General

Monday 8th - Wednesday 10th November 2010

 
Held in this spectacular Westminster setting, the annual course, now in its 34th year, is the only one of its kind in the UK and has proved extremely popular with anaesthetists from both the UK and overseas. Leading specialists will present cutting edge lectures on a wide range of core and relevant topics in obstetric anaesthesia and analgesia, including aspects of maternal medicine and fetal well-being. Many areas of current clinical controversy will also be explored and addressed.  

Whilst designed primarily for experienced anaesthetists with a commitment to obstetrics, this intensive course may also be of interest to trainee anaesthetists, midwives and obstetricians. In addition, senior anaesthetists who cover obstetrics on-call but do little (or no) elective daytime obstetrics may also find this a useful way of being brought "up to speed" with current practice and opinion.

CPD approval has been awarded by the Royal College of Anaesthetists for Continuing Personal Development points.   It will also be suitable for RCOG CME programmes.    15 CPD points for full attendance.

A webcast (audio and video recordings) of lectures will be available to delegates 3-4 weeks after the meeting for on-line 'listen/view again'.   

 In addition to our wide range of specialists, we have four international lecturers:

	Jose Carvalho graduated in medicine at the University of Sao Paulo, in Brazil, in 1977, where he eventually became an Associate Professor in the Department of Anesthesia in 1998. He also completed a PhD in Pharmacology at the same university. He moved to Canada in 2003 to take up an Associate Professor position in the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Toronto and the Directorship of Obstetric Anesthesia at the Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto. Jose is on the Editorial Board of the Obstetric Anesthesia Digest and was previously an Associate Editor of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, and Co-Editor of the Brazilian Journal of Anesthesiology. He was the founding president of the Latin American Society of Regional Anesthesia. Jose and his team have been awarded multiple international research prizes. He has numerous publications and interests, which span from the use of ultrasound for regional anaesthesia in obstetrics to the use of intravenous remifentanil for labour analgesia. Outside of clinical work, his major interests are sports (basketball and tennis), cinema, photography and reading.
	Patricia Lavand'Homme is currently a Professor of Anesthesiology at St Luc Hospital at the Catholic University of Louvain Medical School, Brussels, Belgium. During her training Patricia undertook a visiting scholarship programme in the Pain Mechanisms Laboratory of Professor James Eisenach at the Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA. During this time she studied the fundamentals of pain transmission and the pharmacology of spinal analgesics. Patricia is the Chairperson of the Acute and Chronic Pain subcommittee of the European Society of Anaesthesiology. Her current research interests include the improvement of postoperative pain management and the assessment of novel analgesic techniques and drugs for the treatment of acute pain. Patricia’s hobbies include scuba diving in warm and clear waters as well as ice skating/ roller blading.
	Rich Smiley is the Chief of Obstetric Anesthesia at the NewYork Presbyterian Hospital / Columbia University Medical Center, New York, USA. He completed a PhD in organic chemistry before leaving the field to study medicine and embark on a career in anesthesiology. The NewYork Presbyterian Hospital is the largest teaching hospital in the USA. Rich and his team are responsible for 7,000 deliveries within two obstetric hospitals in New York. His group has been very active in research, especially concerning genetic effects on anesthesia and pregnancy, over many years and has won 3 “Best Paper” awards at the SOAP meetings in the USA. Outside of clinical work Rich is busy raising 3 teenage boys, watching the World Champion New York Yankees, and skiing, especially during his sabbatical in Geneva with Ruth Landau in 2003/4.
	Professor Marc Van de Velde obtained his medical degree at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium in 1991. He completed his residency in Anaesthesiology in 1996 at the University Hospitals of Leuven. In 2000, he received his PhD degree following research related to metabolic support of the stunned myocardium. He was appointed member of staff in 1997 at the department of Anaesthesiology of the University Hospitals in Leuven, Belgium and is now professor of anaesthesia, clinical director of obstetric anaesthesia and clinical director of anaesthesia outside the operating room. The University hospitals Leuven perform approximately 2500 deliveries and 200 foetal surgical interventions annually.

Enquiries

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Tel: +44 (0) 20 8741 1311
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Disclaimer

The Obstetric Anaesthetists' Association (OAA) reserves the right to amend or cancel this event.   Should the event be cancelled a full refund of any registration fee will be made.   The OAA does not accept liability for any expenses incurred by the delegate as a result of cancellation.