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John Marks Biennial Symposium and Medics & Vets Dinner

Medics and Vets attendees posing for photograph

We are delighted to be hosting the Biennial John Marks Symposium which proceeds the Medics and Vets Dinner on Saturday, 3 May 2025. In the afternoon, ahead of the dinner, there will be a symposium which will be followed by drinks and a dinner in the evening. All Girton Medical and Veterinary Alumni, Fellows and students are welcome to attend. The full programme can ben found at the end of this page.

Tickets

While the symposium is free to attend, tickets for the dinner are priced at £65 per person or £50 without wine. This covers the basic costs and includes a subsidy for current students. To reserve your place, please complete the form below. Alternatively, bookings can be made by phone on +44 (0) 1223 764 935. Kindly confirm your booking by Sunday, 20 April

 

Programme

TimeEvent / Speaker
3:30 PMTea and cake
4:00 PMSymposium begins
4:00–4:05 PMWelcome by Dr Fiona Cooke (1989), Official Fellow in Medical Sciences
4:05–4:20 PMNick Carter (2019), 6th year medical student on Trauma Surgery in Charlotte Maxeke, Johannesburg.
4:20–5:00 PMProfessor Anne Rosser (1979), Professor of Clinical Neuroscience at Cardiff University. Professor Rosser’s research focusses on improving our understanding of the mechanisms of cell death, plasticity, and regeneration in the central nervous system in order to offer new opportunities for remediation and repair in several of the most distressing neurodegenerative diseases such as Huntington’s disease.
5:00–5:15 PMGina Fadel (2023), Hammond Science Communication Prize-winning Talk: Lost in the Algorithm: The Silent Crisis of Childhood Cognitive Development
5:15–5:30 PMSuccess Anyanwu (2019), 6th year medical student on Inside Roche: My Experience in Swiss Life Sciences & Healthcare Innovation.
5:30–5:45 PMFilip Twarowski (2022), 3rd year medical student. Filip will talk about his Part II project in Genetics 
5:45–6:10 PMMr Chang-Bon Man, Consultant Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeon, Cambridge University Hospitals on Complex head and neck reconstruction: How do computers help?
6:10 PMConcluding Remarks by Rev'd Dr Charlie Bell, Official Fellow in Medicine and Public Theology
6:30 PMReception drinks
7:15 PMDinner
 Keynote Speaker: Professor Tom Wilkinson (1989), Professor of Respiratory Medicine, University of Southampton
Post DinnerPost-dinner drinks