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Oxford Medicine the MAGAZINE of the OXFORD MEDICAL ALUMNI Oxford Medicine THE MAGAZINE OF THE OXFORD MEDICAL ALUMNI Spring/Summer 2021 Derek Hockaday - Honours for Oxford Vaccine- Double Blades for 70 years of Oxford Scientists and Hesitansiology Osler Rowers Medicine Clinicians Pictured: Dr Peggy Frith as Dean of Degrees © Robin Frith Oxford Medicine | Spring/Summer 2021 1 President’s Piece 3 Oxford Medical Alumni Update President’s Piece COVID-19 Vaccines & SARS-CoV-2 4 Variants Professor Charles Bangham Welcome to the summer edition of Oxford Oxford Medical Alumni (OMA) promotes good fellowship RECOLLECTING OXFORD MEDICINE Medicine featuring contributions from the Vaccinehesitansiology: 5 amongst Oxford Medical Sciences alumni, supports regular By the autumn, you should be able to enjoy the first 50 collective hive mind of eight decades of Oxford The reproductive concerns meetings in Oxford, and elsewhere, for continued learning, Dr Lisa Webber interviews in the Recollecting Oxford Medicine series. This Medic Alumni. exchange of ideas, networking and socialising. project collects an oral history of Oxford Medicine from the Jenner and the Antivaxxers 7 1940s onwards through face-to-face interviews and was Derek Hockaday, much respected clinician Dr Neil Snowise EVENTS AND REUNIONS inspired by Peggy Frith. Derek Hockaday’s hard work, and and teacher, at nearly 92, takes us on his Dr Lyn Williamson A Jabbering Wreck Dr Tim Crossley 10th/11th: Saturday 07 August 2021 at St Hilda’s College skilful interviewing over that past 14 years, has produced entertaining journey from life before the NHS, 8 OMA President for those qualifying in 2010 and 2011 this unique collection: www.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/ through the early expansion of the clinical school Right Place, Right Time 9 Dr Steve Lockhart 20th/21st: Saturday 02 October 2021 at Pembroke recollecting-oxford-medicine-oral-histories and medical scientific research in Oxford. The Recollecting Oxford Medicine interviews with Jean Smellie and John Spalding start in a time College for those qualifying in 2000 and 2001 Memories of Oxford Medicine 10 OXFORD MEDICAL LECTURE CLUB of war and pestilence, when medical students had to act up as doctors, (Part One 1946 to 1966) 30th/31st: Saturday 24 July 2021 at Trinity College for The Oxford Medical Lecture Club, normally held at St Hugh’s College was a neurosurgery hospital, and polio was life- Dr Derek Hockaday those qualifying in 1990 and 1991 Osler House (John Radcliffe site), invites distinguished, threatening and endemic. Plus ça change... A Life-Changing Encounter in Oxford 12 40th/41st: Saturday 31 July 2021 at Balliol College for entertaining, and interesting speakers to talk about their Professor Geoffrey Pasvol Geoff Pasvol takes up the narrative, recalling how David Weatherall those qualifying 1980 and 1981 speciality and the latest developments in clinical and scientific research. Last year, the lecture series were held on and John Ledingham helped shape Oxford into the world-class clinical Institute for Regenerative Medicine 14 Professor Paul Riley 50th/51st: Saturday 11 September 2021 at Balliol Zoom and should resume in person in July 2021. school and a centre for scientific research, and David Warrell set College for those qualifying in 1970 and 1971 up centres for tropical diseases and malaria research. Enjoy these Twin Tales: Paediatric Surgery 16 Future speakers: delightful, un-edited, first-hand accounts of two generations of Oxford Dr Dan Carroll 60th plus: Friday 17th September 2021 at Magdalen Professor Sir Adrian Hill ‘Malaria medical history - the foundations upon which current clinical and College for those who matriculated in 1960 or before, plus Monday 26 July 2021: Vaccines’ scientific excellence have been built. Twin Tales: Paediatric Medicine 17 those who joined the clinical school in 1964 or earlier Dr Will Carroll Monday 27 September 2021: Professor Paul Klenerman Congratulations to many of our scientists and clinicians who recently To book, go to: www.medsci.ox.ac.uk/get-involved/ Engineering Innovations 18 ‘Immune Responses to Viral Infections’ received honours and prizes. We particularly congratulate Professor Lionel Tarassenko alumni/events-and-reunions/oxford-medical-school- Sir Adrian Hill for his work on malaria vaccination and look forward to reunions Monday 25 October 2021: Professor Daniel Freeman Innovations in Managing Coronary his lecture in July to the Oxford Medical Lecture Club. 20 ‘Virtual Reality for the Treatment of Mental Health’ Disease Dr Steve Ramcharitar BM BCH GRADUATION CEREMONY Monday 29 November 2021: Professor Sir Simon OMA identical twins, Dan and Will Carroll, present contrasting Optimism from the Frontlines SATURDAY 10 JULY 21 Wessely clinical updates from opposite sides of the world. They join clinicians Dr Will Seligman We congratulate all our newly qualified doctors. We wish and scientists who update us on work that progressed despite the If you are interested to receive notifications of the Critics Corner Dr Sarah Ball you every success in your future careers and welcome pandemic or was accelerated by it. 22 meetings, please contact [email protected]. you into the alumni fold. Stay in touch. We look forward to News and Congratulations hearing from you. We pay our respects to our colleagues who died this year, particularly 23 CONTRIBUTIONS TO OXFORD MEDICINE to David Weir, respiratory physician, who sadly died from Covid in Dr Jean Smellie 25 CAREER ADVICE FOR JUNIOR DOCTORS We welcome your contributions to future editions of Oxford December 2020, just days before start of the vaccination program. OMA recognises the challenges facing young doctors, Medicine - clinical, scientific, creative, reflective, humorous, It is a poignant paradox that vaccine hesitancy is one of the biggest Professor John Spalding 26 prose or poetry. We want to represent the full spectrum of some of whom are seeking inspiration and advice on their challenges we currently face, even amongst young clinicians and Obituaries future careers. We feel OMA could play a role in facilitating alumni young and old, near and far. healthcare workers. Lisa Webber and Neil Snowise tackle the problem, 28 informal relationships around career advice. If you feel you acknowledging that presenting people with compelling data is not Kelp Violins Dr Roger Bodley MEMBERS OF OMA ADVISORY BOARD (OMAAB) 31 can help, please contact Dr Will Seligman enough. We need to learn new and different techniques to compete in Dr Chris Mason ([email protected]). We are particularly looking for Dr Lyn Williamson - President OMA; Dr Roger Bodley – this arena. Slide Tray Art 32 Honorary Treasurer; Professor John Morris, Professor Sir Consultants, GPs and senior trainees who qualified between Crossword 1990 and 2010 and are up-to-date with training programs John Bell, Professor Gavin Screaton, Dr Catherine Swales, Making time for creativity keeps many of us happy, healthy and 33 and consultant recruitment. Dr David McCartney, Ms Christine Fairchild, Professor John functioning as good doctors. Our selection of OMA creativity includes Dean of Degrees 34 Stein, Dr Tim Littlewood, Dr Kevin Windebank, Professor rainy day poetry, wildlife photography before work, crossword writing RECONNECTING WITH FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES Denise Lievesley, Dr William Seligman, Dr Shing (Tom) Law, after work, doodles on histopathology slide box during work and Painting a Pandemic Dervla Carol 34 Dr Zoi Alexopoulou. inventing a new method of violin making from dried seaweed! If you would like to reconnect with friends and colleagues Poems you have lost contact with over the years, please email us 35 CONTACT PREFERENCES The medical students play out this edition, leading us ‘from the smog at [email protected] and we will try our best to help. Osler House Boat Club News 36 Please let us know if any personal details have changed or filled 20th Century, to a brighter, greener future… a land of positivity.’ Jennifer Holmes MEETING MINDS, APRIL 2021 go to the OMA website to update yourself. Osler Rowers came back on top form as promised, gaining double blades summer bumps! Hannah Chase and fellow students successfully Education for Sustainable Healthcare 37 The University of Oxford created the virtual opportunity for Hannah Chase CONTACTING OMA campaigned for the new Sustainable Medicine Module which now alumni around the world to come together and experience weaves environmental issues throughout the curriculum. Not a Thomas Brockwell an array of exciting and innovative talks, with speakers Oxford Medical Alumni Osler House News 38 moment too soon, given that hospitals are carbon footprint hot-spots. sharing their experiences and expertise across a diverse University of Oxford Catherine Swales, Director of Clinical Studies, has the Coda. Her prose Medical School News 39 range of topics. The lecture series can be accessed online: Sherrington Building Dr Catherine Swales reads like poetry, so savour every cadence from her audacity of hope www.alumni.ox.ac.uk/meeting-minds. You will need Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PT to the final adieu! to create a My Oxford Online account in order to see them +44 (0)1865 272538 (they’re behind a firewall) accessed via our website:www. [email protected] alumni.ox.ac.uk/my-oxford/my-oxford-online medsci.ox.ac.uk/oma Oxford Medicine | Spring/Summer 2021 3 discussed in the December 2020 issue of Oxford Medicine, There are anecdotal reports that vaccination can improve and a fuller account is given in ref. three. Long Covid is the symptoms of Long Covid, but there are also reports COVID-19 Vaccines & SARS-CoV-2 Variants still very little understood and very difficult to treat, and that symptoms worsen after vaccination in some people. It intense research is now under way on the pathogenesis is not yet clear whether there is a genuine causal effect in sequences have been in use for many years, with enormous Professor Charles Bangham of the condition. There are intriguing recent indications, either direction. (1977 Lincoln College), Professor of success, for example against the pneumococcus.
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