Wednesday 9 March 2011

Professor Philip Cowen Professor of Psychopharmacology, Oxford

"Serotonin depression and antidepressants. Pathophysiological mechanism or marketing myth?

Wednesday 13 April 2011

Professor Hugh Coakham Emeritus Professor of Neurosurgery University of Bristol

Definitive management of facial pain and twitches

Wednesday 11 May 2011

Dr Paul Aylard Litfield House

Psychopathology of large British Institutions

Wednesday 8 June 2011

Professor Stafford Lightman

Open Afternoon/Evening at the Dorothy Hodgkin Building

Wednesday 13th July 2011
Joint Summer party and exhibition hosted by UWE: Creative Arts in Health and Medicine

136 ^th Session Programme : 2009 - 2010

President : Dr Kim Hearn

Wednesday 7 October 2009

Stroke in Bristol: who cares?

NB: This meeting will be held at the Bristol Aerospace Welfare Association (BAWA)

Wednesday 14 October 2009

Annual General Meeting

Presidential Address

Dr Kim Hearn

GP, Montpelier Health Centre, Bristol

‘Just a minute – of your time……?’

Wednesday 11 November 2009

Long Fox Memorial Lecture

Professor Chris Salisbury

Professor of Primary Health Care, University of Bristol

Wednesday 9 December 2009

Professor Nichola Rumsey

Health psychologist and co-director, Centre for appearance research, Department of Psychology, University of West of England, Bristol

‘I don’t like the way I look: psychological consequences of Appearance Concerns’

Wednesday 13 January 2010

Primary Care Children’s safeguarding Forum, RCGP

Wednesday 10 February 2010

Student presentations for the John Farndon Elective Prize

Wednesday 10 March 210

International Medicine

Wednesday 14 April 2010

Literature and Learning

Wednesday 12 May 2010

Summer meeting visit to be confirmed

135 ^th Session Programme : 2008 – 2009 : 2020 Vision

President : Dr Peter Lunt

Wednesday 8 October 2008

Annual General Meeting

Presidential Address

Dr Peter Lunt

Consultant Clinical Geneticist , St.Michaels Hospital, Bristol

2020 vision : A penny for a gene ? - Answering the ‘why?’, ‘who?’, ‘how?’ and ‘when?’ for genetic disorders.

Wednesday 12 November 2008

Long Fox Memorial Lecture

Professor Steven Gill

Consultant Neurosurgeon, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol

2020 vision : Reversing the irreversible ? – locally targeted treatment for brain disorders

Wednesday 10 December 2008

Professor Gareth Williams

Consultant in Diabetes & Metabolism, Southmead Hospital, Bristol and recent Dean, Bristol University Medical School.

2020 vision : Obesity – a weighty problem, or evolution in progress ?

Wednesday 14 January 2009

Professor Ron Zimmern

Director, Foundation for Genomics and Population Health, Cambridge

2020 vision : Predictive genomic testing – a radical change in practice or information overload ?

Wednesday 11 February 2009

Student presentations for the John Farndon Elective Prize

Wednesday 11 March 2009

Professor Hugh Watkins

Field Marshal Alexander Haig Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Oxford University

2020 vision : Can sudden cardiac death in young adults become history ?

Wednesday 8 April 2009

Professor Julian Davis

Professor of Medicine & Endocrinology, University of Manchester (Manchester Royal Infirmary).

2020 vision : Lighting up endocrine glands – gene dynamics in health and disease - can we control the on-off switch ?

Wednesday 13 May 2009

Mr Tim Overton

Consultant Senior Lecturer in Fetal Medicine & Obstetrics, St Michaels Hospital, Bristol

2020 vision : Expecting the unexpected ?

Wednesday 10 October 2007 134th Session

Annual General Meeting

Presidential Address

Dr Roddy Hughes

Former GP Principal, Associate Medical Postgraduate Dean

and Regional Adviser in General Practice

University of Bristol

'Titans of Bristol Medicine'

Wednesday 14 November 2007

Long Fox Memorial Lecture

Professor Richard Hobbs

Professor of Primary Care and General Practice

University of Birmingham

'Saving Lives by Preventing Cardiovascular Disease'

Wednesday 12 December 2007

Dr Stuart Glover

Consultant Physician Southmead Hospital Bristol

'Saving the Lives of HIV Positive Patients'

Wednesday 9 January 2008

Professor James Owen Drife

Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

University of Leeds

'Saving Lives in Pregnancy and Childbirth'

Wednesday 13 February 2008

Student Presentations for the John Farndon Elective Prize

Late February/date to be confirmed

Symposium on Out of Hours and Emergency Care in Bristol

Wednesday 12 March 2008

Professor Neil Scolding

Burden Professor of Clinical Neurosciences

University of Bristol

Dr Kathleen Gillespie

Senior Lecturer in Diabetes and Metabolism

University of Bristol

Dr Raimondo Ascione

Director Adult Stem Cell Clinical Programme

Bristol Heart Institute

'Saving Future Lives Through Stem Cell Research'

Wednesday 9 April 2008

Dr Eugene Lloyd

Lecturer in Physiology University of Bristol

'Learning to Save Lives with Human Patient Simulators'

Venue: School of Medical Sciences

Teaching Laboratories

Wednesday 14 May 2008

Joint Meeting with the Bristol Branch of the BMA

Dr Hamish Meldrum

General Practitioner and Chairman of BMA Council

'Current Issues in the NHS'

Bristol Medico–Chirurgical Society

133^rd Session

Programme 2006 – 2007

2006

October 11^th Presidential address: Managerialism and Medicine

Followed by open discussion on future directions for Bristol Med-Chi.

Gareth Greenslade—consultant in pain medicine and anaesthesia at North Bristol NHS Trust’s Frenchay Hospital. Qualifying from Guy’s & St Thomas’s in 1985, I joined the Royal Naval Medical Branch after house jobs in the Guy’s group and saw active service during the tanker war and then the first Gulf war, after which I came to Bristol and held a mix of NHS and University posts, before being appointed to my current post at Frenchay Hospital. MBA studies, showed me the legacy that had been thrown away by the introduction of so-called professional management in the NHS and the completely different ways in which successful knowledge-based corporations are run.

The theme for this 2006–2007 programme is “Doctors under pressure”. Fuller details about each speaker will come out with the flyers for each talk. Please use this programme card to clear the dates in your diary, for a lively season of talks.

November 8^th The Long Fox Lecture: Professor Andrew Wolf.

Professor Wolf is Professor of Anaesthesia at the Sir Humphry Davy Department of Anaesthesia in Bristol. His anaesthetic practice is centred on high-risk paediatric cardiac surgical patients from neonates upwards. Find out about the pressures of undertaking this practice in Bristol in 2006 and the excellent results that are being achieved.

December 13^th Dr David Lockey

Dr Lockey’s day job is that of consultant in intensive care medicine and anaesthesia at Frenchay Hospital, but we are going to hear about his activities in London, where he is one of the senior consultants to the Royal London Hospital’s pre-hospital emergency medical service. He has first-hand insights into the July 7^thbombings and many other facets of the Capital’s problems with gun and knife crime and the odd simple accident here and there…. Not a lecture for the faint-hearted.

2007

January 10^th Professor Allyson Pollock (Joint meeting with the Bristol branch of the BMA)

Professor Pollock needs no introduction. Currently setting up the University of Edinburgh’s new Centre for International Public Health Policy, Allyson has a sharp perspective on what is happening in the world’s health services and is a leading authority on the overall impact of the private finance initiative.

February 14^th Student presentations for the John Farndon Elective Prize

These easy-listening travelogues, usually with interesting pictures, are ideal for St Valentine’s Day. Bring your loved one with you for dinner and a series of lively presentations from the future members of our profession!

March 14^th Professor David Southall

David Southall is a children’s champion. He is Honorary Medical Director for Child Advocacy International. Come and hear about the pressures that he has experienced and will continue to experience and why he is prepared to be under pressure. Inspirational!

April 11^th Manslaughter, triple jeopardy and how it might be survived

The lecturer’s name for this meeting will not be published until nearer the time, because he is still the subject of legal proceedings. Imagine yourself as a highly respected teaching hospital consultant who is everybody’s first choice as a valued second opinion. A young patient dies around the time that you have been called to assist for the first time, when your involvement has totalled a few minutes—far too late for you to have helped. Now imagine the nightmare of being identified by the police as the most senior person in the room, being arrested and charged with manslaughter, being suspended by the Trust, reported to the GMC and put in front of the Coroner. Come and hear one doctor’s story and offer your support.

May 9^th Doctors under pressure—Hyperbaric tales from Dr Philip Bryson of the Diving Diseases Research Centre, Plymouth

Phil Bryson has a wealth of experience in hyperbaric and diving medicine. When inside a hyperbaric chamber he is, literally, a doctor under pressure…..

(There will be a chance to investigate the effects of pressure on gas bubbles in wine during the reception before this talk!)

Bristol Medico Chirurgical Society

132^nd Session

Programme

2005 – 2006

President

Sir Alexander Macara

Hon. Secretary

Dr Alex MacDonald

Hon. Treasurer

Dr Joan Paterson

2005

October 12^th Presidential address; Narratives and Medicine: “Public Health – Sense and Nonsense”

Sir Alexander Macara is currently Chairman of the National Heart Forum, a member of the Department of Health's Task Forces on Coronary Heart Disease and Prevention and Inequalities, and spokesman on public health issues for the CPME (Committee of Doctors in Europe) of which he has been a member since 1980. He is a governor of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

In 1997 he retired from the Department of Social Medicine of the University of Bristol where he was also Director of a WHO Collaborative Centre in Environmental Health, Public Health Physician to the SW Regional Health Authority and the Avon Health Authority and visiting Consultant to the Bristol Royal Infirmary. He served for 10 years as the University Representative on the Gloucester Health Authority. He served as an elected member of the General Medical Council from 1979 to 2002, Treasurer of the Faculty of Public Health from 1979 to 1984, and Chairman of the Council of the British Medical Association from 1993 to 1998, having previously chaired its Public Health Conference, Medical Ethics Committee and Representative Body. He was Chairman of the Public Health Medicine Consultative Committee from 1998 to 2004, and honorary Visiting Professor in Health Studies, University of York from 1998 to 2002. He has chaired the Health Policy Forum of the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) and a wide range of other committees for the Department of Health, various professional bodies and NGOs.

Extensive international experience includes work as a consultant and adviser to the World Health Organisation since 1970; Secretary-General of the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER) 1975 to 1989, and the establishment of the World Federation for Education and Research in Public Health in 1998. He was President of the European Forum of Medical Associations in 1994. Dr Macara has been a frequent Visiting Professor and External Examiner at home and throughout the world. He has given numerous named lectures and is a Trustee of over 20 national and local charities. He has received many honorary doctorates and awards for services to medicine and public health.

November 9^th Long Fox Lecture: Rt. Hon Frank Dobson MP

Frank was born in 1940 and grew up near York. He was educated at Archbishop Holgate Grammar school, York and the London School of Economics. He worked for 12 years for the Central Electricity Generating Board and the Electricity Council. From 1975 he served as an Assistant Secretary in the Local Ombudsman's Office. He joined the Labour Party in 1958 and before becoming an MP was a Camden Borough Councillor from 1971-76 and Leader of the Council from 1973-75.

He was Opposition Spokesperson on Education from 1981-83, Shadow Health Minister from 1983-87, Shadow Leader of the House and Campaigns Co-ordinator from 1987-89, Shadow Energy Secretary from 1989-92, Shadow Employment Secretary from 1992-93, Shadow Transport Secretary from 1993-94, Shadow Environment Secretary from 1994 until May 1997 and Shadow Minister for London from October 1993 to May 1997. He was Secretary of State for Health from May 1997 until October 1999 when he resigned his Cabinet position to seek the Labour Party nomination to become Mayor for London.

Frank includes walking, the theatre and watching cricket and football as his main leisure pursuits and the problems of central London, transport, energy, South Africa, children’s play, redistribution of wealth and getting a better deal for individuals as his special political interests. He is married with three children.

This was cancelled and Dr Alexander MacDonald lectured.

December 14^th Professor Allyson Pollock

Professor Allyson Pollock is Head of the Public Health Policy Unit at UCL (University College London) and Director of Research & Development at UCL Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. She is Visiting Professor at the University of Edinburgh where she will be setting up the new Centre for International Public Health Policy. She trained in medicine and public health. Her research interests include the funding, organisation, and delivery of health care, inequalities in health and globalisation, including the impact of the WTO and GATS on health and other public services.

She is a leading authority on the private finance initiative and the implications of market mechanisms and privatisation for public services. She has an international profile in public health and has made numerous interventions to the policy debate. Her unit has given evidence to the Health, Transport, and Treasury Select Committees of the House of Commons, and to the Finance Committee of the Scottish Parliament. She has been invited to speak on all these issues in countries as diverse as Spain, France, Hungary, Sweden, Canada, the US, Cuba, Taiwan, Indonesia, South Africa, and Australia.

Among her many other activities she is chair of the NHS Consultants’ Association, and was chair of the Society for Social Medicine in 2003. She was specialist advisor to House of Commons Health Select Committee, 1998-2001. Her book NHS plc: the privatisation of our health care was published in 2004 by Verso. She is currently working on a textbook to be published in autumn 2005 by Routledge, The New NHS explained. Her other recent publications can be found at: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/phpu

This was postponed and Jonathan Musgrave lectured.

2006

January 11^th Dr Richard Horton - "Doctors: the new enemies of the State?"

Richard Horton qualified in medicine from the University of Birmingham in 1986. He completed his general medical training in Birmingham before moving to the liver unit at the Royal Free Hospital. In 1990, he joined The Lancet as an assistant editor and moved to New York as North American editor in 1993. Two years later he returned to the UK to become Editor-in-Chief. He was the first President of the World Association of Medical Editors, and is presently a member of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. He is an honorary professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and a Founder Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. A book about controversies in modern medicine, Second Opinion, was published in 2003. He is married with a 4-year old daughter, and lives in London.

February 8^th Dr Tom Stuttaford

Dr Thomas Stuttaford is best known as The Times medical columnist. Born in 1931, he was brought up in rural Norfolk where his father and grandfather had been general practitioners. He joined the family practice in 1959 after national service with the Tenth Royal Hussars and medical training at Oxford and in London. From 1970-1974 Dr Stuttaford was Conservative MP for Norwich South, during which time he continued to work as a doctor. Between 1974 and 1995 he worked in the National Health Service as a genito urinary physician, and in private practice as medical advisor to several major companies. Dr Stuttaford has been writing for The Times for twenty three years. He also writes regularly for various magazines, in the past was medical correspondent of Options and Elle and currently is the medical columnist of Oldie. He is a frequent broadcaster.

February 22^nd – Student Presentations for the John Farndon Elective Prize

March 8^th Lord Walton of Detchant - “50 years in Neurology – A Retrospective”

John Walton (Lord Walton of Detchant) qualified in the Newcastle Medical School of the University of Durham in 1945 with first class honours. He was formerly consultant neurologist to the Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals, Professor of Neurology in the University, and from 1971-81 Dean of Medicine. From 1983-89 he was Warden of Green College, Oxford. He became a Knight Bachelor in 1979 and was awarded a Life Peerage as Lord Walton of Detchant in 1989. He was President of the British Medical Association from 1980-82, of the Royal Society of Medicine from 1984-86, of the General Medical Council from 1982-89, and of the World Federation of Neurology from 1989-97. He chaired the House of Lords Select Committee on Medical Ethics and was for 10 years a member of its Select Committee on Science and Technology.

April 12^th Dr Michael Wilks - (When Doctor’s Torture

Michael Wilks worked as a GP in West London from 1977 to 1992. He then specialised in Forensic Medicine, and is now a Senior Forensic Medical Examiner (that’s a police surgeon!) in the Metropolitan Police. Michael has been a member of the BMA’s Medical Ethics Committee since 1994, and was appointed its chairman in 1997. Recent work has included organ donation, organ retention, consent issues in children, human rights, stem cell research and end of life treatment. Michael is a member of the Patient Information Advisory Group, set up under the Health and Social Care Act 2001, and was a member of the Lord Chancellor’s advisory group on the Freedom of Information Act. Most recently he has assisted with the drafting of the Codes of Practice for the Human Tissue Act.

May 10^th Professor Martin Mckee “Health effects of the collapse of the USSR”

Martin McKee is Professor of European Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a research director in the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies (a partnership of universities, international agencies and governments). He graduated in medicine from Belfast in 1979, subsequently training in medicine and public health. His research has focused on the health effects of the political transition in central and eastern Europe and he has published 21 books and almost 350 papers in scientific journals. He has honorary doctorates from Hungary and the Netherlands and was awarded the 2003 Andrija Stampar medal for contributions to European public health. In 2005 he was awarded a CBE for services to health care. NB: Venue – Bristol Zoo Conference Centre

All meetings are held at the Kingsdown Conference Centre, School of Veterinary Science, except May 10^th2006

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