Dr. Douglas Kerr Presents to the UK TM Society Members in London

Dr. Doug Kerr from Johns Hopkins very kindly agreed to come speak to UK TM Society members in London in October. Over 150 members, family and friends crowded in to hear Dr. Kerr and our other speakers, at our first-ever UK TM Conference. Then Dr. Kerr followed up with a second solo meeting at the Scotland TM Support Group in Glasgow, en route to speak at a stem cell conference in Leipzig Germany.

For the London Conference, we were very pleased to have visitors from Ireland, Italy and Romania in addition to British members. We had excellent presentations by Prof. Angela Vincent from Oxford University, Dr. Diane Playford from Queens Square London, and Tony Murphy from the Walton Centre Liverpool. The main emphasis was on Questions and Answers addressed to all the speakers, but mainly Dr. Kerr, who even gave up his lunch hour to see a little girl from Birmingham and to answer private questions from members who queued to speak to him.

Members who were unable to attend the meetings can access the presentation slides and especially the Q&A documents at www.myelitis.org.uk and also at www.myelitis.org.uk/scotland/kerr.htm.  

The UK TMS Committee of eight members put in four months of preparation to organise the Conference brochure, venue and audiovisual facilities, catering, finance and bookings, hotel information for visitors, timetable, chairman, literature and a team of twenty volunteers on the day. Several members have written to describe the event as ‘inspiring’ – not only for the excellent speakers, but also for the chance to meet others with TM, some for the first time ever.

Lew Gray
UK TM Society
lewgray@blueyonder.co.uk