33rd Sir peter freyer memorial lecture & surgical symposium

Arts Millennium Building, NUI Galway
5-6
th September 2008
The 33rd Sir Peter Freyer Memorial Lecture and Surgical Symposium took place on Friday, 5th and Saturday, 6th September 2008 at the
Arts Millennium Building, NUI Galway.
The meeting was generously sponsored by companies in the medical device and pharmaceutical industry. This year our Gold Sponsors were Leo Laboratories, Astra Zeneca and Johnson & Johnson.


Ronan O'Connell (UCD), Ernest E. Moore - Guest Speaker (Colorado),
Kevin Conlon (Adelaide & Meath Hospital), Michael Kerin (NUIG) and Oliver McAnena (UHG)
Oliver McAnena (UHG), Ernest E. Moore (Colorado) - Guest Speaker, Michael Kerin (NUIG)
and Frank Keane (President RCSI) - Guest Speaker
Sir Peter Freyer Medal 2008 (awarded to the best original research paper)
Identification of miRNA function in Breast Cancer: Expression Profiling and Target Determination
Aoife J Lowery
1, N Miller
1, RM Dwyer
1, RE McNeill
1, C Lemetre
2, G Ball
2, MJ Kerin
1
1. Department of Surgery, NUI Galway and Galway University Hospital, Galway, Ireland
2. School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK
Poster Prize 2008
Will Nursing Students Surpass their Medical Peers?
Deirdre Fanning
1, 2, G Chadwick
1
1. School of Medicine and Medical Science, University College Dublin, Dublin 9, Ireland
2. School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queens University Belfast, Belfast, Ireland
Sir Peter Freyer Memorial Lecture 2007
Ernest E. Moore, MD
Chief of Surgery and Trauma Services, Professor, Vice Chair of the Department of Surgery University of Colorado Health Sciences Centre, USA
'
Role of the Gut in Post Injury Multiple Organ Failure’
State of the Art Lecture 2008
Professor Frank Keane, MD, FRCSI
President, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
'Governing Ourselves’
Conference Information
For further details please contact Grace Clarke
353 (0)91 524390 or
grace.clarke
nuigalway.ie
Click Here for a biography of Sir Peter Freyer