The Changing Face of Medicine at the Sun Pier Café on the evening of Monday 18th June 2018
Professor Treasure is currently Honorary Professor of the Clinical Operations Research Unit at University College, London and has chaired, participated and advised numerous initiatives and organisations and was a Director of the British Heart Foundation between 1996 and 2001.
He has wide ranging interests in medicine in general and surgery in particular and, after more than two decades as a world-renowned expert cardiac surgery, broadened his scope to cover both heart and lungs.
His fascination with the history of medicine led him to rescue documents from parts of
Guys Hospital which were scheduled for demolition in the course of its refurbishment in the 1990s. Among these were meticulously-kept records belonging to ‘The Heart Club’ a group of surgeons at Guys who pioneered heart surgery in 1940’s Britain. Inspired by this he wrote a book of the same name which detailed the bravery of surgeons who dared to challenge and overturn centuries of dogma using the evidence of treating injured WW2 service personnel to do so.
This enthusiasm for medicine’s past, present and future will be foremost in his presentation on The Changing Face of Medicine at the Sun Pier Café on the evening of Monday 18th June 7-9pm.