The FASD Trust,Medical Notes

Medical and Healthcare Professionals

Annual Conference
of The FASD Trust UK Medical & Healthcare Professionals Forum
22nd March 2013 in Oxford - POSTPONED

[Due to unforeseen circumstances, the conference had to be postponed at short notice. We apologize for any inconvenience caused. We will advise you when a re-arranged date - likely to be in September 2013 - has been confirmed.]

Welcome to The FASD Trust home page for Medical and Healthcare Professionals. This page and its subpages contain useful information and links (to the Medical and Healthcare Professionals Forum in particular – see below) for those engaged professionally in addressing FASD-related issues in medical or healthcare capacities. The primary focus is on addressing those issues in the UK but overseas professionals are very welcome to share their experience and knowledge too.

[Parents and Carers: For information on how to obtain a diagnosis and medical support for your child, please visit you home page on this website by clicking For Parents and Carers.]

The FASD Trust runs the UK Medical and Healthcare Professionals FASD Forum. The mandate of the Forum is to raise awareness and share medical research and experience with regards to the prevention, diagnosis and management of FASD. [To join the Forum, or to view a copy of our latest membership form, click here.]

The Forum already has over 50 members from a diverse range of medical and healthcare professions, including CAMHS, paediatrics, educational psychology and psychiatry. It is led by a National Steering Committee; the list of current Committee members can be viewed by clicking here.

To support those in the community suffering the effects of FASD, it is crucial that the British medical profession becomes more informed about the multi-faceted nature of this condition. A key aim of the Forum is to ‘educate’ medical professionals about FASD so that we can improve the care offered to patients'. Additionally, we believe that is only through collaboration between the medical world and the community at large that we can hope to reverse the worrying trends of FASD case-prevalence in this country.

A series of Local Study Days across the country have been organised and will feature Forum members sharing their knowledge of FASD with their colleagues, in the hope of fostering a more united medical community. For a full list of dates and locations, visit our News & Events page and our Events Calendar.

To support the Forum members, a new online facility has been launched to enable members to share research about FASD and discuss sensitive cases in a secure setting. In this way, The FASD Trust hopes to become a leading body for the pooling of medical knowledge on FASD, which can then be shared with relevant partners.

In addition, the online forum offers links to the latest international FASD news and research studies, which can hopefully stimulate similar action in the UK. (To access our online forum click here – N.B. this forum is open to members only, so you must register first using the above membership registration form)

The lack of research in the UK on FASD is alarming, yet several of our members have begun to embark on their own professional studies which will help to publicise the intimacies of FASD to both the medical and healthcare professions and to the wider public. [We will shortly be adding a link here pointing to our members’ latest research.]

For a healthcare professional's guide to FASD from the British Medical Association, click on the following link:http://www.bma.org.uk/images/FetalAlcoholSpectrumDisorders_tcm41-158035.pdf)

Dr Raja Mukherjee, member of the Forum Steering Committee and Clinic Lead at the NationalFASD Clinicis always willing to speak to fellow clinicians regarding specific cases. His contact details and that for the National Clinic can be found by clicking here.