The Leeds Medico-Chirurgical Society

Programme 2023/2024

At meetings, supper is at 6.45pm,
(£40, £5 for students)
followed by the talk at 8pm.

In-person Meetings Venue, unless other state: Great Woodhouse Suite, University House, University Road, LS2 9JT

Parking: The roads around University House are available to the public to park i.e. Cromer Terrace, Clarendon Place and Lyddon Place, and arrangements are made with the University Car Parking staff that the 20 or so parking places on University Road may also be used.
The Campus Map (here) shows the Great Hall (number 4), which is at the bottom of University Road; University House is number 7.
Here is a Google map of the area.]

2023

Thursday 19th October 2023 (postponed from Thursday 13th July)

Annual General Meeting
6.30 pm, Thursday 19th October 2023
at
University House, University Road, LS2 9JT
followed at 8pm by the
Annual Dinner

Thursday 23th November

The 22nd Annual Med-Chi Prize: Student Presentations, chaired by Andrew Mooney

2024

Thursday 25th April
Inspire Evening: Junior Doctors' Presentations
Chair: Prof Jim Drife

Venue: Weetwood Hall Estate,
Otley Road,
Leeds LS16 5PS
Time: Dinner 6.30 pm
Presentations: 8 pm

Tuesday 7th May
Edith Pechey Lecture
"NICE work if you can get it!"
Prof Gillian Leng CBE

Venue: Medical Lecture Theatre, Worsley Building, Clarendon Way, Leeds LS2 9LU
Time: 5.30 pm
Dinner: University House: 7 pm
Professor Leng graduated in Leeds in 1987 and gained her MD in Edinburgh. She is now a visiting professor at King’ College London, and President-Elect of the Royal Society of Medicine – the first RSM president to be elected by the membership. She was CEO of NICE during the COVID-19 pandemic and oversaw the creation of the national COVID guidelines. Her talk about NICE's role will include examples from controversial guidelines such as fertility treatment, obesity drugs and e-cigarettes.

Annual General Meeting & Annual Dinner
To be arranged

Previous year's programmes: