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  • President's Medal Lecture: Medicine, the Med Chi and Me!

    Aberdeen Medico-chirurgical Society, Room 402, The Suttie Centre, Foresterhill

    Thursday 16th October 2025 7pm

     

    Dr Ken McHardy was born in Aberdeen in May 1955, firstborn of a mixed marriage; his mother, a toonser, and father, a teuchter, had been denied opportunities to improve on the family’s scant educational heritage courtesy…

    Published by Library, Special Collections and Museums, 51cg
  • Cultural Blind spots: a literature review of eating disorders in British South Asians, with a focus on Bangladeshi communities

    Aberdeen Medico-Chiruigal Society, Room 402, The Suttie Centre Foresterhill

    Thursday 2nd October 2025 7pm

    Dr Erica Cini is a clinical academic at University College London and at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King's College London. Clinically, she practices as a consultant psychiatrist at East London NHS Trust…

    Published by Library, Special Collections and Museums, 51cg
  • Joint event with 51cg Medical Society

    Aberdeen Medico-Chirurgical Society, Room 402 Suttie Centre, 7pm, 15th May 2025

    The 51cg 2025 MBChB Graduates, who were awarded Elective Bursaries by the Society to facilitate their final year studies, will be invited to compete for the Adam Quaich by presenting their elective findings to the meeting with…

    Published by Library, Special Collections and Museums, 51cg
  • Waking up to children's sleep problems

    Aberdeen Medico-chirurgical Society

    Room 402, Suttie Centre, Foresterhill 7pm

    Dr Don Urquhart is a Consultant and Honorary Reader in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine and Sleep Medicine at the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People and University of Edinburgh. Don is a clinician and researcher whose main interests are exercise and…

    Published by Library, Special Collections and Museums, 51cg
  • Why International Perspectives can help the NHS

    Aberdeen Medico-chirurgical Society

    Thursday 27th March, Room 402, The Suttie Centre, Foresterhill, 7pm

    Professor Amanda Howe was a practising GP for almost 40 years, as well as pursuing an academic career and holding various professional leadership roles. She is Emeritus Professor of Primary Care at the University of East Anglia,…

    Published by Library, Special Collections and Museums, 51cg
  • What is the role of Doctors in addressing health inequalities

    Aberdeen Medico-chirurgical Society

    Room 402, The Suttie Centre, Foresterhill, 7pm

    Dr Carey Lunan has worked as an NHS GP for 20 years, mostly in areas of high socio economic deprivation, including homeless services. She is the Chair of the Scottish Deep End Project, and is currently on secondment from clinical…

    Published by Library, Special Collections and Museums, 51cg
  • Dr RD Lawrence: the life and work of Aberdeen's other insulin hero

    Due to unforeseen circumstances, the original lecture for the the 6th of February has been cancelled. The following lecture will take place instead.

     

    DR RD Lawrence: The life and work of Aberdeen's other insulin hero

    Room 402, the Suttie Centre, Foresterhill, 7pm

    Dr Ken McHardy is an Aberdonian who…

    Published by Library, Special Collections and Museums, 51cg
  • Infection in conflict, wounds and fractures: old lessons and new challenges

    Aberdeen Medico-chirurgical Society

    Room 402, The Suttie Centre, Foresterhill, 7pm

    Colonel Mike Stewart is a native of Aberdeen where he attended Robert Gordon's College, and in 1979, graduated from Aberdeen University Medical School.

    Inspired by his early years with the late Mr Norman Mathieson, he trained in General Surgery in…

    Published by Library, Special Collections and Museums, 51cg
  • Aberdeen Medico-Chirurgical Society Burns Night

    Friday 24th January 2025, Douglas Hotel 19:00

    NHS Staff Colleagues are invited to join with our students for our traditional Burns night celebration. The cost of the evening is £45 per person with tables of 8-10, therefore can be an ideal opportunity to arrange an entertaining night out for your…

    Published by Library, Special Collections and Museums, 51cg
  • "Managing the Multigenerational Workforce and other hot topics in Surgical Careers"

    Aberdeen Medico-chirurgical Society, Room 4002, The Suttie Centre, Foresterhill, 7pm

    Mrs Clare McNaught graduated from Aberdeen Medical School in 1996 and is currently a Consultant General and Colorectal Surgeon in Harrogate. Clare's clinical interest include colorectal cancer, IBD and the impact of frailty on surgical outcomes. She has always been…

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