Event Archive

2024

May

• Cafe Med: Seminar 4: Spinal Muscular Atrophy - A treatable childhood motor neuron disease

  13 May 2024, 18:00 - 19:30

  10 years ago, Spinal Muscular Atrophy was the second most common inherited cause of infant mortality worldwide, but you may never have heard of it. Severely affected children had a life expectancy of less than 3 years, but now three novel and expensive therapies have emerged, which are providing new...

April

• Cafe Med - Seminar 3: Cutting back on the fat: The health effects of fat tissue and how bariatric surgery works

  15 April 2024, 18:00 - 19:30

  Being overweight or obese increases the risk of many health conditions including type 2 diabetes, heart disease and cancers. We will look at why increasing the amount of fat tissue we have in our bodies can lead to disease. We will also discuss bariatric surgery, which can be a highly...

March

• Cafe Med - Seminar 2: Data saves lives: how the Aberdeen Maternity and Neonatal Database has been improving our understanding of pregnancy risks for over 75 years

  11 March 2024, 18:00 - 19:30

  Sir Dugald Baird had the foresight to start collecting data on all pregnancies in Aberdeen in 1949 - we take a look at how data in the AMND has led to breakthrough research and changed our understanding of pregnancy complications for the last 75 years. Learn how we carry our...

February

• Cafe Med - Seminar 1: Unlocking the Secrets of the Brain: The Marvels of Adult Neurogenesis and Neural Stem Cells

  19 February 2024, 18:00 - 19:30

  Open to university staff, students, clinical colleagues and the public.

2023

April

• Cafe Med Talk - Improving outcomes in pelvic cancers

  19 April 2023, 18:00 - 19:30

  Patients with pelvic cancers, including colorectal, prostate and gynaecological cancers, are treated with surgery and radiotherapy, but not all are cured. We are investigating the possible use of dietary fibre supplements to improve outcomes. We will discuss our work and explain the underlying rationale.  

January

• Café Med - Wednesday 25th January, 6pm in Suttie Centre Café - FREE

  25 January 2023, 18:00 - 19:30

  Thalidomide: The Good and the Bad sides of a medicine.

2022

October

• Diet and health inequalities linked to obesity

  12 October 2022, 18:00 - 19:30

  Diet and health inequalities linked to obesity Currently, 63% of adults in UK are collectively overweight or obesity, with figures projected to keep rising, linked to the cost of living crisis. Obesity is disproportionately represented in areas of social deprivation. Our food system must consider solutions to reduce diet-related inequality to...

• Diet and health inequalities linked to obesity

  06 October 2022, 18:00 - 19:30

  Professor Alexandra Johnstone (Chair in Human Nutrition, Rowett Institute) will speak about diet and health inequalities linked to obesity.

2021

April

• Disparities of maternal health within the black community

  12 April 2021, 18:00 - 19:00

  Webinar

2020

July

• Wellbeing with MedSoc: Yoga

  08 July 2020, 14:00 - 15:00

  This event will run for 60 minutes and will consist of a yoga well-being session led by Gayle Sheed. The aim is to promote mental wellbeing in lockdown by providing the opportunity to focus on your mental health. Staff and students are welcome to join.