RCPI Person Centred Care Conference

29 January 2020

Venue:  RCPI, Kildare Street, Dublin 2

Time:    10am - 3.30pm

CPD:     6 points

This is a masterclass in person-centred care, open to all healthcare workers. Person-centred care is a way of thinking and doing things that sees the people using health and social services as equal partners in planning, developing and monitoring care to make sure it meets their needs.

Key Speaker: Dr Victor Montori, a professor of medicine, a highly cited researcher, and a diabetes doctor at Mayo Clinic (U.S.)

In 2016, Victor co-founded The Patient Revolution, a non-profit organisation to translate into action the ideas proposed in his book Why We Revolt. 

In his keynote lecture on 29 January in RCPI, Victor will explore what may be necessary to respond sensibly and effectively to the problematic situation of patients living with a number of chronic conditions.

• Keynote speaker: Dr Victor Montori, Consultant Endocrinologist at the Mayo Clinic, author of Why We Revolt and co-founder of non-profit The Patient Revolution
• Other speakers include: Dr Eilish Burke, Dr Derek O’Keeffe, Dr Austin O’Carroll, Dr Mark Davies, Prof Tony O’Brien, Dr Joan Cunningham, Prof Sean Dinneen, Prof Siobhan Kennelly and Prof Andrew Murphy
• Topics covered include: The distinction between illness and disease, the older person in person centred care, the Irish experience of Schwartz rounds, The Patient Effect documentary, med tech and more

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