Greater Manchester Healthcare Academy collaborated alongside Thornton & Ross, to bring community pharmacies in Greater Manchester education and awareness around Vitamin D and COVID-19.
Over the last few years, it has become clear that a large proportion of the UK population have sub-optimal levels of Vitamin D,
and this has prompted a lot of recent research into the effects of this vitamin on physiological systems other than bone and calcium metabolism.
Featuring Dr Brian Curwain, B.Pharm., Ph.D., F.R.PharmS.
Brian’s long-term interest in public health has led him to study this and to realise that there are many clinical situations in which a patient’s vitamin D status may well be relevant but unrecognised.
Brian Curwain qualified as a pharmacist in 1969. He was awarded his PhD in pharmacology in 1972 for studies carried out in the Department of Physiology, St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School, London.
He then joined the academic staff of St Mary’s (now Imperial College Medical School.) From 1988-99 he was a full-time pharmacist and pharmaceutical consultant, working both with General Medical Practices,
to support prescribing, and as a community pharmacist.
He now works freelance for NHS bodies and the pharmaceutical industry. Brian is the author, or co-author, of fifty papers and abstracts in peer-reviewed journals of physiology and pharmacology.
He has been Chairman of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s English Board.
Agenda
GMHCA Intro
Promotional Product Presentation
Vitamin D and Respiratory Infection
What is Vitamin D?
Patient Groups at Risk of Vitamin D deficiency
Clinical features of Vitamin D deficiency
Vitamin D testing
Recommended Treatment Strategies
Q&A
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