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Speakers for 2010:
14 January 2010
Bob Tranter is doubly qualified holding fellowships in ENT Surgery and Dental Surgery. He was appointed to Brighton and Haywards Heath Hospitals in 1982. He has a wide experience in all aspects of ENT Surgery but for the last sixteen years, has specialised with his colleague Carl Hardwidge in skull base surgery. He has a major political interest in independent medical practice, and together with Bob Gumpert founded the Sussex Association of Consultants. He was invited to join the Executive of the Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association and now he is a Trustee. He is Secretary of FIPO, the Federation of Independent Practitioner Organisations, an overarching Body concerned with standards in independent medical practice which he helped form with Geoffrey Glazer.
4 February 2010
Geoffrey Glazer, MS FRCS FACS is a general surgeon who after qualification from St Mary’s Hospital Medical School pursued his training in the South of England before spending a year at Harvard in research. He was appointed Assistant Director of the Academic Unit and thereafter as NHS consultant to St Mary’s from which he recently retired. He is the Chairman of FIPO (the Federation of Independent Practitioner Organisations) and is now the Medical Director of the Wellington Hospital, London, which is the largest independent hospital in the UK. In these capacities he is actively promoting the quality assurance aspects of medicine and resisting managed care intrusions within and outside the NHS.
4 March 2010
Victor Spinetti was born in Wales. His first West End Productions were– EXPRESSO BONGO with Paul Scofield and CANDIDE by Leonard Bernstein. He spent six years with Joan Littlewood’s Theatre Workshop playing Stratford E15, the West End, Paris and New York. THE HOSTAGE by Brendan Behan; FING’S AIN’T WOT THEY USED T’BE; Shakespeare’s HENRY IV PARTS I AND II; Ben Johnson’s EVERY MAN IN HIS HUMOUR and OH, WHAT A LOVELY WAR which subsequently transferred to New York and for which Victor received Broadway’s ‘Tony’ Award for his performance and First Prize at the Theatre De Nations in Paris. Again in the West End, Felix in Neil Simon’s THE ODD COUPLE at the Queen’s Theatre; Feydeau’s CAT AMONG THE PIGEONS at the Prince of Wales, WINDY CITY at the Victoria Palace and more recently as ‘The Baron’ in CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG at the London Palladium.
Some of Victor’s many film appearances include A HARD DAY’S NIGHT, HELP and THE MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR all with ‘The Beatles’; THE TAMING OF THE SHREW directed by Franco Zeffirelli and starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor; Dylan Thomas’s UNDER MILK WOOD again with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor; BECKET; THE VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED with Faye Dunaway, Orson Welles and James Mason; THE RETURN OF THE PINK PANTHER with Peter Sellers; UNDER THE CHERRY MOON with Prince; JULIE AND THE CADDILACS with an all star cast and the mini series IN THE BEGINNING in Morocco.Victor has toured America promoting his role in the The Beatles films that have just been released on DVD. He has played in his one man show A VERY PRIVATE DIARY all over the world and in London at the Donmar, Apollo, The King’s Head and most recently on the QE2 directed by the late Ned Sherrin. He has also had many radio credits including in recent months ALBERT’S BOY on BBC Radio Drama.
1 April 2010
Dame Felicity Lott DBE CBEwas born in Cheltenham. She was educated at Pate’s Grammar School for Girls, read French and Latin at Royal Holloway College, University of London, and then won a scholarship to study singing at the Royal Academy of Music. She made her debut at English National Opera in 1975 and her Glyndebourne Festival debut in 1977, singing in almost every subsequent Festival until 1990. She specialises in the operas of Mozart and Strauss and has sung at all the major opera houses of the world: London, Vienna, Milan, Paris, New York, Chicago, Munich and with many great conductors. She has also toured the world giving song recitals and in 2009 she sings in London, Washington, Paris, Brussels, Venice and Tokyo. She holds Honorary Doctorates from the Universities of Oxford, London, Sussex, Leicester and Loughborough. She is a Fellow of Royal Holloway College, the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music, a Chevalier of the Legion d’Honneur and an Officier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
6 May 2010
Bob Marshall-Andrews QC MP Labour Member of Parliament for Medway in Kent. Robert Marshall-Andrews was born in 1944 and attended Mill Hill School and then the University of Bristol to study law and won the Observer Mace. He was called to the Bar in 1970, was Crown Court Recorder, became a Queen’s Counsel and a Bencher, at Grays Inn and prosecuted and defended most forms of serious crime and serious criminals, specialising in commercial fraud. He entered Parliament in the 1997 general election. He has rebelled against the government on 134 occasions since 2001 (20 of those rebellions being in the 2005 parliament), mainly on legal issues and foreign policy. He is often mentioned as a candidate for Backbencher Of The Year and is a founder of the “Old Testament Prophets” dining group. He is an occasional novelist with the publication of “Palace of Wisdom”, “A Man Without Guilt” and produces regular articles in the Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Independent, Sunday Times and some periodicals (New Statesman, House Magazine, Tribune). He is a Founder and Trustee of the George Adamson Wildlife Trust, presently operating in the Mkomazi Game Reserve, Tanzania, he is a Trustee of the Geffrye Museum, London and was the Chair of Governors, Grey Court School. He is an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society.
3 June 2010
Professor Valerie Lund is Professor of Rhinology at the Ear Institute, University College London and is an Honorary Consultant ENT Surgeon at the Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital (Royal Free Trust), Moorfields Eye Hospital, University College Hospital and Imperial College. She deals with all nose and sinus conditions with a particular interest in sinonasal tumours and has been involved in endoscopic sinus surgery and its extended applications since the early 1980’s. She holds a number of national and international administrative posts including the Chief Editor of ‘Rhinology’, is Co-Chairman of the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology Taskforce on Rhinosinusitis (EPOS) and became General Secretary of the European Rhinologic Society in 2008.
She was elected member of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England from 1995 to 2006, was Chairman of the Intercollegiate Examination Board in Otolaryngology until 2007 and previously chaired Women in Surgical Training (WIST). In 2008 she was awarded a CBE for services to medicine and in 2009 was elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
7 October 2010
Simon Watts is an ENT Surgeon with a sub-specialist interest in facial plastic surgery. He was awarded the Joseph Fellowship as a Registrar that enabled him to train with eminent facial plastic surgeons in both Europe and the USA. As a result, the rich history of facial plastic surgery on both sides of the Atlantic is of relevance to his daily work, enabling insight on past and present luminaries in this field.
4 November 2010
Professor Richard Ramsden is an Honorary Professor Of Otolaryngology at the University of Manchester. He is past president of the British Association of Otolaryngologists and Master of the British Academic Conference in Otolaryngology. He is Principal Advisor in Otolaryngology to NICE. His main surgical interest is the surgery of acoustic neuromas and cochlear implant surgery. He has undertaken over a 1000 of each procedure. He has received numerous awards and given a multitude of eponymous lectures. He has written extensively and has over 300 publications to his name, has many articles in medical text books and is an entertaining and informative lecturer.
2 December 2010
Carl Hardwidge was born in South Wales. He qualified at Southampton Medical School 1981 and underwent Neurosurgical training in Cardiff, Liverpool and Birmingham before being appointed consultant at Hurstwood Park in 1992. He partnered Bob Tranter in 1993 and formed the Skull Base team which has endured. He is the Chair of the regional training scheme in Neurosurgery. A Senior Examiner for the Final Neurosurgical Fellowship and sits on the intercollegiate examination board. He has served on the Council of the Society of British Neurosurgeons, is past president of the British Skull Base Society and is president elect of the European Skull Base Society. He will be conference president at the forthcoming World Federation of Skull Base Surgeons Congress, which he is hosting in Brighton in 2012 and where he will take up the European Society Presidency. His outside interests include yacht racing and country sports.
Speakers for 2009:
8 January 2009
Professor Helen Smith is a graduate of Nottingham University with epidemiology and health services research training from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University of British Columbia. She has dual accreditation in general practice and public health medicine and experience of working in academic, hospital and general practice settings both in the UK and Canada. In April 2003 she was appointed to the Chair of Primary Care in the newly established Brighton & Sussex Medical School. Her research interests focus on health promotion and the evaluation of new technologies in Primary Care. 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.
5 February 2009
Robin Stott, a consultant physician in Lewisham, has a life long commitment to understanding and seeking to improve the economic, environmental and social circumstances which are most supportive of good health. As such he has been active in the antinuclear movement, was the chair of the International Physicians against nuclear war (IPPNW) international committee and is presently Vice Chair of Medact. He has long recognised the health implications of climate change, and the health benefits of moving to a society living within its environmental limits in which resources of all sorts are more equitably shared than at present (a sustainable and therefore healthy society). He has written and spoken extensively on these subjects. Currently he is a member of the London sustainable development commission, and co-chair of the BMJ initiated Climate and Health Council. He is married and an indulgent father of two. He loves cycling, tennis, Tai Chi, talking and partying, and still frightens the cat with his clarinet playing.
5 March 2009
Professor Allyson Pollock is Director of the Centre for International Public Health Policy at Edinburgh University. She trained in Medicine in Scotland and worked in hospitals in Edinburgh and Leeds before moving to London in 1986 to train in Public Health. From 1998 until 2006 she was professor of Public Health and Health Services Research at UCL. Her research interests include the financing of health care, the different structures of primary, intermediate and long term care, health and globalisation and public partnerships. She has given evidence to the Health, Transport and Treasury Select Committees of the House of Commons UK and to the Finance Committee of the Scottish Parliament. She has also co- written articles on the impact of the WTO and GATS on health and other public services and is the co author of ‘The New NHS:A Guide’ and author of ‘NHS Plc’.
2nd April 2009
Prof James Drife is a professor and NHS consultant in obstetrics and gynaecology in Leeds. He has been vice-president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, chairman of the Association of Professors of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, a member of the GMC and a consultant adviser to the Chief Medical Officer. He is a national assessor for the UK Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths and a consultant to the World Health Organisation’s Making Pregnancy Safer initiative, working mainly in Central Asia. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and writes regularly for the BMJ. His wife is a GP, his son is a lawyer and his daughter is a trainee in psychiatry. His hobby is song writing and he has appeared several times in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe between 1974 and 2007.
7 May 2009
Professor David Hunter worked for the King’s Fund Institute before moving to Durham as Professor of Health Policy and Management in 2000. His interests are in Translational Research, Public Health policy and practice. He also oversees the Health Leaders Programme which trains CEOs and board level directors for other European countries. David is an Honorary Member of the Faculty of Public Health, and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. Among his various responsibilities David is Chair of the UK Public Health Association and a member of NICE’s Research and Scientific Advisory Committee. He lectures and publishes widely on health policy and management topics.
4 June 2009
Dr Martin Marshall is Clinical Director at the Health Foundation, an independent charity which aims to improve the quality of healthcare across the UK. He joined the Foundation in November 2007 from his previous role in the Department of Health as Deputy Chief Medical Officer and Director General with responsibility for clinical quality and safety and medical education. Martin has worked as a principal in general practitioner for nearly 20 years. He has written over 130 publications in the field of policy-related quality of care, the majority focusing on the development, use and abuse of measures of quality, the public disclosure of performance information, the relationship between organisational culture and quality improvement and the use of incentives.
1 October 2009
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.
5 November 2009
Prof Adnan Custovic is a Professor of Allergy and a Head of Respiratory Research Group at the School of Translational Medicine, University of Manchester. His academic work focuses principally on the gene and environment interactions in the development of allergic diseases and primary prevention of asthma. Professor Custovic has authored or co-authored more than 100 articles in the major medical journals and contributed with chapters to 15 major textbooks. He has given more than 100 invited lectures at the major national and international congresses.
3 December 2009
Dr Richard Godfrey is retired respiratory physician, who still occasionally teaches for Southampton School of Medicine and the World Health Organisation. After retiring from Southampton he worked for Merlin, an international NGO, as a specialist health advisor in HIV and TB. He also has had a life-long passion for music, especially that of the organ. He plays and builds pipe organs, is an Associate of the Royal College of Organists, and won the Royal College of Organist’s Percy Whitlock prize for organ teaching. Richard gives regular concerts and has performed in Salisbury Cathedral, Nairobi Cathedral and Sherborne Abbey. He has been Organ Consultant to the Diocese of Salisbury since 1993, work which involves visiting many of the beautiful parish churches in towns and villages of Wiltshire and Dorset. He now devotes increasing time to teaching the organ, and especially hopes to increase the numbers of young people who take up this rather neglected instrument in our secular age.
Speakers for 2008:
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10 January 2008
Mr Bruce McLeod Having qualified at Guys he completed a basic surgical training before specialising in Eye Surgery. His first Ophthalmology post was at the Sussex Eye Hospital. Training posts in Australia, Exeter , London followed before becoming a Lecturer at the Leicester University Department of Ophthalmology where he carried out research into the epidemiology of diabetic eye disease.
He returned to the Sussex Eye Hospital as a consultant in 1996. He is an examiner and assessor for the Royal College of Ophthalmologists and an examiner for the Faculty for Sports and Exercise Medicine. His interests include the provision of Ophthalmic services in developing countries and has operated in India and Africa. He lives in West Sussex with his wife and four children.
7 February 2008
Mr Iain Hutchison is an Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeon at Bart’s and The Royal London Hospitals specialising in Head & Neck Cancer and Facial Reconstruction. He founded and now runs (pro bono) the Facial Surgery Research Foundation – Saving Faces which leads national multi-centre collaborative clinical trials to improve the evidence base for oral and facial surgery practice. He is conducting psychological research to improve treatment outcomes for patients and research with the Cyscope to improve the surveillance of oral premalignancy.
He founded and funded the Saving Faces Art Project in which an artist captured the physical and emotional journey of patients undergoing facial surgery for deformity, cancer and injury.
In his spare time he has written 43 papers, 7 chapters and delivered 80 invited lectures in addition to 65 conference presentations. He lives with his wife and 3 children.
6 March 2008
Rt Hon Lord Norman Tebbit CH was MP for Chingford and served as Secretary of State for Employment, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and President of the Board of Trade. He was Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Chairman of the Conservative party from 1985 - 1987.
Lord Tebbit regards his major achievements as “remaining married to the same woman for 51 years, qualifying for RAF pilot’s wings and his civil Flight Navigator’s licence, being elected to the House of Commons six times and being elevated to the Upper House in 1992, identifying Margaret Thatcher as the future Leader of the Conservative Party in 1979, designing the industrial relations reforms which transformed Britain’s economy, legislating the first privatisation Bill in 1979 and privatising BT in 1985.”
3 April 2008
Prof. Sir Cyril Chantler is Chairman of the Board of the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust and of the Kings Fund, London. Cyril Chantler was Dean of the Guy’s, King’s College and St Thomas’ Hospitals’ Medical and Dental School, where he was the Children Nationwide Medical Research Fund Professor of Paediatric Nephrology until his retirement in 2000. He was an Honorary Consultant to Guy’s Hospital (1972 – 2000).
He was Principal of the United Medical and Dental School of Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospitals (1992 – 1998). He was a Member of the GMC (1994-2003) where he was chairman of the Standards Committee. He is an adviser to the Associate Parliamentary Health Group and to Apposite Capital. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of the American Medical Association. He has been involved in a number of inquiries into the provision of acute paediatric services in various parts of England.
1 May 2008
Mr Bernie Ribeiro qualified at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School in 1967. In 1979 he was appointed as Consultant General Surgeon to Basildon Hospital, Essex, with a special interest in colorectal surgery and urology. He introduced therapeutic laparoscopic surgery to the Trust in 1991, with the aim of establishing an advanced laparoscopic unit. He has been a senior examiner in Surgery for the University of London and a member of the Court of Examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons. He is currently an examiner to the University of Oxford and the University of Brighton and Sussex.
Mr Ribeiro was elected to the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1998. He was awarded a CBE for services to medicine in January 2004. In July 2005 he was elected to the Presidency of the Royal College of Surgeons.
5 May 2008
Mr Waquar Yusuf is a Consultant Vascular Surgeon at the Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals and the Tutor in Vascular Surgery (2006-2010) at the Raven Department of Education, Royal College of Surgeons of England. He trained in Nottingham and Perth Australia. He was awarded a doctorate by the University of Nottingham for a thesis on thrombolytic therapy for limb ischaemia. He has a special interest in Endovascular Aneurysm Surgery. He was involved in the introduction of this technique to the UK and the first endovascular repair of a ruptured aortic aneurysm in the world that was reported in the Lancet in 1994. He is also interested in surgery for stroke prevention and brought the technique of carotid endarterectomy under local anaesthesia to Brighton. He enjoys cricket and spends most of the free time with his wife and two sons.
Dr Ian Francis is a Consultant Vascular Radiologist at the Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals. He is on the council of the British Society of Radiology and serves on the SAC of the Royal College of Radiology. He trained in Guys’Hospital in both dentistry and medicine. Radiology and fellowship training was undertaken at the Royal Free Hospital. He has special interests in head & neck imaging and endovascular aneurysm repair. He has been the author of four books and has published on topics of both vascular and non-vascular imaging. He is an honorary consultant to Colchester General Hospital and has supported the development of Endovascular surgery in other hospitals.
2 October 2008
Dr John Wynn-Jones After qualifying at Guys Hospital, Dr John Wynn-Jones returned to Wales to become a General Practitioner in Montgomery, Powys. John was one of the founders of the Institute of Rural Health in 1997 and is now its Life President. John is well known both nationally and internationally for his pioneering work in e-health and for his special interest in education, having held a post with the University of Wales College of Medicine for many years. John is also medical adviser to the Archers, a BBC radio programme, President of EURIPA (European Rural and Isolated Practitioners Association) , Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He has a special interest in both rural undergraduate and postgraduate education and is currently developing an “environment for learning” called the “Rural Campus” in Mid Wales.
6 November 2008
Dr Melanie Newport is Reader in Infectious Diseases and International Health at Brighton and Sussex Medical School. She trained in medicine at St Mary’s Hospital Medical School and after a broad training in adult and paediatric infectious diseases, she undertook research studies towards a PhD in Infectious Diseases which was awarded in 1996. Melanie then headed off to The Gambia for three years to develop a programme of research into the genetics of susceptibility to infection, focusing particularly on tuberculosis. She continued this research at Cambridge University before moving to Brighton in 2004. In addition to teaching infectious diseases and directing the Clinical Elective programme at BSMS, Melanie has maintained her overseas interests through her research activities based in various African countries as well as through the Lusaka-Brighton link – the subject of this talk.
4 December 2008
Mr Andy Ripley A banker by profession, his academic career spanned Cambridge University, the London School of Economics and the University of East Anglia, attaining degrees at all three. He is a non-executive director of a number of companies and a director of Sport Aid.
Andy is best known for his achievements as a rugby player having captained Rosslyn Park, won 24 international caps for England and represented the Barbarians and the British Lions. His other many sporting achievements include being the indoor rowing world champion and the BBC Superstars champion. He has spoken and written extensively about his recent experiences having developed prostatic carcinoma and continues to try to raise public awareness about the condition.
This talk will be introduced by Mick Cleary, Rugby Correspondent for the Daily Telegraph.
Some recent speakers have included:
| Dr Mike Stroud OBE Sir Quentin Thomas Prof Roger Williams CBE Prof Crispian Scully CBE Sir Cyril Chantler Dr Beverly Malone Prof John Guillebaud Sir George Christie Lord McColl of Dulwich Sir Barry Jackson Prof Phillipe Jaeger Lord Briggs of Lewes Prof Sir Magdi Yacoub Surgeon Rear Admiral Ian Jenkins QHS Dr Thomas Stuttaford Prof Jon Cohen Sir Christopher Meyer Sir Donald Sinden |
Prof Susan Greenfield Prof James Lovelock CBE FRS Prof Douglas Chamberlain CBE Sir Ghilean Prance Sir James Black FRS Prof Richard Peto FRS Sir Patrick Moore Sir Sandy Macara Gavin Henderson Esq CBE Dr Jonathan Palmer Dr David Delvin Lady Healey Prof Roger Penrose FRS Baroness Cumberledge Prof Sir Roy Calne FRS Prof Lesley Fallowfield The Rt Hon Lord Cecil Parkinson Sir Tim Rice
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Lt Gen Sir Peter Beale Sir Ludovic Kennedy Colin Thubron Esq Prof Harold Ellis CBE Prof Roderick Kedward Ms Helen Bamber Sir Jonathan Miller Lord Walton of Detchant Prof Colin Blakemore FRS Dr Michael Petch OBE Dr Michael O'Donnell Prof David Marsden FRS Dr Ian Field Prof Peter Richards Revd Dr John Polkinghorne KBE FRS Prof Shah Ebrahim The Rt Hon Lord David Owen |
