WEST SUSSEX HISTORY OF MEDICINE SOCIETY
Incorporating the Chichester Clinical Society
Chichester Medical Education Centre,
St. Richard’s Hospital, Spitalfield Lane,Chichester, PO19 6SE
Chairman: Dr Adam Stone MRCP DHMSA, Consultant Physician St Richard’s Hospital
Vice-Chairman: Mr Dominic Hodgson DHMSA MSc Med FRCS(Urol)
Secretary:Dr Barbara Ely, MB BS DHMSA
Membership Secretary & Treasurer:Prof. John Richardson FRCGP FFOM(I)
Associate Dean KSS Deanery:Dr Graeme Dewhurst MA FRCP
Librarian: Dr Marjorie Semmens MD DCH
Medical Student Representative:Mr Stuart Stokes
Schools Liaison Representative:Miss Emily Stone
Military Representative:Col DJ Vassallo DHMSA L/RAMC
Web Master:Mrs Susi Richardson RGN
Committee Members:Prof. Ken Shaw MD FRCP, Dr John Sedgwick FRCGP DHMSA, Patrick Pead MSc FIBMS FHA,
Programme 2018
Saturday 13th October
1a.“Sake Dean Mahomet, Shampooing Surgeon to George IV” David Beevers MA FSA
1b. “Frederick Henry Horatio Akhbar Mohomed of Guy’s Hospital, the first to describe essential hypertension.” Professor Gareth Beevers MD FRCP FBHS
2. “Chichester’s John Wickham(1927-2017) – The Godfather of Robotic Surgery”
Mr Dominic Hodgson DHMSA MScMed FRCS(Urol)
Saturday 27th October
1.“Hospital Ships, Past and Present, Do They Have a Future?”
Surgeon Rear Admiral Mike Farquhason-Roberts CBE PhD MA FRCS
2. “Royal Hospital Haslar.”
Eric C. Birbeck MVO MSM
Saturday 10th November
1. “Death and Disease at Norman Cross Prison: The Health of Prisoners of War 1797-1814.”
Paul Chamberlain FIBMS FINS
2. “The Lady of the Black Horse, Mabel Stoddart”
Dr Peter Down MB BS FRCP DHMSA
Saturday 24th November
1. “The Polio Story” Dr Tim Mason BSc MSc PhD
2. “Crusade to Visual Aid, The St John Eye Hospitals Jerusalem and Palestine”
Surgeon Captain James Walsh KStJ RD RNR
Saturday 8th December
The Fifth Brian Owen Smith Memorial Lecture
1.”Nurse Edith Cavell, An Example of Persistence, Professionalism and a Global Inspiration”
Professor John Richardson MA FRCGP FFOM(RCPI)
2. Open session to discuss the future of the WSHOMS and suggestions for future speakers.
Dr Adam Stone Chairman and Mr Dominic Hodgson Deputy Chairman
All meetings Saturdays 1000-1200hrs. £5 per session. Staff and students free. Donation to coffee appreciation.
Certificates of attendance for Continuing Professional Development will be provided
For further details contact Prof John Richardson 01243-780786, or RichardsonDrJ@aol.com,
or 1 Franklin Place, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 1BL
Free car parking for meetings adjacent to the Chichester Medical Education Centre
