New Registration16/03/2010Pri-Med Workshop - Managing Depression in the Ten-Minute Consultation, Manchester
Dr Stephen Cullen - MD | |
| GP, Merseyside | |
 | Professor Linda Gask - MD |
| Professor of Primary Care Psychiatry, University of Manchester | |
| Linda Gask is Professor of Primary Care Psychiatry at the University of Manchester, jointly appointed in both psychiatry and primary care. Linda trained in medicine at the University of Edinburgh and in psychiatry in the North West of England. Linda co-ordinates the Primary Care Mental Health Research Group and was a founder of the STORM training initiative for suicide prevention. She runs the Course in Psychiatry for GP Registrars and also works as a Consultant Psychiatrist in the Primary Care Mental Health Service in Salford. Linda has extensive experience in researching mental health policy and practice, with a particular focus on primary care mental health. Recent work has focused on improving the quality of care for people with depression, medically unexplained symptoms, co-morbidity and management of people at risk of self-harm. | |
 | Dr Sarah Jarvis - MD, FRCGP |
| GP and GP Trainer | |
| Sarah Jarvis is a GP, GP trainer, fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners and Women’s Health spokesperson for the RCGP.
She is also a medical writer and broadcaster, and is currently the BBC Radio 2 doctor and doctor to the One Show on BBC1, Good Housekeeping, My Weekly and Pregnancy magazines, as well as spending 10 years as ITN lunchtime News doctor. She also contributes regularly to GMTV, Sky News, The Wright Stuff on Channel 5 and BBC Radio 5 live. She has been a regular contributor to a variety of medical magazines and journals including Update, Doctor, Practice Nurse, the British Journal of Cardiology and Cardiology News. She has a particular interest in Women’s Health and children, and has been the Women’s Health tutor for the University of Bath/Royal College of GPs course on women’s health, as well as the author of Pregnancy for Dummies and Children’s Health for Dummies. She has also authored Diabetes for Dummies, The younger woman’s Diagnose-It-Yourself guide to Health, Women’s Health for Life (winner of the BMA popular medicine book award) and The Welcome Visitor, a book on ethical dilemmas at the end of life co-authored with the broadcaster John Humphrys. | |
Dr Jill Rasmussen | |
| GP, Surrey | |
| Dr. Jill Rasmussen is a clinician with a special interest in psychoses, affective disorders an neurodegenerative diseases. She worked in the pharmaceutical industry for ten years, where she specialized in the clinical development and registration of new drugs for psychiatry and neurology. She has also worked with the Medicines Control Agency (now the MHRA) as a Senior Medical Assessor for 18 months. Since 1994, she has combined part-time clinical practice with her own independent research consultancy specialising in developmental and medico-marketing strategy for drugs in CNS indications. She is a community specialist in psychiatry and learning disability and is the Surrey PCT representative for mental health and learning disability. Jill is also actively involved in developing content for several educational web sites and CD-ROMs aimed at improving professional knowledge and awareness of developments affecting clinical practice in her areas of expertise. | |
 | Dr Tom Tasker - MD |
| GPwSI Mental Health, Salford | |
| GP Principal in a Teaching and Training Practice, Salford GPSI in Mental Health, NHS Salford Clinical Lead for Mental Health, PBC, Salford Clinical Lead for IAPT, Salford Biggest claim to fame in Salford is writing a framework document for a new primary care Mental Health Service that was implemented in 2006 and now covers the whole city. Main areas of interest in mental Health: Treatment-Resistant Depression Collaborative working Physical Health of patients with Severe and enduring mental illness and spoken at the recent R C Psych meeting in Cardiff about this. |
Developed and sponsored by Pri-Med Educational Programmes, Eli Lilly and Boehringer Ingelheim
UKCYB00502 February 2010
