Professor Alastair Spence celebration

 

All welcome to attend

Hosts: Professor Tim Walsh / Professor Tony Wildsmith

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Prof Spence programme (437.49 KB / PDF)

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Programme

09:30-10:30 Coffee and registration

10:30-10:35 Tim Walsh / Tony Wildsmith Introduction & Welcome

Session 1 Alastair Spence : his career and contributions

Chair: Tony Wildsmith  
10:35-10:55 Alistair McKenzie Anaesthesia in Edinburgh: the Gillies & Robertson eras
10:55-11:15 Dermot McKeown The emergence of critical care
11:15-11:25 Tony Wildsmith Alastair Spence: his early life and career
11:25-11:45 Walter Nimmo The Glasgow Years
11:45-12:05 Jennie Hunter Alastair and the British Journal of Anaesthesia
12:05-12:25 Willie MacRae In Edinburgh and at the College
12:25-12:40 Tony Wildsmith Comments/Questions from the floor

12:40-13:34 Lunch

Session 2: Anaesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain medicine: key clinical developments Chair: Ian Power  
13:45-14:05 Alistair McNarry "Airway management: overcoming anatomy to improve safety"
14:05-14:25 David Semple “Regional anaesthesia: no longer a shot in the dark”
14:25-14:45 Ivan Marples “Old Pain, New Gain”
14:45-15:05 Mike Gillies “From tubes to pipes...the modern management of ARDS”

15:05-15:30 Coffee

Session 3: Academic Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine in Edinburgh: visions for the future Chair: Tim Walsh  
15:30-15:50 Tim Walsh “Clinical research in anaesthesia and critical care: big is beautiful”
15:50-16:10 David Griffith “Enthusing the future anaesthetist – Edinburgh’s newest BMedSci Programme”
16:10-16:30 Kev Dhaliwal “Lighting up the lung”
16:30-16:50 Ken Baillie "Critical illness in the post-genomic era"

16:50 Closing Comments and Drinks Reception

Sponsored by University of Edinburgh, Department of Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine and Edinburgh & East of Scotland Society of Anaesthetists