Meetings 2019 to 2020
The Programme of Lectures starts on Thursday 3 October 2019 and continues at intervals on Thursday evenings until 19 March 2020.
Certificates of Attendance will be available at each academic meeting.
Guests of Fellows and Members are welcome as are all registered medical practitioners, medical students, and other interested health professionals, whether members or not. Anyone else wishing to attend should contact the Honorary Secretary beforehand.
Most lectures will be held in the Postgraduate Lecture Theatre, Belfast City Hospital.
An advertising poster for a lecture may be downloaded by clicking on its title below
President: Professor Mary F McMullin MD, FRCP, FRCPath, PGCHET
October 2019
November 2019
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Thursday 7 November at 8pm.
Postgraduate Lecture Theatre, Belfast City Hospital, Lisburn Road, Belfast
The Robert Campbell Oration
Advanced therapeutics for the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)
Prof Cecilia O'Kane, QUB
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Thursday 14 November at 8pm.
Postgraduate Lecture Theatre, Belfast City Hospital, Lisburn Road, Belfast
Joint Meeting with the BCH Medical Staff
Artificial intelligence will make doctors obsolete?
Prof Dr Jörg Goldhahn, Institute of Translational Medicine, Zurich
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Thursday 28 November. Buffet 5pm, Lecture 6pm. Out of Town Meeting
Altnagelvin Centre for Medical and Dental Education
Desmond Whyte Memorial Lecture with Altnagelvin Medical Staff
The promise and reality of precision medicine in Northern Ireland
Prof Manuel Salto-Tellez, QUB
December 2019
January 2020
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Thursday 9 January at 8pm.
Postgraduate Lecture Theatre, Belfast City Hospital, Lisburn Road, Belfast
Joint Meeting with the Ulster Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society
Preeclampsia is a placental disorder: lies, damn lies and medical science
Prof Basky Thilaganathan, Prof of Fetal Medicine, London
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Thursday 23 January at 8pm.
Postgraduate Lecture Theatre, Belfast City Hospital, Lisburn Road, Belfast
Joint Meeting with the Ulster Society for the History of Medicine
The Gary Love Lecture
Managing the heritage of Irish medicine—tales from the archives
Dr Harriet Wheelock, Keeper of Collections, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland
February 2020
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Thursday 6 February at 8pm.
Postgraduate Lecture Theatre, Belfast City Hospital, Lisburn Road, Belfast
Towards personalised medicine in blood cancers
Dr Jyoti Nangalia, Sanger Centre, Cambridge
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Thursday 27 February at 8pm.
Postgraduate Lecture Theatre, Belfast City Hospital, Lisburn Road, Belfast
Medical Semiotics and its influence on art, psychoanalysis and Sherlock Holmes
Dr Brenda Moore-McCann, Dublin
Microscopes and corkscrews: a future perspective
Prof Shaun McCann, Dublin
March 2020
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Thursday 5 March at 8pm.
Postgraduate Lecture Theatre, Belfast City Hospital, Lisburn Road, Belfast
Joint meeting with Belfast City Hospital Medical Staff
The Physician-Scientist: Rewards and Challenges. A Personal Perspective
Prof Ann Mullally, Harvard, USA
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Thursday 19 March at 8pm.
Postgraduate Lecture Theatre, Belfast City Hospital, Lisburn Road, Belfast
Sir Thomas and Lady Edith Dixon Lecture
GATA1, trisomy 21 and leukaemia—unravelling the link
Professor Irene Roberts, University of Oxford
April 2020
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Friday 3 April at 7.30pm for 8.00pm.
Canada Room, Queen's University of Belfast.
ANNUAL PRESIDENTIAL DINNER.
May 2020
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Thursday 7 May at 5pm.
UMS Rooms, Whitla Medical Building, Lisburn Road, Belfast
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING.