Yorkhill Centenary Symposium: Celebrating a Century of Paediatric Care at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children (Yorkhill): Agenda

Maurice Bloch Lecture Theatre, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow

Wednesday 15 April 2015

9.00 Registration

9.30 Welcome by President Dr Frank Dunn

   HISTORY

   Chair – Dr Roy Millar College Historian and Hon Librarian

9.40 Professor Lawrence Weaver – ‘Who Needs Children’s Hospitals’?

   Chair – Dr Jim Beattie

10.10 Dr Kate McKay – ‘Letting Glasgow Flourish – A Short History of Community Child Health’ – (including 5 minute discussion)

10.40 Dr Tom Turner and Dr Helen Mactier – ‘The Development of Neonatal Services’ – (including 5 minute discussion)

11.10 Coffee break

   Chair – Dr Crispin Best

11.40 Professor Gordon Dutton – ‘Developments in Paediatric Ophthalmology: The Yorkhill Contribution’ (including 5 minute discussion)

12.10 Dr Alan Houston – ‘Cardiac Services: – The Decades and the Developments’ – (including 5 minute discussion)

12.40 Professor Helen Minnis – ‘Psychiatric Services’ – (including 5 minute discussion)

1.10 Lunch break

   MEMORIAL LECTURE

   Chair – Professor Robert Carachi

2.10 Professor Jay Grosfeld – ‘Memorial Lecture’, Professor Daniel Greer Young–

   ‘Long-term follow up of Childhood Cancer: the unintended consequences of success’.

2.50 Professor Brenda Gibson – ‘From the Bench to the Bedside – The Road to Personalised Therapy’

   (including 5 minute discussion)

3.20 Dr Margo Whiteford – ‘The Ever Changing World of Clinical Genetics’ – (including 5 minute discussion)

3.50 Coffee break

   Chair – Mr Ronald Cleland

4.10 Mr Jonathan Best –‘Yorkhill – Past, Present and the Future Children’s Hospital’

4.40 Conclusion – Professor Forrester Cockburn