Annual General Meeting
Summary of the 2019 Annual General Meeting of the History of Anaesthesia Society
The 33rd Annual General Meeting (AGM) was held at Madingley Hall, Cambridge on Friday 14th June 2019, chaired by Dr McKenzie. All attending observed a minute of silence to reflect on five members who died in the past year. The Minutes of the 2018 AGM were accepted.
Notable points in the President’s Report were the following activities of the Society.
Dr MacLeod’s Report on the Membership led to agreement that those not paying the full annual subscription will be removed from the list of members, although efforts will be made to contact them first.
The following elections of Officers and new Members of Council were acclaimed:
Three citations were read for election to Honorary Membership of the Society:
Brig Ivan Houghton announced the winner of the David Zuck Memorial Prize: Dr MG Cooper et al for their paper on the Corfe-McMurdie anaesthetic inhaler of 1918, published in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care in 2018.
It was noted that the usual means of communication between the Society and its members will be email (excepting the Proceedings, which will be posted). Dr McKenzie read a short report on Governance and, in order to involve the entire membership in Council nominations and voting, changes to Rules 12 and 16 of the Constitution were approved. The updated Constitution is on the website
The 33rd Annual General Meeting (AGM) was held at Madingley Hall, Cambridge on Friday 14th June 2019, chaired by Dr McKenzie. All attending observed a minute of silence to reflect on five members who died in the past year. The Minutes of the 2018 AGM were accepted.
Notable points in the President’s Report were the following activities of the Society.
- Put up a History session at the Winter Scientific Meeting of the AAGBI in January 2019
- Continued sponsoring and judging essays for the Thomas Boulton Anaesthesia History Prize
- Continued encouragement of trainees
- Invited nominations for the David Zuck Memorial Prize – receiving burgeoning interest
- Continued to improve its Governance.
Dr MacLeod’s Report on the Membership led to agreement that those not paying the full annual subscription will be removed from the list of members, although efforts will be made to contact them first.
The following elections of Officers and new Members of Council were acclaimed:
- Dr Adrian Kuipers – President-Elect
- Dr Danielle Huckle – Council Member
- Dr Duncan Mitchell – Council Member.
Three citations were read for election to Honorary Membership of the Society:
- Dr John Pring
- Dr Henry Connor
- Mrs Patricia Willis.
Brig Ivan Houghton announced the winner of the David Zuck Memorial Prize: Dr MG Cooper et al for their paper on the Corfe-McMurdie anaesthetic inhaler of 1918, published in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care in 2018.
It was noted that the usual means of communication between the Society and its members will be email (excepting the Proceedings, which will be posted). Dr McKenzie read a short report on Governance and, in order to involve the entire membership in Council nominations and voting, changes to Rules 12 and 16 of the Constitution were approved. The updated Constitution is on the website
The 34th Annual General Meeting of the History of Anaesthesia Society will be held at the Prince Rupert Hotel, Shrewsbury on Friday 26th June 2020.
