Meetings 2009 to 2010

The programme of lectures starts on Thursday 8 October 2009 and continues at intervals on Thursday evenings at 8 pm until 25 March 2010.

Guests of Fellows and Members are welcome as are all registered medical practitioners whether members or not. Anyone else wishing to attend should contact the Honorary Secretary beforehand.

The Ulster Medical Society rooms are in the Whitla Medical Building, Lisburn Road, Belfast. The Medical Biology Centre is a very short distance away.

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

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

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

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

  • Note change of speaker
    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

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

  • 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

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

  • 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

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
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