British Society of Lifestyle Medicine Webinars
Available to BSLM Members in our monthly series, register for the next upcoming webinar, bringing in two new speakers exploring the evidence-based world with lifestyle medicine
Making sure we stay connected and keep learning, has never been more important. We ensure that, no matter your location, you can still achieve your CPD targets and identify further opportunities to integrate Lifestyle Medicine in to your practice.
As Lifestyle Medicine continuously grows and is integrated into healthcare practices across the globe, we want to offer all our members access to the same learning opportunities, brought to you by our online webinar format. Here at BSLM, members of our community can regularly come together – to share our knowledge and our experiences and to keep the lifestyle medicine conversation going.
Upcoming Webinar:
18th February @ 7PM
Topics:
Antidepressant Withdrawal Effects and How to Safely Deprescribe
Dr Mark Horowitz
Introducing the Virtual Village Hall, a free health and wellbeing resource for Heath & Social Care Professionals
Katherine Pabla, the Royal Voluntary Service , Virtual Village Hall
Speakers:
Dr Mark Horowitz
Dr Mark Horowitz MBBS PhD is Clinical Research Fellow in Psychiatry in North East London NHS Foundation Trust (NELFT), Visiting Lecturer in Psychopharmacology at King’s College London, and a training psychiatrist. He has a PhD from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London in the neurobiology of depression and antidepressant action. He is the lead author of the Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines, which provides the basis for national guidance from the NHS on how to safely stop psychiatric drugs and has been endorsed by the College of General Practice in Australia, and the Pharmacist Society in the UK.
He co-authored the recent Royal College of Psychiatrists’ guidance on ‘Stopping Antidepressants’, and his work informed the recent NICE guidelines on safe tapering of psychiatric medications, including antidepressants, benzodiazepines and z-drugs. He has worked with the NHS to develop national guidance for safe deprescribing for clinicians and has been commissioned by Health Education England to prepare a teaching module on how to safely stop antidepressants for the NHS.
He has written several papers about safe approaches to tapering psychiatric medications including publications in The Lancet Psychiatry, JAMA Psychiatry and Schizophrenia Bulletin. He is an Associate Editor of the journal Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology. He has an interest in rational psychopharmacology and deprescribing psychiatric medication. He has experienced the difficulty of coming off psychiatric medications first hand which has informed much of his work.
Katherine Pabla, the Royal Voluntary Service , Virtual Village Hall
This webinar is only accessible to current BSLM members.
Each session will be an opportunity to explore some of the key Lifestyle Medicine topics. As well as hearing from experts, clinicians, researchers and scientists there will be opportunities for you to ask questions and engage in constructive dialogue.
This page will be updated with future BSLM Webinars as well as a link for you to register.
We welcome your feedback on the webinars as well as suggestions for future topics and speakers. Please get in touch with the BSLM Office if you have any suggestions or would be keen to be a Speaker for one of these events.
Members have the ability to access all previous presentations in the BSLM webinar series.
All BSLM Monthly webinars are recorded and will be available to Members by the 1st of the following month. We really rely on live participation to keep the conversation going and enable rich Q&A so please do try join in person wherever you can. A reminder that BSLM Webinars offer 1hr CPD for appraisal purpose, and those studying towards BSLM Core Accreditation or maintaining previous lifestyle medicine qualifications, receive 5hrs CPD for attending 5 webinars per annum.
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A Guide to Social Prescribing Conference
There will be an emphasis on understanding the evidence base, and through learning from organisations that have succeeded in addressing the challenge of social prescribing for people from economically deprived areas in the country.
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Lifestyle Medicine for Workforce First Study Day
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