Registration and Coffee: 7.30am to 8.30am

Morning session 8.30am to 12.00pm (incl 30 min coffee break)

1.      Introduction and Welcome: 

Mr Jo Etienne Abela, Minister for Active Ageing 

 

 

Session 1 (Chair Mr Charles Cini)

 

2.      Clinical assessment of faecal incontinence and obstructive defaecation syndrome.    Mr John Camilleri-Brennan , Consultant Colorectal Surgeon NHS Forth Valley, and Vice-President (Surgical) RCPSG

 

3.      Pelvic organ prolapse. 

Dr Dorin Ziyaie, Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, NHS Tayside

 

4.      Anterior Resection Syndrome

Mr James Kynaston, Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, NHS Forth Valley

 

5.      Neurourology for the uninitiated (essentials of bladder and sexual dysfunction in neurological disease). 

Mr Joby Taylor, Consultant Urological Surgeon, NHS Forth Valley

 

Panel Discussion 

 

10.30 am: 30 min break. Poster viewing

 

 

Session 2 (Chair Mr James Kynaston)

 

6.      Obstetric Injuries 

Prof . Yves Muscat Baron, Consultant Gynaecologist, Mater Dei Hospital, Malta

 

7.      Recurrent urinary tract infections: Diagnosis and management. 

Mr Joby Taylor  

8.      Setting up a nurse-led lower urinary tract symptom (LUTS) clinic.

            Sister Mhairi Taylor, Urology Nursing Sister, NHS Forth Valley, UK

 

Panel Discussion 

Lunch 12.30pm  to 1.30pm

Poster viewing 

 

Afternoon session 1.30pm to 5pm (incl 30 min coffee break)

Session 3 (Chair Mr John Camilleri-Brennan)

 

9.      Physiotherapy perspectives on continence

Ms Carolyn Sultana, Pelvic Health Physiotherapist, Malta

 

10.  Psychological aspects of incontinence

Dr Fabian Bonello, Consultant Psychiatrist, Malta 

 

11.  Continence care for people living at home with dementia

Dr Marco Grech, Senior General Practitioner, Care of the Elderly, Malta

 

Panel Discussion 

 

 

12.  Oral poster presentations (x3)

 

 

 

3pm:30min break

 

 

 

 

Session 4 (Chair Dr Dorin Ziyaie)

 

13.  Surgical options in the management of faecal incontinence. 

Mr John Camilleri-Brennan

 

14.  Surgical options in the management of urinary incontinence (incl. Post-prostatectomy incontinence). 

Mr Joby Taylor

 

15.  Stomas. 

Mr Charles Cini, Consultant Surgeon, Mater Dei Hospital, Malta

 

Panel Discussion 

 

Prize-giving: Best oral and displayed posters (Prizes sponsored by RCPSG and by commercial companies/ industry)

 

Concluding remarks: Professor G. La Ferla, Commissioner for Older Persons