Meetings 2023 to 2024
Today's thinking transforming tomorrow
President: Dr Athinyaa Thiraviaraj
Consultant Physician in Diabetes and Endocrinology, Western HSCT
Attending the lectures
Most lectures are both attendable and available online and may be booked through Eventbrite (https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/ulster-medical-society-lectures-1108089). We would encourage people to book all lectures in advance.
Those attending lectures in the Medical Biology Centre may park in the MBC grounds. Those attending lectures in the Belfast City Hospital may park in the BCH car park immediately off the Lisburn Road close to the Post-graduate Centre entrance and, at the lecture, obtain a replacement ticket which will permit them to leave the car park without the need to pay.
Programme
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Posters
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October 2023
Thursday 12 October at 7.30 p.m.
Postrgraduate Centre, Belfast City Hospital
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
Portrait of a Clinician
Dr Athinyaa Thiraviaraj, Consultant Physician in Diabetes and Endocrinology, Western HSCT
Thursday 19 October at 7.30 p.m.
Postrgraduate Centre, Belfast City Hospital
Embracing Planetary Health: a generational opportunity for modern healthcare
Dr Sean Owens, GP Blackrock Co Louth
November 2023
Thursday 2 November at 7.30pm
Postrgraduate Centre, Belfast City Hospital
JOINT MEETING WITH UMS and BCH
Pandora's Lego - assembling the components of tomorrow's healthcare
Dr Shane McKee, Consultant in Genetic and Genomic Medicine, Belfast City Hospital
Thursday 9 November
9 a.m.–12.30 p.m.
Online Virtual Meeting Only
JOINT MEETING WITH QUB and NIMDTA
Trainee Research Day
Guest Speaker: Professor Calum MacCrae, Director One Brave Idea/PI Apple Heart and Movement Study/Vice Chair for Scientific Innovation Department of Medicine and Women;s Hospital/Professor Harvard Medical School
Thursday 16 November at 7.30 p.m.
Postgraduate Centre, Belfast City Hospital
Delivering person-centred care: a diabetologist's perspective?
Professor Sean Dinneen, Consultant Endocrinologist, Galway University Hospitals and Professor of Diabetic Medicine, University of Galway
December 2022
Thursday 7 December at 7.30 p.m.
South Lecture Theatre, Medical Biology Centre, QUB
THE GARY LOVE LECTURE
JOINT MEETING WITH THE ULSTER SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE
Sir William Whitla and the Apocalypse
Dr Michael Trimble, Clinical Reader QUB and Consultant in Acute Medicine RVH
January 2024
Thursday 11 January at 7.30 p.m.
Postgraduate Centre, Belfast City Hospital
JOINT MEETING WITH THE ULSTER OBSTETRICAL & GYNAECOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Liver disease in pregnancy
Dr Jonny Cash, Consultant Hepatologist in NI regional liver unit RVH
Thursday 25 January at 7.30 p.m.
ONLINE ONLY
Diabetes Care: technology now and the future
Dr Emma Wilmot, Associtae Professor University of Nottinghma, Honorary Consultant Diabetologist University Hospitals of Derby & Buton,& Founder ABCD Diabetes Technology Netowrk UK
February 2024
Thursday 8 February at 7.30 p.m.
Postgraduate Centre, Belfast City Hospital
Liberating Postgraduate Medical Education: Principles and Practice
Dr Camille Harron, Postgraduate Medical Dean & Director of Education NIMDTA
Thursday 22 February at 7.30 p.m.
ONLINE ONLY
Leading change: learning from projects that spread
Clare Morrison, Director of Community Engagement, Healthcare Improvement Scotland
March 2024
Thursday 7 March at 7.30 p.m. Buffet 6.30 p.m.
Centre of Medical & Dental Education & Training, Altnagelvin Area Hospital
THE DESMOND WHYTE LECTURE
Insights, contradictions and tensions in healthcare innovation; a design perspective on systematic change
Lorna Ross, Chief Innovation Officer, VHI Health and Wellbeing and Big Life Fix Science
Thursday 21 March at 7.30 p.m.
Postgraduate Centre, Belfast City Hospital
The Sir Thomas and Lady Edith Dixon Lecture
Providing healthcare leadership through challenges
Professor Cathryn Edwards, Visiting Professor university of Cape Town, Consultant Gastroenterologist Torbay and South devon HHSFt, Registrar RC Physician
April 2024
Friday 26 April at 7.30 p.m.
The Great Hall, Queen's University of Belfast
Annual Dinner
May 2024
Thursday 9 May at 5 p.m.
Ulster Medical Society Rooms
Annual General Meeting
Agenda