Breakfast Briefings

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Over 50 Breakfast Briefings have been hosted by the Development Office since 2003. Guest numbers are normally over 100 and attract a superb mix of consultants, GPs, healthcare professionals from up to 58 specialties, philanthropists, trainees and medical students. Breakfast Briefings are normally free and take place between 7:30 and 9:15am. They are normally hosted by the RSM's President.

Individual Briefings and the programme for the year, are available for sponsorship. For more information contact Paul on 020 7290 3857.

Previous Briefing speakers include:

  1. Professor Jeffrey Drazen,Editor in Chief, New England Journal of Medicine, 2003
  2. Dr Richard Horton, Editor, The Lancet, 2004
  3. Dr Mark Walport, CEO, Wellcome Trust, 2004
  4. Professor Chris Ham, Health Advisor to the Prime Minister, 2004
  5. Professor Mike Richards, Cancer 'Tsar', 2004
  6. Dr Roger Boyle, Heart 'Tsar', 2005
  7. Professor Paul Corrigan, Health Advisor to the Prime Minister, 2006
  8. Professor Jeffrey Drazen - Editor in Chief, New England Journal of Medicine, 2006
  9. Sir Michael Rawlins - Chairman, NICE, 2006
  10. Bill McCarthy- Head of Strategy, Dept of Health, 2007
  11. Sir David Nicholson,CEO, NHS, 2007
  12. Andy Davis, CEO, Virgin Blood Bank, 2007
  13. Andrew Lansley MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Health, 2007
  14. Charles Levinson, CEO, Doctorcall, 2007
  15. Sir Ian Kennedy, Chairman, Healthcare Commission, 2007
  16. Dr Richard Horton, Editor, The Lancet, 2007
  17. Sir William Stewart, Chair, Health Protection Agency, 2008
  18. Sir Graeme Catto, Chairman, General Medical Council, 2008
  19. Sir Alastair Breckenridge, Chairman, Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), 2008
  20. Sir Bill Castell, Wellcome Trust, 2008
  21. Mr Andrew Jack, Pharmaceuticals Correspondent, Financial Times, 2008
  22. Mr David Brennan, CEO, AstraZeneca, 2008
  23. Professor Jeffrey Drazen, Editor in Chief, New England Journal of Medicine, 2008
  24. Lt Gen Louis Lillywhite, Surgeon General, Defence Medical Services, 2008
  25. Sir Bruce Keogh, Heart 'Tsar', 2008
  26. Sir John Sulston, Human Genome Commission, 2008
  27. Dame Joan Higgins, Chair, NHS Litigation Authority
  28. Lord Crisp, Global Health Partnerships
  29. Baroness Young, Chair, Care Quality Commission
  30. Chris Rudge, National Clinical Director for Transplantation
  31. Sir Lezek Borysiewicz, CEO, Medical Research Council
  32. Jasmine Whitbread, CEO, Save the Children UK
  33. Karol Sikora, Medical Director, CancerPartnersUK
  34. Atul Gawande, Prof of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
  35. Marc DuBois, Director, MSF UK
  36. Andrew Mitchell, Shadow Secretary of State for International Development
  37. Josette Sheeran, Director, UN World Food Programme
  38. Richard Dowden, Director, Royal African Society
  39. Sir Peter Rubin, Chair, General Medical Council
  40. Ezekiel Emanuel, Bioethics Advisor to President Barack Obama
  41. Anthony Rudd, Stroke 'Tsar'
  42. Sir Nicholas Young, CEO, British Red Cross
  43. David Heymann, Head, Global Health Security, Chatham House
  44. Margaret Hamburg, FDA Commissioner (USA)
  45. Lord McColl, Chairman, Mercy Ships UK
  46. Phillip Raffaelli, Surgeon General, Ministry of Defence
  47. Sir John Holmes, UN Emergency Relief Co-ordinator
  48. Clare Gerada, Chair, Royal College of General Practitioners
  49. Harpal Kumar, CEO, CancerResearch UK
  50. Dame Jo Williams, Chair, Care Quality Commission
  51. John Healey MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Health
  52. Sir John Savill, CEO, Medical Research Council

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For further information contact:
Paul Summerfield
Development Office
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7290 3857
Email: paul.summerfield @ rsm.ac.uk