30 April 2012
'Do Human Beings Have A Future?' - Dow Lecture 2012
Dr Richard Horton, Editor of The Lancet, will ask the question that affects us all at the Dow Lecture 2012 at the University of Dundee this Thursday - 'Do Human Beings Have A Future?'
Dr Horton's lecture will address urgent contemporary issues that impact on the health of our population.
Dr Horton is Editor of the Lancet, the internationally renowned medical journal, and has a major reputation as a polemicist on biomedical research, the development of systems for the delivery of medical care and on international healthcare matters.
The Dow Lecture is organised and hosted by the University of Dundee every three years to commemorate the extraordinary generosity of two of the University's most stalwart supporters - Professor David Rutherford Dow and his wife Dr Agnes Dow.
They established the Dow Trust to assist in the education of medical and dental students attending Dundee University and this tri-annual lecture is a way of both commemorating that generosity and also to commemorate their long involvement with the University where Professor Dow held the Cox Chair of Anatomy for 33 years.
The lecture takes place at 6pm on Thursday May 3rd in the Dalhousie Building, Old Hawkhill. Anyone is welcome to attend and free tickets are available by calling 01382 385564, via email at events@dundee.ac.uk or online at www.dundee.ac.uk/tickets
The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception.
NOTES TO EDITORS
Richard Horton (BSc MB FRCP FMedSci) was born in London and qualified in medicine from the University of Birmingham in 1986. He completed his general medical training in Birmingham before moving to the liver unit at the Royal Free Hospital. In 1990, he joined The Lancet as an assistant editor and moved to New York as North American editor in 1993. Two years later he returned to the UK to become Editor-in-Chief.
He was the first President of the World Association of Medical Editors and is a Past-President of the US Council of Science Editors. He is an honorary professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University College London, and the University of Edinburgh. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and a Founder Fellow of the UK's Academy of Medical Sciences.
In 2005 he was a member of the working party and subsequently wrote the report for the Royal College of Physicians' inquiry into the future of medical professionalism - Doctors in Society. He currently chairs the Royal College of Physicians' Working Party on Physicians and the Pharmaceutical Industry; co-chairs a WHO Scientific Advisory Group on Clinical Trials Registration; is a Council Member of the Global Forum for Health Research; is a Board Member of the Health Metrics Network; sits on the External Reference Group for WHO's Research Strategy; and is an External Advisory Board Member for the WHO European Region.
In 2004, The Lancet won the UK's Medical Publication of the Year and, in 2007, he received the Edinburgh Medal for professional achievements judged to have made a significant contribution to the understanding of human health and wellbeing. In 2008, he was appointed a Senior Associate of The Nuffield Trust, a think tank for research and policy studies in health services. He has a strong interest in issues of global health. He has been a medical columnist for The Observer and writes regularly for the Times Literary Supplement and New York Review of Books. A book about controversies in modern medicine, Second Opinion, was published in 2003.
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