SURGEONS DESCEND ON GALWAY TO SHARE IDEAS AND RESEARCH

Date Published: 04-Sep-2009

One of the largest gatherings of surgeons in the country will take place at NUIGalway over the next two days.The 34th Sir Peter Freyer Memorial Symposium gets underway today.Peter Freyer, originally from Galway, performed the first successful surgical operation to remove an enlarged prostate in 1900 in London.Dr. Patrick Gullane, an expert in head and neck surgery in Toronto, will deliver the memorial lecture at 5 o' clock this evening.Tomorrow Professor Arnold Hill will present the State of the Art Lecture about the cancer strategy for the past, present and future.