Meetings 2019 to 2020

President:   Professor Mary Frances McMullin MD, FRCP, FRCPath, PGCHET

Diagnostics in the Future

October 2019

Thursday 3 October at 8pm.
Postgraduate Lecture Theatre, Belfast City Hospital, Lisburn Road, Belfast
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
Diagnostics in the Future
Prof Mary F McMullin
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Thursday 17 October from 9am to 4pm.
Postgraduate Lecture Theatre, Belfast City Hospital, Lisburn Road, Belfast
JOINT MEETING WITH NIMDTA AND QUB
Trainee Research Day
Guest lecture 11.10am
The patient voice in collaborative academic research
Prof Fionnuala Ní Áinle, Dublin
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November 2019

Thursday 7 November at 8pm.
Postgraduate Lecture Theatre, Belfast City Hospital, Lisburn Road, Belfast
THE ROBERT CAMPBELL ORATION
Advanced therapeutics for the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)
Prof Cecilia O'Kane, QUB
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Thursday 14 November at 8pm.
Postgraduate Lecture Theatre, Belfast City Hospital, Lisburn Road, Belfast
JOINT MEETING WITH THE BCH MEDICAL STAFF
Artificial intelligence will make doctors obsolete?
Prof Dr Jörg Goldhahn, Institute of Translational Medicine, Zurich
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Thursday 28 November. Buffet 5pm, Lecture 6pm.  Out of Town Meeting
Altnagelvin Centre for Medical and Dental Education
DESMOND WHYTE MEMORIAL LECTURE WITH ALTNAGELVIN MEDICAL STAFF
The promise and reality of precision medicine in Northern Ireland
Prof Manuel Salto-Tellez, QUB
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December 2019

Thursday 12 December at 8pm.
Postgraduate Lecture Theatre, Belfast City Hospital, Lisburn Road, Belfast
Life and Death in Medieval Ireland: Insights from Palaeopathology
Prof Eileen Murphy, Professor of Archaeology, QUB
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January 2020

Thursday 9 January at 8pm.
Postgraduate Lecture Theatre, Belfast City Hospital, Lisburn Road, Belfast
JOINT MEETING WITH THE ULSTER OBSTETRICAL AND GYNAECOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Preeclampsia is a placental disorder: lies, damn lies and medical science
Prof Basky Thilaganathan, Prof of Fetal Medicine, London
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Thursday 23 January at 8pm.
Postgraduate Lecture Theatre, Belfast City Hospital, Lisburn Road, Belfast
JOINT MEETING WITH THE ULSTER SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE
THE GARY LOVE LECTURE
Managing the heritage of Irish medicine—tales from the archives
Dr Harriet Wheelock, Keeper of Collections, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland
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February 2020

Thursday 6 February at 8pm.
Postgraduate Lecture Theatre, Belfast City Hospital, Lisburn Road, Belfast
Towards personalised medicine in blood cancers
Dr Jyoti Nangalia, Sanger Centre, Cambridge
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Thursday 27 February at 8pm.
Postgraduate Lecture Theatre, Belfast City Hospital, Lisburn Road, Belfast
Medical Semiotics and its influence on art, psychoanalysis and Sherlock Holmes
Dr Brenda Moore-McCann, Dublin
Microscopes and corkscrews: a future perspective
Prof Shaun McCann, Dublin
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March 2020

Thursday 5 March at 8pm.
Postgraduate Lecture Theatre, Belfast City Hospital, Lisburn Road, Belfast
JOINT MEETING WITH BELFAST CITY HOSPITAL MEDICAL STAFF
The Physician-Scientist: Rewards and Challenges. A Personal Perspective
Prof Ann Mullally, Harvard, USA
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Thursday 19 March at 8pm.
Postgraduate Lecture Theatre, Belfast City Hospital, Lisburn Road, Belfast
SIR THOMAS AND LADY EDITH DIXON LECTURE
GATA1, trisomy 21 and leukaemia—unravelling the link
Professor Irene Roberts, University of Oxford
This lecture was cancelled but was held online on Thursday 15 April 2021 at 8pm. Please see the 2020-21 meetings page for details.

April 2020


Dinner Cancelled

We regret that the annual dinner had to be cancelled because of the covid pandemic.



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

The postponed ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING was held on Thursday 10 September 2020 at 4.30pm in Seminar Room 3 in the Cancer Centre, Belfast City Hospital.