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Held on Tuesday, 4 February 2025 at 6:30pm Venue: Apothecaries’ Hall, Black Friar’s Lane, London EC4V 6EJ Maternal Health in Humanitarian Settings Lecture: To be given by Dr Brigid Hayden FRCOG & Dr Benjamin Black Speakers with first-hand experience in providing care to pregnant women and new-borns in the context of conflict and catastrophe environments will […]
Dr Tessa Murdoch FSA worked at the Museum of London from 1981-1990 and at the V&A from 1990-2021. Her book Europe Divided: Huguenot Refugee Art and Culture was published by the V&A in November 2021. She was also consultant on a recent publication, Great Irish Households: Inventories from the long eighteenth century (John Adamson, November […]
Dr Caroline Coats MBBS BSc MSc PhD FRCP DHMSA is Consultant Cardiologist to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Glasgow. She is Lead Clinician for the Network of Inherited Cardiac Conditions Scotland. Dr Coats also has a long-standing interest in the history of medicine, completing the […]
Gareth Williams MD ScD FRCP FRCPE is an Emeritus Professor and former Dean of Medicine at the University of Bristol. He graduated from Cambridge, trained in London and Geneva and specialised in diabetes and obesity, building up an internationally recognised research group in Liverpool. He has published over 200 papers on diabetes, obesity and neuroendocrinology, […]
The Faculty owes its existence to Dr Leslie Payne who died in 2018. Dr Payne helped establish the Diploma in the Medical Care of Catastrophes (DMCC), which continues to be taught and examined at the Society of Apothecaries.
Presenting Hans Sloane Lecture Remedies from the New World in James Petiver’s (1665-1718) Apothecary Practice: To be given by Katrina Maydom Katrina Maydom completed her PhD in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, where she was funded by the Wellcome Trust. Her thesis investigated the production, trade and consumption of New World […]
