Annual Oration: Driving Value through Imaging

Driving Value Through Strategic Planning and Budgeting

Trust. Annual oration: Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, 3rd October 2002.

DPByrnes Not so very long ago a solitary skier was making his rapid way down a lonely mountain when he miscalculated and launched himself over a precipice. He was falling to what he thought was certain death when he managed to grab the proverbial small bush projecting from the cliff face. He hung in abject terror for some moments and then began to call out for help. "Is anyone out there?" he cr...

Changing times. Annual oration: Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, October 2001.

The great majority of these Orations have been delivered by men, but since 1995 the medical staff have to some extent redressed the balance albeit belatedly, and Professor, now Dame Ingrid Allen gave the Oration in 1995. Last ear Professor Jennifer Adgey gave the Millennium Oration. It gives me great pleasure to follow her as Orator and when I look down the list of previous Orators it makes me ...

Harveian Oration

William Harvey and the Harveian Trust William Harvey was born in Folkestone on April 1, 1578. He was educated at the King’s School, Canterbury, Gonville, and Caius College, Cambridge, and the University of Padua, graduating as doctor of arts and medicine in 1602. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1607 and was appointed to the Lumleian lectureship in 1615. In the cycles of...

If I can see so far. Annual oration: Royal Victoria Hospital Belfast, October 2004.

I must thank the Medical Staffofthe Royal Victoria Hospital forthe greathonourthattheyhavebestowed upon me today in asking me to deliver the 2004 Oration. It is interesting to note that in 1852, when DrAndrew George Malcolm was giving this oration he stated that the oration was "an old established custom". From the first Oration in 1827 until 1883 the opening address probably took the form of t...