Cardiff Medical Society
Established 1870
Cardiff Medical Society aims to encourage the advancement of medical knowledge and promote the welfare of the medical profession
About Us
The Cardiff Medical Society was established in 1870 to encourage the advancement of medical knowledge and to promote the welfare of the medical profession. Today Society continues to promote medical education, but also provide a friendly environment in which doctors can socialise and network.
The membership consists of more than 300 medical practitioners in Cardiff and surrounding district. The Society puts on monthy events, an annual dinner and an annual student prize presentation evening. It also provides assistance to medical students who wish to study the history of medine as part of their medical degree.
The president of the Society for 2024-2025 is Professor Mabs Chowdhury
Next Event - 14th January
"Altered States and Visual Hallucinations"
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SPEAKER: Dr Martyn Stones
DATE: Tuesday 14th January 2025
TIME: Buffet from Buffet from 19.00
VENUE: UHW, Lecture Theatre 4.
Guests and New Members Welcome
Summary: This keynote lecture will present pictures depicting the visual hallucinations described by patients collected during the Cardiff Delirium Study to give a unique insight into the patients’ subjective experience on the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit following open heart surgery. Patients who agreed to take part in the study described their visual hallucinations. A photo-montage was created to try to accurately represent the hallucinations and layers of photographs were distorted, overpainted and combined using Adobe Photoshop and digital airbrushing techniques to create bizarre, dream-like scenes. These pictures were created by Jan Sharp, former medical artist at UHW. Thanks to the support of the British Geriatric Society they have been incorporated into a book.
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Dr Martyn Stones: is a Speciality Doctor in Liaison Psychiatry, University Hospital of Wales and PhD student at the Department of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, School of Medicine, Cardiff University. Previously he worked in the Biochemistry labs at CRI and UHW, then as an engineer in the pharmaceutical and diagnostics industry and at the MHRA as a medicines inspector.
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