UK's chief medical officer to speak at conference

The sixth Malta Medical School Conference, which is organised triennially, will be held on November 30, December 1 and 2, at the SAS Radisson Bay Point Resort in St Julians.

It is open to medical doctors, dentists, paramedical staff, students and workers in the academic and health-related sector.

A large multidisciplinary conference, it includes plenary lectures and three concurrent parallel sessions, covering a variety of medical and paramedical disciplines.

The conference will focus on ongoing local research in the medical field, and is the showpiece event of the Malta Medical School.

Eminent speakers will include Prof. Sir Liam Donaldson, chief medical officer for England; Tim Eden, professor of paediatric oncology at the Christie Hospital in Manchester; Prof. David Hatch, chair of the Assessment Committee of the General Medical Council in the UK; Dick Rainsbury, chair of the Postgraduate Training Committee, The Royal College of Surgeons; and Nick Fahy from the EU Health Strategy Unit of the European Commission.

The scientific programme includes 137 oral and 125 poster presentations covering public health and health management, medical education, neonatology, paediatrics, pharmacology, pharmacy, cardiology, anaesthesia, geriatrics, diabetes, oncology, orthopaedics, obstetrics and gynaecology, infectious diseases, medicine and surgery, psychiatry, ENT and dentistry.

Application forms for registration can be obtained from the conference secretary on 9555 1881, e-mail mmsc@um.edu.mt; or downloaded from www.mmsconf.org.