The Rowling Medal lecture

Named after the first President of the YSA.  His family have endowed a lecture with an associated medal.

The first medal recipient was Prof Gavin Kenny at the May 2006 meeting. He can be seen receiving the medal from Mr Rowling (junior).

Year	Lecturer	Title
2006	Prof G Kenny	TIVA: past, present and future
2007	Prof Nigel Webster	Intensive care: past, present and future
2008	Prof George Hall	The stress response to surgery: Does it matter
2009	Prof David Menon	Imaging pathophysiology and outcome in brain injury
2010	Prof Jennie Hunter	A novel approach to reversal
2011	Prof Tony Wildsmith	Regional vs general – a debate not a competition
2012	Prof Mark Bellamy	Critical care
2013	W/Cdr Jonny Ball	Critical care air support in the RAF
2014	Prof Eddie Clutton	Anaesthesia outcomes in veterinary practice
2015	Prof Rupert Pearse	Perioperative Fluid Management
2016	Dr Richard Griffiths	Can frailty be modified?
2017	Dr Tim Cooke	Modern airway management
2018	Dr Mike Grocott	Perioperative medicine – past, present and future
2019	Prof Jaideep Pandit	Staying safe during anaesthesia
2020	Dr Chris Snowden	Uncertain times for anaesthesia and perioperative medicine.
2021	Prof Emery Brown	Rethinking general anesthesia
2022	Prof Ramani Moonesinghe	Past, present and future of critical and perioperative care: the NHS perspective on what we’ve learned from the pandemic.
2023	Dr Nuala Lucas	Reflections on obstetric anaesthetic practice in the UK

 

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 Boylan Prize

This prize is awarded in memory of the late Dr Martin Boylan, who was a cardiac anaesthetist at the Leeds General Infirmary and Secretary of the YSA. The prize of £100 is awarded each year for the best presentation at the annual trainee’s meeting. Presentations should be descriptions of original research, a clinical case series, an audit, or a review of a clinical topic. Original research should have been carried out substantially whilst employed as an anaesthetist within the region and authors are required to clearly identify the contributions made by other workers.

 

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 Chris Church medal

This medal is awarded in honour of the late Dr Chris Church, a consultant anaesthetist at Bradford Royal Infirmary whose enthusiasm for undergraduate involvement in anaesthetics was legendary. On his death Dr Church’s family bequeathed the money for this annual award to the YSA. The award was originally made to the student at Leeds Medical School who obtained the highest mark in the anaesthetics written exam but changing assessment systems over the years has meant that the medal is now awarded to the student who obtains the highest mark in the 4th year anaesthetics case report. Receipt of the medal is conditional upon the student presenting the case report to the January YSA Academic Unit meeting.

Zoe Moles is our 2022 Christ Church medal winner 

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