Council meeting
Conference Room, Floor E, Victoria Infirmary
Friday September 8th, 2006 from 2pm
Golf Outing - Bonnyton Golf Club
Thursday October 12th, 2006
Presidential Address 'Casualty to Emergency Medicine'
Mr David Ritchie
Thursday October 26th, 2006
Annual dinner
Sherbrooke Castle Hotel, Pollokshields
Thursday November 23rd, 2006
Symposium Pandemic flu – what would it mean for you?
Friday December 1st, 2006
Members of the society are invited to the Annual Christmas Dinner of the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society – details to follow.
Thursday January 18th, 2007
'Does everyone have an autistic syndrome?'
Professor Christopher Gillberg
Christopher Gillberg, (b. 1950) is Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Gothenburg University in Gothenburg, Sweden, and at the medical college of St George's, University of London in Tooting in south London. He has also been a visiting professor at the universities of Bergen, New York, Odense, and San Fransisco
Gillberg is known for his research of autism in children, Asperger syndrome. ADHD and anorexia nervosa. He is the founding editor of the journal European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, and is the author and editor of many scientific and educational books. He is the recipient of several scientific awards, including the Philips Nordic Prize 2004 for neurological research, and he has more than 300 scientific papers listed in Medline. more...
Thursday February 22nd, 2007
'Glasgow's health priorities – where now?'
Dr Harry Burns
Harry Burns graduated in medicine from the University of Glasgow in 1974. Over the next 15 years he worked as a general surgeon and for the last six years of his surgical career was a consultant surgeon at the Royal Infirmary in Glasgow.
He entered health care management and was, for a time, Medical Director of the Royal Infirmary in Glasgow. Since 1993 he has been Director of Public Health for Greater Glasgow Health Board which is responsible for organising health care and maintaining the health of one million people in the West of Scotland. In 1999 he was awarded a Visiting Professorship in Public Health Medicine, University of Glasgow and is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Business and Management in the University.
He took up post as Chief Medical Officer for Scotland on 5 September 2005.
Thursday March 8th, 2007
Honorary Presidential Address 'Forensics'
Dr John Clark
Thursday April 26th, 2007
Annual General Meeting
Conference Room, Floor E, Victoria Infirmary
