Meetings 2007 to 2008
President: Dr John White, MB FRCGP
Changes and Challenges
October 2007
Thursday 11 October 8.00 pm.North Lecture Theatre, MBC—Buffet UMS Rooms 6.30pm
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
Infection from Famine to Feast
Dr John White
MB FRCGP
General Practitioner, Dunmurry
Thursday 25 October 8.00pm.Ulster Medical Society Rooms
The Radiology of Civil Unrest
Dr PK Ellis
MB BCh MRCP FRCR FFRCSI
Clinical Director of Radiology, Belfast H&SCT
November 2007
Thursday 8 November 8.00pm.—Buffet UMS Rooms 6.30pm
North Lecture Theatre, MBC
Aids in Africa
Mrs Jean Garland
SRN SCM
Aids Educator and Nurse/Counsellor, Jos, Nigeria
Thursday 22 November 8.00pm.—Buffet UMS Rooms 6.30pm
North Lecture Theatre, MBC
JUNIOR MEMBERS FORUM
December 2007
Thursday 7 December 7.45pm.Beech Hill Country House Hotel
THE DESMOND WHYTE LECTURE
Modern Medicine—The Impact on Postgraduate Medical Education
Dr Malcolm Lewis
FRCGP
Director of Postgraduate GP Education, University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff
January 2008
Thursday 10 January 8.00pm.Ulster Medical Society Rooms
Only general practice can save the NHS
Dr Iona Heath
FRCGP
General Practitioner, Kentish Town, London
Thursday 24 January 8.00pm.Ulster Medical Society Rooms
Can we trust the profession?
Dr Chitra Bharucha
MB BS FRCPath FRSA
Vice-Chairman BBC Trust
February 2008
Thursday 7 February 8.00pm.Ulster Medical Society Rooms
JOINT MEETING WITH THE ULSTER SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE
THE GARY LOVE LECTURE
Why B.A.O.?
Professor William Thompson
BSc MD FRCOG
Thursday 21 February 8.00pm.Ulster Medical Society Rooms
JOINT MEETING WITH THE ULSTER OBSTETRICAL AND GYNAECOLOGICAL SOCIETY
President: Professor James Dornan
Forty Years of Hard Labour
Dame Lorna Muirhead
Past President of The Royal College of Midwives
Friday 29 February 7.15 for 8.00pm.Great Hall, QUB.
Annual Presidential Dinner.
March 2008
Thursday 13 March. Afternoon Session TBA Evening Session 8.00pm.Ulster Medical Society Rooms.
SYMPOSIUM IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE NORTHERN IRELAND FORUM FOR ETHICS IN MEDICINE
The Ethics of Organ Donation and Transplantation
Speakers to include:
Professor Sir Roy Calne, Emeritus Professor of Surgery at Cambridge
Professor John Harris, Professor of Bioethics at Manchester University and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Medical Ethics
April 2008
Thursday 3 April 8.00pm.Ulster Medical Society Rooms.
The Scientific Basis for Frozen Shoulder
Mr Tim Bunker,
MB MCh FRCS
Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Exeter. Past President British Elbow and Shoulder Society
May 2009
Thursday 15 May 2.00pm.
ANNUAL GOLF COMPETITION for the Victory Challenge Cup
Thursday 22 May 5pm.Ulster Medical Society Rooms
Annual General Meeting