Lab4Living supporting #MyDignityMeans – A patient-led event

My Dignity Means: A Patient-led Event

2 June 2015, 10am – 4pm

Millennium Gallery, Sheffield, UK

#MyDignityMeans

Free to attend

Patient and Carer travel expenses will be reimbursed

Apply for a place by 19 May: www.mydignitymeans.eventbrite.com

Lab4Living is supporting this unique patient-led event. Come and listen to patient experiences, and contribute to discussions around device design, dignity and the patient voice. The host will be broadcaster and writer Vivienne Parry OBE.

Morning session

Topics will include patient experiences, collaborative working and device design

Speakers will include:

 

  • Professor Wendy Tindale OBE
  • Kate Allatt, Extraordinary Woman of the Year 2011
  • Andy Reid, Millie Award for Overcoming Adversity 2010

Afternoon session

Topics will include feedback from our Independence and Dignity Survey and discussions around our technology portfolio, including Key Opinion Leaders

  • Professor Chris Chapple, Consultant Urologist and Secretary General to the European Association of Urology
  • Professor Mark Hawley, Consultant Clinical Scientist and Director of the Centre for Assistive Technology and Connected Healthcare (CATCH)
  • Dr Sandip Mitra, Consultant Nephrologist and Leader of the largest home haemodialysis programme in Europe
  • Dr Rory O’Connor, Associate Clinical Professor in Rehabilitation Medicine