ULSTER MEDICAL SOCIETY P R O G R A M M E

ULSTER
MEDICAL SOCIETY
PROGRAMME
2014 - 2015
“MAKING A DIFFERENCE”
President
Dr Colin Wallace Mathews
Ulster Medical Society
The Ulster Medical Society was formed in 1862 through the
amalgamation of the Belfast Medical Society (founded in 1806
and revived in 1822) and the Belfast Clinical and Pathological
Society (founded in 1853).
A major role of the Ulster Medical Society is to foster
interdisciplinary education, and specialists and generalists in
all fields of medicine are welcome at all lectures.
It is intended that all these lectures will be suitable for
Continuing Medical Education, under the regulations of the
various Royal Colleges and Faculties.
Evening meetings of the Society will usually commence at
8.00 pm. Meetings will take place in the Ulster Medical Society
Rooms, Whitla Medical Building or on some occasions in the
North Lecture Theatre, MBC.
Ordinary meetings of the Society are open to Fellows and
Members and their guests, and to all other registered medical
practitioners. Other persons including members of the Press
who wish to attend should apply to the Honorary Secretary.
Further details of our meetings and information can be
found at our website http://www.ums.ac.uk. You can also be
added to our electronic mailing list and receive notification
of our meetings or changes to the programme by visiting the
website.
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PRESIDENT: DR COLIN MATHEWS
“MAKING A DIFFERENCE”
Thursday 9th October 2014 at 8.00 pm
North Lecture Theatre, MBC, QUB
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
SPECIALISING IN GENERALISM
DR COLIN MATHEWS MB, BCH, BAO, MRCGP, DIPGUM
DRCOG
Colin qualified from Queens in 1979 and he completed GP
training in 1983 following jobs in Royal Group of Hospitals, NI
Fever Hospital and Ballymoney.
Following this he spent some time working in Nassau,
Bahamas before returning to work with his father in
Portadown.
He and his late wife Dr Trish Carson helped established “The
Orchard Family Practice” as a well-respected practice in the
province.
Colin has combined general practice with being a sexual
health practitioner, a GP tutor and an appraiser.
Embracing the community role of traditional general practice
Colin has been High Sheriff of County Armagh, President of
Portadown Rotary and Chairman of BMA Southern Division.
Following the meeting members and guests are invited to a wine
reception in the foyer of MBC.
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Ulster Medical Society
Thursday 23rd October 2014 at 8.00pm
Ulster Medical Society Rooms, Whitla Medical Building
TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE –
WHY EVERY HOSPITAL SPECIALTY NEEDS
EXCELLENT GENERAL PRACTICE
Professor Amanda Howe MA Med, MD, FRCGP
Amanda Howe is President Elect of the World Organization of
Family Doctors (WONCA), Vice Chair of the Council of the Royal
College of General Practitioners, and Foundation Professor of
Primary Care at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, where
she was appointed to help create a new medical school in
2001-present.
She leads there on GP teaching, the primary care research
programme, and on professionalism for the MB/BS, having
also been MB/BS Course Director 2005-2008. She is head of
the Primary Care section of the Department of Primary Care
and Public Health, where she also hosts an academic training
scheme for Masters level family medicine residents.
She is qualified MB, ChB, MD, Masters in Education, Fellow
of the Royal College of GPs, and Fellow of the Academy of
Medical Educators.
Her academic interests are in patient and public
empowerment, professionalism and resilience, medical
education in community settings, quality of care, and primary
care mental health. She has over 100 published articles in peer
reviewed journals, and many other written contributions, also
currently holding over £5 million of active research grants with
others.
Her main career motivations have been to
- give people the best clinical care through effective primary
care and family medicine, in a person centred way that
tailors meeting people’s clinical needs to their own
priorities and possibilities
- develop teams that work effectively in communities for
equitable health improvement
- make medical courses fit for purpose, including ensuring
medical students learn from patients in their own
community
- champion and develop the discipline of family medicine
on a local, national and global basis.
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Thursday: 6th November 2014 at 8.00pm
Ulster Medical Society Rooms, Whitla Medical Building
NIPACS – A VIRTUAL RADIOLOGY
DEPARTMENT FOR NORTHERN IRELAND:
THE STORY SO FAR
Dr Brendan Devlin MB, BCh, BAO, FRCR
Dr Brendan Devlin completed his undergraduate medical
studies at QUB in 1979. He entered the NI Radiology Training
Programme in 1981 and, after a fellowship year in Canada,
returned to Northern Ireland where he took up a Consultant
Radiologist position in Altnagelvin Hospital in 1988.
He has had a long-term interest in the use of computers within
his chosen field of Radiology and has been a key player in
the conception, specification and implementation of NIPACS,
which has revolutionised the delivery of imaging services in
Northern Ireland.
He has sat on regional and national committees and was a
member of the Service Review Committee and the IT SubCommittee of the Royal College of Radiologists for several
years.
Thursday: 20th November 2014 at 7.30pm
North Lecture Theatre, MBC.
JOINT MEETING WITH NIMDTA AND QUB
JUNIOR DOCTORS PRIZE EVENING
This is an important evening for the Society when doctors
in training have the opportunity to present their research or
interesting clinical cases.
All doctors in training in Northern Ireland are eligible to submit
abstracts for consideration. Doctors in training who are not
working in Northern Ireland and who are members of the
Ulster Medical Society are also eligible to submit abstracts.
Information on how to submit abstracts will be circulated
through the NIMDTA website.
The meeting will be preceded by a “finger buffet” in the foyer
at 6.00pm. The meeting will start at 7.30 pm and finish at
9.30pm.
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Ulster Medical Society
Thursday 11th December 2014 at 8.00pm
Ulster Medical Society Rooms, Whitla Medical Building
AIDS, WHERE DID IT COME FROM AND WHERE IS IT
GOING?
Professor Colm O’Mahony MD, FRCP, BSc, DIPVen.
Professor Colm P O’Mahony is a Consultant in Genito-Urinary
Medicine at the Countess of Chester Hospital. Dr O’Mahony
first qualified in Science (Microbiology) in 1975, and then took
a degree in Medicine with an MD in Immunology.
He was elected as Chairman of the National Association of GU
Doctors in 2001 and to the British HIV Association executive
committee in 2005. He featured in “Sex, warts and all” shown
on BBC Choice 2002, and also featured in a Channel 4 series
“Let’s talk sex” with Davina McCall, shown in March 06 and
March 07. In November 2006 he featured in the series “Girls’
Guide to 21st Century Sex” on Channel 5, (Repeated 07, 08, 09
and 10), and featured with Stephen Fry on BBC “HIV and me”in
2008. He was the chairman of the British Association for Sexual
Health and HIV media group and became chair of the
European Academy of Dermatology & Venereology (EADV)
media committee in 2009.
There have been dramatic advances in the treatment of AIDS
since it first emerged in 1981. Most patients will now live a
normal life span and a fully treated patient with a suppressed
viral load is highly unlikely to pass on the virus. A far cry from the early days of emaciated young men dying of
multiple infections and Kaposi’s Sarcoma. The dark cloud however is still the 6,000 new cases in the UK
every year. What is the future?
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Thursday: 15th January 2015 at 8.00pm
Ulster Medical Society Rooms, Whitla Medical Building
AM I RIGHT OR AM IWRONG? THE GREY WORLD OF
FORENSIC MEDICINE
Professor Marie Cassidy, MB, ChB, MRCPath
Professor Marie Cassidy is currently State Pathologist in
Ireland, involved in the investigation of suspicious deaths
and homicides. She has been a Forensic Pathologist for 30
years and prior to her appointment in 1998 she worked in the
Forensic Department at Glasgow University. She is Professor of
Forensic Medicine in the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland
and Trinity College, Dublin, which involves teaching Forensic
Medicine to Medical Students.
As part of her forensic work she has been involved with the
U.N. since the mid 1990’s. She has travelled to Bosnia on
several occasions, as well as to Croatia and latterly to Sierra
Leone as part of a team involved in the investigation of war
crimes, in particular the examination of bodies from mass
graves.
She has acted as a consultant to the television crime series
Taggart. A character in the book The Human Body is based on
her.
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Ulster Medical Society
Thursday 29th January 2015 at 8.00pm
Ulster Medical Society Rooms, Whitla Medical Building
JOINT MEETING WITH THE ULSTER
OBSTETRICAL AND GYNAECOLOGICAL
SOCIETY
President Dr Barry MS Marshall MB, BCh, BAO, FRCOG
FROM SEMMELWEIS TO SAVITA
Dr Ann Harper OBE, MD, FRCOG, FRCPI
Dr Ann Harper is a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist
in the Royal Jubilee Maternity Service, Belfast. Her subspecialist
interest is Maternal-Fetal Medicine.
Ann is a Queens’s graduate and was a QUB Senior Lecturer
in Obstetrics and Gynaecology from1992-2002. She is a Past
President of the Ulster Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society
and of the Irish Perinatal Society.
She is an MRCOG Examiner and has served on RCOG
Committees and Working Parties.
She has been RCOG Regional Adviser for Obstetrics and
Gynaecology and Chair of the NI Regional Training Committee
for O&G.
She has been involved with the UK Confidential Enquiry into
Maternal Deaths (CEMD) as NI Regional Assessor since 2001
and has authored the Sepsis Chapter in the last three CEMD
Reports (2000-2; 2003-5; 2006-8) and the Amniotic Fluid
Embolism Chapter in the 2009-12 Report.
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Thursday 12th February 2015 at 8.00pm
Ulster Medical Society Rooms, Whitla Medical Building
JOINT MEETING WITH THE ULSTER SOCIETY
FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE
Chair: Dr Stanley Hawkins MD, FRCP
THE GARY LOVE LECTURE
REFLECTIONS ON THE DUN’S LIBRARY AND THE ROYAL
COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS IN IRELAND FROM ITS
FOUNDING TO PRESENT DAY
Dr Paul Darragh MD, PhD, MSc, FRCP UK & Ireland,
FFPHM UK & Ireland
Dr Paul Darragh is currently a Consultant in Public Health,
Public Health Agency, Northern Ireland. He previously was
Senior Lecturer/Consultant in Public Health, Q.U.B./EHSSB,
Principal in General Practice, East Belfast and associate in
General Practice, Nova Scotia, Canada.
The presentation will cover a range of issues involving the
history, role and activities of the RCPI from its founding in 1654
to the present day. It will look at the life, times and influence
of Sir Patrick Dun on the development of the College. In
particular how his bequest figured widely in the activity of the
College from generation to generation. Dun’s impact on the
College is still recognised in the position of Dun’s Librarian as
the Custodian of the College Heritage.
All exclusively medical historical libraries in the U.K. struggle
for meaning, purpose and to be cherished. A brief overview of
the current strengths of the library will touch on some of the
College collections, the archives, preservation, e-cataloguing,
genealogical research and other activities aimed at making the
library fit for purpose in the 21st Century.
Finally there will be a brief discussion on records management
for the preservation of recent history over the last 50 years.
There is a major gap in our knowledge of this time period,
which encompasses the period of greatest development of
speciality medicine.
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Ulster Medical Society
Thursday 26th February 2015 at 8.00pm
North Lecture Theatre, MBC, QUB
JOINT MEETING WITH THE QUEEN’S
UNIVERSITY ACADEMIC MEDICINE SOCIETY
President Mr Nathan Cantley
SIR THOMAS AND LADY EDITH DIXON
LECTURE
AUSTERITY: A FAILED EXPERIMENT ON THE PEOPLE
Professor Martin McKee CBE, MD, DSc, MSc, FRCP,
FRCPE, FRCPI, FFPH, FMedSci
Professor Martin McKee is professor of European Public Health.
He qualified in medicine at Queens with subsequent training in
internal medicine and public health. As Professor of European
Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine Martin was founding director of the European
Centre on Health of Societies in Transition (ECOHOST), a
WHO Collaborating Centre that comprises the largest team of
researchers working on health and health policy in central and
eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, and which he led
for over a decade. He is also research director of the European
Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, a unique
partnership of universities, national and regional governments,
and international agencies and is President-elect of the
European Public Health Association.Martin has published over
750 scientific papers and 42 books and he has been invited
to give many endowed lectures, including the Milroy (Royal
College of Physicians), Cochrane (UK Society for Social
Medicine), Ference Bojan (EUPHA), Davidson (Royal College of
Physicians Edinburgh). In 2003 Martin was awarded the Andrija
Stampar medal for contributions to European public health
and in 2005 was made a Commander of the Order of the
British Empire (CBE) by HM Queen Elizabeth II.
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Thursday 12th March 2015 at 8.00pm
Lecture Theatre 1/2, Centre for Medical and Dental
Education and Training, Altnagelvin Area Hospital
THE DESMOND WHYTE MEMORIAL LECTURE
ANAESTHETISTS MAKING A DIFFERENCE – LIGHT
ADJUSTMENT AND OTHER TALENTS
Dr Geoff Nesbitt MB, BCh, BAO, FFARCSI
Dr Geoff A Nesbitt qualified from QUB in 1979.
Upon completing specialist training in Anaesthetics he was
appointed Consultant in Anaesthesia at Altnagelvin Hospital
in 1991.
He has been the Clinical Director in Anaesthetics & Critical Care
from 1998 – 2002, Medical Director to Altnagelvin Trust 2002 –
2007 and Associate Medical Director, Quality & Safety, Western
Trust 2007 – 2014.
After 35 years in medicine Geoff has retired from anaesthetics
to spend more time pursuing his many hobbies.
Thursday 26th March 2015 at 8.00pm
Ulster Medical Society Rooms, Whitla Medical Building
THE ROBERT CAMPBELL ORATION
HOW MOLECULAR TECHNIQUES IN MEDICINE ARE
MAKING A DIFFERENCE TO PATIENT CARE
Professor Peter Coyle MD, MRCPath
Professor Peter Coyle is a Consultant Virologist and Clinical
Director of Labs in the Royal Victoria Hospital and Belfast
Health and Social CareTrust.
Peter is the immediate Past-President of the European Society
of Clinical Virology, a member of the Scientific Advisory
Committee on Genetic Modification (SACGM) and a section
editor of the Journal of Medical Microbiology.
His particular research interest is to improve the effectiveness
of patient management through molecular approaches to
diagnosis.
Peter has published widely in the field of Clinical Virology.
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Ulster Medical Society
Friday 27th March 2015 (7.15 pm for 8.00 pm)
Great Hall and Canada Room, QUB
ANNUAL PRESIDENTIAL DINNER
Guest Speaker
John, Lord Alderdice, MB, BCh, BAO, FRCPsych
Thursday 28th May 2015 at 5.00pm
Ulster Medical Society Rooms, Whitla Medical Building
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
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COUNCIL 2014 - 2015
OFFICE-BEARERS
President
Dr Colin Mathews
Immediate Past President
Mr Eamon Mackle
President Elect
Dr Michael McBride
Honorary Treasurer
Dr Fiona Stewart
Honorary Editor
Dr John Purvis
Honorary Archivist
Dr John Logan
Honorary Secretary
Mr Gerry McGinnity
MEMBERS
Dr L Miller
Prof D Johnston
Dr J Craig
TRUSTEES
Dr JF Douglas
Dr AEW Gilliland
Prof. GE McVeigh
Dr CM Ritchie
Dr ME Scott
Prof. RW Stout
Dr CM Wilson
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CONTACT DETAILS
Council Room
Whitla Medical Building
Tel: 028 9097 5780
ums@ums.ac.uk
Honorary Secretary
Mr Gerry McGinnity
Ground Floor,
Eye and Ear Clinic
Royal Victoria Hospital
Belfast
BT12 6BA
Email:gerry.mcginnity@belfasttrust.hscni.net
Tel: 028 9063 3052
Honorary Treasurer
Dr Fiona Stewart
Department of Medical Genetics
A Floor
Belfast City Hospital
Belfast
BT9 7AB
Honorary Editor
Dr John Purvis
Department of Cardiology
Altnagelvin Area Hospital
Glenshane Road
Londonderry
BT47 6SB
Email: john.purvis@westerntrust.hscni.net
Tel: 028 7134 5171
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of the society can be made by post or
email to the Honorary Secretary.
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