Join us for a comprehensive day of learning and networking with two separate sessions exploring crucial topics in healthcare: Medico-legal work and medical innovation. Gain the skills to provide expert medico-legal evidence and navigate the challenges and opportunities in medical innovation. Scroll down to learn more about each session and choose your preferred option. Get 20% off when booking both morning and afternoon sessions.
Medico-legal workshop: Providing medico-legal advice and expert evidence - 9:30am to 1:00pm (BST)
In the morning session, this interactive workshop features group discussions and exercises to enhance your writing and evidence-giving skills. Expert panelists will provide insights into the role of an expert witness and the skills needed to provide medico-legal evidence and opinions.
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Medical innovation and safety in medicine - 2:00pm to 5:30pm (BST)
In the afternoon session, we will dive into the world of innovative new healthcare technologies. We will explore potential risks and challenges that come with these innovations, via lively and insightful presentations and discussions, with an informative and thought-provoking line up of speakers. Plus, an opportunity for those attending to network and share their thoughts on the evolving and innovative landscape that exists both in the US and in the UK.
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Barrister, 1 Crown Office Row
Robert Kellar KC is a barrister at 1 Crown Office Row. His areas of specialism include clinical negligence, professional regulation, healthcare, public law and personal injury. Robert acts for both claimants and defendants in complex, multi-party and high value litigation. Robert speaks, publishes and advises in the emerging areas of AI, web3 and crypto regulation.
Managing Director, BioStar Capital and Emeritus Staff, Orthopaedic Surgeon, Cleveland Clinic
Dr Alan W Davis MD served as the Department Chair for Orthopaedic Surgery, Fairview (regional CCF) Hospital, CC Innovations and Supply Chain Committees. He attended Michigan State University, Academic All American, and Big Ten, as a scholar athlete, football, and was the President of MSU Varsity Club. He was the Team Physician for the college and professional sports teams, along with USA Hockey. He gained his MD from Wright State University at the Boonshoft School of Medicine, and went on to do his Orthopaedic Residency at Cleveland Clinic. He has been married to wife wife Pamela for 44 years and has 5 children and 10 grandchildren. In 2006, he joined his medical school best friend, Dr Louis Cannon MD, at BioStar Captial.
Founder and Senior Managing Director, BioStar Capital and BioStar Ventures and President and Founder, Cardiac and Vascular Research Center, Northern Michigan
Chief Medical Officer, CMR Surgical Ltd
Chair: Mr Simon Gomersall, Partner, Weightmans LLP
Co-Chair: Professor Roger Kirby, Immediate Past President, Royal Society of Medicine
Professor Roger Kirby
Mr Simon Gomersall
Dr Louis A Cannon, Founder and Senior Managing Director, BioStar Capital and BioStar Ventures and President and Founder, Cardiac and Vascular Research Center, Northern Michigan
Mr Simon Gomersall, Professor Sir Simon Wessely, Regius Professor of Psychiatry, King's College London, and Past President, Royal Society of Medicine, Mr Julian Shah, Consultant Urological Surgeon, King Edward VII Hospital and Honorary Associate Professor, University College London and Mr Roland Morley, Consultant Urologist, Imperial Healthcare NHS Trust
Mr Robert Kellar KC, Barrister, 1 Crown Office Row
Professor Roger Kirby, Immediate Past President, Royal Society of Medicine
Dr Paul Campbell, Head of Software and AI, Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)
Nathalie Smyth, Partner, Kennedys Law LLP Products and Life Sciences
Dr Mark Slack, Chief Medical Officer, CMR Surgical Ltd
Dr Alan W Davis, Managing Director, BioStar Capital and Emeritus Staff, Orthopaedic Surgeon, Cleveland Clinic
Dr Louis A Cannon, Founder and Senior Managing Director, BioStar Capital and BioStar Ventures and President and Founder, Cardiac and Vascular Research Center, Northern Michigan
Drinks reception for all participants
Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole St, Marylebone, London, W1G 0AE, United Kingdom
Registration for this event will close at 1:00am on Wednesday 11 September 2024. Late registrations will not be accepted.
The agenda is subject to change at any time
If the event is recorded, we are only able to share presentations that we have received permission to share. There is no guarantee that all sessions will be available after the event, this is at the presenter’s and RSM’s discretion.
All views expressed at this event are of the speakers themselves and not of the Royal Society of Medicine, nor the speaker's organisations.
