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Lecture by Michael Vloeberghs, Professor of Paediatric Neurosurgery, Nottingham University Hospital.

The emphasis of this lecture is on balance and proportion. It shows where interactions between medicine, society and environment have sometimes gone totally wrong.

Professor Vloeberghs will guide the audience through a visual timeline showing how everything is interconnected either by action / reaction or a "seemed like a good idea at the time" response.

When balance and proportion have been lost, human nature and the need for a quick fix sets in, often making things worse. We are sometimes blinded by progress, perhaps more so in Professor Vloeberghs’ area, neurosurgery, where technology is trying to interact with the mystical brain.

Professor Vloeberghs will show you how medicine needs to regain a sense of proportion, focusing less on high tech for the few and more on individual responsibility.

This journey is made using fun facts and media clips.

Programme:
6 pm Drinks, Newton building
6.30 pm Lecture followed by a cold buffet
The event will finish by 9 pm.

Biography
Professor Michael H J Vloeberghs MD, PhD; consultant paediatric neurosurgeon, Nottingham University Hospital; accredited mediator, London School of Mediation and visiting professor at Nottingham Trent University.

Michael Vloeberghs qualified as a general practitioner and obtained an MD in 1985, in Belgium. In 1993 he completed his training in Paediatric Neurosurgery at Nottingham University Hospital.

After being a consultant neurosurgeon for two years at the Free University of Brussels, he accepted a post as an exclusive paediatric neurosurgeon at the Nottingham University Hospital in 1995.

His clinical practice regards movement disorder in cerebral palsy, but he is also involved in all types of paediatric neurological-neurosurgical disease. His research focuses on technology and the application of technology, in a broad sense, in medicine-surgery.

Book your place
This event is free to attend and is open to the public. Booking for this event will be available shortly.

If you have any queries please email or telephone +44 (0)115 848 8268.