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Welcome to the Manchester Medical Society website!
 

The Manchester Medical Society was formed in 1834 for the "cultivation and promotion of medicine and all related sciences". An aim continued today through a series of scientific meetings and symposia focused on Continual Professional Development (CPD)for medical professionals and for those working in professions allied to medicine.  

The Society consists of 10 Sections: ANAESTHESIA, IMAGING, MEDICINE, ODONTOLOGY, PAEDIATRICS, PATHOLOGY, PSYCHIATRY, PUBLIC HEALTH, 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.

Organisational structure

The Council function as the management committee and as charity trustees have control of the Society and are responsible for its property and funds.  Find out who we are

Professor Ashley Woodcock OBE, President of the Manchester Medical Society 2011/2012 President of the Society for 2011-12

Professor Ashley Woodcock OBE

(Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the NW Lung Centre and Head of School of Translational Medicine, University of Manchester)

For a list of past Presidents

VIEW FULL EVENTS DIARY

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 Hon 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 "Manchester Medical Society 175 Years - A Nobel Celebration" and the incoming President of the Society, Professor Mark Ferguson gave his Presidential Address "Scar Wars: from accidental discovery of scar free embryonic healing to potential human pharmaceutical" .

STUDENT AFFILIATESHIP

To find out more

STUDENT POSTER PRIZE IN SURGERY

To find out more

DIARY DATES FOR THE SOCIETY 2011/2012

Wednesday 26th October 2011   Programme (PDF)
Joint Meeting with the University of Manchester Medical School
& Presidential Address by Professor
Ashley Woodcock

Wednesday 16th November 2011
Joint Meeting with the Manchester and District Medico-Legal
District

Mr C Lloyd
"An overview of head injury and the eye in children"

Wednesday 25th January 201
2 Programme  (PDF)
Afternoon
Symposium & Telford Memorial Lecture
"From bench ....to real patient benefit"


Thursday 1st March 2012  Programme (PDF)
Joint Meeting with the Liverpool Medical Institution (in Liverpool)
Professor Ian Jacobs 'ovarian cancer'
Professor David Felson
"Treatment of Osteoarthritis: Past and Current Frustration; Future Promise?"


Wednesday 2nd May 2012

John F Wilkinson Memorial Lecture
Professor Alistair Burns - "Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease - prospects for treatment and prevention"

 

Click here to see the Society's ANNUAL REPORT for 2010-2011

 

                       

 

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