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Symposium:
The Relevance of Clinical Genetics to General Practice Medicine

4th March 2009
Shipley Health Centre, Bradford

The conference programme offers a series of talks given by experienced professionals, attempting to address some of the issues increasingly encountered by Primary Care Professionals.

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Programme
08.45	Registration
09.30	Introduction
09.45	Mapping out a family history – genetics in primary care Dr Nadeem Qureshi
10.20	Cancer Genetics – Learning the essentials Dr Judith Hayward, GPwSI in Genetics, Yorkshire Regional Genetics Service
11.00	Coffee/Tea
11.30	Genetics and Multi-ethnicity - Caring for patients from ethnic minorities Dr Peter Corry, Consultant Paediatrician (Neurodisability), St Luke's Hospital, Bradford
12.10	Culture, Religion and Reproductive Choices Dr Gulshan Karbani, Genetic Counsellor, Yorkshire Regional Genetics Service
12.50	Lunch
13.45	Interactive Workshop Session - 'Pedigree drawing and patterns of inheritance' Dr Imran Rafi
15.15	Tea/Coffee
15.30	Monitoring for common inherited conditions - how primary care can assist regional genetics centres? Dr Carol Chu, Consultant Geneticist, Yorkshire Regional Genetics Service
16.00	End

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Previous conferences

The Relevance of Clinical Genetics to General Practice Medicine

9th October
Innlodge New Lodge, Portsmouth

Thank you to those who attended the last Primary Care Genetics Society conference. Speaker presentations from this conference are now available to download from our Resources Section.

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PCGS Inaugural Conference

Speaker presentations from the PCGS Inaugural Conference are available to download here

The Society was delighted to have the involvement of Dr Hugh Montgomery from the Centre for Cardiovascular Genetics, London giving his talk "Cardiovascular medicine: How genes impact on risk, treatment and outcome", only a few weeks before he left the UK to prepare for a research project which involves climbing Mount Everest!

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