RESEARCHING SYMPTOMS: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
Tuesday 22nd May 2007, Keele University
- The aim of our meeting is to describe the current state
and potential
developments in the quantitative study of physical symptoms.
- There is a strong programme of talks by highly regarded
speakers:
-- Epidemiology of physical symptoms, Professor Simon
Wessely, King's
College London
-- Physical symptoms in primary care, Professor Chris Dowrick,
University of Liverpool
-- Physical symptoms and public health, Dr Susan Picavet,
National
Institute of Public Health and the Environment, The Netherlands
-- Modelling symptoms trajectory: A comparison of different
approaches,
Dr Gita Mishra, MRC National Survey of Health and Development
-- Dr Leone Ridsdale, Institute of Psychiatry, King's
College London
(title to be confirmed)
-- Within subject designs for symptoms research, Dr Chris
Burton,
University of Edinburgh
- This one-day meeting is being jointly organised through
the Society
for Social Medicine and the Society for Academic Primary Care.
- For further details, including the programme and speakers,
and a
registration form please see the meeting website:
http://www.keele.ac.uk/research/pchs/symptoms/symptoms.htm
or contact
the meeting administrator Claire Calverley (Email:
[log in to unmask] or telephone: 01782 583921).
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