Clinical Psychopharmacology: An Update

There is a Registration Fee of £50 for Non-Members of the Manchester Medical Society – Medical/health related Undergraduate Students can attend free but must register in advance at admin@mms.org.uk using their student email. No charge for members.

1.30 pm       

Coffee, Registration & Viewing of Posters

2.00 pm       

Switching antipsychotic medication to improve physical health comes-evidence based approach

Professor Saeed Farooq, Professor of Psychiatry and Public Mental Health, Keele University, Staffordshire; Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

2.35 pm        

Neuroimmunology and treatment of psychosis

Professor Bill Deakin, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, University of Manchester

3.10 pm        

Coffee Break & Viewing of Posters

3.30 pm        

Can We All Be Precision Prescribers?

Professor Richard Drake, Professor of Clinical Adult Psychiatry, University of Manchester; Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist in Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS FT Early Intervention Service

• What is precision prescribing and how can we apply it? A range of things are possible – tighter dose control using plasma monitoring, like clozapine; better staging; tighter clozapine dosing;  pharmacotherapeutics; increasing patient choice; tighter symptom control. But which are worth doing? What can we do in practice?

4.05 pm        

Review of the evidence base for psychopharmacological treatments for borderline personality disorder: NICE guidance of clinical practice

Dr Inti Qurashi, Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, Merseycare NHS Trust

• A review of the evidence base from RCT’s and meta-analyses of drug treatment for symptoms of BPD. What works (probably) and what doesn’t (likely). Outline of a funded NIHR study for BPd.

4.40 pm        

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