Scientific meetings and social events are held from October to June. The programme is varied and most meetings have an appeal for several specialities. The Institution is able to attract speakers of international renown. The programme includes endowed eponymous lectures and some joint meetings with specialist societies.

About one meeting each month is designed to be of sufficiently broad interest to attract non-medically qualified partners. 
Approval for CPD has been sought for certain meetings - details can be obtained from the Administrative Secretary.

If you wish to attend any of the LMI meetings please contact the , or telephone 0151 709 9125

PROGRAMME 171st Session - 2009

President: Dr William Taylor

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OCTOBER 2009
Wednesday 7th	LIVERPOOL MEDICAL HISTORY SOCIETY ‘Negotiating Hospital Infections – Infection Control and Antibiotics in the Twentieth Century’  Dr Flurin Condrau, University of Manchester.
Wednesday 14th	LMI RETIREMENT GROUP MEETING ‘A Favourite of the King’ – Dr Austin Carty.
Thursday 15th	INAUGURAL MEETING of the session Reception by the President and President-Elect followed by installation of Dr Bill Taylor as President.  Presidential Address:  ‘The Life and Death of Thomas Hardy’.
Thursday 22nd	JOINT MEETING LMI/RSM/MMS & TB ALERT – ‘TB in the North West’.(all day meeting)
NOVEMBER 2009
Wednesday 4th	LIVERPOOL MEDICAL HISTORY SOCIETY ‘The Other Lister: Martin Lister, a Seventeenth Century “Spider Man” and Royal Physician’ Dr Anna Marie Roos, University of Oxford.
Thursday 5th	KEITH BROWN MEMORIAL LECTURE ‘Medicine, Medical Leadership and Global Threats’  Professor Ian Gilmore, President, Royal College of Physicians.
Wednesday 11th	THE HENRY COHEN HISTORY OF MEDICINE LECTURE.  ‘The Making of Gray’s Anatomy’ -  Dr Ruth Richardson, Medical Historian.
Wednesday 18th	HISTORY OF MEDICINE STUDENT PRIZE PRESENTATIONS (All welcome).
Thursday 26th	JOINT MEETING WITH MERSEYSIDE MEDICO-LEGAL SOCIETY.  ‘Legal and Medical Aspects of the Rhys Jones Trial’ - Mr Neil Flewitt, QC and Dr Paul Johnson, Home Office Pathologist.
DECEMBER 2009
Wednesday 2nd	LMI RETIREMENT GROUP MEETING ‘Essential Music’ – Professor Robert Sells.
Wednesday 2nd	LIVERPOOL MEDICAL HISTORY SOCIETY ‘Surgical Workshop’ (Joint Meeting with Surgical Scousers) – Mr Mick Crumplin, Retired Surgeon and Historical Consultant.
Thursday 3rd	‘Not Dead Yet’ - Baroness Julia Neuberger, DBE, Social Commentator, Author and Broadcaster.
Thursday 10th	CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION Admission of Life Members followed by ‘Christmas with Thomas Hardy’
JANUARY 2010
Thursday 14th	JOINT MEETING WITH LIVERPOOL SOCIETY OF ANAESTHETISTS.  ‘Revalidation – Last Chance for Professionalism?’ - Professor Christopher Dodds, Professor of Anaesthesia, James Cook University Hospital, Middlesborough.
Thursday 21st	PRESIDENT’S GUEST LECTURE Speaker to be announced.
Thursday 28th	‘There’s a Lot of it about!’  - Professor David Haslam, Immediate Past President of the Royal College of General Practitioners.
FEBRUARY 2010
Wednesday 3rd	LIVERPOOL MEDICAL HISTORY SOCIETY  ‘Medicine at the Movies’ (tbc).
Thursday 4th	‘Obesity – An Update on Clinical Management and Recent Research’ Professor John Wilding, Head of Diabetes and Endocrinology Clinical Research Unit, Aintree University Hospitals.
Thursday 11th	ANNUAL DINNER Guest Speaker – His Honour Judge John H Roberts, QC.
Thursday 18th	‘Infection Control at Aintree’  Mr Steve Montgomery, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Aintree University Hospitals.
Thursday 25th	Joint Meeting with the Athenaeum Club.   ‘Return to Norris Green’ Miss Winifred Robinson, Presenter of Radio 4’s  ‘You and Yours’.
MARCH 2010
Wednesday 3rd	LMI RETIREMENT GROUP MEETING  ‘Fascinating Gemstones’ – Mr Nick Wainwright, Boodle & Dunthorne.
Wednesday 3rd	LIVERPOOL MEDICAL HISTORY SOCIETY ‘Patient Groups and the Construction of the Patient as “Consumer” in Britain Since the 1960s’  Dr Alex Mold, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Thursday 4th	JOINT MEETING WITH MANCHESTER MEDICAL SOCIETY.  ‘What Plastic Surgery Can Do For You’ - Professor Gus McGrouther, Professor of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, University of Manchester and ‘Hairy Matters in Regenerative Medicine: Your Hair Follicles as Stem Cell Pools’ - Professor Ralf Paus, Professor of Dermatology, University of Manchester.
Thursday 11th	‘Designer Drugs Enabling Normal Life: The Revolution in Rheumatology’ – Professor Robert Moots, Professor of Rheumatology, Aintree University Hospitals.
Wednesday 24th	JOINT MEETING LMI/RSM/MMS & TB ALERT.   ‘Tuberculosis: the Forgotten Plague’.  All day meeting to be held at the RSM in London.   For further details, please contact:  Ms Nicole Leida  on Tel:  0207 290 3946 or E-mail:  Nicole.leida@rsm.ac.uk
Thursday 25th	AGM and JOINT MEETING WITH THE BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION (Liverpool Office). ‘Are Men an Endangered Species in the Medical World?’ - Professor Averil Mansfield, MBE, President BMA.
APRIL 2010
Wednesday 14th	LIVERPOOL MEDICAL HISTORY SOCIETY ‘Anatomy and the Enslaved in the American South’ Dr Stephen Kenny, University of Liverpool.
MAY 2010
Wednesday 5th	LIVERPOOL MEDICAL HISTORY SOCIETY ‘Women in Medicine’ – Dr Jennian Geddes, Consultant Neuropathologist, Royal London Hospital.
Sunday 9th	ANNUAL HEALTHCARE SERVICE 3pm at Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, St James Mount, Preacher – Professor The Baroness Finlay of Llandaff.  The theme of the service will be ‘End of Life Issues’.
Thursday 13th	JOINT MEETING WITH THE INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS.   ‘Chocolate – Food of the Gods’ - Dr Stephen T Beckett, retired, formerly at Nestlé Product Technology Centre.
SUMMER 2010
	LMI RETIREMENT GROUP Summer Outing – details to be announced.