RSM Event: Sir James Paget and his eponymous diseases: 150th anniversary celebration
The RSM, the RCS and Barts have come together to present an event. Join us for an event focused on Paget’s diseases, where we will be honouring the legacy of RSM and RCS Past-President Sir James Paget Bt.
Organised by Dr Christopher Rowland Payne and led by the RSM Aesthetic Medicine and Surgery Section, the programme focuses on Paget’s lasting impact and his eponymous diseases as well as on the life and work of this distinguished Barts surgeon and pathologist. Our guest of honour is Sir Henry Paget Bt, direct lineal descendant of Sir James Paget Bt, and all who attend will have the opportunity to shake hands with him and with history.
The event is run in collaboration with the RSM Obstetrics & Gynaecology Section, RSM Section of Pathology, RSM History of Medicine Society, the RSM Rheumatology & Rehabilitation Section, RSM Orthopaedics Section, the RSM Plastic Surgery Section, RSM Surgery Section, the Royal College of Surgeons of England and the Royal and Ancient Hospital of St Bartholomew to pay tribute to Paget’s huge contribution.
Programme
Registration, tea and coffee
Welcome and Introduction
Professor Gillian Leng CBE, President, The Royal Society of Medicine
Session 1
Chairs: Christopher Rowland Payne, Consultant Dermatologist, President Aesthetic Medicine and Surgery Section, The Royal Society of Medicine and Diwakar Sarma, Consultant Surgeon, President, Surgery Section, The Royal Society of Medicine
Sir James Paget, the man
Hugh Sturzaker, Retired Consultant Surgeon, James Paget University Hospital, Great Yarmouth
Paget’s disease of the breast
Sarah Downey, Consultant Surgeon, James Paget Hospital, Great Yarmouth, President, Association of Breast Surgeons
Extra-mammary Paget’s disease
Anna B Chapman, Consultant Dermatologist, Homerton Hospital, London
The vulva: as easy as ABC…P?
Shreelata Datta, Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist, Princess Alexandra Hospital
Mammary and extramammary Paget’s disease, beyond survival: an aesthetic-regenerative framework
George Titovets, Aesthetics & Longevity Academy, London
Pagetoid spread and those evil nuclei
Philip Mckee, Director of Dermatopathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
“Trained and Organized Common Sense”: Paget the beside clinician and educator
Jajini Susan Varghese, Consultant Surgeon, The Royal Free Hospital, London
Paget and the Museum of Pathology at St Bartholomew’s Hospital
Brian Colvin, Director of Development, St Bartholomew’s Hospital Pathology Museum. Formerly Hon Consultant Haematologist, St Bartholomew’s Hospital. Past President, RSM Pathology Section
Tea and coffee break
Welcome to Session 2
Tim Mitchell, President, Royal College of Surgeons
Session 2
Chairs: Christopher Rowland Payne, Consultant Dermatologist, President Aesthetic Medicine and Surgery Section, The Royal Society of Medicine and Ali Jawad OBE, Consultant Rheumatologist, St Bartholomew’s Hospital
Discussion of posters
Christopher Rowland Payne
Paget’s disease of bone – then and now
Stuart Ralston, Versus Arthritis Professor of Rheumatology, Western General Hospital & University of Edinburgh
Hearing loss in Paget’s disease of bone: a review of the literature
Lakshmi Kowdley Hemanth, Medical Student, University College London
’Like the front of your hand’: Paget’s carpal tunnel and its potential aesthetic consequences
Zoe Barley, Medical Student, GKT Medical School, London
A potpourri of Paget pathology
John Firth, Consultant Pathologist and Medical Examiner, Royal Free Hospital, President (Elect) RSM Section of Pathology
Paget and his wider family
Johnnie Dingwall & Sir Henry Paget Bt, Patron of the Paget’s (Disease of Bone) Association
Trichina spiralis and Paget’s pantheon
Tariq Ahmad, Consultant Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon, Cambridge University Hospitals
Closing remarks
Professor Roger Kirby, Immediate Past President, The Royal Society of Medicine
Close of meeting
Drinks reception
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Key Features:
Presentations on:
- Paget and Paget’s diseases – Paget was a surgeon, pathologist, researcher and teacher. He described a remarkable number of new diseases.
Also:
- Present your poster.
- Meet friends and colleagues after the session at a complimentary drinks reception.
Sir James Paget Bt was a Barts man, student and surgeon, who became President of the Royal Society of Medicine 1875-77 and the Royal College of Surgeons of England 1875. At least five diseases carry his name eponymously (bone, breast, vulva, Paget-von Schrötter disease, Paget’s abcess).
At this special meeting, short scientific or historical papers, case reports and posters are invited, especially if they are on the subject of one of the diseases associated with the name of Paget and in particular if they have a cosmetic angle as the meeting is a section meeting of the newest Section of the RSM, the Section of Aesthetic Medicine and Surgery.
His direct lineal descendant, Sir Henry Paget Bt will be attending the Royal Society of Medicine, on Wednesday afternoon 5.11.25, where he will give a brief account, from the family perspective, of his illustrious ancestor.
If you or your colleagues or juniors would like either to attend the meeting or to present a poster, please contact: presidentaesthetic@rsm.ac.uk and aesthetic@rsm.ac.uk.
Presenters will have free registration.
Among the diseases that were first described by Sir James Paget are:
- Paget’s disease of bone
- Paget’s disease of the nipple
- Extramammary Paget’s disease
- Trichina spiralis
- Osteitis dessicans
- Osgood-Schlatter disease
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Paget-Schroetter disease
- Paget recurrent spindle cell tumours
- Paget recurrent abscesses
If you have experience of any of these diseases, especially if your case has an aesthetic angle, please contact presidentaesthetic@rsm.ac.uk and aesthetic@rsm.ac.uk and your presentation (oral or poster) will be included in the programme.
Who Should Attend?
- Members of the RSM Section of Aesthetic Medicine and Surgery
- Members of the RSM Sections including: Cardiothoracic, Dermatology, General Practice with Primary Healthcare, Geriatrics and Gerontology, History of Medicine Society, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Oncology, Orthopaedics, Pathology, Plastic Surgery, Radiology, Senior Fellows Forum, Students, Surgery, Vascular, Lipid & Metabolic Medicine and Venous Forum.
- Fellows and Members of the Royal College of Surgeons.
Aims & Learning Objectives
- Hear the enormous contribution that Paget made to medicine and surgery and familiarise yourself with the standards he set for himself
- Stay current with new and emerging treatments in medicine and surgery for physicians, surgeons and dentists
- Apply evidence-based best practice to diagnosis and treatment in medicine and surgery
- Understand how aesthetic interventions contribute to protection, maintenance and restoration of human health
- Recognise and manage complications and adverse reactions
- Participate in interactive discussion with peers
Join us for a vital and practical update where science, safety, and multidisciplinary collaboration meet. Click here to register.