VIDEOS OF PREVIOUS LECTURES
Mr Nikhil Misra: KnifeSavers. 08.02.24.
Mr Nikhil Misra: KnifeSavers. 08.02.24.
Professor Richard Shaw: Early diagnosis of oral cancer. 31.01.24
Professor Niels Peek: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine - Hype, Horror, or Hope?
Dr Gemma Ahearne: Contested perceptions of vulnerability: sex workers and stigma. 18.01.24
Professor Ian Sinha: Child poverty in the UK and its impact on health. 10.01.24
Dr Latifa Patel: Saving our NHS: who will assemble? 14.12.23
Prof John Wilding: 100 years on from the discovery of insulin, 27.10.22. Inaugural lecture, 22/23.
Professor Susan Jebb: Food you can trust : regulating in a changing world, 23.03.2023
Dr Gemma Mullen: North West Air Ambulance Charity, 26.1.23. Joint with Merseyside Medico Legal Soc.
Mr Andrew Swift: Covid 19: loss of smell and other factors.
Dr Steve Ryan: Homage to Humulus Lupulus. 3.12.2020. LMI Presidential lecture (virtual).
Professor Raymond Tallis: The attempt to destroy the NHS, 30.03.2015.
Professor Colm O'Mahony: Sex, the Media, HTLV111/AIDS/HIV: Past, Present and Future. 9.10.2017.
Dr John Chisholm: Current issues in Medical Ethics. 16.3.2017.
Professor C Vyvyan Howard: Reasons why life expectancy is set to fall in developed countries.
Dr G P Wyatt: What I've Learnt From Cleveland. 22.1.2015.
RCP 500TH ANNIVERSARY
HISTORY OF MEDICINE LECTURES 2018
The Royal College of Physicians is celebrated its 500th birthday in 2018. In honour of this historic milestone, the Liverpool Medical Institution and the Royal College of Physicians jointly commissioned a series of four public medical history lectures.
You can find out more about the history of the RCP on their heritage website.
Thursday 22nd March 2018
‘From the Street to the Clinic via the Club: How Medical Communities Emerge and Survive’
Professor Sally Sheard describes the influence of space and place on the development of medicine, with a focus on Rodney Street, Liverpool medicine and the influence, for better or worse, of the medical club.
Chaired by Simon Bowman
Thursday 21st June 2018
‘AIDS: Past, Present & Future’
Professor Colm O'Mahony charts the change over 30 years of this once unknown condition from killer status to chronic management, from media adversity to acceptance and reflects on the amazing science that has brought us to this point.
Chaired by Professor Sir Ian Gilmore
Thursday 20th September 2018
‘Edward Jenner (1749 - 2018)’
Professor Gareth Williams explores the work and legacy of Edward Jenner. Jenner is often described as the Father of Vaccination, the Founder of Immunology, and one of the most blessed saints in the history of medicine. In fact, he was none of those things, and is all the more fascinating as a result.
And no, that's not a typo in the title!
Chaired by Clive Constable
Thursday 8th November 2018
‘The Royal College of Physicians and the Politics of Healthcare 2018’
Professor Raymond Tallis is a philosopher, poet, novelist and cultural critic and was until recently a physician and clinical scientist. He spoke on the political context of the development of healthcare and the RCP.
Chaired by Colm O'Mahony