1997 London

The 1997 Punch Club meeting was hosted by Neil O'Donohue in London. It is believed to be the last meeting hosted by a retiring Consultant Urologist - Punch Club tradition dictated that members hosted the meeting as a "swan song" on their retirement.

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The scientific sessions at the meeting took place in the Council Room of the Senate House of University College, Gower Street, London.

The image (above) shows how the entrance to University College London Hospital looks in 2021 - it has changed considerably since the meeting was held in 1997.

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The clinical presentations given during the meeting are listed in the table below:

THURSDAY 6 NOVEMBER
Neil O'Donoghue, Consultant Urological Surgeon, University College London Hospital	Introduction
Connie Parkinson, Consultant Histopathologist, University College London Hospital	PIN and diagnostic dilemmas in prostate cancer
William Lees, Professor of Clinical Oncology, University College London Hospital	Photodynamic therapy for prostate cancer
John Masters, Reader in Experimental Pathology, University College London Hospital	Basic research and the clinician in the manageent of urological cancer
Mark Emberton, Senior Urological Registrar, University College London Hospital	The informed patient - myth or reality?

In the afternoon, members and their partners were taken on a guided tour of the Wellington Collection at Aspley House, followed by tea at the Lansborough Hotel.

The club, black-tie dinner was held in the Milne Room of the Garrick Club on the evening of Thursday 7 November.

FRIDAY 7 NOVEMBER
Wyndham Lloyd Davies, Consultant Urological Surgeon, St Thomas's Hospittal, London	Introduction
Martin Mansell, Consultant Nephrologist, University College London Hospital	The wonders of oxalate
Richard Tiptaft, Consultant Urological Surgeon, St Thomas' Hospital, London	Current management of ureteric calculi
Chris Eden, Consultant Urological Surgeon, Frimley Park Hospital, Surrey	New thoughts on the treatment of PUJ obstruction
Neil O'Donoghue, Consultant Urological Surgeon, University College London Hospital	Reflections on the management and dilemmas in curative strategies for prostate cancer
All, led (as always) by Wyndham Lloyd Davies	Members' cases

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