APRIL charity's second conference - 4 November 2004 - Hear groundbreaking informaiton from Academics and doctors.
Adverse Psychiatric Effects of Medicines and Anaesthetics.......preventing avoidable harm
Friends House Euston, London, England
2004 Conference FLYER with list of speakers, all of them attended except Pipasha Biswas who did not .
Speakers at our conference
Keith Altman Adverse Drug Reactions Statistics Analyst USA
Angela Clow Professor of Psychophysiology, Univ. of Westminster; Presenter Stress Test BBC1
Dr John Halliday lecturer in Pharmacology at Guys, Kings and St Thomas's Hear his talk about
'How medical students qualify without assessment of ability to prescribe or recognise ADRs.'
Leonard Gorodkin H.M. Coroner, City of Manchester
Dr Andrew Herxheimer Clinical pharmacologist, founder of Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin hear his talk
Charles Medawar Founder/director Social Audit; specialist in medicines policy & drug safety issues.
Dr Dorothy Rowe Clinical Psychologist, author
Prof. Saad Shakir Director of the Drug Safety Research Unit (DSRU)
Martin Seager Head of Psychology, Redbridge & Waltham Forest Mental Health Trust
Dr Anita Holdcroft Reader in Anaesthesia and Honorary Consultant Anaesthetist Imperial College and Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, London
A review of the APRIL 2004 conference was published in the British Medical Journal
More surveillance of drugs is needed to protect public by Lynn Eaton
Lynn Eaton stated:
"Doctors need to take the risk of psychiatric side effects from prescription drugs far more seriously than they currently do and to be prepared to listen to patients who report adverse reactions to treatment. "
Readers of the BMJ posted responses to the Conference review