Spring meeting, May 2017:
The spring meeting of the Society in 2017 took place on the 25th May in Birmingham at the RCPCH annual conference.
Spring meeting, April 2016:
The annual College meeting shifted its big tent to Liverpool Dockside this year. I thought it was a good venue. As before our slot was on the middle (Wednesday afternoon) of the meeting - we were given the main hall which seats at least 1000 so we had seats to spare. We began with our annual Armstrong lecture given by Professor Peter Pharoah from Liverpool who told us about his colourful and energetic medical life including his part in determining the factors that caused massive thyroid goitre in New Guinea and its elimination. On returning to UK he founded the important Merseyside based studies into cerebral palsy - a very exciting lecture that needs to be reprised as a plenary session for the whole College. As always at the spring meeting some of the audience was lost following tea but the returnees heard Prof Conor Ward on the subject of paediatric training in the early 2nd post war years (mainly sheer hard work and minimal time for study!) Dr Andrew Williams and his colleagues then had two presentations from their historical researches based on Northampton. Important message - history can be lost if records and filmed material is junked - often by managerial diktat by those who have no sense of history and a tendency to encourage the reinvention of wheels.
Professor Euan Ross
President
Autumn meeting programmes are listed below:
The spring meeting of the Society in 2017 took place on the 25th May in Birmingham at the RCPCH annual conference.
Spring meeting, April 2016:
The annual College meeting shifted its big tent to Liverpool Dockside this year. I thought it was a good venue. As before our slot was on the middle (Wednesday afternoon) of the meeting - we were given the main hall which seats at least 1000 so we had seats to spare. We began with our annual Armstrong lecture given by Professor Peter Pharoah from Liverpool who told us about his colourful and energetic medical life including his part in determining the factors that caused massive thyroid goitre in New Guinea and its elimination. On returning to UK he founded the important Merseyside based studies into cerebral palsy - a very exciting lecture that needs to be reprised as a plenary session for the whole College. As always at the spring meeting some of the audience was lost following tea but the returnees heard Prof Conor Ward on the subject of paediatric training in the early 2nd post war years (mainly sheer hard work and minimal time for study!) Dr Andrew Williams and his colleagues then had two presentations from their historical researches based on Northampton. Important message - history can be lost if records and filmed material is junked - often by managerial diktat by those who have no sense of history and a tendency to encourage the reinvention of wheels.
Professor Euan Ross
President
Autumn meeting programmes are listed below:
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Cambridge, 8 & 9 September 2017 Programme & Abstract booklet Greenwich, 2 & 3 September 2016 Programme & Abstract booklet Oxford, 25 & 26 September 2015 Programme and Abstract booklet |
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Norwich, 5 & 6 September 2014
Manchester, 6 & 7 September 2013 Winchester, 7 & 8 September 2012 Edinburgh, 9 & 10 September 2011 Liverpool, 10 & 11 September 2010 Newcastle, 2 & 3 October 2009 London, 12 & 13 September 2008 Dublin, 14 & 15 September 2007 Birmingham, 15 & 16 September 2006 Glasgow, 16 & 17 September 2005 Bristol, 24 & 25 September 2004 Cambridge, 26 & 27 September 2003 Warwick, 27 & 28 September 2002 |