QJM Advance Access originally published online on October 9, 2006
QJM 2006 99(11):783-796; doi:10.1093/qjmed/hcl103
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Annual General Meeting |
The One-Hundredth Annual General Meeting of the Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Ireland 2006
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The Centenary Annual General Meeting was held in Guy's Campus of King's College London on 6 and 7 April 2006. The attendance book was signed by Ordinary Members and Senior Members.
The President, Professor R. Lechler, took the chair.
The Minutes of the last Annual General Meeting, having been published in the QJM (September 2005), were taken as read, confirmed and signed. The following Officers and Executive Officers were elected:
Executive Committee
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Ordinary Members
Bath, Phillip MW, BSc, MB, BS, MRCP, MD, FRCP. Professor of Stroke Medicine, Division of Stroke Medicine, University of Nottingham Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham NH7 2UH.
Buchan, Alastair M, BA, MA, BM, BCh, MRCP, FRCPC, FRCP Ed. Professor of Clinical Geratology, Nuffield Dept of Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU.
Dockrell, David H, MB, B Ch, BAO, BA, MRCPI, MD, DTM & H, FRCPI, FRCP. Senior Lecturer and Hon. Consultant in Infectious Diseases, Division
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Opening Reception and Annual Dinner |
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The Osler Lecture—Hedgehogs, Hox genes and Motor Neurons
(1) CD34+ cells, modified to express anticoagulants on differentiation, promote repair to a pre-injured state after endovascular injury
(2) Molecular aetiology of the myeloproliferative disorders
(3) Scar-associated macrophages are the major source of collagenolytic MMP-13 in hepatic fibrosis
(4) Clinical and molecular genetic spectrum of human leptin receptor deficiency
(5) Corneal confocal microscopy: a rapid, non-invasive and reiterative examination technique to quantify diabetic neuropathy
(6) Mechanically-modulated signalling by titin kinase in muscle disease
(7) Muckle Wells syndrome—the paradigm of an IL-1ß-driven disease: insights from treatment
(8) IL-2 signalling pathway blockage restores steroid sensitivity in steroid resistant inflammatory disease
(9) Targeting C-reactive protein for treatment of cardiovascular disease
(10) The ‘window of opportunity’ for treating early rheumatoid arthritis
(11) Features of epigenetic silencing in patients and mice with triplet-repeat expansions
(12) Functional characterization of the asthma gene, a disintegrin and metalloprotease (ADAM) 33
(13) Oxyntomodulin both increases energy expenditure and reduces energy intake in obese humans—an effective double hit
(14) Slow conduction of the cardiac impulse and sudden cardiac death
(15) Axonal protection achieved by lamotrigine in a model of multiple sclerosis
(16) Attenuation of insulin stimulated brain appetite and reward responses in insulin resistance contributes to failure of appetite control in humans
(17) A functional genetic variant in MAL/TIRAP associates with protection against invasive pneumococcal disease, bacteraemia, malaria and tuberculosis in different human populations
History of Medicine Lecture—Fifty Years of Clinical Science in Psychiatry: Reflections on People, Ideas, Technology and Bureaucracy
Special Poster Presentation of research work sponsored through the ‘Links with Developing Countries’ Scheme—Economic costs of podoconiosis (endemic non-filarial elephantiasis) in Wolaita Zone, Ethiopia
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Demonstrations |
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