Royal Free Association Newsletter 2015
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THE ROYAL FREE ASSOCIATION (incorporating the Royal Free Old Students’ Association and Members of the School) Newsletter 2015 PRESIDENT’S REPORT It is with great pleasure that I write with the news that Dr along with the funds already available through other long- James Dooley has agreed to stand for the post of President standing charitable trusts, increasing the number of students this year. Pleasure, not because I have had enough, but who receive assistance in a more predictable and managed because James is well known to many of us as a teacher and way, and we would retain the ability to provide emergency colleague over more than 30 years. James has kindly agreed funding outside the annual application process as usual. to stand in place of Dimitri Mikhailidis, who is not able to fulfil the role at this time, and I am sure that you will support this In past years we have also donated £3500 per annum to nomination fully. UCL as a lump sum to go towards final year elective bursaries, but last year we were not asked to provide this funding for This year also brings the first annual meeting to be held some reason. Following dialogue with Administration at UCL on a Saturday and we hope that this will allow more Members this will be requested again by them annually. An Elective to attend and use the opportunity to catch up with friends. It Bursaries Committee meets in October to allocate funds to also coincides with the Triennial Dinner which we are holding students, and it is proposed that we make it a stipulation of at the Royal College of Surgeons once again. It is a great the grant that one of our Committee is invited to attend. I venue and I hope to see many of you there. would be grateful for your thoughts and opinions. As you know, one of the aims of our Association is to Thank you for a very enjoyable term as President. I will provide financial assistance to students in need. In previous remain on the Executive Committee and would be pleased if years this has always been on request; however, in the you would consider joining us – we always appreciate new financial year 2014/2015 we were only asked to provide Members! I look forward to seeing many of you in November. one grant of £500. It is proposed that in future we advise UCL that we can provide up to £3000 per annum, possibly Philip Lodge as six individual grants of £500. These would have to be applied for in the usual manner. These can be requested Inside This Issue Page 2 The Programme for Saturday 21st November, 2015 Pages 3-5 Minutes of the AGM held on 20th November, 2014 Page 6 Finance This and That: Pages 7-8 Internal Issues Pages 9-10 Royal Free Snapshots Pages 11-16 Members’ Contributions Pages 17-20 Reunions Pages 21-26 Obituaries Page 27 Administrative Notes Enclosures Registration Form for Attendance (pink) Triennial Dinner Form (white) Membership Subscription Form (yellow) Stay in Touch Form (green) Royal Free Association, UCL, Royal Free Campus, Rowland Hill Street, London NW3 2PF Tel: 020 7830 2579 E-mail: [email protected] Web: https://www.royalfree.nhs.uk/rfa Page 1 THE PROGRAMME Annual General Meeting to be held on Saturday 21st November 2015 in the Sir William Wells Atrium, Ground Floor, Royal Free Hospital 10.00 am REGISTRATION AND COFFEE 12.30 pm REPORT ON UCL MEDICAL SCHOOL Sir Williams Wells Atrium Speaker: Ground Floor, Royal Free Hospital Dr Will Coppola Divisional Tutor and Sub-Dean, UCL Senior Lecturer in Primary Care 10.30 am CLINICAL UPDATES – What’s New? 12.45 pm LUNCH • Dying NICEly- Dr Philip Lodge • FGM – Miss Susan Tuck 2.15 pm THE PETER SCHEUER SYMPOSIUM • Dyslipidaemias - Dr Dimitri Mikhailidis Chairman: Dr Philip Lodge • Orthopaedics – Mr Nimalan Maruthainar Consultant in Palliative Care • Ebola Management in the High Level Speakers: Isolation Unit - Professor Michael Jacobs Dr Rosemary Radley-Smith “Medicine in a Different World” • Complementary Medicine – Mr Keith Hunt Dr Richard Nunn • Movement Disorders Research (Neurosciences “It’s a Doc’s Life – Early General Practice” at the Royal Free) - Professor Huw Morris Professor Waqar Qureshi 11.45 am ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING - Agenda “The Good Old Days” 1. Apologies for Absence 4.00 pm TEA 2. Recording of Deaths 3. Minutes of the last Meeting held on Thursday, 20th November 2014 5.00 pm TAXIS to the Royal College of Surgeons 4. Matters Arising 5. President’s Report 6. Elections 7.00 pm TRIENNIAL DINNER a. Election of new President Royal College of Surgeons, b. Election of Officers for 2015-2016 35-43 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, c. Election of new Members London WC2A 3PE 7. Finance a. Treasurer’s Report b. Bursaries c. Proposal on UCL Student Funding 8. Any Other Business 9. Date of next Annual Meeting 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, 20th November 2014 Present: Dr Philip Lodge in the Chair plus 69 Members of the Association, namely: Lesley ASHWORTH (1961) John FERGUSON (1957) Carola MORAN (1964) Rosemarie BAILLOD (1961) Angela GALLOWAY (1978) Ann NAYLOR (1961) Maureen BARTLETT (1963) John GIBSON (1956) Peter O’GORMAN (Guest) John BEAVEN (1982) Margaret GHILCHIK (1961) Ruth ODELL (1947) Elizbieta BIEL (1961) James HARDIMAN (1964) Charlotte PAGE (1977) Jo BINGHAM (1980) Susan HILLS (1979) Margaret PAGE (1964) Paul BINGHAM (1980) David HORSMAN (1971) James PEARSON (1971) Linda BOOTH (1979) Ann HOWARD (1964) Anna RAKOWICZ (1962) Elizabeth BRADSHAW (1964) Peter HOWDEN (1983) Avery REZEK (1959) Richard BRUETON (1971) Mary HUGHES (1956) Jeremy RIDGE (1980) Alison BUCHANAN (1983) Patricia JONES (1964) Michael ROSSITER (1991) Helen CLARK (1964) Wendy KELSEY (1966) Elizabeth SALTER (1965) Wendy CLINE (1965) Susan LUCAS (1963) Sonia SASSOON (1977) Andrew CLYMO (1959) Pauline MANFIELD (1954) Louise SCHEUER (Member) David COHEN (1979) Mary MAGUIRE (1955) Tanya SHENNAN (Member) Colin COOPER (1959) James MASON (1973) Andrew SMITH (1993) Barbara CROFT (1959) Helen McBEATH (1976) William TAMPION (Member) Helen CROSSLEY (1961) Janet McBEATH (1971) Elsbeth TATE (1961) Anita DAVIES (1959) Neil McINTYRE (Member) Susan TAYLOR (1971) Robert (Paul) DAVIES (1973) Jean McKINNON (1961) Brenda THOMPSON (1961) Ewa DRAGOWSKA (1960) Fred MEYNEN (1964) Rosemary UNDERHILL (1961) Jennifer EDWARDS (1960) Jane MORRIS (1971) Pat WALMSLEY (1964) Ozgen FEIZI (1964) Renu MORRIS (1964) Anne WICKHAM (1965) Philip Lodge welcomed everyone to the Meeting, and thanked those who had just led the morning’s Clinical Updates. 1. Apologies for Absence Apologies were received from 97 members as per the list on page 5. 2. Recording of Deaths The Chairman regretted to report the deaths of 24 members; many of whom had made outstanding contributions to medicine and the care of patients. He read out the names: ALLEN, Roy T.J. (1960), BEARDWELL, N. Ann (1954), BRUETON, Louise A. (1984), BURROUGHS, Andrew K. (Member), CARVER, Paul H. (1964), CASSELLS, Irene M. (née McAndrew) (1952), CROWLEY, Margaret C. R. (née Moore) (1950), DUCKER, Daphne M. (née Downlen) (1948), GOODING, Dulcie G. (née Rawle) (1959), HAVARD, C. William H. (Member), LLEWELYN, Joan V. (née Macdonald) (1945), LOVE, Wendy E. (née Noble) (1954), LUCAS, Cynthia (Mrs Hassim) (1959), LUNN, Alexandrina (née Currie) (1943), MUSHIN, Anna (1947), OCKELFORD, Olwyn K. (née Thomas) (1949), RIDGE, Celia C. (Mrs Handel) (1963), RUGG- EASEY, Margaret L. (née Taylor) (1940), SAPPER, Helen (née Rubens) (1959), SEIF SAID, Vivian K. (née Jones) (1953), SERVICE, Gwendolyn F. (née Barber) (1940), VESEY, Susan M. (née Broadbent) (1954), WILSON, Margaret (née Davidson) (1958), WREN, Margaret (née Readman) (1945) There followed a short silence. Page 3 MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Continued 3. Minutes of the last Annual General Meeting held on included religious issues, weekend train services and the fact Thursday 21st November, 2013 that the Marsden Lecture would remain on the Thursday. However, it was agreed, by those present, to hold the The Minutes of the last Annual General Meeting had been meeting on a Saturday on a one-year trial basis. It was also circulated to all members via the Annual Newsletter and suggested that all Members should have the opportunity to copies were made available to those present. There were no vote, and it was agreed that this would be arranged. objections or questions and the Minutes were approved. Officers for 2014-2015 4. Matters Arising President: Philip Lodge/Dimitri Mikhailidis Vice-President: Richard Brueton Ward Names: Secretary: Wendy Kelsey Original ward names appeared inside each ward, and this Treasurer: Peter Howden would not change. Executive Committee: History Book: Neil McIntyre reported that his book of the history of Rosemarie Baillod Devaki Nair the Royal Free would no longer be supported by the Royal Alison Buchanan Susan Tuck Free Charity. Any profits would go to the Royal Free Library Bimbi Fernando Tanya Shennan and the London Metropolitan Archives, as they now hold the Royal Free Archives. 6. Financial Report 5. President’s Report Peter Howden had circulated the Accounts and confirmed that there was a total of £20,000 in the two Philip Lodge was pleased to announce that Dr Dimitri accounts. Generous donations had ensured that the RFA was Mikhailidis would take on the role of President from June kept afloat. 2015, following his retirement, and he was formally voted in Peter thanked all Members who had donated and who by those present at the meeting. Philip mused that he, as paid a subscription. This year 20 new subscriptions had been many others, remembered Dimitri as a scary tutor! set up.