Changes at the top

This year's annual General Committee meeting, which ultimately governs all of CMF's activities, took place much later than previously so we will have to bring you news of all the exciting reports and discussion in the next edition. However, we just have time and space to announce some key changes among the Officers.

New Chairman

Trevor Stammers has been acting Chairman for most of 2007, and now formally becomes Chairman. Trevor is a GP and academic, a speaker, writer and broadcaster, and is well known within CMF and elsewhere. You will read about Trevor and Rachel's son Matt, a medical student, elsewhere in this edition.

New President

Since Alan Johnson's sudden death last autumn, Brian Hogbin has been acting as President. We are very grateful to Brian for stepping into the breach and helping steer CMF through all the changes of this year. We are delighted to announce that Sam Leinster is the new President. Sam was Professor of Surgery at Liverpool, and is now the first Dean of the new medical school in the University of East Anglia at Norwich.

New Treasurer

Tony Bell has been CMF Treasurer for a decade or so, a time of great expansion. He is succeeded by Allister Vale, who is based in Birmingham. Allister has chaired the Publications Committee for some years, and was previously Treasurer of the CMF. We are grateful to all these, and to everyone who gives their time locally or nationally to keep CMF's many activities going.

Regional CMF meetings

See www.cmf.org.uk/fellowship for information about local groups

Member news

Congratulations

John Holden - the President's Medal of the Royal College of General Practitioners
Vijay Kunadian - MD with commendation
David Misselbrook - Associate Dean of the Royal Society of Medicine
Eldryd Parry - the Centenary Medal of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, for his lifetime contribution
Rachel Pinniger - FRCP

Outgoing

Mary Cusack to India
Tim Latham (Birmingham) to Uganda
Grace Lee-Tsang Tan (Sheffield) to New Zealand
Zerlina Lim (TCD) to Singapore
Tina Lloyd (New Zealand) to France
Alan and Elizabeth Norrish to Zambia
Joy Rafferty (Dundee) to Malawi

Homecoming

Rebecca Adlington (UCH) from Uganda
Fiona Bradshaw (Glasgow) from Thailand
Ruth Butlin (Cardiff) from Bangladesh
Phyllis Chesworth (RFH) from Kenya
Elizabeth Galpin (Southampton) from Nepal
David Goudie (Edinburgh) from Canada
Annabel Kerr (Cambridge) from Gambia
Damian Mawer (Leeds) from Paraguay
Claire Pollin (Birmingham) from Hong Kong
Michael Puttick (St Mary's) from Nepal
Nikki Rodwell (Birmingham) from Belgium
Fiona Seaman (Glasgow) from Nepal
Raymond Watters (USA) from USA

Change of address abroad

Walter Laufer (Edinburgh) from Norway to Australia
John and Mary Northway (Southampton) from Tanzania to Kenya
Ernst Rettedal from Tanzania to Norway
Gisela Schneider (Germany) from Uganda to Germany

Obituaries

Correction. The last edition of CMF News mistakenly announced the death of Roger Ferguson. Roger is alive and well and we apologise to him and his family for distress and inconvenience caused.

Donald Allsop (q Birmingham 1951; d 2006) lived and worked as a GP in South Africa.

Eunice Ellen (q Dundee 1937; d 28 January 2007) was living in Holsworthy, Devon at the time of her death.

Ronald Hancock (q Middlesex 1949; d October 2006) was a GP and an ordained Anglican priest.

Michael Harper (q Oxford 1969) was a GP in Bristol and did epidemiological research for the MRC.

Harold Lake (q Durham 1947; d 31 March 2007) was a consultant in ophthalmology at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Newcastle. 'He was well known for his integrity and Christian witness.'

John Morris (q Barts 1943; d 8 June 2007) worked as a GP and was living in Midhurst, Sussex at the time of his death.

George Newbold (q St George's 1945; d 10 June 2007) was an obstetrician who went on to work in student and community health in South Wales. He did much to advance medical hypnosis and advised CMF's Medical Study Group.

Edmund Richey (q Belfast 1962; d 27 June 2007) was a consultant anaesthetist in Enniskillen who regularly attended the CMF Northern Ireland conference with his family.

Mervyn Rosser (q Barts 1952; d 15 April 2007) was a lifelong GP in Bermondsey. He was active in CMF and in his local BMA division, being awarded the Fellowship of the BMA in 1982.

Charles Smith (q St Thomas's 1948; d 2 October 2006) was an ENT consultant in the York hospitals and regularly attended the CMF Northern conference with his wife.