PLYMOUTH MEDICAL SOCIETY
SEPTEMBER 2019 TO JUNE 2020
Talks start at 7.15pm followed by dinner at 8.15
FRIDAY 4TH OCTOBER
President’s Address
(preceded by AGM at 6.45pm)
Tim Freegard
Read minutes here
FRIDAY !ST NOVEMBER
Ostriches or Albatrosses: what role for health professionals in the worlds biggest health threat of climate change?
David Pencheon OBE – Founding Director of Sustainable development Unit NHS England
WEDNESDAY 20TH NOVEMBER
Matthew Bourne’s ‘The Red Shoes’ Ballet
Theatre Royal Plymouth – Curtain up 7.30 pm
Pre show supper from 6pm
FRIDAY 6TH DECEMBER
Speed to the West: A Great Western Railway Journey
Tim Bryan – Director of the Brunel Institute
SS Great Britain Trust
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FRIDAY 17TH JANUARY
Growing Health – how human and soil health interact
Jane Gleeson – Lead Gardener & Programme Coordinator Schumacher College, Dartington Estate
FRIDAY 24TH JANUARY
Burns Night Supper and Ceilidh
Derriford Leisure Centre 7.30pm
Organiser: Bob Jeffery
FRIDAY 7TH FEBRUARY
The Elephant’s and Others Tales: a snapshot of the lot of an ophthalmic vet
Jim Carter – European Specialist in Veterinary Ophthalmology
Read minutes here
WEDNESDAY 19TH FEBRUARY
RSC Touring ‘Taming of the Shrew’
Theatre Royal Plymouth – Curtain up 7.30pm
Pre show supper from 6pm
FRIDAY 13TH MARCH
A Tincture of Song and Laughter.
Medical Maelstrom - three Cornish GPs issue a repeat prescription.
TUESDAY 21st APRIL
PMS Golf Match
Stadden Heights Golf Club
Organiser: Maldwyn Owen
FRIDAY 24TH APRIL
Classical Guitar Concert
Alison Smith – Internationally Renowned Classical Guitarist
FRIDAY 15TH MAY
Challenges and Controversies in Reproductive Medicine
Adam Balen – former chairman of British Reproductive Society
Programme 2018-2019
Friday 12th October 7.15
President’s address & welcome to new members
OVERLAND TO ASSAM AND NEPAL 1967
Dr Chris Westwood. Dinner at 8.15
Tuesday 16th October
National Theatre Production. MACBETH.
Theatre Royal, Plymouth. 7.30
Friday 16th November 7.15
ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ENGINEERING-THE IMPOSSIBLE EXPLAINED
Peter Brooks, Dinner 8.15
Friday 14th December 7.15
FARMING AND THE COUNTRYSIDE POST BREXIT
Andrew Davis, Dinner 8.15
Friday 11th January 7.15
DEFENCE? WHERE ARE WE GOING AND HOW MIGHT WE END UP?
Admiral Robin Hogg, Dinner 8.15
Friday 25th January 7.30pm
BURNS NIGHT and CEILIDH
Derriford Centre for Health and Wellbeing
Friday 15th February 7.15
WILDLIFE PAINTING AND PHOTOGRAPHY
David Scott, Dinner 8.15
Friday 8th March 7.15
POST BREXIT BRITAIN
Gary Streeter MP, Dinner 8.15
Thursday 4th April
Welsh National Opera. THE MAGIC FLUTE, MOZART
Theatre Royal, Plymouth. 7.15
Friday 5th April 7.15
HEAT ILLNESS IN THE ARMED FORCES: risk factors and prevention.
Caroline Westwood Dinner 8.15
Friday 26th April 7.15
DECOMPRESSION ILLNESS
Annual General Meeting at 6.45
Dr Claire Ashford, Dinner 8.15
April
Golf
Venue to be confirmed