Friday, 30 June 2023
8.45am – 4.15pm
Specialist Groupthestudio, 7 Cannon Street, Birmingham B2 5EP
Hosted by the Mental Health Specialist Group
The group are excited for the study day returning face to face. Topics being covered include mental health and physical health, medical management of obesity in severe mental illness session, physical activity and eating disorders: physio perspective, LD physical healthn needs, physical activity and eating disorders: dietetic perspective, LD case discussions and networking, nutritional bloods in ARFID and workforce.
Speakers
Dr Hermoine Price, Consultant Diabetologist for Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust in Hampshire and for University Hospitals Dorset in Bournemouth.
Dr Price is an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Southampton where she has a research interest in the interface between diabetes and mental ill health. Dr Price has published widely on this topic and has received several research awards.
Dr Price is passionate about delivering specialist diabetes care in a community setting. She is especially interested in improving care for those people often thought of as “hardly reached” including people in care homes or living with a serious mental disorder or a learning disability.
Dr Price’s presentation will cover the close associations between diabetes and mental disorders and work she has undertaken to improve diabetes and weight management for those living with psychosis.
Kate Brown, Mental Health Physiotherapy Lead, Cambridge and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
After qualifying as a Chartered Physiotherapist in 2000, Kate worked in acute and community rehabilitation settings. She then went on to complete a Masters degree in Sports Medicine which sparked an interest in the role of therapeutic exercise in mental health, and lead to her taking up a post as a Physiotherapist within the specialism of mental health where she has worked for the last 18 years. Kate's current post is as a Mental Health Physiotherapy Lead, and oversees physiotherapy service delivery across a range of mental health inpatient settings, as well as working clinically on an adult eating disorder inpatient unit in Cambridge. Kate is also the Chair of the Physiotherapy Eating Disorder Professional Network in the UK and is very passionate about the inclusion of physiotherapy as part of eating disorder treatment and has particular interest in exercise and eating disorders.
Summary of Kate's presentation: Activity and Exercise in Eating Disorders
To present an overview of the current interventions for managing physical activity and exercise as part of eating disorder treatment.
Dr Kirsten Lamb, MA MB BChir Cantab, FRCGP, DCH, DRCOG, Cert Med Ed
Kirsten is a retired GP. She chairs the RCGP special interest group for learning disability. She chaired the Hertfordshire LeDeR (learning disability mortality review) steering group until June 2021. Whilst working as a GP in Herts, she was the Clinical Lead for Learning Disability for Herts Valley CCG. She created the national digital template for the learning disability annual health check. She has worked with NHSE and RCGP to create the Quality Improvement domain in learning disability for GPs. She is the RCGP representative on the Learning Disability Professional Senate. She has developed a certificate level training in learning disability with the Royal College of Physicians and Health Education England as well as participating in research with Centre for Intellectual Disability Equitable Research, Plymouth University.
Jo Smith, B.Sc. (hons), M.Sc. R.D. Consultant Dietitian (Clinical Academic), Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust & Teesside University
Jo has been working as a Registered Dietitian within the NHS for over 25 years after qualifying in 1997 from Leeds Metropolitan University. She gained a MSc in Evidence Based Practice in 2008 and is currently studying part-time for a PhD in Nutrition at Teesside University. Jo was Head of Dietetics at Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust for 15 years and previously chaired the Mental Health Specialist Group of the BDA. She currently works as a Consultant Dietitian (Clinical Academic) jointly between the NHS and Teesside University and is Chief Investigator on several NIHR research grants. Jo has a specialist interest in food insecurity, obesity, health inequalities, dietary intakes, and the eating behaviour of people with mental health conditions.
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