Description
Join us as we consider the history of Military Medicine and lessons identified over the years.
We’ll review the developments and benefits of medicine both from a physical and mental perspective, and consider how military medicine and welfare support could be developed for the next generation.
key speakers
Dr Richard Pusey TD FRCS – Medical Historian
Dr Emily Mayhew – Imperial Lead, Paediatric Blast Injury Partnership (CBIS) and Historian in Residence, Imperial College London
agenda
in celebration of the rsm’s relationship with the act of remembrance – 10th anniversary
09.30 am
Registration, tea and coffee
10.00 am
Welcome and introduction
Lt Col Ian Gurney, President, Royal Society of Medicine Military Council
10.15 am
Development of Medicine through the Great War
Dr Richard Pusey TD FRCS
10.45 am
The Impact of Infection prevention and Control – Crimea to Present Day
Wg Cdr Robert Lindfield, Consultant Public Health Lindfield
11.15 am
Tea and coffee break
11.35 am
Development and Delivery of Modern Anaesthetics
Capt (RN-Retd) Andrew Burgess, Consultant Anaesthetist
12.00 pm
Management of Trauma – Techniques considered – WW1 – Afghanistan
12.25 pm
Surgical readiness for future armed conflicts and terror attacks
Dr Laura Maitland, Retd Army Surgeon
12.45 pm
Panel discussion
1.00 pm
Lunch
2.00 pm
Long term Effects of Trauma Amputations
Shruti Turner and Sarah Dixon Smith, Centre for Blast Injury Studies, Imperial College
2.30 pm
Children in Displaced Persons Camps, Then and Now
Mr Jake Morrison, Imperial College
3.00 pm
Tea and coffee break
3.30 pm
Guinea Pig Club – Development of Plastic surgery
Dr Emily Mayhew, Imperial Lead, Paediatric Blast Injury Partnership (CBIS) and Historian in Residence, Imperial College London
4.00 pm
Veterans Trauma Network Initiative
Shehan Hettiaratchy – St Mary’s Hospital
4.30 pm
Panel discussion
4.45 pm
The effects of Mental through the Great war to the Present Day
5.15 pm
Closing remarks
5.30 pm
Close of meeting