Previous Conferences

Climate Health: Good for You, Good for the Planet

Dr Tamsin Ellis (she/her) is a First5 salaried GP in Islington, Chair of Greener Practice London and an Associate at the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare where she facilitates the primary care sustainability workshop. She is also the North Central London ICS lead for Environmental Sustainability in Primary Care.

Dr Ellis will be walking us through how environmentally aware healthcare benefits all of us, and then hosting the workshop Sustainable Healthcare: Why Does it Matter and How Do I Start?

Digital Hyperconnectivity; 'Technology and our Mental Health'

Dr Romayne Gadelrab (she/her) is a Consultant Psychiatrist, and Clinical Research Fellow at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, Kings College London. She sits as the co-chair of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Digital Special Interest Group and is interested in the effects of technology on our mental health. Following her Maudsley psychiatry training, she studied Innovation at the Elisava School of Design, Barcelona and is keen to see the integration of new technologies in mental health. She also works as an honorary Doctor at the National Centre for Gaming Disorders.

Mindful Living: The Science & The Practice

Dr Afrosa Ahmed (she/her) graduated as a medical doctor from Kings’ College London in 2000. She subsequently became a General Practitioner in 2005, practising in the NHS and private sector. Her interest in mental health led her to become a Mindfulness Coach, graduating from the UK College of Mindfulness Meditation. She is an accredited teacher on the Mindfulness Teachers Register and established the Mindfulness Wellbeing Programme at Med24 in Paddington, London. She delivers wellbeing talks in schools, colleges, universities and in the workplace.

Long Covid: A Reluctant Pioneer

Dr Ashish Chaudhry (he/him) is a GP partner and trainer in Salford, as well as an undergraduate clinical lecturer at the University of Manchester. He developed an interest in Long Covid, after acquiring Covid in the first wave of the pandemic in April 2020. 

Since then he recognised the need for research and teaching to help both patients and doctors understand and manage lingering symptoms of what was later referred to as Long Covid. He co-authored Top Tips: Managing long covid in Guidelines in Practice February 2021 and recently presented at Guidelines Live.

In this talk, Ashish will draw on personal experience of being a medical patient, and highlight some of the perceptions that patients with Long Covid face. He will reflect on some of the barriers patients face when consulting with clinicians, and how this has impacted on his own practice as a GP.