Meet our new Faculty President… Christopher Gardner-Thorpe MD FRCP FRCPE FACP, Consultant Neurologist It is a great pleasure to have been appointed President of the Faculty and I shall work hard to further the aims of the Faculty as have my predecessors, and with the help of the Deputy President, Briony Hudson. My own time […]

Geoffrey Flavell’s career as a thoracic surgeon spanned the development of the discipline from the surgical treatment of tuberculosis to cardiac surgery. The Flavell fund was bequested to the Faculty by the late Joan Margaret Flavell in memory of her husband. The Flavell Symposium was co-produced with University of Oxford, Healthcare Values Partnership on Thursday […]

The John Locke Lecture was established in 1978 to commemorate the interest of the Faculty in the philosophy of medicine. It commemorates John Locke the 17th century physician and philosopher. Lecture title: Compassion in Healthcare; Practical Policy for Civic Life Speaker: Dr Joshua Hordern Lecture date: Thursday 29th June 2017   Dr Joshua Hordern – Speaker […]

Professor Rodney Taylor, 1942 – 2017 We are saddened to send you news of the recent death of Professor Rodney Taylor, Past Master 2012-13. Professor Taylor passed away peacefully after a long illness, with his family around him, on Wednesday 3rd May. A Service of Thanksgiving for his life will be held at 3.00 pm […]

The Galen medal was instituted by the Society in 1925 for valuable services or contributions rendered to the science of therapeutics. It is awarded on a broad basis, therapeutics being understood to encompass the whole spectrum of the art of healing, from preventative medicine to surgical intervention. The recipient of the medal in 2017 was […]

Early in May, six members of the Faculty of Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine travelled to the Curragh near Dublin to present a three-day Humanitarian Disaster Assistance Course. This course, which has been run on three previous occasions, is sponsored by the organisation Co-operation and Working Together (CAWT – which is dedicated to improving cross-border co-operation […]

The Faculty of Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine held a lecture on 9th May 2017 introducing our new Faculty President Dr Christina Dale. We welcomed our Speaker Mike Wooldridge OBE, who gave a lecture entitled ‘Race against the clock’ on a journalist’s perspective of Conflicts. (Left – right) Mike Wooldridge receives his medal from Dr Christina Dale, […]

The Sloane Lecture was established in 1973 to commemorate the tercentenary of the Physic Garden at Chelsea and named in honour of Sir Hans Sloane Bart; P.R.C.P. who granted the lease of the garden to the Society in perpetuity for a normal rent. It is devoted to the history of botany and especially the part […]

The lecture commemorated John Keats (1795-1821) who was a student at Guy’s and qualified at the Hall in 1816. The lecture was established in 1969 when the Royal College of Surgeons of England also co-hosted the Lecture series (http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/chh/eventrecords/Keats.aspx). This year the Lecture marks the 200th anniversary since the poet John Keats arrived at Guy’s to study […]

The Osler Lecture was inaugurated in 1967 and is named after Sir William Osler, the great medical humanist and historian.  It is normally given by the student who gave the best dissertation in the Diploma in the History of Medicine. Speaker: Mike Davidson, FRCS DHMSA Lecture title: The Foundation of Taunton and Somerset Hospital (1812) […]