HALL: A – Day 2

HALL A

TIME

CLINICAL MEDICINE

 

09.00 – 10.30pm

Symposium 7

Stroke: Optimizing care: an overview

 

Could stroke be prevented? Up-to-date evidence

 Dr. Jeyaraj Durai Pandian

Department of Neurology, Deputy Director (Research and Development), Christian Medical College, India

 

Stroke – First 24 hours: a window of opportunity

Dr. Senaka Bandusena

Consultant Neurologist, NHSL

 

Rehabilitation of stroke in resource constraint settings

Dr. Jeyaraj Durai Pandian

 

10.30 – 11.00am

Tea and poster viewing

 

11.00 – 11.30am

Guest Lecture 4

End of life care

Prof. Sally McCarthy

Clinical Director, Emergency Care institute, Conjoint Associate Professor, UNSW

 

11.30 – 01.00pm

Symposium 10

Glomerulonephritis

 

Infection related Glomerulonephritis

Dr. Michelle Estrella

Assistant Professor of Medicine, School of Medicine,, Johns Hopkins University

 

Management of IgA Nephropathy

Dr. A. W. M. Wazeel

Consultant Nephrologist, General Hospital Kandy

 

Update on Crescentic Glomerulonephritis

Dr. Anura Hewageegana

Consultant Nephrologist, National Institute of Nephrology Dialysis and Transplantation

 

01.00 – 02.00pm

 Lunch, poster viewing  & Debate

‘Decriminalizing commercial sex will reduce Sexually Transmitted Infections’

 

02.00 – 03.30pm

Free Paper Session 4

 

03.30 – 05.00pm

Symposium 13

Emergency Medicine

 

How EM integrates into the healthcare system in Sri Lanka

Dr. Sally McCarthy

Clinical Director, Emergency Care Institute. Conjoint Associate Professor UNSW, Australia

 

Sepsis and severe sepsis management in ED-a tool kit for Emergency Department

Dr. Nalin Kithulwaththa

Consultant Paediatric Intensivist, Lady Ridgway Hospital

 

Non Invasive Ventilation in low resource ED-a Sri Lankan experience

Dr. Krishantha Jayasekara

Consultant Physician , Emergency & Trauma Centre, Teaching Hospital, Karapitiya

 

5.00  – 05.30 pm

Tea

5.30 pm onwards

Dr. S. C. Paul oration

“Analysis of anaestheticadaptations and observations in Thoracoscopic and Laparoscopic surgeries

Dr. Vasanti Pinto