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COVID-19, La Grippe and learnings from the Epidemic Influenza pneumonia of 1918-1920 11 May 2020

100 years ago the world faced a flu epidemic of immense proportions which infected almost a third of the world’s population and around 50 million people died. In this live webinar, eminent medical historian, Dr Adrian Thomas asks “What can we learn from the experience of the radiologists and clinicians of 1918 and how can it help our experience of COVID-19?”


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Duration:57 mins


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Dr Adrian Thomas

Dr Adrian Thomas has been fascinated by the history of radiology since he was a registrar at Hammersmith Hospital. Adrian is a radiologist, and visiting professor at Canterbury Christ Church University. He has been President of the Radiology Section of the Royal Society of Medicine, and of the British Society for the History of Medicine. He is the Honorary Historian to the British Institute of Radiology. Adrian has written extensively on the history of radiology writing many papers, books and articles. He is currently, with a colleague, writing a biography of the first woman radiologist and woman hospital physicist. He has had a long-term interest in role development in radiography, and teaches postgraduate radiographers.