{"id":1256,"date":"2019-12-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/?p=1256"},"modified":"2021-01-31T10:18:49","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T00:18:49","slug":"perth-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/perth-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Perth (part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By huge coincidence our dates for visiting Perth and Western Australia coincided with the annual Motor Neuron Disease conference being held in Perth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve learnt such a lot about current research in current practice, cause and treatment of MND: when I return to the UK I&#8217;ll hopefully be able to share lots of interesting information with my fellow AHPs at Airedale NHS Trust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I met some great people during the conference, one doctor lives in Sydney and we&#8217;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On 4\/12\/19 it was the innaugral <a href=\"https:\/\/symposium.mndassociation.org\/global-walk-to-dfeet\/\">Global Walk to D&#8217;Feet MND<\/a>, raising awareness with a sea of MND t-shirts walking 5 Kms along the Swan River! 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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 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/perth-part-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Perth (part 2)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1264,"href":"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions\/1264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samandmartha.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}