By huge coincidence our dates for visiting Perth and Western Australia coincided with the annual Motor Neuron Disease conference being held in Perth.
I was very excited when I first realised this months ago and booked my ticket to attend. So for 4 days this week I have commuted into the city centre and attended the Allied Health Professions (AHP) day and the main medical and research conference.
I’ve learnt such a lot about current research in current practice, cause and treatment of MND: when I return to the UK I’ll hopefully be able to share lots of interesting information with my fellow AHPs at Airedale NHS Trust.
I was thrilled to see Emily Plowman presenting as I have been following her research and trying to promote it in clinical practice within my West Yorkshire networks.
And it was lovely one lunch time to be able to go out and meet Mike and the kids for a brief play before heading back in!
I met some great people during the conference, one doctor lives in Sydney and we’re hoping to meet up for a walk when we visit there in February! I also bumped into a Consultant Neurologist who I used to work with at Airedale before he emigrated to Australia. He was also at the conference and it was lovely to catch up with him and reminisce! I spent a lot of time at the poster session and through good luck managed to get a personal explanation from Nora who went on to win the Biomedical Poster Prize.
On 4/12/19 it was the innaugral Global Walk to D’Feet MND, raising awareness with a sea of MND t-shirts walking 5 Kms along the Swan River! Martha joined me for the walk and was my special reporter on the spot!
