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CGS AGM March 2013
Secretary’s Report
• Members 437 (March ‘12 was 443)
Changes in Council …
• Daniela Pilz, Geoff Woods, Sahar Mansour
demitting office
• Jill Clayton-Smith beginning two year term as
President
• Peter Turnpenny demitting office as President,
will serve as Vice-President for a year
• Alison Male and Lynn Greenhalgh elected as
members of Council
• Emily Craft elected as trainee rep
Thinking ahead …
• Next year will be elections for new President,
Treasurer, Secretary and 2 Council members
Thanks …
• Thanks to all who have contributed to Council
this year, particularly the Council members who
are leaving office and especially to Peter
• Thanks also to Dina Kotecha and Natalie Sharif
for all their seen and unseen work on behalf of
the Society during the year
President’s Report
2012 – 2013
Constitution
• Wording brought up to date
• Changes reflect the way we do things now
• Honorary Members – include Carter Lecturers;
anyone can nominate
Further Amendments to come (2014):
• To accommodate change BSHG ---> BSGM
• Junior membership – Medical Students / F1 / F2
Honorary Members
Prof Tim Bishop
Prof Dame Kay Davies
Prof Di Donnai
Prof Mark Ferguson
Prof Mel Greaves
Prof Nicholas Hastie
Prof Douglas Higgs
Prof Pat Jacobs
Prof Alec Jeffreys
Prof Bryan Sykes
Prof John Todd
Prof Veronica van Heyningen
Prof David Weatherall
+ Prof Malcolm Ferguson-Smith
• All living, contactable
past Carter Lecturers,
1984 - 2012
• N = 22
“Thank you very much for this honour. I have very fond
memories of delivering the Carter Lecture. I have also
been helped enormously by my interactions with Clinical
Geneticists throughout the UK. Our work simply would
not be possible without these interactions. I find the
Clinical Genetics community to be extremely open,
generous and collaborative and it is a great pleasure to
be acknowledged as set out your very kind invitation.”
“What a delightful surprise to receive your very kind invitation
to become an Honorary Member of the Society, which I have
no hesitation in accepting.
I have always held the Society in very high regard and especially
the way in which, in the very early days of applied molecular
genetics, it fostered the close connection between clinician and
scientist that created such a strong foundation for service
delivery as well, of course, for first rate research.
It is many years since I did anything useful in medical genetics,
so this honour comes both as a privilege and as a reminder of a
very happy and productive period in my professional life.”
Junior Membership
• Includes BSHG / BSGM automatically
• Medical Students:
• F1 / F2:
Free subscription
£20 subscription to BSHG
Free CGS membership
JMG - CPD
• Panel established:
Prof Diana Eccles + 7
• Selected articles
• Multiple choice questions
Communication
• President’s E-Bulletin: x2 / year
• Welcome letter to new members
• New BSHG / BSGM website
• Electronic BSHG Newsletter
• Facebook
facebook.com/groups/clingensoc
• Twitter
@clingensoc
Trainees
Money !
• Reduced CGS Conference Fee
• Travel awards
KBA Exam / SCE
• Well done! … two successful candidates, Sept 2012
• Next exam 26.03.13
• In future … 3rd Tuesday of March … 18.03.14
Short electives, developing countries
• Awaiting word from GMC
The BIG Issues
Commissioning
• NHSCB … 01.04.13
• Clinical Genetics … Specialised Commissioning
Clinical Reference Group
• Prof Frances Flinter
• Recruitment Round 2: East Midlands, East of England, North
East, (South Coast) representation
• Professional Standards Groups: BSHG, CGS, ACGS, AGNC
• Stakeholder Groups: Genetic Alliance, Unique, UKGTN, PHGF,
NEGDC
• Dashboard
• National Audit
100,000 Genomes
NHSCB to commission; pump-prime funding of £100m
• Rare Diseases
• Cancer
• Infectious Diseases
CMO – 3 Implementation task groups
• Science
• Data
• Ethics
Laboratory Review
• Genomic Centres
• Diagnostic Hubs
President’s Report
2011 – 2012
3 ‘R’s
Routine stuff
Reactive (Responsive) stuff
Where R we heading? stuff
President’s Report
2012 – 2013
3 ‘R’s
Read the Runes and be Relevant
Thanks
Prof Daniela Pilz, Scientific Programme Committee,
and BSHG Office – Dina & Natalie
CGS Conference 2013
Drs Elisabeth Rosser & Amanda Collins
CGS Secretary & Treasurer
Prof Geoff Woods, Dr Sahar Mansour, Dr Meena Balasubramanian
CGS Council
Others
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