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Professor Angharad Davies reports on this year’s Kettle Memorial Lecture, which was given by the parasitologist, Professor Peter Chiodini OBE.
The College’s 2024 Kettle Memorial Lecture was held at Swansea University Medical School on 3 September. This eponymous lecture was established in 1938, in memory of Professor Edgar Hartley Kettle. It is particularly apt for it to take place in Wales, since Professor Kettle was Professor of Pathology in Cardiff between 1924 and 1927. There, he established a centre of teaching and research in pathology, before later moving back to London as Professor at St Bartholemew’s Hospital.
This year’s invited lecturer was Professor Peter Chiodini OBE, Consultant Parasitologist at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Honorary Professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Honorary Clinical Professor at University College London and Director of the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) Malaria Reference Laboratory and the UKHSA Parasitology Reference Laboratory.
Professor Chiodini with the session co-chairs, Professor Rachel Chalmers, Sharon Poynton and Professor Angharad Davies.
His highly engaging presentation, entitled ‘Life cycle of a clinical parasitologist’, was delivered to a packed in-person audience at Swansea University Medical School, as well as to an online audience via livestream link.
The lecture covered topics ranging from Professor Chiodini’s work on the use of AI in parasitology - for example in malaria diagnostics - to hydatid disease, to his support of the Social Mobility Foundation. It is still available to view on the RCPath YouTube channel. At the end of this tour de force, Professor Chiodini was presented with a gift from the College.
Professor Angharad Davies
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