior doctors’ education and training. She is deeply committed to teaching and mentorship and has a passion for educating the next generation of doctors. Her leadership roles include serving as the east Midlands core medical training (CMT) lead (2018–19) and, more recently, as chief registrar at Nottingham University Hospitals 2023–24. Viola is a passionate champion for diversity and equality, and works to create equal opportunities for junior doctors, particularly those from the Black/Black heritage community. Her advocacy extends to ensuring a more equitable and inclusive environment for junior doctors.
Dr Viola Asimba
acute internal medicine CESR registrar, RCP chief registrar, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Dr Rajini Sudhir
Dr Rajini Sudhir trained across the east midlands and worked in Nottingham prior to her return to Leicester. She works in both lung cancer and pleural services, leading lung cancer services at Leicester Glenfield Hospital, Leicester. Rajini is the co-chair of ECAG and an honorary senior lecturer at the University of Leicester.
University of Leicester.
Dr Rajini Sudhir
consultant respiratory physician, University Hospitals Of Leicester NHS Trust
Tackling common pleural emergencies
Dr Carol Postlethwaite
Dr Carol Postlethwaite started her professional life in the field of clinical pharmacy, but 14 years later decided to retrain as a doctor, having decided that pharmacy was not enough, and that she needed more challenge. Medicine has certainly provided that, and she realised that her skills from clinical pharmacy days meshed well with the needs of complex patient groups with altered pharmacokinetics – especially that of pregnancy.
Within acute medicine training she subspecialised in obstetric medicine and became one of only 27 such physicians in the UK. She currently leads the Maternal Medicine Networks in Kent & Medway and Sussex ICBs as well as training and lecturing to the wider MDT involved in maternal medicine alongside continuing her role as an acute physician at East Surrey Hospital.
Dr Carol Postlethwaite
consultant in acute and obstetric medicine, Surrey and Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust, Medway Hospitals Foundation Trust and University Hospitals Sussex Foundation Trust
MET call to the delivery suite
Dr Gavin Lewis
Dr Gavin Lewis is a consultant cardiologist at Liverpool University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, with a subspeciality interest in multimodality cardiac imaging and heart failure. Gavin holds a research interest in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) and is also the local cardiology lead for the endocarditis multidisciplinary team (MDT).
Dr Gavin Lewis
consultant cardiologist, Liverpool University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
5:00pm - End of conference
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