2010 Annual General Meeting and Conference - Nottingham
Welcome to this final article prior to the A.G.M. from your conference Hosts, David Elliott and Stephen Gardiner As you all know by now from the past two articles, 2010 will see a change to the A.G.M. format. Firstly you will have all seen in the last journal that we have increased the keynote/plenary speakers to five instead of the usual three. We are also offering you the opportunity to enhance your CPD and get involved in our six different Gregg Quinn workshops, conducted by professionals in the field who are either, podiatrists themselves or from our very supportive Trade Houses, and we thank them in advance. The A.G.M. will commence on the Friday afternoon with lectures from highly respected people, Professor Wesley Vernon and Mr. Greg Quinn. This is hoped to whet your appetite ready for the evening events and to the event enjoyable and memorable for the rest of the conference. Friday’s evening entertainment will be consisting of a Medieval Evening and Barbeque with games and archery. So start thinking about that fancy dress. Along with the usual pub games such as Giant Connect Four, Chess, Jeng and Snakes and Ladders we will have a local archery club attending the venue. The archery is planned for all and there is no minimum or maximum age as long as you can hold a bow and arrow. Everyone taking part will be given a formal teaching session before the competition begins. The competition will work as follows: Five members will make up a team and pay a entrance fee of £10, money raised at this event will go towards the Benevolent fund and our nominated charities:- Help for Heroes and The Royal British Legion. The teams will be battle it out together until we have the final two teams and the team with the highest score will be crowned archery champions of the event, and a prize will be presented by our President. Friday is hoped to be a fun event, with a variety of games, for all to enjoy. Saturday will see the formal proceedings begin with the opening of the conference and the business meeting and the concurrent workshops. Saturday afternoon will be the two final plenary keynotes speakers of the day prior to the Dinner Dance. Sunday morning will finish the business meeting and our final keynote speaker and rounding off the CPD events for your annual conference.
In the previous journal we gave you information about some of our plenary speakers; we now conclude this with their professional profiles of our other speakers and information about our workshops to help you all in booking your chosen workshop. We hope that you will wish to visit Nottingham and Nottinghamshire and to meet up with friends and colleagues once again at your Annual General Meeting and Conference.
Gregg Quinn FCPodS – Podiatric Surgeon After graduating in 1994 from Salford School of Podiatry, Greg worked within the NHS in Derbyshire for over 10 years, establishing a podiatric surgery department to work alongside diabetes, orthopaedic and rheumatology support clinics. After his appointment as a Fellow of the Surgical Faculty of the Society of Chiropodists & Podiatrists and serving on the Education and Examinations Committee, he left Chesterfield Royal Hospital to work at Holywell Healthcare and was appointed as a Consultant to the Ministry of Defence Regional Rehabilitation Unit at Aldershot, Tidworth and ATR Pirbright. He is a co-founder of Talar Made Ltd. and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce. He has recently taken a break from clinical practice to complete his research into the genetic inheritance of foot morphology and has worked with many University research colleagues outside of the clinical environment to achieve this. His particular interest is the multi-disciplinary approach to foot pathology and the incorporation of new evidence based ideas into patient care.
His lecture - The Foot Shape We Inherit & Why Symptoms Occur Will focus on that we are all trained to recognise an ‘abnormal’ foot shape or posture. To do this we assume that there is one ideal foot structure or position and any deviation from it can be measured and used to quantify ‘deformity’. Simply put, Medicine or any Biological Science does not work like this. Normality is always represented by a range of values. This presentation will address key issues to understanding how and why foot symptoms occur by answering the following questions: 1)
How have human feet evolved?
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What key functions must a human foot deliver?
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What do we mean by normal anatomy?
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What are the implications for examination & treatment?
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