MANCHESTER MEDICAL SOCIETY
(Registered Charity No 222800)
C/0 John Rylands University Library, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PP

MANCHESTER MEDICAL SOCIETY
PAST PRESIDENTS

A dinner was held on Friday 20^th June 2003 at the Manchester Airport Marriott Hotel in honour of past-presidents of the Society.

The Society commissioned the design and production of a badge to commemorate the year of office of past-presidents of the Society and each of the following presidents would be presented with one.

A commemorative photograph was taken of all past-presidents who attended the evening (below - Back row left to right: Rodney Harris, Ian Houston, John Dark, Harold Jones, Ernest Smith, Peter Adams, Harold Fox, Ian Isherwood - Front row left to right: Clifford Kay, John Brocklehurst, Judith Adams, Arup Banerjee, Iain Gillespie, Sam Oleesky- Hearing dog 'Jodie' belonging to Rodney Harris)

Past-presidents and their partners were invited as guests of the Society.

The Honorary Secretary of the Society, Dr Ray McMahon opened the meeting and dinner. Dr A K Banerjee OBE, current President, said grace. Towards the end of the dinner, Professor Ian Isherwood CBE (currently Honorary Librarian) gave a brief history of the Society (click here to read the transcript of the speech). He was closely followed by a response, on behalf of the thirteen past-presidents who were present, from Professor Gillespie and Professor Fox.

PAST PRESIDENTS AND PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESSES

2006/2007    Professor J A Morris - "The hygiene hypothesis: an analysis based on information theory"

2005/2006   Professor Sir Netar Mallick - "Is excellence really necessary?"

2004/2005   Professor J C Lowry CBE - "What happened to your face? : the evolution of facial injury care"

2003/2004   Dr J P Miller - "Gastroenterology, hepatology and lipids - what is the connection?"

2002/2003   Dr A K Banerjee OBE - "Tomorrows world"

2001/2002    Professor J F W Deakin - "Antisocial behaviour - a brain disorder"

2000/2001    Professor Judith Adams - "Radiology and the quest for accuracy and precision in the                    quantitation of the skeleton"

1999/2000   Professor Sir Miles Horsfall Irving - "Ring out wild bells"

1998/1999    Professor I B Houston - "..'full of sound and fury..'graduate education"

1997/1998    Professor P H Adams - "Manchester and the english disease"

1996/1997    Professor R Harris - "Confessions of a lapsed general physician"

1995/1996    Professor J H Jones - "Ideals in health care"

1994/1995    Dr C G Neary - "Musicians maladies"

1993/1994   Professor I E Gillespie - "Decisions, decisions"

1992/1993    Professor W I Kessel- "Medical students"

1991/1992   Professor H Fox - "Mythology in medical education and practice"

1990/1991    Professor J C Brocklehurst CBE - "Ageing - yesterday, today and tomorrow"

1989/1990    Mr J F Dark - "Thoracoplasty to heart transplant: forty years in the chest"

1988/1989    Dr C R Kay CBE - "Opening the treasure chest"

1987/1988    Professor E A Smith CBE - "Health, inequality and justice"

1986/1987    Dr R W Burslem - "An obstetric tragedy"

1985/1986    Professor I Isherwood - "The brain - an imaging quest"

1984/1985    Professor S W Stanbury - "An endangered species, not yet quite extinct?"

1983/1984   Dr R T Williams - "The Acid and the Alcaly"

1982/1983    Professor J R Moore OBE - "North Manchester Health District"

1981/1982    Dr N J de Ville Mather - "The sane and insane offender"

1980/1981    Dr A H Gowenlock - "Fat - fact and fantasy"

1979/1980    Dr S Oleesky - "Diabetes in the last 300 years"

1978/1979    Professor A R Hunter - "Intensive Care, of what, by whom, and at what cost?"

1977/1978    Mr A Jolleys - "Surgery in children related to growth"

1976/1977    Professor P S Byrne CBE - "Medical education and society"

1975/1976    Professor H T Howat CBE - "Pancreatitis"

1974/1975    Mr T Moore - "Women's lib"

1973/1974    Professor A Holzel - "The child is father to the man"

1972/1973    Professor M C G Israëls - "Consumer research: Lessons from haematology"

1971/1972    Mr W F Nicholson MBE - "Serendipity and surgery"

1970/1971    Professor A C P Campbell - "Is pathology really necessary?"

1969/1970    Dr A M Jones - "The nature of the coronary problem"

1968/1969    Mr A H Hilton - "The stapes, from fish to mammal"

1967/1968    Mr D S Poole-Wilson CBE - "Urology, the past, the present and the future"

1966/1967    Professor R E Lane CBE - "Man-made diseases - some recent problems"

1965/1966    Dr E D Gray - "Radiological aspects of gastroenterology"

1964/1965   Professor G A G Mitchell OBE - "Evolution and man"

1963/1964   Professor V F Lambert - "Manchester otolaryngology - its heritage and its future"

1962/1963   Lord Platt - "Ageing and death"

1961/1962    Mr H T Simmons - No Presidential Address this year

1960/1961   Professor W Schlapp - "The nature of inhibition in the nervous system"

1959/1960    Dr C E Sykes - "Modern anaesthesia"

1958/1959    Dr F R Ferguson - "Neurology - bridging the gap"

1957/1958    Mr R L Newell - "Recollections of my teachers"

1956/1957   Dr J F Wilkinson - "What's bred in the bone"

1955/1956   Dr W Brockbank - "Old anatomical theatres and what happened therein"

1954/1955    Dr H P Fay - "General practice - today and tomorrow"

1953/1954    Professor J Morley - "A surgical retrospect"

1952/1953    Professor J C Bramwell - "Heart disease and pregnancy"

1951/1952    Sir William Fletcher Shaw - "Charles Clay of Manchester: the father of                                         Ovariotomy in England"

1950/1951    Mr W H Hey - No record of Presidential Address title

The Society was reconstituted in 1950