May
1
8:30 pm20:30

The AGM of the Society

The AGM of the Society will take place on May 1st after the talk which will commence approximately at 08.30pm. This will take about an hour or so.

SOUTHAMPTON MEDICAL SOCIETY

President Dr David Rowen FRCP

 

The AGM of the Southampton Medical Society

will be held on Wednesday 1st May 2024 at the Ampfield Golf Club

1.      President’s welcome

2.      Prof. Neil White, Dr Rod Lane and Dr Harry Akerman: Novel Wearable Sensors - the challenge of getting them to market.

3.      THE AGM

4.    Apologies

5.   The minutes of the last AGM [having been circulated before the meeting]

6.   Matters arising:

            a. Planned talks for next season were discussed. A season of very good speakers was being planned.

            b. Proposed new grant for GPs wishing to enrol on a postgraduate training course - Progress.

[Reminder from last year:

Preamble:

 

It is proposed that the Society should offer grants to suitable doctors who wish to go on a course to gain further training. The cost of these courses range from £3000 to £6000 depending on the speciality. In order to receive one they would have to meet the Society’s criteria. It was agreed in committee that we should run a pilot for 18 months and then reassess it.

In view of it being a pilot scheme we probably do not need to add it to the constitution at this stage. Merely discuss it at the AGM

It was agreed to put a ceiling on the amount available. £3000 was agreed and that a maximum of 3 recipients would be considered in any one year.

 

Detail

 

Grants would be available under following conditions:

 

                  1.               The grant is available to GPs of more than 5 years standing

                  2.               Applicants should have a permanent GP post in the NHS (GP Partner GP Salaried GP Retainer The GP could be part time.)

                  3.               A speciality for which the local NHS is demonstrably in need of more medical staff to run it will be given priority.

                  4.               The applicant should be local   (ie Southampton, New Forest  or Winchester to fulfil terms of the Foott bequest)
            5,               Money should not be available elsewhere for the applicant to apply    

                  6.               The applicant should be a member of the Southampton Medical Society, or if not will be obliged to join the Society at the time                                                           application, to be eligible for a Foott Memorial Grant

 

 

Finally the grants could be mentioned during appraisal meetings. It could also be advertised in the LMC Magazine. etc.]

 

                 

 

            c. Lunchtime meetings

 

7.  The treasurer’s report

 

8.  The Chairman of the Trustees,

 

9. To elect the auditor/ accountant Stone Osmond: The treasurer proposes that we continue with Stone Osmond who are providing an excellent service at a competitive rate.

 

10. To elect the Officers and Committee of the Society:

            The following were elected:

                                                Officers:

                                                Vice President: Mary Alveyn               

                                                Hon. Secretary: Dr Alister Hutchin

                                                Hon. Treasurer: Post vacant at present. Dr David Rowen will                                                           continue pro tem

 

                                                Committee:    

                                                Dr Frank Akerman

                                                Dr Mary Alveyn

                                                Mr Iain Chisholm

                                                Dr Alex Freeman

                                                Dr Margaret Keightley

                                                Dr Martin Radford

                                                Dr Alan Roberts

 

11. Inauguration of Prof. Chris Stephens as President for 2024 - 2025.

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THE FOOTT MEMORIAL LECTURE
Feb
7
7:00 pm19:00

THE FOOTT MEMORIAL LECTURE

THIS LECTURE IS THE HIGHLIGHT OF OUR SEASON EACH YEAR. IT IS GIVEN IN MEMORY OF DR FOOTT WHO WAS A DRIVING FORCE FOR FURTHER MEDICAL EDUCATION IN SOUTHAMPTON IN THE 30S AND 40S.

This year it will be given by

Dr Ben Marshall MB BS FRCP PhD DTM&H,

Consultant in respiratory diseases in Southampton General Hospital. He has a special interest in tuberculosis.

The lecture is entitled

‘Tuberculosis - past, present and future’

Dr Marshall is also Honorary associate professor - University of Southampton Faculty of Medicine,

  • He won the Brian Leatherdale teaching award for best clinical teacher in 2016

  • and received the

  • Award of Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Educators - 2017

Dr Marshall was involved in a filming project that launched at the Royal Society for Public Health Awards in 2016: 'Championing the Public's Health'. The objectives of this project are to emphasize the value of vaccination at all stages of life and to demonstrate the potential of vaccination as part of an effective preventative health strategy.

He regularly gives interviews on TV, on the radio and in the press in the areas of respiratory infections and vaccinations for influenza. 

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A LUNCHTIME MEETING
Nov
1
12:00 pm12:00

A LUNCHTIME MEETING

PROFESSOR CYRUS COOPER WIILL DELIVER A TALK ON

‘Four decades in Clinical Academia here in Southampton: A wonderful journey’

This lunchtime meeting is a new venture. We will start at 12.00pm with the talk which will be followed by lunch

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Dr Ollie Ross. Consultant paediatric anaesthetist in PICU at SGH
Apr
5
8:45 pm20:45

Dr Ollie Ross. Consultant paediatric anaesthetist in PICU at SGH

NOTES FROM NEPAL In which the describes his experiences in Nepal.

In 2014 Dr Ollie Ross received the McColl Global Health Prize for his work in developing specialist medical education training in Nepal. In 2007 Dr Ross formed the SGH voluntary staff society “Southampton Overseas Health and Medicine (SOHMED)” to work in rural hospitals in Nepal to enhance training facilities and skills.The team visits twice a year to continue the training. A video library of techniques to assist teaching has been created.

To be followed by the AGM of the Society. The Agenda is displayed under mews.

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THE FOOTT MEMORIAL LECTURE to be given by Prof. C.P. Sherman OBE, MS, FRCS. Emeritus Professor of Vascular Surgery, Southampton
Feb
1
7:00 pm19:00

THE FOOTT MEMORIAL LECTURE to be given by Prof. C.P. Sherman OBE, MS, FRCS. Emeritus Professor of Vascular Surgery, Southampton

“CHANGING THE WORLD - FEET FIRST.”
Cliff is of course known to many of us and it is a great honour to have him give the Foott Memorial Lecture 2023.

On 12 April 2018 he was elected as Vice President of the Royal College of Surgeons for 3 years.
Cliff Shearman is Emeritus Professor of Vascular Surgery at the University of Southampton and a Non-Executive Director on the Trust Board at the Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch NHS Foundation Trust. He was President of the Vascular Society of Great Britain in 2010.  After postgraduate training in Birmingham under Peter London in the Birmingham Accident Hospital he was appointed as a consultant and senior lecturer at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham in 1990 before moving to Southampton in 1994. Cliff Shearman has had a number of roles in training and was the Head of the Wessex Postgraduate School of Surgery (1997-2012) and established the new Vascular SAC (2012-2015) which rolled out the new Vascular Training Programme in the UK.

He was made an OBE in the 2021 Queen’s birthday honours

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Jan
11
7:00 pm19:00

Foott Bursary Winners reports

Drs Daisy Christian-Edwards, Josh Grey, Libby Timperley and Morgan Welland will entertain us with reports on how they used the Bursaries for their electives.

This meeting is always very popular and it is nice to be able to meet them over dinner at Ampfield beforehand. We get a good overview of what it is like being a young doctor in the present underfunded NHS.

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Medicine, Disease and Doctor in Antiquity
Dec
7
7:00 pm19:00

Medicine, Disease and Doctor in Antiquity

Dr Keith Liddell MD FRCP

Retired Consultant Dermatologist for East Sussex Hospitals

He has been interested in archaeology and the classics since childhood and over the years he has explored many remote archaeological sites, so his hobby and profession have enabled him to specialise in the subject of medicine around the world. He has lectured nationally and internationally on different aspects of medicine in antiquity and his illustrated talks feature photos taken by his wife Linda.

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"A Penguin in the Clinic - remote public health care for the Falklands with occasional visits to check on the fauna as well." Dr Matthew Dryden
Nov
2
7:00 pm19:00

"A Penguin in the Clinic - remote public health care for the Falklands with occasional visits to check on the fauna as well." Dr Matthew Dryden

Dr Matthew Dryden, Consultant Microbiologist to Hampshire Hospitals and RIPL Porton Down, will talk about remote public health care for the Falkland Islands - with occasional visits to check on the fauna as well.

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Prof. Cyrus Cooper OBE, FRCP, FFPH. "Four Decades in Clinical Academia here in Southampton- a wonderful journey"
Oct
20
3:30 pm15:30

Prof. Cyrus Cooper OBE, FRCP, FFPH. "Four Decades in Clinical Academia here in Southampton- a wonderful journey"

Cyrus Cooper is well known to us here. He is Professor of Rheumatology and Director of the MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit; Vice-Dean of Medicine at the University of Southampton; and Professor of Musculoskeletal Science at the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford.

He has made major epidemiological contributions to the pathophysiology and prevention of osteoporosis, to the epidemiology of osteoarthritis and on the occupational and environmental determinants of soft tissue rheumatic disorders. His key research contributions have been in discovery of the developmental influences which contribute to the risk of osteoporosis and hip fracture in late adulthood and in demonstrating that maternal vitamin D insufficiency is associated with sub-optimal bone mineral accrual in childhood.

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Alan Chivers
Oct
5
7:00 pm19:00

Alan Chivers

Our talk will be given by

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Alan Chivers

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“Energy Renewables in 2022 - 2030, Joined Up Solutions” Alan is a pioneer of wind energy. He founded one of the largest renewable energy consulting firms in Europe in 1994.

He is now a senior advisor to ERM.

They received a Queens Honorary Award for Enterprise in 2021. The Renewables Consultancy Group were recognised as winners in this category. Alan and his sons developed the company into one of the world’s largest renewable energy consulting firms.The business started out with Alan with his sons Nick and Sebastien. “We started out in Romsey with just a little office of about 3 or 4 desks. Never did we think the business would do as well as it did.” Hants Chronicle. It was eventually purchased by ERM.

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THE FOOTT MEMORIAL LECTURE:                                                                                                   AIR POLLUTION - The Greatest environmental Challenge to Human Health
Apr
6
7:30 pm19:30

THE FOOTT MEMORIAL LECTURE: AIR POLLUTION - The Greatest environmental Challenge to Human Health

The Foott Memorial Lecture is being delivered by
PROF. SIR STEPHEN HOLGATE, CBE, BSc, MB BS, MD, DSc, CSc (hon), FRCP, FRCP (Edin), FRCPath, FAAAAI, FACAAI FEAACI, FERS, MAE, FMedSci.
Medical Research Council Clinical Professor of Immunopharmacology at the Faculty of Medicine, Southampton

His research interests include immunopharmacology, allergy, asthma and pollution.[2][9][7][10] In 1980, after completing a 2 year post doctoral fellowship with K Frank Austen at the Robert Brigham Hospital and Harvard University, Boston provided by the Dorothy Temple Cross MRC endowment and the Wellcome Trust he returned to the University of Southampton to pursue a research career in asthma and allied disorders. This was focused on the causes of human asthma and its treatment. After establishing the key role that mast cells and other key effector cells play in triggering the acute allergic inflammatory response in asthma, he pursued the mechanisms of asthma chronicity and variability across the lifecourse. He has utilised many approaches to study asthma including epidemiology, genetics, pathology, microbiology and immunology, pharmacology and experimental medicine. 

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Covid Vaccine Development
Mar
2
7:30 pm19:30

Covid Vaccine Development

Prof. Saul Faust, MA, FRCPCH, PhD, FHEA
Director NIHR Southampton Clinical Research Facility, Southampton University Hospital


Professor Faust is currently Chair of the UK NIHR Medicines for Children Clinical Specialty Group Chairs' Forum and the Clinical Speciality Group for Allergy, Infectious Diseases and Immunity. He is Wessex Clinical Research Network Specialty Lead for Paediatrics and co-Director of the South Central Children’s Research Network

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Medicine, Disease and Doctors in Antiquity
Dec
1
7:30 pm19:30

Medicine, Disease and Doctors in Antiquity

Dr Keith Liddell MD FRCP
Retired Consultant Dermatologist for East Sussex Hospitals

He has been interested in archaeology and the classics since childhood and over the years he has explored many remote archaeological sites, so his hobby and profession have enabled him to specialise in the subject of medicine around the world. He has lectured nationally and internationally on different aspects of medicine in antiquity and his illustrated talks feature photos taken by his wife Linda.

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From Stonehenge to Orkney: Understanding the Great Monuments of the 3rd Millennium BC
Jan
8
7:00 pm19:00

From Stonehenge to Orkney: Understanding the Great Monuments of the 3rd Millennium BC

Dr Ben Chan PhD. Research Fellow, Dept Archeology, Southampton University.

DrChan writes: I specialise in the Neolithic archaeology of Britain, focusing on the analysis of stone tools, and the role of material practices in the social reproduction of prehistoric societies. After receiving my PhD from the University of Sheffield in 2003 I went on to hold post-doctoral positions on the Stonehenge Riverside Project (at the University of Manchester) and the Feeding Stonehenge Project (at the University of Sheffield), both funded by the AHRC. In 2013 I won a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship, which was based in the Laboratory for Artefact Studies in the Faculty of Archaeology at Leiden University. I am currently working on the AHRC-funded Living with Monuments Project, which investigates settlement and related activities in the Avebury region from the 4th to 2nd millennia BC. I have also worked extensively within commercial archaeology and have held positions as an archaeological consultant to the Antiquities and Monuments Office in Hong Kong, and as an Assistant Heritage Protection Adviser within English Heritage.

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Apr
10
8:45 pm20:45

THE AGM OF THE SOCIETY

The AGM will take place on 10th April 2019 at the Ampfield Golf Club after the talk. The meeting starts at 8.45pm. If you wish to dine please contact Dr Alister Hutchin via the contacts page


SOUTHAMPTON MEDICAL SOCIETY

President Dr Terry Wood

The AGM of the Southampton Medical Society 

will be held at the Royal Southampton Yacht Club 

on Wednesday 10th April 2019 at 8.45pm

AGENDA

1. The President will open the meeting   

2. To approve the minutes of the last ordinary meeting

3. Professor Norman MacLean: “A Walk with our Ancestors: Human Evolution and Archeology”

THE AGM OF THE SOCIETY

4. Apologies

5. To approve the minutes of the last AGM (copy att. so they will not be read aloud).

6. Matters arising

7. Venue for next year and planned talks

8. Treasurer’s report

9. Dr Dick Buckle , Chair of the Board of Trustees

10. To elect the auditor/accountants Stone Osmond

11. To elect the Officers and Committee of the Society

12. To inaugurate Mr Robert Jackson as President for 2019-2020


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