- All academic events are held in the Education & Training Centre, Countess of Chester Hospital.
- Presidential evening: Meet at 7pm for drinks, presidential address 7.30pm, formal dinner 8.30pm.
- All other academic events: Meet at 7pm for drinks, informal meal at 7.30 pm academic talk approx. 8.30 – 9.30 pm.
- If you would like to attend please email postgraduate.education@nhs.net or phone ext. 4727 to register your attendance.
- Meetings/Meals are part funded by a generous educational grant from the West Cheshire Health Education & Research Foundation.
- Junior Doctors and Medical Students can attend Academic Evenings for free.
- Guests who are not members of the CNWMS are most welcome but we ask for a contribution towards the meal of £10. This should be paid by BACS at the time of booking.
- Acct name: Chester and North Wales Medical Society, Sort code: 60 40 08, Acct number: 79823556. Reference: Name, event
- Acct name: Chester and North Wales Medical Society, Sort code: 60 40 08, Acct number: 79823556. Reference: Name, event
| Date | Event | Information |
| Thursday, May 1 Drinks reception from 19:00 Meal 19:30 Presentation 20:30 | Academic Evening | Dr Austen Worth, Paediatric Immunologist Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH). “Personalised medicine: Future or Fallacy?” Will future medical treatments be tailored to the individual, increasing successful outcomes and minimising side effects? Hopefully Austen will be able to tell us! Austen is a highly respected European expert in Paediatric immunodeficiency syndromes, using advanced treatments including stem cell transplant, gene therapy and thymic transplant as well as targeted therapy using novel and re-purposed drugs. At GOSH he and his team take referrals for treatment of very sick children from all over Europe. He is Associate Medical Director for therapeutics at GOSH as well as being Chair of the Drugs and Therapeutics committee, an Associate Professor at UCL, Clinical Lead for the European Thymic Transplant program and he has been an expert advisor to NICE. He sits on various clinical guideline committees of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and is a member of the European consensus guideline groups for SCID (Severe Combined Immunodeficiency) newborn screening and asplenia post chemotherapy. He has over 100 publications in peer reviewed journals and is currently principal investigator on 5 multicentre clinical trials or studies. He has previously worked in health development in sub-Saharan Africa and was chair of the RCPCH VSO Fellowship committee for 4 years. In the little spare time he has left he likes to get into the mountains, walking, climbing and mountaineering, especially in Scotland. |
| Thursday, May 22 | President’s Prize evening Abstracts are currently being submitted to be presented on the evening Everyone is encouraged to attend this event, whether or not a current member. A meal will be served before the presentations start. Abstracts to be submitted by email to: Postgraduate.education@nhs.net Closing date midday Friday 2nd May To register your attendance: email: postgraduate.education@nhs.net, or phone: extension 4727 Guests who are not members of the CNWMS are most welcome but we ask for a contribution towards the meal of £10. This should be paid by BACS at the time of booking. Or why not join now and benefit from free food and drink at all future events? | |
| September (TBC) | Academic Evening | Joe McCloud, Clinical Director & Lead for Human Factors, Telford and Shrewsbury NHS Trust |
| Saturday, November 29 | Ball | Winter Ball at Rowton Hall |