Dr Deepak Dwarakanath has been elected as Vice President (Professional Development) of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The results of the elections were announced at the RCPE Annual Meeting on Friday 4 December 2015.
Dr Dwarakanath replaces Dr John Wilson in this role, and will take up post with immediate effect for three years. Dr Dwarakanath is a consultant physician with an interest in Gastroenterology at University Hospital of North Tees, Stockton-on-Tees.
The AGM also saw the following new Council members elected :
The RCPE Annual Meeting is part of the College’s 55th St Andrew’s Day Festival Symposium which brings together a vast array of international leaders covering the breadth of medicine and its specialties.
This year’s theme was updates in acute medicine. Symposium sessions included controversies in medicine; difficult problems in infectious disease medicine; catering for the ageing population; cases that changed my practice; and metabolic medicine.
Dr Kamran Abbasi delivered the keynote lecture ‘Lessons for the NHS from global healthcare’ for which he was awarded the Sir James Cameron medal.
The Symposium also saw Dr Ahmed Abbas receive the John Munro Medal, which acknowledges the significant contribution of trainees and SAS doctors to teaching and training. Dr Abbas is a ST4 trainee in Clinical Neurophysiology, based in the West Midlands.
