Description
Due to popular demand we will be opening up an overflow room to livestream this event. Limited places are available so early booking is advised. Registration will be open from Friday 27 July 2018.
For this special event, Stephen Fry, esteemed comedian, actor, writer, presenter, activist and expert storyteller visits the RSM to sit with our President Sir Simon Wessely to discuss medical stories and the public, including special interviews with best selling authors Dr Henry Marsh and Dr Rachel Clarke.
Dr Marsh is a leading neurosurgeon and a pioneer of neurosurgical advances in Ukraine. He wrote the very candid and highly acclaimed memoirs Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain, and Admissions: A life in brain surgery.
Dr Rachel Clarke is an physician specialising in palliative care for the NHS, former war journalist, activist, and author of Your Life in My Hands: A Junior Doctor’s Story.
Don’t miss your opportunity to learn from the experts about crafting medical stories for the public and how to effectively and meaningfully capture audience attention.
agenda
monday 12 november 2018
5.30 pm
Registration, tea and coffee
6.05 pm
In conversation with Mr Stephen Fry
Interviewed by Professor Sir Simon Wessely, President, Royal Society of Medicine
6.50 pm
In conversation with Mr Henry Marsh and Dr Rachel Clarke
Interviewed by Professor Sir Simon Wessely and Mr Stephen Fry
7.35 pm
Panel discussion
7.50 pm
Closing remarks
Professor Gillian Leng, Deputy Chief Executive, NICE
7.55 pm
Drinks reception
All delegates welcome