Meetings 2018 to 2019
President: Dr RG Peter Watson BSc, MD, FRCP, FaoME
October 2018
Thursday 4 October. 8.00pm
Postgraduate Lecture Theatre, Belfast City Hospital
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
What is a Physician?
Dr Peter Watson
Thursday 18 November. 8.00pm
Postgraduate Lecture Theatre, Belfast City Hospital
The relevance of rheumatic and romantic heart disease for a global physician
Dr Neil Kennedy, QUB
November 2018
Thursday 2 November. 9.00am to 4.00pm
Postgraduate Lecture Theatre, Belfast City Hospital
UMS/QUB/NIMDTA TRAINEE RESEARCH DAY
The Lights came on
Miss Lorna Marson, Edinburgh
Wednesday 14 November. 6pm (Buffet 5pm)
Postgraduate Lecture Theatre, Belfast City Hospital
JOINT MEETING UMS WITH BCH
Functional neurological conditions
Dr Jon Stone, Edinburgh
Wednesday 29 November. 6pm (Buffet 5pm)
Altnagelvin Postgraduate Centre
THE DESMOND WHYTE LECTURE
A Golden Age and the Floating Man: Avicenna and the Canon of Medicine
Professor Barry Kelly, Belfast
December 2018
Thursday 13 December. 8.00pm
Postgraduate Lecture Theatre, Belfast City Hospital
THE GARY LOVE LECTURE
JOINT MEETING WITH THE ULSTER SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE
History of being a medical student in Ireland
Dr Laura Kelly, Strathclyde
January 2019
Thursday 10 January. 8.00pm
Postgraduate Lecture Theatre, Belfast City Hospital
Concussion: the issues
Dr Colin Doherty, Trinity College Dublin
Thursday 24 January. 8.00pm
Postgraduate Lecture Theatre, Belfast City Hospital
JOINT MEETING WITH THE ULSTER OBSTETRICAL AND GYNAECOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Controversies in the management of Endometriosis
Professor Gary Frishman, USA
February 2019
Thursday 7 February. 8pm
Postgraduate Lecture Theatre, Belfast City Hospital
THE ROBERT CAMPBELL ORATION
Learning to practise amidst uncertainty
Professor Tim Dornan, QUB
Thursday 21 February. 8.00pm
Postgraduate Lecture Theatre, Belfast City Hospital
SIR THOMAS AND LADY EDITH DIXON LECTURE
Cystic fibrosis; bugs drugs and channels
Prof Stuart Elborn, Imperial College London
March 2019
Thursday 7 March. 6pm (Buffet 5pm)
Postgraduate Lecture Theatre, Belfast City Hospital
JOINT MEETING WITH THE ULSTER SOCIETY OF GASTROENTEROLOGY
Non-technical aspects of medical practice
Mr Simon Paterson-Brown, Edinburgh
Thursday 21 March. 8pm.
Postgraduate Lecture Theatre, Belfast City Hospital
Global Food Integrity
Professor Chris Elliott, QUB
April 2019
Friday 12 April. 8.00pm
Great Hall, Queen's University of Belfast.
ANNUAL PRESIDENTIAL DINNER.
May 2019
Thursday 9 May. 5pm.
UMS Rooms, Whitla Medical Building
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING.