The Annual Lecture is held in May every year in the Health Academy 1 (previously Education Centre 1) at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Royal Preston Hospital site, when a prominent Neuroscientist is invited to deliver a lecture to an audience of medical practitioners from the North West.
The lectures have become a landmark in the scientific programme of the medical community.
PAST LECTURES -
2021 - Professor Mayank Goyal - Prof of Radiology and Clinical Neurosciences, Calgary. Held via Zoom due to the ongoing Covid-19 Pandemic.
'Endovascular Frontiers for Acute Stroke'
2020 - No Annual Lecture held due to the Covid-19 Pandemic
2019 - Baroness Susan Greenfield - Research Scientist, Oxford.
'A Neuroscientific perspective on Consciousness'
2018 - Professor James T. Goodrich - Prof of Neurosurgical Surgery, Paediatrics, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, New York, USA
'Conjoint Twins'
2017 - Professor John Darling - Prof of Neuro-oncology, Wolverhampton
'Brain Cancer - how long until biology provides new therapies?'
2016 - Professor Tim Solomon - Prof of Neurology, University of Liverpool
'Neurological Infections. Locally, Nationally and Internationally'
2015 - Professor Sir Graham Teasdale - Retired Prof of Neurosurgery, Glasgow
'Glasgow Coma Scale - past, present and future'
2014 - Professor Colin Blakemore - Prof of Neuroscience and Philosopjy, London -
'Vision Impossible'
2013 - Professor Laurent Spelle, MD, PhD, Professor of Neuroradiology, Beaujon Hospital Paris
The 'Role of Endovascular Interventions in Vascular Conditions of the Brain'
Previous Sponsors
2021 - No Sponsors due to being held over Zoom
2020 - No Sponsors due to no Annual Lecture
2019 - Severnhealth Care, Integra Codman
2018 - Sevenhealth Care, Nevro, Depuy Synthes
2017 - Severn Health Care, Cryolife
2016 - Biogen, Stryker, Severn Health Care
2015 - BBraun, Codman, Severn Health Care, Cryolife, Brainlab
2014 - Tissuemed, Codman, Stryker
2013 - Microvention UK
2012 UCB Pharma, Microvention
2011 Eli Lilley
2010 Zimmer-Spine
2003 - 2009 Teva Pharmaceuticals (Excluding 2007)
2002 Teva Pharmaceuticals, Britannia Pharmaceuticals, UCB Pharma
2001 Shearing Healthcare, Pharmacia & Upjohn, Novartis, Britannia Pharmaceuticals, Ipsen
2000 Leica Microsystems Ltd
1999 Zeneca Pharmaceuticals Ltd, Glaxo, Britannia Pharmaceuticals Ltd, Smith Kline Beecham,
Leica Microsystems UK L td, Rhone Poulenc Rorer, Elan Pharmaceuticals Ltd
1998 Smith, Kline & Beecham, Pharmacia & Upjohn, Parke Davis
1996 Speywood Pharmaceuticals Ltd