17:30 - 18:30
Institute of Transplantation Lecture Theatre, Freeman Hospital
Developments in the management of pancreatic cancer
Professor Dirk Gouma, Department of Surgery. Erasmus University, Amsterdam
Free admission, no pre-booking required
Rutherford-Morrison Lecture
17:30 - 18:30
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
The importance of medical professionalism, leadership and advocacy in improving the nation’s health
Professor Sir Ian Gilmore MD FRCP, University of Liverpool
Free admission, no pre-booking required
Jacobson Lecture
17:30 - 18:30
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
What is the way towards a better understanding of depression?
Professor Joe Herbert, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge
Free admission, no pre-booking required
Lecture to mark World Mental Health Day
17:30 - 18:30
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
Standing on the shoulders of giants: the search for Darwin’s predecessors
Rebecca Stott, Professor of Literature and Creative Writing, University of East Anglia
Free admission, no pre-booking required
11:00 - 12:00
RB Green Lecture Theatre, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University
Preventing alcohol related violence: effective alternatives to 'a tooth for a tooth'?
Professor Jonathan Shepherd, Professor of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery and Director, Cardiff University
Founders and Benefactor's Lecture
Please note: this lecture is free and open to all, however you are asked to pre-register for spaces by contacting Joy Chambers by e-mail: joy.chambers@ncl.ac.uk or telephone 0191 222 8245
17:30 - 18:30
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building
Common metabolic disease – lessons from the extreme
Stephen O’Rahilly FRS, Professor of Clinical Biochemistry and Medicine, University of Cambridge
Albert Latner Memorial Lecture in Clinical Biochemistry
Free admission, no pre-booking required
17:30 - 18:30
Sir James Spence Lecture Theatre, Ground Floor, RVI
The surgical specialties of the twenty-first Century
Professor Gus McGrouther, University of Manchester
Grey Turner lecture
Free admission, no pre-booking required
17:30 - 18:30
David Shaw Lecture Theatre, Medical School
Professor Lorraine Tyler FBA, University of Cambridge
The resilient brain: cognition and ageing
Free admission, no pre-booking required
17:30 - 18:30
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building
Cures for cancer — mission possible in the twenty-first century?
Professor Fran Balkwill, Queen Mary, University of London
Jacobson Lecture
17:30 - 18:30
Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building
Translating research into better treatments for children with cancer - a Newcastle perspective
Professor H Josef Vormoor, Sir James Spence Professor of Child Health, Newcastle University