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Appendix Eight

GUINNESS LECTURES

1969 The Changing Face of Obstetrics. Prof. T.N.A. Jeffcoate, University of Liverpool

1970 British Perinatal Survey. Prof. N. Butler, University of Bristol

1971 How Many Children? Sir Dougald Baird, University of Aberdeen

1972 The Immunological Relationship between Mother and Fetus. Prof. C.S. Janeway, Boston

1973 Not One but Two. Prof. F. Geldenhuys, University of Pretoria

1978 The Obstetrician/Gynaecologist and Diseases of the Breast. Prof. Keith P. Russell, University of Southern California School of Medicine

1979 Preterm Birth and the Developing Brain. Dr. J. S. Wigglesworth, Institute of Child Health, University of London

1980 The Obstetrician a Biologist or a Sociologist? Prof. James Scott, University of Leeds

1981 The New Obstetrics or Preventative Paediatrics? Dr. J. K. Brown, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh

1982 Ovarian Cancer. Dr. J. A. Jordan, University of Birmingham

1983 The Uses and Abuses of Perinatal Mortality Statistics. Prof. G.V.P. Chamberlain, St. George’s Hospital Medical School, London

1984 Ethics of Assisted Reproduction. Prof. M. C. McNaughton, President, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

1985 Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Prof. E. M. Symonds, University of Nottingham

1986 Why Urodynamics?. Mr. S. L. Stanton, St. George’s Hospital Medical School, London

1987 Intrapartum Events and Neurological Outcome. Dr. K. B. Nelson, Department of Health and Human Services, National Institute of Health, Maryland 1988 Anaesthesia and Maternal Mortality. Dr. Donald D. Moir, Queen Mothers Hospital, Glasgow

1989 New approaches to the management of severe intrauterine growth retardation. Prof. Stuart Campbell, Kings College School of Medicine and Dentistry, London

1990 Uterine Haemostasis. Prof. Brian Sheppard, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Trinity College, Dublin

1991 Aspects of Caesarean Section and Modern Obstetric Care. Prof. Ingemar Ingemarsson, University of Lund

1992 Perinatal Trials and Tribulations. Prof. Richard Lilford, University of Leeds

1993 Diabetes Mellitus in Pregnancy. Prof. Richard Beard, St. Mary’s Hospital, London

1994 Controversies in Multiple Pregnancies. Dr. Mary E D’Alton, New England Medical Center, Boston

1995 The New Woman. Prof. James Drife, University of Leeds

1996 The Coombe Women’s Hospital and the Cochrane Collaboration. Dr. Iain Chalmers, the UK Cochrane Centre, Oxford

1997 The Pathogenesis of Endometriosis. Prof. Eric J Thomas, University of Southampton.

1998 A Flux of the Reds - Placenta Prevail Then and Now. Prof. Thomas Basket, Nova Scotia

1999 Lessons Learned from First Trimester Prenatal Diagnosis. Prof. Ronald J Wagner, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia

2000 The Timing of Fetal Brain Damage: The Role of Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring. Prof. Jeffrey P Phelan, Childbirth Injury Prevention Foundation, Pasadena, California

2001 The Decline and Fall of Evidence Based Medicine. Dr. John M Grant, Editor of the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

2002 Caesarean Section: A Report of the U.K. Audit and its Implications. Prof. J.J Walker, St James’s Hospital, Leeds

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2003 The 20th Century Plague: It’s Effect on Obstetric Practice. Prof. Mary-Jo O’Sullivan University of Miami School of Medicine, Florida

2004 Connolly, Shaw and Skrabanek - Irish Influences on an English Gynaecologist. Prof. Patrick Walker, Royal Free Hospital, London

2005 Careers and Babies: Which Should Come First? Dr. Susan Bewley, Clinical Director for Women’s Health, Guys and St Thomas NHS Trust, London

2006 Retinopathy of Prematurity from the Intensive Care Nursery to the Laboratory and Back. Prof. Neil McIntosh, Professor of Child Life and Health, Edinburgh, Vice President Science, Research and Clinical Effectiveness, RCPCH, London

2007 Schools, Skills and Synapses. Prof. James J. Heckman, Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences. Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, University of Chicago, Professor of Science and Society, University College Dublin

2008 Cervical Length Screening For Prevention of Preterm Birth Prof. Vincenzo Berghella, MD, Director of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia

2009 Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery: The Simple Truth. Prof. Harry Reich, Wilkes Barre Hospital, Pennsylvania; Past President of the International Society of Gynaecologic Endoscopy (ISGE)

2010 Magnesium – The Once and Future Ion. Prof. Mike James, Prof. and Head of Anaesthesia, The Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Capetown

2011 Pre-eclampsia: Pathogenesis of a Complex Disease. Prof. Chris Redman, Emeritus Professor of Obstetric Medicine, Nuffield, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Oxford

2012 Non-invasive prenatal diagnosis: from Down syndrome detection to fetal whole genome sequencing Prof. Dennis Lo, Director of the Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, Department of Chemical Pathology, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong 2013 A procedural approach to perceived inappropriate requests for Medical Treatment. Lessons from the USA. Prof Geoffrey Miller, Professor of Pediatrics and of Neurology; Clinical Director Yale Pediatric Neurology, Co-Director Yale/MDA Pediatric Neuromuscular Clinic Yale Program for Biomedical Ethics

2014 ‘THE CHANGE’, Highlighting the change in diagnosis and management in the past thirty years. Prof C.N. Purandare. Consultant Obstetrician and Gynecologist. President Elect FIGO

2015 Why you shouldn’t believe what you read in medical journals. Dr. Fiona Godlee, Editor in Chief, British Medical Journal

2016 ‘We are such stuff as Dreams are made on’: Imagination and Revolution – the Epiphany of a Photograph. Prof. Chris Fitzpatrick, Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist CWIUH, Clinical Professor UCD School of Medicine

2017 ‘Women; the journey is far from over’. Prof. James Dornan. Chair Health and Life Sciences University of Ulster. Emeritus Chair Fetal Medicine Queen’s University Belfast

2018 ‘Domestic Violence and the Obstetrician’. Prof. Stephen Lindow, Division Chief of Obstetrics at Sidra Medical and Research Centre, Qatar

2019 ‘From Queen Victoria to the Duchess of Cambridge’. Prof. Rob Dyer, University of Cape Town, New Groote Schuur Hospital

2020 Deferred due to the COVID-19 Pandemic

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