CMA Newsletter 2021
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Caius Medical Associa.on Annual Newsle2er Issue 22: 2020 - 21 CMA President’s Annual Report and we have made arrangements for our June meeDng to be hybrid — in-person or virtual. Welcome to the Those of you who cannot travel to Cambridge, or CMA Annual prefer not to, will be able to join online. If there is Newsle3er. This a major third Covid spike then we will be able to has obviously been host the meeDng virtually - so come what may the a y e a r o f meeDng is going ahead! extraordinary upheaval for all of It is now Dme for me to bring you up to us - and one which date with our last meeDng held on 29 June 2019. I am sure nearly all This was kindly hosted by Prof Dino Giussani as I of us are keen to was suffering in a way nobody should have to, John La%mer forget and move a3ending a friend’s wedding in MauriDus. Heady on from. Fortunately serendipity means that our days - nowadays even a trip to London seems like Annual MeeDng on Saturday 26 June 2021 falls an unimaginable treat. (Con%nued on page 2) just aLer the anDcipated full relaxaDon of the naDonal lockdown - and we will at last be able to Contents: meet again in person. We anDcipate a very high turnout for this meeDng as we release the pent up • CMA President’s Annual Report: 1 enthusiasm for socialising aLer a year’s • The 2020 Ackroyd Lecture and Scholarship: 5 • CMA Summer Studentships 2019-20: 7 suppression. And what a meeDng we have for • Caius MedSoc President’s Report 2019-20: 9 you! Even be3er, we will also be able to dine in • Caius MedSoc President’s Report 2020-21: 12 College aLer the meeDng and I am sure I am not • The Roger Carpenter Fund: 13 the only person hugely looking forward to this - • 50 Years A Caian: 14 especially now the kitchens have been fully • CMA Photo Compe%%on: The Finalists: 19 refurbished. • Crea%ng Produc%ve Collabora%ons: The CMA in the %me of Covid-19: 22 • A Personal View from General Medical Prac%ce During Sadly of course last year’s meeDng had to the Pandemic: 25 be cancelled. At the Dme we did not have the • Proposal to Develop a Post-Doctoral Research resources, Dme or technology to convert this to a Fellowship in Clinical Medicine at Gonville and Caius virtual meeDng. ALer a year of Zoom, Teams and College: 28 Starleaf all of us are now used to meeDng online - • Previous CMA Lectures: 30 Page 1 The CMA President’s Annual Report (cont.) Anorexia. Hubert showed how bulimia has 2019 Annual Mee.ng (29 June 2019): become associated with addicDve and self- damaging behaviour including sexual Prof Richard J. Gilbertson: Mapping the origins of disinhibiDon. An understanding of all this informs cancer – a route to preven%on how treatment should be approached. Hubert Richard is Director of Cancer Research UK’s also a3empted to answer the vexed quesDon Cambridge Centre, the Li Ka Shing Chair of “Why Women?” Oncology, and Head of the Department of Oncology in Cambridge. Richard’s lab aims to Dr Zoë Fritz: Ethics, policy and prac%ce: case understand the origins of cancer and its studies in empirical ethics relaDonship to clinical outcomes. His lab has Zoë is a Wellcome fellow in Society and mapped the origins of the most common types of Ethics, and a Consultant Physician in Acute childhood brain tumours and linked these to the medicine at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. Her clinical behaviour of these diseases. He has also research is focused on idenDfying areas of clinical shown that all cancers likely arise in stem cells. pracDce that raise ethical quesDons and applying The take-home message was that cancers arise rigorous empirical and ethical analysis to explore from specific suscepDble cell types that are the issues and find effecDve soluDons. In her talk transformed by matched mutaDons, which might Zoë explored whether we can we use the be provoked by Dssue damage. scienDfic method to test what is the “right thing to do” and the role of the clinician in idenDfying Prof Hubert Lacey: Understanding ea%ng moral discomfort or “is / ought” gaps, and how disorders Rawls’ “veil of ignorance” could be applied as a Hubert is Professor of Psychiatry at St guiding principle to making the health service George’s, University of London. He is Director of sustainable and open. Zoë presented her own the St George’s EaDng Disorders Service in London research in empirical ethics, showing how she had which is the largest eaDng disorders unit in the challenged current pracDces around resuscitaDon UK. Hubert explained how eaDng disorders are decisions, and how by working with paDents, much misunderstood with diagnosDc confusion clinicians and policy makers she had developed and muddled clinical pictures - and he more than and evaluated an alternaDve which improved met his promise to bring clarity to this disarray. paDent experience and care. The resulDng Hubert addressed the different psychopathology ReSPECT process (Recommended Summary Plan of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. He for Emergency Care and Treatment) has been a outlined a typical pathogenesis of anorexia and paradigm shiL in how doctors and paDents reflected on anorexia’s place as a paradigm of approach resuscitaDon and other treatment psychosomaDc medicine, touching on the decisions, and is now in use in more than 100 interplay with other medical issues. He discussed trusts in the UK. prognosis and the tragedy of Severe and Enduring Page 2 WriXen by John La%mer The CMA President’s Annual Report (cont.) Prof David Riches: Is John Caius the “Father” of human anatomy based on cadaveric dissecDon. Bri%sh anatomy? Caius strongly disagreed with this and when he David is a BriDsh anatomist. He is Emeritus returned to London he conDnued to teach Galenic Professor of Anatomy at Queen Mary University anatomy. Even though Caius was the first to of London and a Fellow and Director of Studies at introduce a more academic approach to the study Caius. He is noted for his research in dermatology, of anatomy, his non-acceptance of Vesalian parDcularly the basement membrane zone and anatomy detracts from his being accurately called bullous disorders. He was formerly Dean of the “Father” of BriDsh anatomy. Medical Sciences at the InternaDonal Medical University in Kuala Lumpur. In his talk David The meeDng was followed by a recepDon, revealed that John Caius was a staunch follower kindly hosted by The Master in her garden, then of Galenic anatomy which had persisted for over an excellent dinner in College. 1,300 years. He studied in Padua at the same Dme as Vesalius was introducing a new approach to 2021 Annual Mee.ng (26 June 2021): Our programme is now finalised, and yet University of Cambridge School of Clinical again we are overwhelmed by the generosity of Medicine “COVID-19: An ICU physician’s story” such outstanding speakers in giving so freely of their Dme to inform and entertain us. Mr Per Hall MB, BChir, FRCS (Plast), Consultant PlasDc Surgeon and Clinical Director for the CleL Professor Veronica Kinsler (1989) MA MB BChir Lip and Palate Service Addenbrooke’s Hospital FRCPCH PhD, Professor of Paediatric Dermatology Cambridge “Towards Sustainable Cle` Lip and and DermatogeneDcs, Great Ormond St Hospital Palate Surgery in Ethiopia – my busman’s holidays for Children and UCL, London “Birthmarks - with OperaDon Smile” unravelling the causes, understanding the implica%ons” As the CMA we conDnue to work closely with Caius MedSoc - the students who will Professor Carol Seymour MA (Oxon) MA (Cantab) become CMA members when they graduate. We PhD FRCP FRCPath FFFLM PgDipLaw PgDipPLS, always welcome students at the CMA meeDng as Past President, Faculty of Forensic & Legal they are the future lifeblood of the CMA - we are Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians “The hoping for another good turnout this year role of a medicolegal consultant/lawyer - friend or especially as many of our medical students will be foe?” staying in Cambridge for longer this year than usual. Dr Charlo2e Summers BM PhD FRCP FFICM, University Lecturer in Intensive Care Medicine, Page 3 WriXen by John La%mer The CMA President’s Annual Report (cont.) I would like to thank Kevin O’Shaughnessy domains during this pandemic – medics and non- for his conDnuing support and guidance as medics alike. We are seeing the fruits of the Secretary and to thank David Riches as Treasurer. medical science that has given us the vaccines Thanks also to the rest of the CMA commi3ee for that offer us the route out of this modern plague - their advice and support - we have benefi3ed what be3er way to celebrate than coming hugely from the arrival of a number of younger together for what will be a brilliant series of talks members with fresh ideas and insights. Julia and then the best company anywhere! I greatly Mantle conDnues to herd cats as she look forward to seeing you in June. diplomaDcally and relentlessly keeps me and the rest of the commi3ee on track - she is a wonder! Please look out for the invitaDon email with booking form and programme which will be I would like to end on a note of opDmism. sent out later this month Caians have disDnguished themselves in all John La%mer The Caius Medical Association (CMA) was founded in 1997, which coincidentally was the 400th anniversary of Harvey's graduation from the college in 1597, in order to allow Caius medical graduates to keep in touch with each other, and with the college; and to maintain a sense of a Caius medical community afer graduation.