Meetings 2007 to 2008

President:  Dr John White, MB FRCGP

Changes and Challenges

October 2007

Thursday 11 October 8.00 pm.
North Lecture Theatre, MBC—Buffet UMS Rooms 6.30pm
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
Infection from Famine to Feast
Dr John White MB FRCGP
General Practitioner, Dunmurry

Thursday 25 October 8.00pm.
Ulster Medical Society Rooms
The Radiology of Civil Unrest
Dr PK Ellis MB BCh MRCP FRCR FFRCSI
Clinical Director of Radiology, Belfast H&SCT

November 2007

Thursday 8 November 8.00pm.—Buffet UMS Rooms 6.30pm
North Lecture Theatre, MBC
Aids in Africa
Mrs Jean Garland SRN SCM
Aids Educator and Nurse/Counsellor, Jos, Nigeria

Thursday 22 November 8.00pm.—Buffet UMS Rooms 6.30pm
North Lecture Theatre, MBC
JUNIOR MEMBERS FORUM

December 2007

Thursday 7 December 7.45pm.
Beech Hill Country House Hotel
THE DESMOND WHYTE LECTURE
Modern Medicine—The Impact on Postgraduate Medical Education
Dr Malcolm Lewis FRCGP
Director of Postgraduate GP Education, University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff

January 2008

Thursday 10 January 8.00pm.
Ulster Medical Society Rooms
Only general practice can save the NHS
Dr Iona Heath FRCGP
General Practitioner, Kentish Town, London

Thursday 24 January 8.00pm.
Ulster Medical Society Rooms
Can we trust the profession?
Dr Chitra Bharucha MB BS FRCPath FRSA
Vice-Chairman BBC Trust

February 2008

Thursday 7 February 8.00pm.
Ulster Medical Society Rooms
JOINT MEETING WITH THE ULSTER SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE
THE GARY LOVE LECTURE
Why B.A.O.?
Professor William Thompson BSc MD FRCOG

Thursday 21 February 8.00pm.
Ulster Medical Society Rooms
JOINT MEETING WITH THE ULSTER OBSTETRICAL AND GYNAECOLOGICAL SOCIETY
President: Professor James Dornan
Forty Years of Hard Labour
Dame Lorna Muirhead
Past President of The Royal College of Midwives

Friday 29 February 7.15 for 8.00pm.
Great Hall, QUB.
Annual Presidential Dinner.

March 2008

Thursday 13 March. Afternoon Session TBA Evening Session 8.00pm.
Ulster Medical Society Rooms.
SYMPOSIUM IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE NORTHERN IRELAND FORUM FOR ETHICS IN MEDICINE
The Ethics of Organ Donation and Transplantation
Speakers to include:
Professor Sir Roy Calne, Emeritus Professor of Surgery at Cambridge
Professor John Harris, Professor of Bioethics at Manchester University and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Medical Ethics

April 2008

Thursday 3 April 8.00pm.
Ulster Medical Society Rooms.
The Scientific Basis for Frozen Shoulder
Mr Tim Bunker, MB MCh FRCS
Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Exeter. Past President British Elbow and Shoulder Society

May 2009

Thursday 15 May 2.00pm.
ANNUAL GOLF COMPETITION for the Victory Challenge Cup

Thursday 22 May 5pm.
Ulster Medical Society Rooms
Annual General Meeting