Held on Tuesday, 4 March 2025 at 6:30pm

Venue: Apothecaries' Hall, Black Friar's Lane, London EC4V 6EJ

Presenting The Flavell Lecture

To be given by Dr Caroline coats

Dr Caroline Coats MBBS BSc MSc PhD FRCP DHMSA is Consultant Cardiologist to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Glasgow. She is Lead Clinician for the Network of Inherited Cardiac Conditions Scotland. Dr Coats also has a long-standing interest in the history of medicine, completing the DHMSA in 2004 and now lecturing on the course herself. As Archivist to the British Cardiovascular Society (BCS), she has transformed the display of the Society’s unique collection and co-wrote an accompanying volume, A Bundle of History. Heavily involved in the centenary celebrations of the BCS in 2022, she established an ongoing oral history project collecting testimony from those involved in cardiovascular medicine past and present.

Geoffrey Flavell’s career as a thoracic surgeon spanned the development of the discipline from the surgical treatment of tuberculosis to cardiac surgery. He was born in Wellington, New Zealand, and attended Waitaki and Otago schools.