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• 2019/20
• 2020/21

Meetings 2019 to 2020

Records of the Meetings

Some records should be available for each lecture. Click on the links below the lecturer's name.

President:   Professor Mary Frances McMullin MD, FRCP, FRCPath, PGCHET

October 2019

• Thursday 3 October at 8pm.
  Postgraduate Lecture Theatre, Belfast City Hospital, Lisburn Road, Belfast
  Presidential Address
  Diagnostics in the Future
  Prof Mary F McMullin
  Audio   Slides   Text
• Thursday 17 October from 9am to 4pm.
  Postgraduate Lecture Theatre, Belfast City Hospital, Lisburn Road, Belfast
  Joint meeting with NIMDTA and QUB
  Trainee Research Day
  Guest lecture 11.10am
  The patient voice in collaborative academic research
  Prof Fionnuala Ní Áinle, Dublin
  Audio   Slides   Text

November 2019

• 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
  Audio   Slides   Text  
• 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
  Audio   Slides   Text
• 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
  Audio   Slides   Text

December 2019

• Thursday 12 December at 8pm.
  Postgraduate Lecture Theatre, Belfast City Hospital, Lisburn Road, Belfast
  Life and Death in Medieval Ireland: Insights from Palaeopathology
  Prof Eileen Murphy, Professor of Archaeology, QUB
  Audio   Slides   Text  

January 2020

• 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
  Audio   Slides   Text  
• 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
  Audio   Slides   Text  

February 2020

• 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
  Audio   Slides   Text  
• 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
  Audio   Slides   Text  

March 2020

• 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
  Audio   Slides   Text  

• Lecture Cancelled

  The lecture specified below has been cancelled. We hope to re-schedule it for the autumn.

  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

Dinner Cancelled

We regret that the annual dinner had to be cancelled because of the covid pandemic.

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

The postponed ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING will be held on Thursday 10 September at 4.30pm in Seminar Room 3 at the Cancer Centre, Belfast City Hospital, where there will be enough room for social distancing.