Meetings 2016 to 2017
President: Professor Patrick Morrison CBE, MD, DSc, FRCP, FRCPI, FFPHMI, FRCPCH
October 2016
Thursday 6 October 8.00pm.
North Lecture Theatre, Medical Biology Centre, Lisburn Road, Belfast
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
Medical myths and legends
Professor Patrick Morrison, Consultant in Genetic Medicine
Thursday 20 October 9.00am to 4.00pm. Buffet from 12 noon
Postgraduate Lecture Theatre, Belfast City Hospital, Lisburn Road, Belfast
TRAINEE MEETING
JOINT MEETING WITH NIMDTA AND QUB
Research is Global
Professor Stephen Gordon, Director Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme
November 2016
Thursday 10 November 8.00pm.
Seminar Rooms 5 & 6, Whitla Medical Building, Lisburn Road, Belfast
JOINT MEETING WITH THE ULSTER SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE
THE GARY LOVE LECTURE
Medical Aspects of the Belfast Blitz
Dr Brian Barton, Historian and Author
Thursday 24 November 5.30pm. Buffet from 5.00pm
Postgraduate Lecture Theatre, Belfast City Hospital, Lisburn Road, Belfast
JOINT MEETING WITH THE BELFAST CITY HOSPITAL MEDICAL STAFF
THE 2016 BCH LECTURE
Medicine Between, In, and Frequently Over the Hedges. Thirty years of Pre-hospital Care in Northern Ireland
Dr Fred MacSorley, General Practitioner
December 2016
Thursday 1 December 8.00pm.
North Lecture Theatre, Medical Biology Centre, Lisburn Road, Belfast
THE SIR THOMAS AND LADY EDITH DIXON LECTURE
The Real Things that Happen to Fictional Characters
Professor Alexander McCall Smith, Author and Emeritus Professor of Medical Law, University of Edinburgh
Wednesday 7 December 6.00pm. Buffet from 5.30pm.
Centre for Medical and Dental Education and Training, Altnagelvin Area Hospital
DESMOND WHYTE MEMORIAL LECTURE
Sweeping up the Leaves — New Approaches to Old Diseases
Dr Fiona Stewart, Consultant in Genetic Medicine
January 2017
Thursday 12 January 8.00pm.
Seminar Rooms 5 & 6, Whitla Medical Building, Lisburn Road, Belfast
JOINT MEETING WITH THE ULSTER OBSTETRICAL AND GYNAECOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Realistic Medicine
Dr Catherine Calderwood, Chief Medical Officer, Scotland
Tuesday 17 January 6.00pm. Dinner 7.30pm.
Canada Room, Main Building, Queen's University, Belfast
JOINT MEETING WITH THE NORTHERN IRELAND MEDICO-LEGAL SOCIETY
Somatoform and Factitious Disorders Involving the Limbs
Dr Christopher Bass, Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist, Oxford
February 2017
Thursday 16 February 8.00pm.
Seminar Rooms 5 & 6, Whitla Medical Building, Lisburn Road, Belfast
Ancient Irish Genomics and Human Origins on the Island
Professor Dan Bradley, Professor of Population Genetics, Trinity College, Dublin
Thursday 23 February 8.00pm.
Seminar Rooms 5 & 6, Whitla Medical Building, Lisburn Road, Belfast
THE ROBERT CAMPBELL ORATION
From St Valentine to Easter Island — Neurocutaneous Disorders Through Time
Dr Deirdre Donnelly, Consultant in Genetic Medicine
March 2017
Thursday 9 March 5.30pm. Buffet from 5.00pm
Postgraduate Lecture Theatre, Belfast City Hospital, Lisburn Road, Belfast
JOINT MEETING WITH THE BELFAST CITY HOSPITAL MEDICAL STAFF
THE 2017 BCH LECTURE
The Rise and Fall of Genomic Medicine
Professor Sir John Burn, Professor of Clinical Genetics, Newcastle University, Chair QuantuMDx Ltd
Friday 24 March 7.15 for 8.00pm.
Canada Room and Great Hall, QUB.
ANNUAL PRESIDENTIAL DINNER.
Voices 16: Northern Narratives of the 1916 Rising and the Somme
Dr Éamon Phoenix
May 2017
Thursday 11 May 5.00pm.
Council Room, Whitla Medical Building, Lisburn Road, Belfast
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING.