RSM Geriatrics & Gerontology Section — Past President
Lay summary
The Royal Society of Medicine is one of the UK's oldest professional medical societies. Its Geriatrics and Gerontology Section runs the country's main professional forum for older-people's-medicine specialists — running symposiums and meetings on the clinical and policy questions facing geriatric medicine. Dr Wright served as President of the Section from 2019 to 2022, a three-year elected term.
During her presidency the Section ran a series of national meetings: "The failing heart in older people" (October 2019); the annual President's and Trainees' clinical prize meeting (2019–20); a clinical governance and audit prize meeting (May 2021); and a "Biology of ageing" presidential webinar (2021–22). The 2017 national meeting on kidney disease in older people, which she chaired before becoming President, became the basis for her second peer-reviewed publication.
Section presidencies are not research positions — the role is convening, programming, mentoring trainees, and representing the specialty. The four event-code URLs on this page link to the Royal Society of Medicine's stable record of each meeting in case you need to verify the dates or speakers.
What I contribute
The RSM Geriatrics and Gerontology Section is the UK's main professional forum for older-people's-medicine specialists. Dr Wright served as President of the Section from 2019 to 2022.
Why it matters
Section presidencies are not research positions. They are how a specialty's senior clinicians shape what trainees encounter, what early-career researchers get recognised for, and what topics get debated nationally. The RSM Section has been a forum for joint geriatric–nephrology, geriatric–cardiology, and geriatric–emergency-medicine work for decades.