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175th Anniversary Celebration of the Manchester Medical Society

25th March 2009
at the Manchester Town Hall

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A little bit of history first....

The year 2009 marks an important date in the annals of the MANCHESTER MEDICAL SOCIETY, namely its 175th year, for on 4th September 1834, it was formally founded at a public meeting of the physicians, surgeons and apothecaries of Manchester, Salford and neighbourhood, which was specially called for purpose. An equally interesting event occurred a month later, on Wednesday 1st October 1834, when the first formal meeting of the new constituted society was held. The earliest records show that before these dates, no meetings were held for the discussion of purely medical matters by medical men alone, nor was there any medical library accessible to the members of the profession generally.

The President of the Manchester Medical Society, Professor Paul Durrington, MD, FRCP, FRCPath, F Med Sci, FAHA, invites you to join us celebrating this event on Wednesday 25th March.

Click here for a programme booklet (PDF)
 

PROGRAMME
(for a printable version please click here - PDF)

1.15 pm

Coffee and registration
 
2.00 -
5.00 pm
 

 

Meeting

Anaesthesia

2.00 pm


2.45 pm
 

3.30 pm

4.00 pm

Joint Meeting with the Liverpool Society of Anaesthetists

In the footsteps of Featherstone
Dr D Whitaker

How green is anaesthesia?
Dr N Harper

Approved for 3 CPD Credits

Coffee break

Will I be asleep?
Professor B Pollard

 

Medicine
2.00 pm
 

2.20 pm

 

2.40 pm


Pathology
3.00 pm
 

3.30 pm

Imaging 4.00 pm


4.20 pm



4.40 pm

 

Joint Meeting of the Sections of Medicine, Pathology and Imaging

Manchester's contribution to the concept of dementia

Professor D Neary

Renal medicine in Manchester - Past, present and future
Dr D O'Donoghue

Endocrinology in Manchester
Professor S Shalet

Pathology Presidential Address

Approved for 2 CPD Credits


Porphyria: a northern perspective
Dr M F Stewart

Coffee break


CT and MR - a 20th Century imaging renaissance
Professor I Isherwood, CBE

Development in PET CT scanning in Greater Manchester and Cheshire
Dr P Hulse

Mancunian interventional gastroenterology
Professor D Martin

Odontology

2.00 pm


2.45 pm

 

3.30 pm

4.00 pm

 

 

4.15 pm

Symposium 'Bombs, burns and Bullets'

Lessons from the troubles
Mr P Ramsay-Baggs

Orofacial burns
Mr K Dunn

Approved for 2.5 CPD Credits


Coffee break

Presentation of the Alan Hilton Medal followed by Election of Honorary Members of Section:
Dr Peter Kurer
Dr John Lilley
Mr W Simpson

Terrorism; the current threat and potential impact of an attack
Detective Constable John Archibald

 

Paediatrics

 


2.00 pm


2.30 pm

 


3.00 pm

 

3.30 pm



4.00 pm



4.30 pm

Symposium 'Celebrating the growth of paediatrics in Manchester'

Chair: Dr R Gottstein

Neonatal paediatric: discovery and challenge
Professor M Chiswick

Therapeutic hypothermia after perinatal asphyxia: the TOBY randomised controlled trial and synthetic
meta-analysis
Dr D Azzopardi

Advances in cellular and enzyme replacement therapies for inherited metabolic disease
Dr J E Wraith


Coffee break
 

Growing up and moving on: improving adolescent health care and transition
Dr H Gleeson

Research in children - from anxiety to obligation
Professor P E Clayton

Psychiatry

2.00 pm

 

2.45 pm


3.30 pm

4.00 pm

Symposium 'Psychiatry - what does the future hold?'

Is it time to rethink our classification of mental illness? Towards DSM-V and ICD-11
Emeritus
Professor Sir David Goldberg

'New' professionalism in psychiatry
Professor D Bhugra

Coffee break

Looking back 50 years: the Mental Health Act and the remarkable Salford experiment
Professor E Susser
 

3.00 - 5.00 pm Surgery

3.00 pm


3.30 pm

 

4.00 pm


4.20 pm


4.40 pm

Symposium 'Innovations in cancer care'

Future directions in cancer care
Professor M Richards CBE

Election of Honorary Members of Section:
Mr William Bell, Mr John Dark, Mr Robert Davies, Professor Philip Schofield and Mr John Weatherston Wilson.

Risk and resource allocation in colorectal cancer
Dr A Renehan

Imaging and targeted therapies
Dr P Manoharan

Robotic surgery: Challenge and opportunity
Mr V Ramani

 

5.00 -
5.30 pm
Coffee
5.30 -
6.00 pm
'Manchester Medical Society - A look back and a look forward'
Professor P N Durrington, President of the Society
6.00 - 6.10 pm Brief outline of the exhibition 'Histories of Healing: Celebrating 175 years of the Manchester Medical Society' taking place at the John Rylands University Library Deansgate between 14 January to 1 June 2009
Professor I Isherwood, CBE
6.10 -
6.30 pm
The following will be elected Honorary Fellows, the highest honour in the gift of the Manchester Medical Society:
Professor J A Adams
Professor J C Lowry posthumously
Dr J P Miller
Professor J A Morris
Professor Sir Netar Mallick
6.30 -
7.00 pm
Civic Reception* in the Sculpture Hall      

The Lord mayor will give a reception in Honour of these celebrations for those attending the Gala Dinner 

*for members of the Society and their guests only

7.15 pm Gala Dinner in the Great Hall for members of the Society and their guests only     

After Dinner Speaker - Dr Kevin Jones, Consultant Physician and Humorist, Royal Bolton Hospitals

A bar will also be available for those wishing to purchase drinks.

Informal dress.

 

 

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