The Society consists of 10 Sections: Anaesthesia, Imaging,
Medicine, Odontology, Paediatrics, Pathology, Psychiatry, Public Health Forum,
Primary Care,
and Surgery. Meetings are hosted by individual Sections and the Society allowing a range of
topics, spanning all medical disciplines to be addressed in our annual programme of
events.
SOCIETY MEETINGS
The Manchester Medical Society in its annual
programme events
also hosts meetings in addition to the lectures organised by
individual Sections.
Highlights
of meetings organised by the Society in the past include the Telford Memorial Lecture given
in 2002 by Professor Susan Greenfield (Professor
of Pharmacology, University of Oxford and presenter of BBC2's "Brain
Story"), the
Honourable Dorothy Wedgwood OBE Annual Christmas Lecture for Young People, the
annual joint meetings
with the Liverpool Medical
Institution and the John F Wilkinson Memorial
Lecture.
The Society meetings are usually followed by an informal dinner held at either
Chancellors Conference Centre, the University, the Christie Bistro
or restaurants throughout the region. The
Society has a long tradition of social functions and dinners and we
encourage our members to take advantage of the opportunity to relax with
colleagues and new found friends!
The
theme of this year's annual joint meeting with the Royal Society of Medicine
was "Advances in our understanding and the prevention of atheroma" and the incoming President of the
Society, Professor P N Durrington gave his Presidential Address "Atheroma
- from the laboratory to the clinic".
Diary Dates of the
Society's scientific meetings
Wednesday 19th November 2008
Joint Meeting with the Manchester and District Medico-Legal
District
Dr A Grounds "Psychological effects of miscarriages of justice"
Wednesday 21st January 2009
Afternoon Symposium "Diseases of excess and deprivation" & Telford
Memorial Lecture
Thursday 5th March
2009 - Being held in the John
Rylands University Library, Deansgate
Joint Meeting with the Liverpool Medical Institution
Dr D G Lallo
"Snake bite - at home and abroad" plus
a viewing of the exhibition
Wednesday
25th March 2009 - Being held at Manchester Town Hall
175th Anniversary Celebration of the Manchester Medical Society
Wednesday 6th May 2009
John F Wilkinson Memorial Lecture
Professor A M Heagerty "Fat cells, your arteries and your fate"
MANCHESTER
MEDICAL SOCIETY
