Osler Bulletin
St. John’s College, Garden Quad Auditorium
5:30 for 6pm
Diagnosing TB in the 21st Century – from bench to bedside to public health policy
Professor Ajit Lalvani, inventor of the ELISpot diagnostic assay for tuberculosis, director of the national Tuberculosis Research Unit at Imperial College, London, and consultant in infectious diseases will talk about recent advances in the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis.
Global Progress in TB Vaccine Development
Dr. Helen McShane, Reader in Vaccinology and PI at the Jenner Centre, Oxford, will give an account of current global initiatives to improve the efficacy of vaccines against TB. HIV/TB co-infection and antibiotic-resistant (MDR- and XDR-TB) strains are some of the problems TB management fac! es – how can we maintain a reduction in TB rates worldwide, and eliminate this devastating disease?
Everyone welcome.
Programme attached.
To register, contact president@oxfordghg.co.uk.
Monday 6th week (22/02/10)
8.15 for 8.30pm, Trinity College Danson Room
Next Monday we are excited to announce that Baroness Susan Greenfield will be speaking at the Trinity College Scientific Society. She will speak on the impact of modern ‘screen culture’ on the social and psychological development of children. Recently, Baroness Greenfield has suggested that the increased use of computers for social networking and entertainment may partially explain the increased rate ADHD and autism in children. Although Baroness Greenfield stresses that the link is still largely speculative it has sparked fierce debate over the increasingly important role of certain technologies in society, and has attracted criticism as well as praise.
Baroness Greenfield is widely recognised as an outstanding public speaker and communicator of science, having received both the Royal Society’s Michael Faraday Prize and the the CBE for her contributions to the public understanding of science in 2000.
The first lecture is n Monday the 22nd of February, and is entitled, “What’s all the fuss about? When individual risks meet policy uncertainties in health”, by David Spiegelhalter (Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk at the University of Cambridge, and Senior Scientist in the MRC Biostatistics Unit).
Friday, February 26, 2010
Merton College, Mure Room, 6pm
The Oxford Forum for Medical Humanities is proud to present Dr. Neel Burton, author of “The Meaning of Madness”. Dr. Burton will be addressing the complex and often misunderstood world of mental illness, and discussing it in the context of his new book, which examines the adaptive or evolutionary advantages that may be exhibited from different types of disorders. This promises to be a thought-provoking event, offering intriguing insights into the workings of the mind.
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The aim of the week will be to expose the type of discussion and debate that the various non-theistic societies in Oxford offer to a wider audience and hence raise the profile of the issues involved. This sets it apart from the annual Oxford Intercollegiate CU week (and similar CU weeks at other Universities no doubt), which was explicitly a conversion event, and we won’t be covering base questions like “Does God exist?” but instead be providing events in a similar vein to those our various societies provide during the rest of the year. The events will be intended to make people think about things they probably haven’t thought about before. The week will finish with the AHS Conference, which will see student societies from across the country convening in Oxford.
St. George’s Surgical Society have kindly invited medical students to a talk ‘A Life in Surgery’ by Sir Barry Jackson.Sir Barry Jackson was Past President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and former Sergeant Surgeon to HRH the Queen. He is a Consultant General Surgeon.It is taking place:
Mon 15th March
6.15 pm
Lecture Theatre F, 1st Floor Hunter Wing
St George’s, Hospital, Tooting, LondonThe Royal College of Surgeons would like to advertise Hunterian Society prizes available to medical students, for further information please visit: http://www.hunteriansociety.org.uk/competition.html
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