Goulstonian Lecture

17th Century lecture series for physicians From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Goulstonian Lectures are an annual lecture series given on behalf of the Royal College of Physicians in London. They began in 1639. The lectures are named for Theodore Goulston (or Gulston, died 1632), who founded them with a bequest. By his will, dated 26 April 1632, he left £200 to the College of Physicians of London to found a lectureship, to be held in each year by one of the four youngest doctors of the college. These lectures were annually delivered from 1639, and have continued for more than three centuries.[1] Up to the end of the 19th century, the spelling Gulstonian was often used. In many cases the lectures have been published.

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Goulstonian lecture
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DateStarted in 1639 (1639)
LocationLondon
Named afterTheodore Goulston
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Gulston's widow bequeathed[clarification needed] the annual donation to the College of Physicians for them to arrange for one of the four youngest doctors to "read the lecture on some dead body (if it could be procured), to be dissected as the President and Elects should think necessary for the diseases to be treated of; the lecture to be read yearly, between Christmas and Easter, on three days together; and the reader to treat of three or more diseases, as the seniors of the College should direct; ten pounds to be paid to the doctor who should read, and two pounds to the dissector and for burying the body".

Lecturers (incomplete list)

17th century

1701–1800

1801–1900

1901–2000

2001 – present

  • 2001 Patrick H. Maxwell[204], Oxygen homeostasis and cancer: insights from a rare disease
  • 2002 D. E. J. Jones, Addison’s other disease: primary biliary cirrhosis as a model autoimmune disease[205]
  • 2003 Michael G. F. Hanna, Neurological Channelopathies: a new field[205]
  • 2004 Andrew Catto, Genes, haemostasis and vascular disease – insights into disease mechanisms[205]
  • 2005 Neil Gittoes, Pituitary tumours – deciphering pathogenesis and optimising treatment[205]
  • 2006 N.Rahman, Finding cancer predisposition genes - successes, challenges and pitfalls
  • 2007 Rebecca Fitzgerald, Is Prevention better than Cure for Oesophageal Cancer?[205]
  • 2008 Matthew David Rutter
  • 2009 Geraint Rees, Decoding Consciousness
  • 2010
  • 2011 Waljit Dhillo, The critical role of kisspeptin in human fertility [206]
  • 2012 Srinivasan Madhusudan, Targeting DNA base excision repair for personalisation of cancer therapy
  • 2013 Sadaf Farooqi, Defining the neural basis of appetite and obesity: from genes to behaviour
  • 2014 Charles Swanton, Cancer Evolution through Space and Time: Causes and Consequences of Cancer Diversity
  • 2015 Jeremy Tomlinson, Cushing's revisited: cortisol metabolism and the obesity epidemic
  • 2016 Martin R. Turner [Wikidata], Motor Neurone Disease - biomarker development for an expanding cerebral syndrome
  • 2017 Gideon Hirschfield [Wikidata] [207] (planned)
  • 2018 Miratul Muqit[208], A unifying theory on Parkinson's disease
  • 2019 Mona Bafadhel Eosinophils in COPD: A breakthrough in patient management [209] (Feb 2019)
  • 2020 Sarosh Irani "Defining clinical and molecular characteristics of treatable diseases at the neuroimmunological synapse" "Oxford Clinician Scientist Receives Prestigious Medical Prize".
  • 2021 Rickie Patani, Decoding therapeutically targetable molecular events in ALS using human stem cell models
  • 2022 Manish Pareek, COVID-19 and ethnicity
  • 2023 Lecture was not awarded or delivered
  • 2024 Stephen John Sammut, Ending uncertainty: predicting response to breast cancer treatment using tumour profiling and AI

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