Meetings 2009 to 2010

President:  Professor Brew Atkinson, DSc MD FRCP FRCPI

Major Issues in Medicine Today

October 2009

Thursday 8 October 8.00 pm.
North Lecture Theatre, MBC, QUB
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
From Then to Now: Lessons from Developments in our Understanding of the Pituitary Gland
Professor Brew Atkinson, DSc MD FRCP FRCPI
Consultant Endocrinologist, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast and Honorary Professor of Endocrinology, Queen's University, Belfast

Thursday 22 October 8.00pm.
Ulster Medical Society Rooms
Blood Pressure: Relevance in 2010
Professor Gordon T McInnes, BSc MD FRCP FPPM FBPharmcolS
Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, Divisions of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow and Consultant Physician, Western Infirmary Glasgow
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November 2009

Thursday 5 November 8.00pm.
Ulster Medical Society Rooms
Buffet and Poster Display from 6.30pm
Junior Doctors' Prize Evening
Junior doctors show poster presentations of their work and a selected number give oral presentations. This is always an interesting and instructive evening.
All doctors in training in Northern Ireland are eligible to submit abstracts for consideration. Information on how to do so will be circulated through NIMDTA

Thursday 19 November 8.00pm.
Ulster Medical Society Rooms
Joint Meeting with the Ulster Obstetrical & Gynaecological Society
Hot Topics in Hyperprolactinaemia
Dr John S Bevan, MD FRCPEd
Lead Consultant Endocrinologist, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Honorary Reader in Endocrinology, University of Aberdeen
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December 2009

Thursday 3 December 8.00pm.
Beech Hill Country House Hotel, Londonderry
THE DESMOND WHYTE LECTURE
Postgraduate Education of Doctors for the 21st Century
Professor Sir John Tooke, MA MSc BM BCh DM DSc(Oxon) FRCP FRCGP (Hon) F Acad Med (Hon) F Med Sci
Dean, Peninsula College of Medicine & Dentistry, Plymouth, UK
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January 2010

Thursday 14 January 8.00pm.
Ulster Medical Society Rooms
Insulin Resistance and the Clinician
Professor Patrick M Bell, MD FRCP FRCPI
Consultant Physician, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast and Honorary Professor of Medicine, Queen's University, Belfast
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Thursday 28 January 8.00pm.
Ulster Medical Society Rooms
My Genes Made Me Eat That: The Inherited Basis of Human Obesity
Dr Sadaf Farooqi, MB PhD FRCP
Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke's Hospital and University of Cambridge
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February 2010

Friday 4 February 7.15 for 8.00pm.
Great Hall, QUB.
Annual Presidential Dinner.

Thursday 11 February 8.00pm.
Ulster Medical Society Rooms
THE SIR THOMAS AND LADY DIXON LECTURE
Alcohol—The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Professor Ian T Gilmore, MA MD PRCP
President of the Royal College of Physicians, Consultant Physician and Gastroenterologist, Royal Liverpool University Hospital and Honorary Professor of Medicine
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Thursday 25 February 8.00pm.
Ulster Medical Society Rooms
Reducing Cardiovascular Morbidity and Mortality in Type 2 Diabetes—Is There a Role for Glucose Lowering?
Professor Rury Holman, FRCP
Director, Diabetes Trials Unit and Professor of Diabetic Medicine, Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Radcliffe Hospital and University of Oxford
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March 2010

Thursday 11 March 8.00pm.
Ulster Medical Society Rooms
Tomorrow's Doctors—Undergraduate Medical Education Today
Professor Tony P Weetman, MD DS FRCP F Med Sci
Consultant Endocrinologist and Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health and Professor of Medicine, University of Sheffield
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Thursday 25 March 8.00pm.
Ulster Medical Society Rooms
Joint Meeting with the Ulster Society for the History of Medicine
THE GARY LOVE LECTURE
Building a Healthy City for the 21st Century—Lessons from Victorian Belfast
Dr David GT Stewart, MB BCh BAO MSc FFPh FRCP
Medical Director, Health and Social Care, Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority, Northern Ireland
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May 2010

Thursday 13 May 2.00pm.
Malone Golf Club, Belfast
ANNUAL GOLF COMPETITION for the Victory Challenge Cup

Thursday 27 May 5pm.
Ulster Medical Society Rooms
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING