Royal Free Association Newsletter 2011
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The Royal Free Association (incorporating the Royal Free Old Students' Association and Members of the School) Newsletter The President’s Report 2011 The year has flown by since I last with the already significantly higher living wrote the annual report. Change costs for students in London and will continues apace in all our working lives threaten the diversity of the student group. and it is hard to keep up. Some of these The number of students in financial changes affect the Association which, I distress is very likely to increase and this hope, will be advantageous. makes the contribution of The Association As you may recall from last year, the even more important. To this end, the students of UCL Medical School have prospect of making a small increase in the founded a new Alumni Association specific membership fee will be considered. to the medical school and have named it On a brighter note, I am delighted to The Royal Free, University College and say that we have a fantastic group of past Middlesex Medical Student’s (RUMS) Royal Free students who have agreed to Alumni. The organisation will begin with come back to ‘show off’ at the Annual this year’s graduates and will aim to Meeting this year. We hope this will be the provide a network for members, to run start of a new trend so do not be surprised educational events, to support the current if you receive a letter of invitation and students and to maintain the history of the indeed, if you know of someone hiding three original medical schools. The Royal their light under a bushel, please let me Free Association will have a place on the know…….. management committee and will have the Finally, our stalwart Secretary and opportunity to benefit from the treasurer, Wendy Kelsey, is in need of a administrative and technical expertise of successor after many years of dedication the new association. The aim initially will and persistently going the extra mile, so be to modernise our membership database please consider whether you would like to and we may extend in to the world of consider taking over. I am sure Wendy Facebook. would be very happy to go through what The other major change for the the role entails. medical school is the institution of higher I look forward to seeing many of you university tuition fees. UCL, of course, in on 17th November. light of its apparent lofty status feels justified in setting the fees at the maximum permitted. This is combined Philip Lodge Inside this issue Dr Philip Lodge, qualified 1989, ◘ The Programme for th Consultant in Palliative Care, Royal Free Hospital and THURSDAY, 17 NOVEMBER 2011 ................... Page 2 Marie Curie Hospice, North London ◘ Minutes of the AGM held on 18th November 2010 ... Pages 3-5 th ◘ Financial Statement for the Year to 30 April 2010 .. Pages 6-7 Dr Jane Zuckerman, qualified 1987, ◘ This and That: Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Travel Medicine; Internal Issues ......................................................... Page 8 Sub-Dean, Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant at the Achievements ......................................................... Page 9 UCL Medical School (Royal Free Campus) and the Royal Reunion News ........................................................ Pages 10-13 Free Hampstead NHS Trust, London. ◘ Obituary ...................................................................... Pages 14-15 Enclosures: ◘ Registration Form for Attendance on Thursday, 17th November 2011 ◘ Membership Subscription Form ◘ Stay in Touch Form Royal Free Association, Royal Free Campus, Rowland Hill Street, London NW3 2PF Answerphone: 020 7830 2579 Fax: 020 7830 2070 E-mail: [email protected] Page 1 THE PROGRAMME for the Annual General Meeting to be held on Thursday, 17th November 2011 in the Sir William Wells Atrium, Ground Floor, Royal Free Hospital 10.30 a.m. REGISTRATION AND COFFEE 1.00 p.m. LUNCH Sir Williams Wells Atrium Ground Floor, Royal Free Hospital 2.00 p.m. THE PETER SCHEUER SYMPOSIUM CHAIRMAN: Dr Philip Lodge 11.00 p.m. ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Consultant in Palliative Care Agenda "Where are we now? " 1. Apologies for absence Speakers: 2. Recording of deaths Professor Guy Rutty, East Midlands Forensic Pathology Unit, Leicester 3. Minutes of the last Meeting held on Dr Andrew Smith & Dr Bruce Martin, The Heart Hospital, London Thursday, 18th November 2010 Dr John Horton, GP, Hampstead, London 4. Matters arising 5. President’s Report 6. a. Election of Officers for 2011-2012 4.00 p.m. TEA b. Election of new Members 7. Financial Report 8. Any Other Business 5.00 p.m. THE MARSDEN LECTURE 9. Date of next Annual Meeting Speaker: Dame Carol Black National Director for Health and Work, Department of Health 11.30 a.m. REPORTS ON UCL MEDICAL SCHOOL Speaker: Gareth Chan RUMS Vice-President for Events 6.00 p.m. TRUSTEES’ RECEPTION Student President’s Report 6.30 p.m. for 7.00 p.m. Speaker: Deborah Gill INFORMAL DINNER Deputy Director, UCL Medical School "MBBS 2012: A Curriculum for at the Brasserie Chez Gerard, 215 Haverstock Hill, London NW3 4RB Contemporary Practice" 12.30 p.m. STUDENT ELECTIVE REPORTS Royal Free Association, Royal Free Campus, Rowland Hill Street, London NW3 2PF Answerphone: 020 7830 2579 Fax: 020 7830 2070 E-mail: [email protected] Page 2 Minutes of the Annual General Meeting of the Royal Free Association held in the Sir William Wells Atrium at the Royal Free Hospital, London NW3 2QG on Thursday, 18th November 2010 Present: Dr Philip Lodge in the Chair plus 57 Members of the Association, namely: Rohini ABEYESUNDERE (1962) Judith HEGARTY (1965) Ann NAYLOR (1961) Stella AMBACHE (1942) David HENDERSON (1965) Ruth ODELL (1947) Rosemarie BAILLOD (1961) Susan HILLS (1979) Anthony ORDMAN (1978) Maureen BARTLETT (1963) Dorothy HOLDSWORTH (1961) Barbara PROSSER (1948) Yvonne BEECHING (1952) Mary HUGHES (1956) Anna RAKOWICZ (1962) Dora BLACK (Member) Anne HUNTER (1950) Avery REZEK (1959) Richard BRUETON (1971) Mary HUNTER (1950) Jane RIDLEY (1975) Malcolm CLARKE (1965) Shirley JONES (1959) Valerie ROGERS (1961) Wendy CLINE (1965) Sylvia LAQUEUR (1972) Helen SAPPER (1959) Andrew CLYMO (1959) Patricia LAST (1958) Sonia SASSOON (1977) Barbara CROFT (1959) Sabina LORIA (1961) Mary SELSBY Helen CROSSLEY (1961) Cynthia LUCAS (1959) Olive SHARP (1958) Anita DAVIES (1959) Susan LUCAS (1963) Hilary SHAW (1955) Paul DAVIES (1973) Rhona MacLEAN (1951) Frances SWAIN (1973) Stanley DAVIS (Member) Elizabeth MADIGAN (1980) William TAMPION (Member) Ewa DRAGOWSKA (1960) Mary MAGUIRE (1955) Brenda THOMPSON (1961) Ozgen FEIZI (1964) Angela MAIN (1956) Anne WICKHAM (1965) John GIBSON (1956) Deborah MEANLEY (1965) Dorothy WRIGHT (1950) James HARDIMAN (1964) Fred MEYNEN (1964) Jane ZUCKERMAN (1987) 1. Apologies for Absence Apologies were received from 120 members, as per the list on Page 5. 2. Recording of Deaths The Chairman regretted to report the deaths of 22 members; many of whom had made outstanding contributions to medicine and the care of patients. He asked Dr John Gibson to read out the names: Hazel B. BAKER (née Hill) (1943), Audrey DAVIDSON (1951), David GERAINT JAMES (Member), Margaret H. GLADDEN (1965), Aileen M. HAMPTON (Mrs Parry-Jones) (1948), R. Juliet HAYDEN (née Reynolds) (1945), Catherine J. HEATLEY (1997), Mary HOOGEWERF (Mrs Hunt) (1957), Pamela M. HORNE (1945), Margaret E. HOWAT (née Harker) (1940), Arthur H. LISTER (1984), Ann LLOYD JONES (née Parry Williams) (1959), Terence H. MEANLEY (1970), Robert E. MOLLOY (1950), Henry G. NAYLOR (1960), Olive M. OBIN (née Grundy) (1957), Ann READER (née Maffett) (1951), Janet SHAW (Mrs Carruthers) (1960), Barbara J. SIMPSON (Mrs Roberts) (1962), Edward A. THOMPSON (1969), The Honorable Frances M. ULYATT (1943), Elizabeth M. WADE-EVANS (née Bough) (1950) There followed a short silence. Page 3 3. Minutes of the last Annual General Meeting held on Thursday, 19th November 2009 Dr Lodge acknowledged that the structure of today’s meeting has been very successful for a number of years. The Minutes of the last Annual General Meeting had been However next year he hoped to organise a day of circulated to all members via the Annual Newsletter and celebration of the success of Royal Free graduates by copies were made available to those present. The Minutes arranging for invited guest speakers to share their were ratified and signed by the President as a true record expertise, triumphs and in general to be given the with one minor correction. The name of Dr A. Dora Black opportunity to be proud of their impressive achievements. was added to the list of attendance for the Meeting. Finally, he explained that the Association has been 4. Matters arising heading towards the possibility of using e-mail to replace the costs and workload involved in printing the Annual There were no matters arising Newsletter. This work continues and he expressed his thanks to Marion Huber (in Switzerland) who has been 5. President’s Report updating our records assiduously. As an addition, and to facilitate spreading news and contacts for reunions, he The President welcomed the members to the Meeting on would like to explore the use of Facebook – his daughter this the first year of his Presidency. He said that it was a assures him that it is very useful, easy to use and one pleasure and a privilege to take over from Rosemarie who cannot actually live without it. If it is good enough for has been, and continues to be, dedicated in her support and the Queen, he said he is prepared to see if it would be hard work for the Association. He thanked her very much helpful for the Association. once again on behalf of all the membership and added that he would continue to call on her wisdom and expertise for 6. Officers for 2010-2011 many years to come. He also thanked Dr Wendy Kelsey for all the work she does in ensuring the Meetings are the President: Philip Lodge success that they undoubtedly are and for all her hard work Secretary/Treasurer: Wendy Kelsey as the Treasurer and Secretary of the Association.