6th Annual UKIAFT AGM Meeting
Manchester 18th-19th August 2016
MEETING AGENDA
Thursday, August 18th, 2016
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Registration & Coffee with exhibitors |
| 09:30 – 11:30 | Annual General Meeting |
| 11:30 – 11:45 | Coffee Break |
| 11:45 – 12:45 | Drug Driving: A UK update Duncan Harding |
| 12:45 – 13:15 | The impact of reducing the legal alcohol limit for driving on Driver fatalities in Scotland Kirsty Watson |
| 13:15 – 14:00 | Lunch with exhibitors |
| 14:00 – 15:00 | The EU Early Warning System (EWS) and the role of toxicovigilance. Rachel Christie |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Getting Published in Science Hilary Hamnett |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee with exhibitors |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | MDMA (3,4-methylendioxymethamphetaime) or ‘Ecstasy’: a review of its damaging psychobiological effects Andy Parrott |
| 17:00 – 17:30 | Analytically confirmed exposure to novel psychoactive substances in patients presenting to hospital with severe clinical toxicity in Edinburgh. The Identification of Novel PsychoActive substances (IONA) study. Jane Officer |
| 19:30 – 23:30 | CONFERENCE DINNER ETIHAD STADIUM |
Friday, August 19th, 2016
| 08:30 – 09:00 | Registration & Coffee with exhibitors |
| 09:00 – 10:00 | Insulin Deaths Philip Lumb |
| 10:00 – 10:45 | Primer on ADME of Alcohol with Main Focus on Biological Factors that Influence these Processes (Part 1) Wayne Jones |
| 11:00 – 11:15 | Coffee with exhibitors |
| 11:15 – 12:00 | Primer on ADME of Alcohol with Main Focus on Biological Factors that Influence these Processes (Part 2) Wayne Jones |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch with exhibitors |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | The estimation of uncertainty in alcohol calculations John Searle |
| 14:00 – 15:00 | The evidence for acute tolerance to human alcohol intoxication (The Mellanby effect)—a systematic review Robin Ferner |
| 15:00 – 15:15 | Coffee with exhibitors |
| 15:15 – 16:15 | Alcohol Uncertainty Discussion chaired by Mike Scott-Ham |
| 16:15 – 16:30 | Presentation of Poster Prize |
| 16:30 | MEETING CLOSE |
VENUE
The venue is: “Manchester Conference Centre”
REGISTRATION
The registration cost will be: £150 (Normal Rate), £90 (Student Rate)
The registration fee includes admission to all lectures, the manufacturer’s exhibition, posters, light refreshments (morning coffee, buffet sandwich lunch, afternoon tea) and the conference dinner at the Etihad stadium (Mancunian Suite) and Ceilidh (www.triplescotch.com) on Thursday 18th August.
Delegates wishing to bring a partner to the Dinner and Ceilidh may book a ticket for £50 by arrangement in advance with the organizing committee (ukiaft2016@gmail.com).
For any other queries the conference organising committee can be contacted via ukiaft2016@gmail.com