Cardiff Medical Society
Established 1870
Cardiff Medical Society aims to encourage the advancement of medical knowledge and promote the welfare of the medical profession
About Us
The Cardiff Medical Society was established in 1870 to encourage the advancement of medical knowledge and to promote the welfare of the medical profession. Today the society continues to promote medical education, but also provide a friendly environment in which doctors can socialise and network.
The membership consists of more than 300 medical practitioners in Cardiff and surrounding district. The Society puts on monthly events, an annual dinner and an annual student prize presentation evening. It also provides assistance to medical students who wish to study the history of medine as part of their medical degree.
The president of the Society for 2025-2026 is Professor Malcolm Wheeler
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If you would like to join the society, please contact the secretary: Cardiff.medicalsociety@gmail.com
Next Event
DATE: TUESDAY 14th April 2026
VENUE: LECTURE THEATRE 4, UHW
TIME: 19:00 - Buffet
19:30 - Keynote Event: Professor Geraint Williams, Previously Professor of Pathology , Cardiff 'Colonic Polyps/Cuthbert Dukes'
Professor Geraint Williams, OBE, MD, FRCP, FRCPath, FLSW, FMed Sci
Geraint Williams is Emeritus Professor of Pathology at Cardiff University and, until his retirement in 2011, was an Honorary Consultant Histopathologist based at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff.
Born and brought up in rural north Breconshire, he graduated with honours in medicine from the Welsh National School of Medicine in 1973, and undertook clinical postgraduate training in Cardiff and London, working at Hammersmith, Brompton, St Bartholomew’s and finally St Mark’s Hospitals. Here he developed a lifelong interest in gastrointestinal pathology, inspired by the late Dr Basil Morson, and he later went on to edit three editions of Morson & Dawson’s Gastrointestinal Pathology.
Over more than three decades he combined clinical practice with translational and basic science research, focusing on gastrointestinal disease and carcinogenesis and giving invited lectures internationally. He contributed to undergraduate and postgraduate education in Cardiff and beyond, and for six years he oversaw medical student admissions at Cardiff University.
He has held executive roles in the Royal College of Pathologists, the Pathological Society and the European Society of Pathology, as well as advisory positions with the UK Department of Health and the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. He chaired the Welsh Government’s Scientific Advisory Committee and the NICE National Collaborating Centre for Cancer and served as President of the Pathology Section of the British Society of Gastroenterology and the International Academy of Pathology.
In more recent years he has been a trustee of Tenovus Cancer Care, President of his local Probus Club and an executive committee member of Cardiff Scientific Society.
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Guests and New Members Welcome