Celebrating 25 years of the Children’s Headache Clinic at GOSH: Scientific Meeting

Join us to celebrate 25 years of the Children’s Headache Clinic at GOSH.

The clinic is the first dedicated children’s headache clinic in England, opened by the Late Dr Sarah Benton alongside Professor Peter Goadsby in 1999. From serving 20 children a year, the clinic now serves 200 and includes sub-specialist clinics for Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension, Chiari Malformation, Trigeminal Neuralgia and Facial Pain, Neuromodulation including Greater Occipital Nerve Blocks and a transition clinic with Kings-GSTT.

Scientific meeting:

In this meeting, GOSH colleagues past and present will explore the latest advances in the treatment of children with headaches and migraines. Professor Goadsby will open the occasion with the 1^st Dr Sarah Benton Memorial Lecture on Childhood Headaches, with a keynote on Understanding Migraine and Its New Therapies. Other sessions include Recent advances in Visual Snow Syndrome, Lessons from the IIH/Neuro-ophthalmology Clinic, Psychological care in headaches, Chiari Malformation and Headaches in Children and more. For those able to attend in person, a celebratory occasion will take place during the lunchtime for meeting attendees, young people and their families, and GOSH colleagues who have contributed to the service over the years.

Learning objectives: 

• To explore the latest advances in the specialism
• To gain an understanding of the unique multidisciplinary model of the clinic, and the effectiveness of the MDT approach in headache care

Who should attend?

• Doctors, nurses and the MDT who specialise in (or have an interest in) paediatric neurology

Programme:

• The programme is here: https://courses.gosh.org/img/23816/images/Scientific Meeting Programme.pdf

Pricing:

• Face-to-Face Ticket – Consultants: £75
• Face-to-Face Ticket – Nurses, Junior Doctors and other members of the MDT: £50
• Virtual Ticket – Consultants: £50
• Virtual Ticket – Nurses, Junior Doctors and other members of the MDT: £30
• Virtual Ticket – GOSH staff: Free (please register using your GOSH email address)

Face-to-face tickets include lunch and refreshments

Please email events.gla@gosh.nhs.uk if you need to pay via invoice through your Trust/organisation.

GOSH staff wishing to attend face-to-face can either a) pay via debit/credit card (if they plan to self-fund their ticket) or b) apply through the Study Leave Fund or departmental funds (where applicable). Those applying via route b do not need to complete the registration form on this page. Please submit your study leave funding application and when approved the GLA Events Management Team will manually register you for the course. Please email events.gla@gosh.nhs.uk if you require assistance.

Recording:

Please note that this event will be recorded (subject to speakers’ consent), with the recording shared with delegates for a short period (up to three months) post-event.

Registration:

• Registration for face-to-face tickets will close on Monday 18 November, 9am
• Registration for virtual tickets will close on Saturday 23 November, 8am

Interactive Headache Day:

This celebratory event also includes an Interactive Headache Day for young people and their families. Details about this day can be found here: https://courses.gosh.org/event/interactive-headache-day

Find out more and book.