Previous courses and workshops

Update in Neuromuscular Disorders, 24th-27th May 2010, Queen Square

This course, now in its third year, is the result of the merging of two popular annual courses with an established international reputation:

1. the “Hammersmith Hospital update” on the latest research aspects, clinical and management advances related to childhood neuromuscular disorders, and

2. the “Institute of Neurology neuromuscular short course”, a stimulating update on adult inherited and acquired neuromuscular disorders

Course organisers:
Prof Michael Hanna, Dr Adnan Manzur, Prof Francesco Muntoni, and Dr Mary Reilly

Topics covered included:

Please click here to view final programme.

IBM workshop
13th June 2008, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square

This first UK IBM workshop was supported by the MRC Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases and the British Myology Society. It was the first in a series of CPD approved practical workshops covering major muscle diseases which we hope will engage the clinical and scientific muscle community from throughout the UK, Ireland and beyond. We aimed to invite colleagues who are actively involved in any aspect of IBM. The format for each of the workshops will be similar, with the following broad aims:

• To establish or build on networks of clinicians, pathologists, geneticists, therapists, clinical nurse specialists, scientists, patient groups and other expert disciplines interested in specific muscle diseases, that will work together on a long-term basis.
• To agree network activities that are relevant to clinical practice and to which network members can contribute with minimal effort in the course of routine muscle practice.
• Consider current practice regarding diagnostic criteria and treatment and to form a consensus current view from the workshop experts present.
• Update re key current research that has potential for translation into clinical trials and clinical practice.
• Establish disease-specific registries and databases held on a web accessible server.
• Update re pending natural history studies and new clinical trials that network members can participate in.
• Publish a summary of the consensus views of the experts present at the workshop in Neuromuscular Disorders.
• Updates re outputs from the workshop at the annual BMS meeting, and reconvene workshop at agreed intervals.

For further information, or to participate in future workshops, please contact Zoe Scott at z.scott@ion.ucl.ac.uk.