About this event

  • Date and time Mon 19 May 2025 from 9:00am to 6:30pm
  • Location Royal Society of Medicine
  • Organised by Surgery

Tickets

Standard pricing available until 18 May 2025.

Member

RSM Fellow RSM Associate RSM Retired Fellow RSM Trainee RSM Student
£96.00 £57.00 £57.00 £57.00 £30.00

Key speakers

Mr Frans Campher

CEO of Integral Leadership Dynamics, Director of the Executive Education Programme, Imperial College business school, London

Professor Deena Harji

Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, Manchester

Mr Shafi Ahmed

Digital health, AI and tele surgery

Agenda

View the programme 19 May 2025

Registration, tea and coffee
Welcome and introduction

Josef Watfah

History of Surgery – Exploring the border of Surgery – what is feasible and sensible?

Mr Ian Jenkins, Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, President of the Section of Coloproctology, Royal Society of Medicine, London 

Transplant surgery – from the first heart transplant to a new face 

Professor Nadey Hakim, Transplant Consultant Surgeon, London 

Norman Tanner prize
Tea and coffee break

Vascular surgery – from amputation to salvation

Professor Athanasios  Saratzis, Consultant Vascular Surgeon, Leicester 

Trauma surgery – helping to survive- do surgeons in training need exposure to trauma?

Speaker to be confirmed

Lunch

Robotics in surgery – the new standard? Can the NHS afford it?

Professor Deena Harji, Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, Manchester

Digital health, AI and Tele surgery – still toys or serious surgical platforms?

Mr Shafi Ahmed 

Tea and coffee break

Glaxo prize
What do future surgeons need to succeed?

Trainee perspective: Natalie Hara, President Students Section, Royal Society of Medicine 

Consultant perspective: Mr Ben Griffiths, Consultant Colorectal Surgeon and Director of Education and Training ASGBI, Manchester

Social Media in surgery: Mandatory? Dangerous? Or is the hype over?

Ameera AlHasan, Senior Specialist General, Colorectal and Pelvic Floor Surgery

Panel discussion
Prize ceremony
How we stay optimistic in the health service – Need existing Leaders become better leaders?

Mr Frans Campher, CEO of Integral Leadership Dynamics, Director of the Executive Education Programme, Imperial College business school, London 

Close of meeting

Location

Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole St, Marylebone, London, W1G 0AE, United Kingdom

Registration for this event will close at 1:00 am on Sunday 18 May 2025. Late registrations will not be accepted.

The agenda is subject to change at any time

If the event is recorded, we can only share presentations 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.

This event will be recorded and stored by the Royal Society of Medicine and may be distributed in the future on various Internet channels.

While you’re attending this event

Why not stay in the comfort of our hotel, Domus Medica, book dinner in the restaurant, or even hire one of our private dining rooms to socialise with your peers?

RSM members enjoy access to our enviable club facilities. For more information, please contact our team at domus@rsm.ac.uk or restaurant@rsm.ac.uk.

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