Med-Chi Lecture : Natural Justice and Place on Thursday, 4th March via Zoom

Thursday 4th March 2021
Via Zoom Meeting at 7.00 pm
Non members welcome

Speaker: Professor Lorna Dawson CBE, Head of Forensic Soil Science, The James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen

Lorna Dawson graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Geography from Edinburgh University and then a PhD in Soil Science from Aberdeen University. Currently she is Principal Scientist and Head of Forensic Soil Science at the James Hutton Institute, Visiting Professor at RGU, Chartered Scientist, Fellow of the Institute of British Soil Scientists, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

She is an advisor with the National Crime Agency, Expert Witness, and holds diplomas in civil and criminal law, and has worked on over 150 cases with police, agencies, and lawyers across the UK and overseas. She has published over 100 scientific papers, books and book chapters, sits on the BAS General Committee, and holds a diploma in Science Communication, Bristol. She is the Science Advisor and KE Lead for Environment for SEFARI (Scottish Environment Food Agriculture Research Institutes) and sits on the Environment Protection Scotland Land Quality Expert Advisory Group.  She authored the RSA Scotland FFCC report and is co-lead in the Food, Farming and Countryside (FFCC) current devolved Scotland inquiry.

The talk will cover examples from real case work and from fiction where evidence from the earth has been of importance in helping to solve crimes and to bring about natural justice.

 

Zoom details will be emailed to members. Others interested in joining should email Marilene via medchi.admin@abdn.ac.uk for the Zoom meeting link and for CPD Certification forms.

Follow this link for more information on the Medical Chirurigical Society’s current programme.

Med-Chi lecture : Doctors are People Too

Thursday 5th December 2019
Med-Chi Hall
Polwarth Building
Foresterhill
7.00 pm – 9.00 pm

“How research can inform workforce policy and Planning?”

A lecture by Professor Jen Cleland, John Simpson Chair of Medical Research, Aberdeen.

Many areas of Scotland struggle to recruit and retain trainees and doctors. This lecture draws on a 10-year programme of work to highlight the factors most valued by medical students and trainees in terms of their career choices and personal priorities.

Jen is a psychologist, starting her career observing primate social behaviour, then training and working in occupational and clinical psychology. She moved to Aberdeen  in 2000 for a split University : NHS Grampian post, working as a clinical psychologist in Liaison Psychiatry for 10 years. She moved to the University full-time in 2011.

She has been John Simpson Chair of Medical Research since 2011, and is Director of the Centre for Healthcare Education Research and Innovation, University of Aberdeen.

All are welcome to this talk. A finger buffet and tea or coffee are available from 6:30 pm.

Directions to the Med-Chi Hall in the Polwarth Building on the Foresterhill Campus are available here (map).

Med-Chi lecture by Brigadier Robin Simpson QHS

Thursday 3rd October 2019
Med-Chi Hall
Polwarth Building
Foresterhill
7.00 pm

 

How to train doctors to deliver healthcare in an austere environment

Brigadier Robin Simpson QHS, Defence Postgraduate Medical Dean

Robin Simpson graduated MB ChB from the University of Aberdeen in 1983. On joining the Army, he undertook Parachute training and then deployed to Northern Ireland before Officer training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He then was posted to Germany for his GP training which was completed by a year at BMH Hong Kong in 1989. As RMO to 1 KOSB he deployed to on Operation Telic in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iraq. On posting to Dortmund as SMO, he became a GP trainer and GP Course Organiser in 1992. Subsequent tours were as Senior Medical Officer to Sennelager and then Episkopi Cyprus. In 1998 he returned to Sennelager as the Regional Clinical Director. This tour included overseeing the transfer of secondary Health care from BMH Rinteln to a German hospital in Paderborn. In 2001 he completed his MSc in General Practice at Kings College London. In 2004 he undertook a tour as the SMO for the Provincial Construction Team Mazar-i-Sharif Northern Afghanistan. In 2011 he deployed as the Senior Medical Officer Camp Bastion with specific responsibilities for the medical care of Captured Personnel.

In 1995 he became the Defence Professor of General Practice at the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine. His research interest focusses on care of patients on the battlefield on which he has published extensively. In 2012 he was appointed the GP Dean and then in March 2015 the Postgraduate Dean of the Defence Medical Services. He is an MRCGP Examiner (since 1995) and has had many senior roles in the senior management of the exam. He is the Vice Chair Midlands Faculty RCGP.

Brigadier Simpson is particularly interested in making GPs more aware of veteran’s health issues and co-authored the RCGP document entitled “Meeting the Healthcare Needs of Veterans”. He is now the RCGP Veterans Champion and is the Professor of Military Primary Healthcare and Veterans Health University of Chester.

In January 2018 he was appointed Queens Honorary Surgeon.

His awards include:

• • • Defence Medical Services General Practice Medal November 2012
    • Royal College of Surgeons Mitchiner Medal December 2013
    • Order of St John March 2015.

He will leave the Army later in 2019 after 35 years’ service.

NOTE: Representatives from Playlist and Aberdeen Mountain Rescue will talk about the work of their charity and how the society’s donations can help.

All are welcome to this talk. A finger buffet and tea/ coffee are available from 6:30 pm.

Directions to the Med-Chi Hall in the Polwarth Building on the Foresterhill Campus are available here (map).