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DSMIG Members Meeting

Programme

The Marcus Beck Library, Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Winpole Street, London
Friday November 19th 2004

9.00am

Steering Group

10.30am

Coffee

11.00am

DSMIG Business Meeting / Reporting Back

  • Steering Group
  • Guidelines
  • DSMIG office feedback (JJ/RG)
  • Website developments (JD)
  • European Academy of Childhood Disability Posters (JD/LM)
  • DAISI project update (RG)
  • Research Projects
    • TAM study (PJ/ PC)
    • Vitamins and Minerals study (Sarah Davies, Research Assistant, ICH)
    • Coeliac study (PJ)
  • Harlow printing PCHR (LM)
  • Future meetings

12.00pm

Revised Vision Guideline (Marian McGowan) and roundtable discussion with Maggie Woodhouse and Barbara Crofts

12.45am

Lunch

Presentations - OBESITY AND EXERCISE
(Tea will be provided during the afternoon)

1.30pm

Growth Data collected for UK Down's Syndrome Growth Charts

Jennifer Dennis, Director, Information and Research, DSMIG

1.40pm

Obesity in children with Down's Syndrome: setting the scene/research

David Wilson, Senior Lecturer, RHSC Edinburgh; Chairman of SIGN Guidelines on Childhood Obesity

2.10pm

Dietary management

Laura Stewart, Community Dietitian, RHSC Edinburgh

2.45pm

On line Growth Charts

Vince Hume, Southern Regional Sales Manager - Harlow Printing, South Shields

3.15pm

Fitness and exercise for people with Down's Syndrome: benefits and constraints

Dan Gordon, Senior Lecturer in Exercise Physiology, Anglia Polytechnic University

3.45pm

Roundtable discussion chaired by Patricia Jackson (to include Case Studies)

4.30pm

Close of meeting

Registration information

This is a closed meeting for DSMIG full members but mailing list members and non members may apply for provisional registration for the afternoon programme only. Places will be made available if space permits. Priority will be given to mailing list members. Registration forms have been sent to DSMIG members.

Fees

  • Full members £25

Further information from Joyce Judson, Secretary, at info@dsmig.org.uk

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