Dear colleagues,
We are delighted to announce that our 10th Annual Meeting of the European
Delirium Association will be held in London, United Kingdom from the 3rd-
4th September with a pre-conference delirium training day on the 2nd September. The meeting is jointly organised with the British Geriatrics Society Dementia
and related disorders Special Interest Group as well as with local representation
from King's Health Partners.
For the first time, it will be held in conjunction with the British Geriatrics Society (BGS) Dementia and related disorders Special Interest Group (SIG). We are fortunate that Dr Emma Vardy (Newcastle) from the BGS SIG is co-chairing the scientific organising committee. This will be a fantastic opportunity for the EDA to benefit from the experience and expertise of the BGS and in turn offer the best of the EDA to London health professionals.
The conference will be held 2nd-4th September 2015 at the Waterloo campus, Kings College London, the local hosts being King’s Health Partners (KHP). KHP is a world-leading academic health sciences partnership with particular strengths in psychiatry and services for older people. This combination is unique and we very much hope this will make for a highly successful event.
Building on previous successes, the main conference will be spread over two days with sessions on:
- The biological basis of delirium neuropsychiatry
- Critical care delirium
- Perioperative delirium
- Palliative care and nursing home delirium
- Experimental models for delirium research
- Objective measures of delirium
- Innovations in delirium education
- Setting up a delirium service
The conference will be preceded by a one-day Delirium Training Day. This will cover the essentials of delirium recognition and management and will assume no previous knowledge. Workshops for multi- and inter-professional learning will be on offer, welcoming anyone keen to improve their care of delirium patients.
We are fortunate to have attracted a range of high-profile speakers. Our keynote speaker, Dr Colm Cunningham (Dublin), has offered a major advance to the field through his development of experimental models for delirium pathophysiology. We look forward to state-of-the-art talks from Alasdair MacLullich (Edinburgh), Kenneth Rockwood (Halifax), Arjen Slooter (Utrecht), James Rudolph (Boston) and Jose Maldonado (Palo Alto).
New for EDA conferences will be a dedicated session on public engagement. There will be a Special Round Table with eminent figures who have influenced public perceptions: Baroness Greengross (Chief Executive, International Longevity Centre UK), David Aaronovitch (columnist, the Times), Martin Prince (Professor of Global Mental Health, King’s College London). This will be a critical chance for the scientific delirium community to understand how best to disseminate our work, for the benefit of patients and their carers.
Finally, a social event is in order, of appropriate scale for our tenth anniversary. Details are hotly guarded for now, but we can hint that it will involve food, drink, enthusiasm, and the river Thames.
Check the websites and Twitter for further announcements on registration and abstract submission.
@EDA_delirium
Daniel Davis, Emma Vardy and Alasdair MacLullich, on behalf of the EDA London 2015 Scientific Organising Committee
