Virtual Zoom course

Dr Dalia Khan MA MB BChir MRCP FRCPath Consultant Haematologist

Dalia has been the Director of the Haemophilia Centre since September 2023 and completed her Haematology training in Oxford and undergraduate studies in Cambridge. She is also the Clinical Lead for Anticoagulation and Haemostasis Genomics at Oxford University Hospitals. As part of her role, she leads the Anticoagulation Optimisation Service with primary care and has done so since 2020.
Dalia co-chairs the Thames Valley Regional Complex Thrombosis MDT, organises the South and Central GLH Haemostasis Genomics MDT and is an active member of the Thames Valley Venous Network and MDT. She regularly attends the High-Risk Obstetric MDT. She has a keen interest in issues that affect women with bleeding disorders and cancer associated thrombosis, having undertaken a period of research at the Oxford Centre for Translational Myeloma Research looking at platelet reactivity in patients with plasma cell disorders.

Dr Peter Saunders - Interstitial Lung Disease Consultant

Peter graduated from Imperial College, London in 2006. He completed his Respiratory training in the North West Thames region in 2019. During his training he spent four years at the Royal Brompton ILD Unit as a clinical research fellow and was awarded a PhD from the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial for his research into cough in fibrotic lung diseases. He has worked in Oxford since 2020 as a Consultant in Interstitial Lung Disease and Principle investigator on multiple trials looking for new treatments for pulmonary fibrosis.

Dr Anton Pick - Rehabilitation Medicine Consultant

Dr Anton Pick is a Consultant in Rehabilitation Medicine at the Oxford Centre for Enablement within Oxford University Hospitals. Alongside his clinical role, he is completing a doctorate at the University of Oxford. His work is dedicated to improving the care and understanding of people with prolonged disorders of consciousness and movement impairments after injury or illness of the central nervous system.

Dr Tomasz Bajorek - Consultant Liaison & Neuropsychiatrist

Tomasz is a graduate of the University of Oxford and member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He is a senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He has completed higher medical training in the general adult, old age and liaison psychiatry and subsequently developed a career in neuropsychiatry and psychiatry of palliative care. He is currently a consultant psychiatrist working in neurosciences and palliative care in Oxford. His areas of clinical and academic interest include postgraduate education, epilepsy, autoimmune encephalitis, forensic neuropsychiatry and functional neurological disorder.

Dr Christina Swann – Consultant

Dr Christina Swann achieved a BSc Hons in biochemistry, then went on to study medicine achieving her MBChB. She qualified as a GP in 2011, was appointed as an assistant coroner in 2013 and was Called to the Bar in 2020. She is currently the lead medical examiner for Oxfordshire.

Dr Rebecca Frake –Registrar in Neurology & General Internal Medicine

Dr Rebecca Frake completed her PhD in 2017 through the University of Cambridge MB/PhD Programme. Her PhD was supervised by Professor David Rubinsztein at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research. Her doctoral thesis characterises the adaptor protein vinexin (encoded by SORBS3), which shows increased expression in brain ageing across species, as an autophagy regulator.
She graduated with her medical degree in 2019 and moved to Edinburgh to undertake academic foundation training. This included clinical work in the Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and postdoctoral research in the Smillie Lab at the Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, focusing on presynaptic dysfunction in Huntington's disease.
In 2021, Dr Frake moved to Oxford to undertake internal medicine training within Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. In 2024, she successfully applied for an NIHR Clinical Lecturer position, together with a national training number in neurology and general internal medicine.

Dr Michael Matheou (MBBS BSc(Hons) MRCP)

Dr Michael is a Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology at OCDEM, Churchill Hospital, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, appointed in 2023 after completing higher specialty training in the Oxford deanery and a post-CCT fellowship at OCDEM. His main clinical interests are type 1 diabetes and technology-enabled care, including continuous glucose monitoring, insulin pump therapy and hybrid closed-loop systems. He is leading the local implementation and rollout of hybrid closed-loop technology across the diabetes service, with a focus on safe, practical adoption and multidisciplinary education.

Professor Derek Willis - Medical Director Severn Hospice, Shrewsbury.

Derek Willis is Medical Director at Severn Hospice (Shropshire and Midwales) and an Honorary Chair at the University of Chester in Bioethics and Palliative Medicine. At present he is working in partnership with Robert Jones Agnes Hunt Hospital and Muscular Dystrophy UK to explore what palliative medicine provision should be for adult patients with Muscular Dystrophies? He has been part of a governmental review at the House of Lords concerning this.
Derek is both GP and Physician trained and has worked in New Zealand, the Midlands and the North East. He teaches Medical Ethics at three Universities and has a higher qualification as well as a research interest in the subject. He is academic rep on the WMCares research collaborative. He is currently Treasurer of the APM and is on their Ethics Committee.

Full programme in place:
Thursday 29th:
09.30 Dr Dalia Khan. VTE management in patients who are under palliative care
10.45 Dr Peter Saunders. Oxford. 'Interstitial lung disease and advances in care
12.30 Dr Anton Pick. Update on neurorehabilitation
13.45 Dr Tomasz Bajorek. Depression

Friday 30th
09.30 Dr Christina Swann. The role of the medical examiner
10.45 Dr Rebecca Frake. Parkinson's disease
12.30 Dr Mike Matheou. Medical devices and diabetes management
13.45 Professor Derek Willis. Duchenne's muscular dystrophy

The course aims to refresh and build your knowledge and skills in medicine to enable you to transfer knowledge back to your clinical care in palliative medicine.

Objectives
By attending this course you will:
• Have an opportunity to enjoy learning with your colleagues
• Develop knowledge and skills to support your clinical judgments and enable discussions with your patients and those they love
• Have an opportunity to discuss with experts and your colleagues so that you can apply specialty knowledge to palliative medicine
• Be supported to bring your learning back to your organisation
• Have an opportunity to network with your peers

Key benefits include:
• A high standard of professional knowledge
• Excellent teaching
• Time for questions, discussion and building your networks
• Support to set educational goals for the coming year
• Superb value for money
• Experienced and enthusiastic administrative staff
• Focus on participants, not for profit so keeping costs as low as possible – any surplus ploughed back into education