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November 2023: 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 both specialists and non-specialists (including trainees, GPs and allied healthcare professionals).

**Update note as of 15 March 2024:  plans for our Nov 2024 course are currently being finalised -  this web page will be updated asap with the details! Please watch this space!**

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 2nd November (9.00am to 4.40pm) and Friday 3rd November (8.40am to 4.15pm) 2023.

Location

33 Queen Square Lecture Theatre – Institute of Neurology
33 Queen Square
London
WC1N 3BG

A sandwich lunch will be provided on both days.

*For those unable to attend in person, ‘Online observer’ registration will enable you to view the live lectures via Zoom. Please note that it will *not* be possible to interact with the speakers or ask questions via online attendance.

The course has been approved 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

Price details are below. 

If you have any questions, please contact Heather Ormsby at h.ormsby@ucl.ac.uk

In-person attendees

STANDARD FEE

GP/Consultants

£200 for both days; £150 for 1 day

Allied health professionals, UCLH staff and trainees

£100 for both days; £75 for 1 day

All students and UCL staff members

£30 flat fee

Online observers

One fee category only for online

GP/Consultants

£100 flat fee

Allied health professionals, UCLH staff and trainees

£50 flat fee

All students and UCL staff members

£10 flat fee