MAA 74th Annual Conference (The Resurrectionists), Edinburgh, 10-11 April 2025

April 10, 2025 9:00 am - April 11, 2025 5:00 pm

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MAA 74th Annual Conference, 10-11 April 2025

Symposium Building, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Surgeons Quarter, Nicolson Street, Edinburgh, Scotland EH8 9DW

Theme: The Resurrectionists

Programme (exact timing and speakers may be subject to change):

Thursday 10th April

Daytime programme 9.30am - 5.00pm:
Registration, tea/coffee
Welcome from MAA Hon. President Sir Barry Jackson and MAA Chairman Philip Ferguson Jones
• Jonathan Brett - Painting Unknown Worlds
• Joanna Cameron - Medical Art Principles and Techniques for the Creative Medical Artist
Coffee/tea
• Dr Caroline Erolin - Preference for Realism in 3D Anatomical Scans
• Mr Mark Devlin - The Resurrectionists
Lunch
• Dr. Joanna Butler - Ronald Raven Award recipient 'Medical Illustrations of skin-related neglected tropical diseases'
• Dr. Susanne Diekmann - Ronald Raven Award recipient 'Apps for diagnostic breast cancer imaging and for carpal tunnel surgery'
• Laura Bell - Student Perspective
Coffee/Tea
• Tour of the Anatomical Museum of Edinburgh
• Tour of the ATLAS 3D anatomy scanning facility (Anatomy Teaching Laboratory Additive manufacturing and Scanning)
• Tour of the Artists Flat above the anatomy laboratories

Evening programme 6.00 pm - late:
Evening meal at 'Beirut' Lebanese restaurant
followed by Ghost Walk in Edinburgh

Friday 11th April

Daytime programme 9.00am - 5.00pm:
Registration, tea/coffee
• Philip Wilson - Forensic Illustration Case Studies
• Emily Holden & Annie Campbell, Now Medical Studios - Bringing Life to Medical Animations
Tea/coffee
• Maurizio De Angelis - Illustrating My Rare Disease: How being a Medical Illustrator helped me get a Diagnosis
• Dr. Cat Irving, Human Remains Conservator at Surgeons Hall Museum, Edinburgh - Between the Eye and the Hand: Charles Bell as Surgeon and Artist
Lunch
• Afternoon session in two groups, swap halfway through afternoon:
• Group 1: Head dissection with consultant Maxillofacial surgeons Mr Jeff Downie and Mr Mark Devlin
• Group 2: Danielle Dray, Heritage Department of RCS Edinburgh - display of historical medical artworks and visit to Surgeons Hall Museum

Evening programme 7.00 pm - late:
Chairman’s Reception and MAA Formal Annual Dinner in Fellows Library, Playfair Building, RCSEd

Booking is now closed for this event.

Additional Information

Map of location of Surgeons Quarter, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Nicolson Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9DW, Scotland

Getting to Surgeons Quarter:

https://www.surgeonsquarter.com/where-we-are/

Accommodation is not included but some hotels in the area include:

Ibis Edinburgh Centre South Bridge - Royal Mile (0.2 miles, 5 minute walk) https://all.accor.com/hotel/8484/index.en.shtml

Premier Inn Edinburgh City Centre Royal Mile (0.5 miles, 11 minute walk) https://www.premierinn.com/gb/en/hotels/scotland/lothian/edinburgh/edinburgh-city-centre-royal-mile.html

hub by Premier Inn Royal Mile (0.5 miles, 11 minute walk) https://www.premierinn.com/gb/en/hotels/scotland/lothian/edinburgh/hub-edinburgh-royal-mile.html?cid=GLBC_EDICAR

Novotel Edinburgh Centre (0.7 miles, 15 minute walk) https://all.accor.com/ssr/app/accor/rates/3271/index.en.shtml

Travelodge Edinburgh Central St. Mary's Street (0.3 miles, 7 minute walk) https://www.travelodge.co.uk/hotels/205/Edinburgh-Central-hotel

Radisson Blu Hotel Edinburgh City Centre (0.4 miles, 8 minute walk) https://www.radissonhotels.com/en-us/hotels/radisson-blu-edinburgh

Edinburgh Marriott Hotel Holyrood (0.6 miles, 13 minute walk) https://www.marriott.com/en-us/hotels/edimh-edinburgh-marriott-hotel-holyrood/overview/

Ten Hill Place Hotel (on site of conference) https://www.tenhillplace.com/

Early booking is strongly recommended as Edinburgh is a popular destination with prices increasing according to demand.

Meet our sponsors:

FACE (Facial Aesthetics Clinical Excellence)

https://fa-ce.co.uk/

We are a surgical company based in the West of Scotland promoting ethical cosmetic facial interventions. We offer many procedures, both surgical and non-surgical. We are all fully qualified Consultant Surgeons with dual qualifications in medicine and dentistry. Facial surgery is all we do. We are all on the GMC specialist list and take part in appraisal and revalidation every year.

We pride ourselves on the highest clinical and ethical standards.

LoveLive Agency https://loveliveagency.com/

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Daler Rowney https://www.daler-rowney.com/

First founded as a pigment company for wigs in the UK, Daler-Rowney has grown into an internationally-renowned fine arts manufacturing company with colours & pigments still at its core. From paint, brushes and surfaces to accessories, luggage and easels, Daler-Rowney produces & sells products for artists of all experience levels.

Surgeons' Hall Museums https://museum.rcsed.ac.uk/

The award winning Museums are open to the public 7 days a week, 10am to 5pm and are home to one of the largest and most historic pathology collections in the United Kingdom. Surgeons’ Hall Museums reopened in 2015 after a major £4.4 million Heritage Lottery Funded redevelopment project. As one of the oldest Museums in Scotland, the collections grew from 1699 after 'natural and artificial curiosities' were publicly sought, with the Playfair Building opening in 1832 to house the Barclay and Bell collections. Whilst the Museums were initially established as a medical teaching resource, all are now welcome to visit.

University of Edinburgh Anatomical Museum https://www.ed.ac.uk/visit/museums-galleries/anatomical

The collection consists of 12,000 objects and specimens that tell the story of 300 years of anatomical teaching at the University of Edinburgh. The Anatomical Museum is open to the public on select days only. At other times the museum is a study space for medical students with no visitor access.

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