Free event - all welcome

Networking and afternoon tea from 4.30pm, the lecture will begin at 5.30pm

Leeds MedChi Society in partnership with the School of Medicine Athena Swan, commemorates one of Britain’s first female doctors with the Edith Pechey Lecture 2025 - 'How digitalisation increases health inequities' with Professor Trish Greenhalgh from the University of Oxford.

Professor Greenhalgh is Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences and Fellow of Green Templeton College at the University of Oxford. She leads a programme of research at the interface between the social sciences and medicine, working across primary and secondary care.

Her work seeks to celebrate and retain the traditional and the humanistic aspects of medicine and healthcare while also embracing the exceptional opportunities of contemporary science and technology to improve health outcomes and relieve suffering. Three particular interests are the health needs and illness narratives of minority and disadvantaged groups; the introduction of technology-based innovations in healthcare; and the complex links (philosophical and empirical) between research, policy and practice.

Mary Edith Pechey was only the third woman to be registered as a doctor in Britain and a campaigner for women's rights. Pechey practised medicine in Leeds, involving herself in women's health education and lecturing on a number of medical topics, including nursing.

IN PERSON - Edith Pechey Lecture 2025 featuring Professor Trish Greenhalgh