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November 2024: ONLINE Queen Square Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Course – A Clinical Update

The Queen Square MS Centre team have designed this two-day course as an Update, accessible to specialists and non-specialists (including trainees; GPs; allied healthcare professionals; and students).

Course Directors

Professor Ahmed Toosy and Dr Declan Chard, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery.

Course Dates/Times

Thursday 7th November (9.00am to 4.40pm) and Friday 8th November (8.45am to 4.30pm).

Location: ONLINE via Zoom Webinar link.

The course is taking place SOLELY ONLINE for 2024.

An application is being submitted for the course to be eligible for 10 CPD credits from the Federation of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom. 

Course Summary and Outline

Over the past few years there have been substantial changes in our understanding of and exciting developments in the management of multiple sclerosis (MS). Many clinicians will have contact with people with MS but, with increasing diagnostic and treatment complexities, MS management may be daunting or overwhelming for non-MS specialists. This course will cover key clinical issues that healthcare professionals seeing people with MS may encounter, and provide a framework and rationale for investigation and management of people who may have, or who have an established diagnosis of, MS.

Sessions will cover the following topics:

  • Clinically and radiologically isolated syndromes
  • Pathology of MS from a clinical perspective
  • Pathophysiology of MS
  • Diagnosis and differential diagnosis of MS
  • Neuroimaging in MS
  • Infections and vaccinations
  • Clinical course and prognosis in MS
  • First line disease modifying treatments
  • Multi-disciplinary team management
  • MS Nursing Services
  • Neuropsychology of MS 
  • Pregnancy in MS
  • DMT escalation
  • NMO, aquaporin and MOG
  • Optic neuritis
  • Urogenital dysfunction in MS
  • Pharmacological management of complex MS related spasticity
  • Pain management
  • Diagnostic and treatment dilemmas in MS

Course prices and booking

Our pricing categories are below.  *BOOK YOUR COURSE PLACE HERE*

After carefully noting the information above, if you have any queries, please contact Heather Ormsby at h.ormsby@ucl.ac.uk  (This two-day course is for Online attendance only via Zoom Webinar. The full course programme containing lecturers' names and specific timings will be emailed to registered attendees in late October/first week of November.)

Attendee category (Online attendance only: via Zoom)

PRICE

GPs / Consultants

£180

Allied health professionals; trainees

£90

Non-Neuroinflammation students; UCLH staff; UCL staff members; UCL honorary/visiting staff

£20

Neuroinflammation students (PhD or MSc)

FREE OF CHARGE

Please register for your course place via the Online Store booking link above. (UCL Department of Neuroinflammation students, who are eligible for a free place, should also please do this, to ensure that they receive updates about the course as necessary, and the joining link.)

Please also kindly note: After the course takes place, our sponsors may ask us to provide them with a list of the names (only) of all course attendees, in order to meet with their compliance requirements. Please email Heather at h.ormsby@ucl.ac.uk if you should have any queries or concerns about this.