Manchester Medical Society

17/12/2025

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24/06/2025

Manchester Medical Society Section of Paediatrics (MPC)

WHEN: Wednesday 8th October 2025

TITLE: Annual Meeting incl afternoon symposium on ‘Knife Crime’

WHERE: MANDEC (Manchester Dental Education Centre), Higher Cambridge Street, Manchester M15 6FH

MORNING SESSION:

9.30 am
REGISTRATION & COFFEE

10.00 am
RESEARCH AND AUDIT PRESENTATIONS (click here to find out how to submit an abstract – closing date for entries 1st September 2025)

11.00 am
BREAK

11.15 am
RESEARCH AND AUDIT PRESENTATIONS

12.15 pm
The Annual General Meeting of the Section of Paediatrics will take place immediately prior to the Presidential Address to formally elect new Office bearers and members of Council:

President Elect: Madhavi Paladugu and Ordinary Member of Council: Naveen Rao

12.20 pm
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS of Dr Ngozi Edi-Osagie, Consultant Neonatologist Manchester Foundation Trust and National Clinical Director for Neonatal care for NHS England

1.00 pm
LUNCH

AFTERNOON SESSION on ‘Knife crime’:
2.00pm
Jake Steward Memorial Lecture: THEME: The epidemic of knife crime in children

Professor Simon Kenny, National Clinical Director - Children and Young People; Consultant Paediatric and Neonatal Surgeon, Alder Hey Children’s NHS FT

Simon is an experienced paediatric surgeon with considerable leadership experience and was part of the team of surgeons who treated the victims of the Southport knife attack. Simon was awarded an OBE in 2024

2.35pm
THEME: Action against knife crime

Dr Rachel Jenner, Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital Manchester University NHS FT and Clinical Lead Greater Manchester Violence Reduction Unit. She is the co-chair of the Paediatric Emergency Medicine Intercollegiate Specialty Advisory Committee.

3.10 pm
TEA BREAK

3.30 pm
THEME: A personal experience - knife crime

Mr Matthew Norford, Founder & Chair, 1 Message

Matthew has experienced being involved in criminal activity, gangs as well as time in jail. He however turned his life around and has since set up the organisation to work with young people to tackle gang crimes. He has a passion for helping children and young people and has created a service that successfully delivers its message to hundreds of young people across Greater Manchester and beyond

4.15 pm
Panel discussion and Q & A
4:30 pm

Closing comments

All attendees will receive a CPD certificate of attendance

Register for this face-to-face meeting here

REGISTRATION FEES:

· Non-Members* of the Manchester Medical Society - £50 (*TO BECOME A MEMBER CLICK https://mms.org.uk/join/)

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Manchester Medical Society
c/o Room 4.54 Simon Building,
Brunswick Park, Manchester M13 9PL

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24/06/2025

Manchester Medical Society

WHEN: Wednesday 15th October 2025, 2-6pm

WHERE: MANDEC (Manchester Dental Education Centre), Higher Cambridge Street, Manchester M15 6FH

TITLE: Annual General Meeting, Presidential Address of Professor Felicity Stewart & Symposium

'Right Test, Right patient, Right Response: Diagnostic biomarkers and patient pathways’



Our Autumn Symposium will look at evolving and novel use of key biomarkers to improve care and patient safety in conditions encountered in, and relevant to many areas of clinical practice. We have secured four expert speakers who will cover “state of the art” aspects of kidney, heart, liver and sepsis biomarkers:

Biomarkers in CKD and AKI : muscle mass, frailty and other pitfalls
Professor Philip Kalra, Director of Donal O’Donoghue Renal Research Centre and Consultant Nephrologist, Northern Care Alliance
Mr Phillip Jones, Urgent and Emergency Care Advanced Practitioner, North West Ambulance Service
Dr Varindar Athwal, Senior Lecturer and Consultant Hepatologist, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
The role of circulating inflammatory biomarkers to guide antibiotic treatment decisions in sepsis
Professor Paul Dark, Vice-Dean for Health and Care Partnerships, Professor of Critical Care Medicine and Consultant, Northern Care Alliance

28/05/2025

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22/04/2025

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22/04/2025

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02/04/2025

Dear Member

Please find below information sent by Professor Ray McMahon’s family regarding his funeral on Friday.

A celebration of Ray's life

The death has occurred of Professor Raymond Francis Thomas McMahon, Sale, Cheshire, England and formerly of Lower Canal Road, Galway.

Ray passed away following a brief illness on Tuesday 18th February 2025 at Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester.

He is deeply missed by his heartbroken family: his wife Claire, his daughters Aoife, Niamh and Sorcha, his sister Terry, brother Gary, and their husbands, wife and partners. Ray will be sadly missed by his beloved grandchildren Conor, Dylan, Saoirse, Ava, Cillian and baby Mariella Rae, by his nieces and nephews, by his godchildren, by his in-laws, by his many cousins, friends and colleagues in Ireland, the UK and around the world.

Requiem Funeral Mass for Raymond McMahon will take place on Friday 4th April 2025 at 12.00 noon at St Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, Hope Road, Sale, Cheshire, M33 3BF (the church service will be live-streamed; link will be provided) to be followed by a private family cremation. There will be a reception afterwards at Sale FC Rugby Club, Heywood Road, Sale, Cheshire, M33 3WB – all welcome.

A Memorial Mass will also be held in Galway for Ray, with a reception following a private family interment; details to follow.

Live stream details:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X-X-ywKew34

Further information on the venue and donations to Lymphoma Action can be found in the link below.

Tribute to Raymond McMahon, 1956–2025
raymondmcmahon.muchloved.com

Manchester Medical Society
c/o Room 4.54 Simon Building,
Brunswick Park, Manchester M13 9PL

Phone number: 0161 711 0520
Email: admin@mms.org.uk

Requiem Funeral Mass for Raymond McMahon will take place on Friday 4th April 2025 at 12.00 noon at St Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, Hope Road, Sale, Cheshi...

25/02/2025

Dear Member

It is with great sadness that we are informing you of the recent death of Professor Ray McMahon, Consultant Gastrointestinal Pathologist/Honorary Professor Emeritus to Central Manchester and Manchester Children's University Hospitals NHS Trust.

Professor McMahon was a huge supporter of the Manchester Medical Society and the Section of Pathology and the medical education they provided. Having been a member for 38 years, he served on the Council of the Society from 1998 – he was the Honorary Secretary 1998-2005, Chairman 2006-2012, President of the Society in 2016 and Investment Trustee since 2021.

Ray’s friendly and supportive nature made him a cherished colleague, and he will be deeply missed.

We will forward details of his funeral when they become available.

Thank you.

Sara Raw

Administrator

Manchester Medical Society
c/o Room 4.54 Simon Building,
Brunswick Park, Manchester M13 9PL

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