Welcome

to the website of the Brighton Medico-Chirurgical Society. The Society was founded in 1847 by Dr William King and is one of the older medical societies in the UK. It was set up to enable members of the medical profession to meet regularly for educational and social purposes.

Read more about its history and organisation.

Annual Dinner

The Society Annual Dinner is to be held at Bramber House, The University of Sussex on Friday 17th July 2009.

The Current President

The President for the year 2009 is Professor Helen Smith. The current program is available on the meetings page.

The theme of the Med Chi lecture program for 2009 is the ‘Wider Determinants of Health’, and this will commence with Helen’s Presidential talk on the role of philately in promoting health.

Read about future meetings and speakers.

Visit recent events to see a collection of images giving a flavour of some recent meetings and the archive page for reminders of previous years.

Meetings

The Society's meetings are usually held on the first Thursday of each month. As has been the tradition since 1847, speakers from all walks of life are invited to address the Society. The meetings are held in the Education Centre in the new Audrey Emerton Building on the Royal Sussex County Hospital site or in the Brighton and Sussex Medical School at the University of Sussex at Falmer. Maps for both venues are available. The Society is grateful to the Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust for providing us with office space and a meeting venue.

Next Meeting:

"A little night club medicine; caring for clubbers' health in the 21st`century"

Thursday 1st October 2009 at 7.45pm.

Dr Chris Luke, Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Cork University Hospital

 

Dr Chris Luke is a Dubliner who graduated from UCD in 1982. After posts in Scotland, Australia and England he returned to Ireland in 1999 as Consultant in Accident and Emergency Medicine in Cork. His special interests include the healthcare implications of modern urban life (from violence to homelessness, substance and alcohol misuse). He was a founder member of “Club Cork”, a multi-agency course in customer care and safety undertaken in licensed premises, and has contributed to numerous radio and TV programmes, and international conferences on the effects of alcohol, drugs and violence. His interest in “Nightclub Medicine” developed after collaborating with Cream, the Liverpool superclub, to successfully enhance the safety of their venue and its surroundings for clubbers.