Inaugural Lectures Archive

2025
30 April	Jason Madan	Professor	I wish I were the money man: The challenges and joys of a career in health economics	MTC Lecture Theatre/ Online
17 March	Lucy Hammond	Professor and Pro Dean Education	The beautiful game: Reflections on elite sport, enquiry and education	MTC Lecture Theatre/ Online
2024
20 September	Andy Metcalfe	Professor	Adventures in the Future of Surgery	UHCW
9 July	Domenico Giacco	Professor	What's exciting about psychiatry?	MTC Lecture Theatre/ Online
21 May	Michelle Miller	Professor	Cardiovascular Disease, Inflammation, Sleep and Health: A Medical Biochemist’s Journey from Bedside to Bench and back again	MTC Lecture Theatre/ Online
11 April	Stephen Royle	Professor	A Very Cellular Song	MTC Lecture Theatre/Online
2023
14 June	Amy Grove	Professor	Surgical research and researching surgery: collective wisdom and collective blindness	MTC Lecture Theatre/Online
2022
23 May	David Ellard	Professor	'Work in process: from OPERA to CHESS (and beyond…) Process evaluations in clinical trials of complex interventions.'	Online
26 April	Anna Seale	Professor	'Mind the Gap: infectious disease epidemiology out of the armchair'	Online
2021
15 March	Harbinder Sandhu	Professor	'“Change nothing and nothing changes” - The Science and Art of Behaviour Change in Health'	Online
16 November	Celia Brown	Professor	'How fast do I need to run? The dark art of standard setting and my journey to telling you about it'	Online
10 May	Dan Lasserson	Professor	'How much of the acute hospital can be replaced with Acute Hospital at Home care models?'	Online
24 March	Olanrewaju Sorinola	Professor	'Bringing New Life into the World: The Urogynaecologist View'	Online
13 January	Felicity Boardman	Professor	'Valuing Lived Experience in a Genomic Age: Why the Personal is Still Political'	Online
2020
1 December	Rebecca Kearney	Professor	'Being a Super Woman. Not being Superwoman'	Online
18 November	Richard Tunstall	Professor	‘You’re a clinical anatomist…surely there’s nothing new for you to do!?’	Online
20 October	Debra Bick	Professor	The importance of clinical trials in maternity care: why we need to stop throwing the baby out with the bathwater	Online
21 September	Anne Straube	Professor	MAPping the Intracellular Transport Network	Online
2018
5 December	Mark Bailey	Professor of Infection	My Adventures in Tropical Medicine	MTC Lecture Theatre
2015
17 February	Richard King	Innovation Lead, UHCW	The Innovator's Journey - convinced that there is always a way…	CSB Lecture Theatre, UHCW
26 March	Mohan Balasubramanian	Professor	The 3Cs: Cricket, Chemistry and Cytokinesis	Lecture Theatre, Medical Teaching Centre
2014
30 January	Ruth McDonald*	Professor of Governance and Public Management	Money, medicine and miracles: the perils and promise of 'Paying for Performance' in the NHS and beyond	B0.01, Warwick Business School
27 February	Richard Lilford*	Professor	An Enlightenment Junkie heads for Africa	B0.01, Warwick Business School
20 March	Gerry McGivern*	Professor of Organisational Analysis	Professionalism, performance and purpose: Making life meaningful	B0.01, Warwick Business School
15 April	Mark Pallen	Professor in Biomedicine	Nothing in Microbiology makes Sense except in the Light of Evolution	Medical Teaching Centre, Gibbet Hill
28 May	Mark Achtman	Professor	Natural history of pathogenic bacteria that infect humans	Medical Teaching Centre, Gibbet Hill
11 June 2014	Robert Higgins	Professor	Transplanting the Un-transplantable	University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire
*These lectures are part of a joint series between WBS and WMS.
2013
10 January	Charles Hutchinson	Professor of Clinical Imaging	A Model Radiologist	University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire
21 March	Stavros Petrou	Professor in Health Economics	Economic aspects of perinatal and paediatric health care: A journey through research developments	MTC, Gibbet Hill Campus
26 April	Bernard Crump	Professorial Clinical Teaching Fellow	Follow My Leader; the Place of Leadership in Medical Practice	MTC, Gibbet Hill Campus
21 June	Steve Torr	Professor of Neglected Tropical Diseases (joint appointment between WMS and LSTM)	Disease, flies and fatal attractions	MTC, Gibbet Hill Campus
29 November	Judith Klein	Professor	Sticking together: lipids, membrane proteins and their interactions	MTC, Gibbet Hill Campus
2012
9 March	Rob Cross	Professor of Mechanochemical Cell Biology	Inner Space Walking	MTC, Gibbet Hill Campus
20 April	Gavin Perkins	Professor in Critical Care Medicine	A Story of Broken Hearts and Broken Lungs	MTC, Gibbet Hill Campus
10 May	Jan Brosens	Head of Division of Reproductive Health	Pregnancy, a most peculiar journey	University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire
29 June	Geraldine Hartshorne	Professorial Fellow	Female reproductive ageing - not an old wives' tale	University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire
19 October	Matthew Costa	Professor of Trauma and Orthopaedics	If you want to be a success, you can’t worry about upsetting people…	MTC, Gibbet Hill Campus
16 November	Jonathan Millar	Professor	A Cellular Life of S and M	MTC, Gibbet Hill Campus
2011
18 January	Professor Frances Griffiths	Professor	Medicine in Society: a complex mix
15 February	Professor Siobhan Quenby	Professor of Obstetrics	Preventing pregnancy loss: A translational approach
15 March	Professor Aileen Clarke	Professor	How we know what we know and why we do what we do - Research, Evidence, Knowledge, Practice and Values in Healthcare
17 May	Professor Dimitris Grammatopoulos	Professor of Molecular Medicine	Hormones (of stress), Heptahelical (proteins), Homeostatic (pathways) and other Greek words...
14 June	Professor Annie Young	Professor of Nursing	From El Alamein to Berlin? a trail of trials
13 September	Professor Simon Murch	Professor of Paediatric and Child Health	Ancient Paths for Modern Kids
18 October 2011	Professor Christopher James	Co-Director Institute of Digital Healthcare and Professor of Healthcare Technology	Science: Fact or Fiction? or A biomedical engineer’s journey from measuring spikes to father of telepathy
15 November 2011	Professor Jeremy Wyatt	Professor of eHealth Innovation, Co-Director, Institute for Digital Healthcare	Innovation in healthcare: can digital technologies really make the difference?
2010
19 January	Professor Jill Thistlethwaite	Professor	Inter the Future: Stories about patients and professionals
16 February	Professor Dieter Wolke	Professor	Small beginnings - large impact
16 March	Professor Bill Fulford	Professor of Philosophy & Mental Health	Philosophers and Phobosophers – the uses and abuses of philosophy in psychiatry
20 April	Professor Ala Szczepura	Professor of Health Services Research	From Rhetoric to Reality - Lessons Learned
18 May	Professor Chris Poole	Professor of Oncology	Cancer of the Breast is a Systemic disease: discuss
22 June	Professor Peter Winstanley	Dean of Warwick Medical School	The Quarter-century! – 25 years on malaria and the development of research capacity
21 September	Professor Martin Feelisch	Professor of Experimental Medicine and Integrative Biology	Chasing Nitric Oxide - An adventurous journey from drug discovery to altitude physiology
2009
20 January	Professor Nigel Stallard	Professor of Medical Statistics	The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men: experimental design for pre-clinical and clinical trials
17 February	Professor Justin St John	Professor of Reproductive Biology	The continuous life cycle of the mitochondrial genome - should we be grateful to our mothers and pleased that our fathers didn't intervene?
17 March	Professor Neil Johnson	Professor of Medical Education	Looking Back and Looking Forward – the Journeys of a Medical Educator
21 April	Professor Damian Griffin	Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery	Taming the Rhinoceros: The New Orthopaedic Surgeons
19 May	Professor Jane Barlow	Professor of Public Health in the Early Years	“Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me”: Reflections on a decade of research on parenting support interventions
22 September	Professor Donald Singer	Professor of Clinical Pharmachology	Cardiovascular Targets for Drug Discovery
17 November	Professor John Davey	Professor of Biomedical Research	Sex and drugs and Rac and Rho
2008
19 February	Professor Martin Underwood	Professor of Primary Care Research
18 March	Professor Matthew Cooke	Professor of Emergency Medicine	Widgets, Gadgets and Gore
20 May	Professor Sudhesh Kumar	Professor of Medicine and Pro-Dean (Research)
17 June	Professor Sallie Lamb	Professor of Rehabilitation	To boldly go: The Journeys of a Clinical Trialist
16 September	Professor Peter Abrahams	Professor of Clinical Anatomy	Quo Vadis- Anatomy? The Adventures of a travelling Clinical Anatomist
21 October	Professor Scott Weich	Professor of Psychiatry	Mind the Gap: Psychiatry and Public Mental Health
18 November	Professor Paul Thornalley	Professor of Systems Biology
2007
16 January	Professor Franco Cappuccio	Cephalon Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Epidemiology	For Richer, for Poorer, in Sickness and in Health - a Tale of the Unexpected
20 February	Professor Sarah Stewart-Brown	Professor in Public Health	From Wellies to Wellbeing: A Public Health Story
20 March	Professor David Spanswick	Professor of Molecular Neurosciences	Food for Thought - the Brain and Obesity
15 May	Professor Janet Dunn	Professor of Clinical Trials	Oncology - Trials, Tribulations and Success
19 June	Professor Swaran Singh	Professor of Social and Community Psychiatry	Journey to Ithaca - from Surgery to Psychiatry via Rights and Riots
16 October	Professor Margaret Thorogood	Professor of Epidemiology	From Family Planning to Healthy Aging
20 November	Professor Victor Zammit	Professor of Metabolic Biochemistry	Metabolic Memories
2006
19 September	Professor Jeremy Dale	Professor of Primary Care
17 October	Professor Steve Thornton	Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology	Understanding the Mechanism of Human Labour
21 November	Professor Ed Peile	Professor of Medical Education	Medical Learners: Reflections on Specialisms, Sleep and Maturity