Meetings 1998 to 1999
President: Professor Randal Hayes
October 1998
Thursday 15 OctoberSouth Lecture Theatre, MBC
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
Dr. William Drennan—His Medical Life
Professor Randal Hayes
Belfast City Hospital
Thursday 22th OctoberUlster Medical Society Rooms
JOINT MEETING WITH THE MEDICAL STAFF, ALTNAGELVIN HOSPITAL
Pharmaco-economics: Know the Price of Everything And the Value of Nothing
Professor John Feely
Trinity College, Dublin
Thursday 29 OctoberUlster Medical Society Rooms
Obesity—Is it in my Brain?
Professor Gareth Williams
University of Liverpool
November 1998
Thursday 12th NovemberUlster Medical Society Rooms
Health and Health Care: The Value of a European Dimension
Professor Martin McKee
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Thursday 26 NovemberUlster Medical Society Rooms
JOINT MEETING WITH THE ULSTER PAEDIATRIC SOCIETY—THE ROBERT CAMPBELL ORATION
Adolescent Medicine—Lessons from Diabetes
Professor Ray Newton
University of Dundee
December 1998
Thursday 10 DecemberSouth Lecture Theatre, Medical Biology Centre
JOINT MEETING WITH THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF GENERAL PRACTITIONERS
Annual Clinical Pathological Conference
January 1999
Thursday 7 JanuaryUlster Medical Society Rooms
JOINT MEETING WITH THE ULSTER OBSTETRICAL AND GYNAECOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Liver Disease in Pregnancy
Dr Michael de Swiet
Imperial College London
Thursday 21 JanuaryUlster Medical Society Rooms
The potential role of the platelet in tumour angiogenesis
Professor Bob Pinedo
Free University of Amsterdam
February 1999
Thursday 4 FebruaryUlster Medical Society Rooms
JOINT MEETING WITH THE ULSTER NEUROPSYCHIATRIC SOCIETY
The Assessment and Treatment of Coma and the Management of the Vegetative State
Dr. David Bates
University of Newcastle
Thursday 18 FebruaryUlster Medical Society Rooms
JUNIOR MEMBERS FORUM
Chronic Cough
Dr. Lorcan McGarvey
Psychiatric Services
Dr. Peter Trimble
Male Infertility
Dr. Kristine Steele
March 1999
Thursday 4 MarchUlster Medical Society Rooms
THE SIR THOMAS AND LADY EDITH DIXON LECTURE
A history of the Management of Diabetes
Professor Robert Tattersall
University of Nottingham
Thursday 18 MarchUlster Medical Society Rooms
Elderly Care towards 2000
Professor Robert Stout
Queen’s University of Belfast
May 1999
MayUlster Medical Society Rooms
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING