Professor Phil Routledge – From Clans to Glands; our Friends in the North
Professor Dyfrig Hughes – Cortisone, Coal and the Costs of the NHS
Professor Andrew Findlay – The History of Dermatology in Wales
Dr David Wilkinson – The White Knight for Anaesthesia
Professor Allister Vale – Did Winston Churchill Suffer a Heart Attack in Washington DC in December 1941?
2025
Professor Sir Keith Peters – The Closure of the MRC Clinical Research Centre at Northwick Park
Professor Sally Sheard –Learning from change: how history can help to develop an effective health policy
Professor Caroline Vout – The body: Greek and Roman
Mr Graham Kyle – The contagious diseases acts: Protection, prejudice, punishment.
Professor Sally Shuttleworth – Sir Clifford Allbutt, Davos and the Treatment of Tuberculosis
Professor Alastair Compston – The Hexagon club: dining out on developments in neurology
Dr Tony Jewell – Julian Tudor Hart
Mr David Webster – Stimulate the Phagocytes
Mr Harvey White – Two literary figures of the 17th Century: Sir Thomas Browne and Henry Vaughan
Dr David Wilkinson – Barts, Druidstone and Pontypridd
Professor Tilli Tansey – MRC in Wales- early days: Pneumoconiosis Research
Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz – MRC in Wales-later: Cochrane and Elwood
Professor Nicholas Hopwood – The many births of a test-tube baby
Professor Sir James Smith – How lessons from frogs help mend a broken heart
Ms Harriet Tuckey – Griffith Pugh and the Ascent of Everest
2024
Dame Deirdre Hine – The ‘Other’ Pandemic
Professor Nick Goddard – The Royal Disease
Mr Brian Rhodes – The trials and Tribulations of Evan Thomas II: the Remarkable Welsh Bonesetter
Mr Tom Khan-White – “A cut Above” What does the Historical Practice of Torri’r lech reveal about Welsh Folk Medicine?
Dr David Hullin – Cardiff’s 19th Century Doctors: Mere Tradesmen or Scientific Pioneers
Dr Anne Freeman – From Apoplexy to Stroke and Beyond
Mr David H A Jones – The Welsh Hospital for South Africa
Mr Clive Inman – Relationships between western and traditional medical practice in sub-Saharan Africa in the colonial period
Dr Peter Mitchell – The Early Modern Literary Anatomy: Medicine, Law, and Examination of the Soul
Dr Alex Anstey – Betsi, Florence and Godfrey
Prof. Malcolm Wheeler – From Salford, U.K. to the American Mid-West
Dame Parveen Kumar – Medicine past, present and future
Prof. Gareth Jones – Porton Down’s secret chemical and biological weapons lab: the Welsh Connection
Mr Peter Thomas – A History of Bones
Dr Michael Whitfield – Dr Logan’s cases in early 18th Century Bristol
2023
Mr Graham Kyle – The Poor Law and Poor Mr Davies
Dr. James Burton – Sheffield – The first for Penicillin
Dr Edward Wawrzynczak – Covid and convalescent plasma – A Cautionary Tale
Dr Rajan Madhok – Some reflections on the NHS: learning from history
Dr John Turner – Aintree Univ. Hospital: via Robert de Fazakerley, Smallpox and the 1st Western General TF
Briony Hudson – “Every possibility of being a great success”: the history of pharmacy education in Cardiff.
Lysetta Lovett – Relationships between patients and their ‘doctors’ in the mid 18th century: Insights from Casanova’s memoirs.
Rod Amos – Doctors, Disease and Death in Stuart England
David Hamilton – Charles Lindbergh as a Biomedical Scientist
Mike Collins – Sir William Wilde (1815-1876) Pioneer Eye and ear surgeon and Polymath. His achievements, adversities and his son Oscar
Dominic Hodgson – “Of Monkeys and Men: British Rejuvenators and the ‘decade of the testicle’
Professor Rosalie David OBE – The Legend of the Lady of the Lake: was there a connection between Medicine and Pharmacy as practised in Ancient Egypt and Medieval Wales?
Graham Kyle – Sir William Osler; his connection with Wales
Nick Jones – From Quackery to Specialism: Ophthalmology in Manchester 1750-1850
John Delieu – Anglesey Bone Setters
2022
Dr Margaret Jones – The History of the HOMSW
Mr Alun Evans – The care of women in childbirth over the last 100 years
Mr Jared Torkington -The evolution of laparoscopic surgery
Dr Judith Foy – Fear of floating: the rise and fall of the flotation catheter
Dame Deirdre Hine – A public enquiry into Health Care: added value or added damage
Dr James Gagg – The evolution of a medical specialty: Emergency Medicine, the first fifty years
Professor Geraint Williams – Cuthbert Dukes: The gentle giant of Gastrointestinal Pathology
Sir Keith Peters – The legacy of Sir Thomas Lewis. Clinical science in the era of molecular medicine
Professor Malcolm Wheeler – Daring innovators or reckless pioneers?
Professor David Graham – Reflections of a career in traumatic brain surgery
Dr Tony Napier – Ten lives that set the course of blood transfusion
Mr Chris Wilson – Knee arthritis – knee replacement, past present and future
Dr Gareth Williams – Unravelling the Double Helix
Dr Liam Penny – Down the rabbit hole – the development of medical practice and cardiology in Wales in the last century
Professor Alan Fraser – The origins of regulatory science for medical devices
2021
Mr David Webster – Seminal Events in Medical Education
Professor Robert Mansel – Breast Cancer Surgery from start to finish.
Professor Malcolm Mason – A History of Prostate Cancer – Taming the Tiger without Drowning the Pussycat?
Dr Sian Griffin Cardiff – The Development of Renal Replacement Therapy.
Miss Rachel Hargest Cardiff – Keyhole surgery- There is nothing new under the sun.
Mr David HA Jones – Founding Professors: 1. Anatomy: Alfred Hughes
Mr David Webster – Founding Professors: 2. Physiology: John Berry Haycraft
Professor Edward Howard – Lord Joseph Lister, experimental and clinical genius
Mr David Reilly – Who was Emile Coude?
Professor Philip Routledge – Wales’ Journey from Materia Medica to Modern Medicine.
Dr Howell Lloyd Cardiff – Dr John Snow: Chloroform, Cholera and Epidemiology
Mr David Anthony Jones – Hunterian Professors – A Welsh perspective
Mr Keith Moger – The Welsh National Memorial Association; A National Health Service for Wales?
Dr Richard Motley & Dr Colin Long – The History of Smallpox, Vaccina’on, and the Last Outbreak in South Wales.
Mr John Tricker – Islamic Medicine
2019
Mr David Reilly – Life and Limb
Dr. Ken Roberts – Hugh Owen-Thomas – DVD
Professor Geoff Gill – Burma Railroad medicine
Dr. David Bowen-Jones – The life and death of Thomas Addison
Mr Jonathan Noble – In Defence of Reputation
Mr Graham Kyle – Egyptian Ophthalmia & the development of British Ophthalmology
Professor Vishy Mahadevan – The surgical operation as Theatre
Dr Peter Lloyd Jones – Museum Revelations – 2019
Mr David H A Jones – History of children’s orthopaedic surgery
Prof. David Whittingham – Assisted Conception: its impact on society today
Dr Edward Reynolds – Neurology and Psychiatry in Babylon
Dr Cherry Lewis – Parkinson – more than just the disease
Professor Gareth Williams -The polio story
Prof. D. P. Davies – Memories of a medical student and houseman
Professor Malcolm Wheeler – A brief history of Cardiac Surgery
2018
Dr Howell Lloyd – Thomas Young, physician and polymath
Professor J Gareth Jones – Pembrokeshire hospitals from 1822
Dr Meirion Llewelyn – The Plague
Professor Alan Fraser – Getting the picture: the development of cardiac imaging
Professor Tom Hayes – Scurvy
Mr David Webster – William Harvey – Padua and the making of a scientist
Dr Alan Rees – Familial hypercholesterolaemia – from Roman times to the 21st century
Dr Christine Evans – Vienna 1900 – links uncovered between medicine and art
Mr Hugh Evans – Pioneers of neurophysiologyMr Hugh Evans – Pioneers of neurophysiology
Professor Alastair Compston – Dr Thomas Willis and the Doctrine of the Nerves
Dr John Jessop – The Irish potato famine 1845-49 and the health impact in South Wales
2017
Professor John Lazarus – People I have known
Dr Meirion Llewellyn – History of unexplained illness
Dr Peter Mitchell – Iconography of early modern anatomical book illustration
Mr Richard Jones – Is equine veterinary medicine still in the dark ages?
Professor David Austin – Strata Florida: an early centre of healing in a sacred landscape
Dr Malcolm Read – History of sports medicine – multidisciplinary yet a specialty
Dr Owain Gibby – Von Siebold
Dr Peter L Jones – Professor William W Mushin
Dr Howell Lloyd – Medical scientists, battlefield doctors
Professor John Wass – The fantastic world of hormones
Mr David Shewring – History of hand surgery
Bradford White – Andree’s War Francelle
Professor Malcolm Wheeler – The evolution and development of endocrine surgery
Dr Annemarie Eskelen – Inventing the science of nutrition – a healthy diet in the 19th century
Sir Leszek Borysiewicz – The Medical School: identity in the context of a wider university (Musings from Cambridge, Imperial and Cardiff)
2016
Mr Barry Berkowitz – Sir John (1815-1895) and Sir Charles 1846-1928) Tomes: Pioneers of Dentistry
Professor Dillwyn Williams – Rudolf Virchow, Physician, Pathologist, Politician and the Diagnosis of Cancer
Dr David Reilly – The General Surgeon – an Extinct Species?
Mrs Maureen Lazarus – Do no harm: Early Herbals from the National Museum of Wales
Peter Stutchfield – Life and Death on St Kilda Islands: A lost civilisation on the Edge of the World, Dr
Professor Neil McIntyre – The secret marriage of Rose Anna Shedlock and Emile Roue
Professor Dillwyn Williams – Hammersmith to Cardiff – A new boy in the Welsh National School of Medicine
Dr John Rees – 1845 and all that
Dr Sheila Roberts – What’s in a name – Who cares?
Professor Geraint Williams – William Harrison Cripps (1850 – 1923): a surgeon with a pathological legacy
Sir Eldryd Parry – From Abercynffig to Aksum (via Hammersmith)
Professor Sir John Meurig Thomas – Bragg, Perutz and Kendrew. The origins of molecular biology
Dr Peter Mitchell – Early modern anatomical book illustration
Mr Robin Odell – A Forensic Quintet
Professor Sir Dillwyn Williams – Life and death in the valleys
2015
Prof. D Gwyn Williams – Paul Ehrlich – Forerunner of Modern Medicine
Mr Robin Odell – Teasing Problems
Dr Peter L Jones – The Bequest of Dr Phyllida Frost
Dr Hassan Badrerk-Amoudi. – The Development of Preventive Paediatrics and Child Health
Professor Graham RV Hughes – Lupus – a Disease of our Time
Dr John Harcup – Florence Nightingale’s Visits to Malvern
Miss Margaret Davies – Nursing in the 60s at Home and Abroad
Professor DP Davies – Paediatric Remedies of Meddygon Myddfai (Physicians of Myddfai)
Dr Christine Evans – Creativity and Madness: Fact or Fiction
Professor Elwyn Elias – Entero-hepatic Short-cuts from the beginning until now
Professor Stewart Cameron – Frederick Akbar Mohamed: a 19th C. Pioneer in Hypertension
Dr Diana Luft – Medieval Welsh Medicine: What do the Manuscripts say?
Professor Malcolm H Wheeler – Brahms and Billroth – a Unique Friendship
Professor John Rees – The History of Tuberculosis in relation to Art and Literature
Dame Deirdre Hine – The Interface between Medicine and Politics: Analysis and Anecdote
Dr Judith Foy – Medical Lessons from Art and Artifacts
Dr Carol Barton – The Diary of a Student and Surgeon in the 1840s
Professor Roger Jones – Sir Astley Cooper and the Making of Modern Medicine
2014
Mrs Susan Clark Prestatyn – The Soldier from the Sky
Dr Ken Roberts – When ambulances had bells
Miss Sophie Jones – A history of cataract surgery
Professor Malcolm Wheeler – The History of Thyroidectomy
Mr David HA Jones – Shenton’s Line
Dr Tim Smith – Cupping, leeching and the lancet – a history of blood-letting
Mr David HA Jones – The heritage of Chailey
Dr Tudor Jones – Tom C-E
Mr Clive Inman – The History of Spinal Injury in Wales
Dr Charles Clarke – A brief history of altitude medicine and highlights of Tibetan medicine
Dr Peter L Jones – Any old Iron – Acquisitions in the Welsh Museum of Health & Medicine
Mr Robin Odell – Blood, Puss and Bandages
Dr Stephanie Matthews – Murder, Mystery and WMD
Dr Howell Lloyd – The Story behind the Discovery of Insulin
Mr Sam Alberti – Surgery, Collections and the Great War
Mr David HA Jones – The Welsh Hospital in South Africa
Mr Richard Pusey – Oh! What a horrible war
Professor Anthony K Campbell – Darwin Diagnosed
Mr Hugh Evans – The Deaths of Kings and Queens