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 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 "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" .
Diary Dates of the
Society's scientific meetings
Wednesday 21st October 2009 at Theatre 2,
Stopford Building, University of Manchester
Joint Meeting with the Royal Society of Medicine
"Manchester Medical Society 175 Years - A Nobel
Celebration"
& Presidential Address by
Professor Mark Ferguson
Wednesday 18th November 2009
at Chancellors Conference Centre
Joint Meeting with the Manchester and District Medico-Legal
District
Dr C Bass
"Illness, deception and malingering"
Wednesday 27th January 2010
at the MANDEC
Afternoon
Symposium
“Fibrotic
diseases and scars” & Telford Memorial
Lecture
Thursday 4th March 2010
at the
Liverpool Medical Institution
Joint Meeting with the Liverpool Medical Institution
Professor R Paus - "'Hairy' matters in regenerative medicine: Your hair
follicles as stem cell pools"
&
Professor D A McGrouther - "What
plastic surgery can do for you"
MANCHESTER
MEDICAL SOCIETY
