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2025 Programme
(Wednesday evenings at 7pm)
Special event
Wednesday 13 August 2025 at 7pm - documentary The Doctors Wife
Lectures & slide presentations
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5 March
Dr Philson
By Iain Wakefield
Versalius-The origin of modern anatomy
By Ali Mirjalili
7 May
The medical history of nitrous oxide
By Shilpan Patel
2025 James Newman Lecture History of cataract surgery
By Charles McGhee
2 July
The Havana Syndrome and Mass Hysteria
By Robert Bartholomew
History of Anaesthesia
By Sudikshya Parajuli
History of the Ketogenic Diet
By Charlotte Tukiri
3 September
Maurice Wilkinson
By Hannah Anderson
Maui Pomare
By James Wang
Against the Odds: New Zealand's First Women Doctors
By Cindy Farquhar
History of Penicillin
By Bruce Arroll
5 November