Croydon Medical Society Events
The Society’s annual programme includes three lectures, AGM and an annual dinner. The Society also confers an annual Lifetime Achievement Award.
Program of events for 2024
Wednesday 11th September
Talk by Dr Robert Sarkany
Subject: ‘Tips and Tricks for looking after the Dermatology Patient’
Time: 7.15 pm for supper with the meeting commencing at 8 pm.
Venue: Meetings are now held at Scout HQ – 1, Farm Fields, Sanderstead CR2 0HQ (opp Sanderstead Library and just off the bottom of Sanderstead Hill).
Biography
Dr Robert Sarkany is a Consultant Dermatologist and senior Photodermatology Consultant at St John’s Institute of Dermatology at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital, London. He was previously Consultant Dermatologist at Mayday Hospital (1999-2002) and then at St Georges Hospital and Medical School (2002-2006) before taking up his current post.
He is an experienced Dermatologist for skin diseases of all types in children and adults. He is an international authority on sunlight sensitivity, sun allergy, and ultraviolet light therapy, and lectures around the world and writes widely on these subjects.
He led the Photodermatology Unit at St John’s Institute of Dermatology from 2006-2023, one of the leading centres in the world for the treatment of skin diseases and of research into them and is currently the senior Consultant in the Photodermatology Unit. He established the National Xeroderma Pigmentosum Centre there in 2010, the largest such centre in the world, and was one of the founders of the Rare Disease Centre at St Thomas’ Hospital.
Can you attend?
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Wednesday 23rd October
Talk by Dr Michael Taylor
(former leader of the Small Practices Association)
Subject: ‘Homo Problematicus’
Wednesday 13th November
Talk by Mr Michael Ford
(Actor and brother of our President-elect)
Subject: ‘Dr Wilde and his infamous son’
Wednesday 27th November
Christmas Quiz
This year it’s entitled ‘Squiz Nite’!
You will need to book your team in early for this fun event.
Interested in Becoming a Member?
We welcome Hospital Consultants (both current and retired) and GPs who live or work in Croydon as well as GP trainees, Doctors in training and undergraduates.
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