Wednesday 24th March 2021 12.00-15.00 ON-LINE BOOK HERE
The sixth Adam Bojelian Memorial Talk ‘Equal Outcomes For All Disabled Children?‘ will be given on 24th March 2021 by paediatric neuro-disability specialist Dr Karen Horridge. It will be chaired by Rob Webster CEO of South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Lead for West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership.
Due to COVID-19 this event will be on-line via zoom, but as with all AdsTalks there will still be plenty of opportunities to join in the discussion and chat with other delegates. The event is free but advanced booking is essential. ON-LINE BOOK HERE
Dr Karen Horridge is a disability paediatrician in South Tyneside and Sunderland with over 36 years of NHS clinical experience.
Current additional roles include:
- Chair, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Informatics for Quality Committee, working towards harmonisation of terminologies to underpin robust data collection at the point of care, to make each and every need of all children visible.
- Co-Director, Paediatric Disability Distance Learning Courses, Sheffield Children’s Hospital, aspiring to educate the workforce to achieve better and more equal outcomes for disabled children and young people.
- Clinical lead, www.disabilitymatters.org.uk and www.learningdisabilitymatters.co.uk both free resources, co-produced with disabled children, parent carers and other experts, aimed to support those who may work or volunteer with disabled children and young people to reflect on their attitudes and be more confident with reasonable adjustments to achieve better outcomes.
- Associate editor, Trustee and Board Director, Mac Keith Press, which produces the journal Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology and red book series, both to improve the evidence-base for healthcare for disabled children and young people.
- Previous roles have included chairing the British Academy of Childhood Disability and leading on the neurodisability training programme for paediatricians training to care for disabled children and young people.
- Research active, with >50 peer-reviewed publications.
EVENT TIMETABLE
12.00-12.30:
The opportunity to meet and chat with other delegates in zoom breakout rooms.
12.30-13.30:
Dr Karen Horridge’s AdsTalk : ‘Equal Outcomes For All Disabled Children?’
13.30-14.30:
Questions and discussion of issues raised chaired by Rob Webster.
14.30-15.00:
Another opportunity to chat with other delegates in zoom breakout rooms
