RCPI Heritage Centre Lectures and History of Medicine Research Award

This year, for the first time, the Heritage Centre will be taking part in RCPI's St. Luke's Symposium, which is the College's biggest annual academic event, running from the 1^st to 5^th November.

The Heritage Centre's event will be taking place on the afternoon of Thursday 3 November, full programme available here. The event will celebrate the history of medicine in Ireland, and mark the completion of the Wellcome Trust funded archive cataloguing project.

The first part of the afternoon will review the recent archive cataloguing project, and explore the value of RCPI's archival holdings to researchers in the history of medicine field. Dr Susan Mullaney will present a paper on her research into apothecaries in Ireland, and especially the value of new material found in the RCPI's archive during the cataloguing process. Ms Anne MacLellan will present a paper on her recently submitted Phd research into Dr Dorothy Price and the eradication of TB in Ireland, research which again drew on many of RCPI's archival holdings.

The second part of the afternoon will be given over to the final of the RCPI History of Medicine Research Award. Four finalists have been shortlisted from the very strong field of competitors who submitted abstracts. The four finalists will be presenting 20 minute papers on their research in the field of medical history, followed by question and answers. The judging panel, made up of representatives from University College Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, the University of Ulster, the Wellcome Trust and RCPI, will then select this year's winner.

The four shortlisted finalists are;

* David Durnin, War and Medicine: Irish Medical Involvement in the First World War.