On behalf of the CMAA Steering Group:
Ali Amini (2004), Ian Johnson (1967), Fazal-Ali Hasan (1979), Abteen Mostofi (2002),
Tim Heymann (1980), Vis Navaratnam (President) and James Jones (2005).
Christ’s College Medical Alumni Association
(agreed 6 September 2008)
1. Membership of CCMAA shall be open to all Christ’s graduates and members in the
Medical and Veterinary Sciences and allied Natural Sciences, including vets and
those who have not qualified medically, but are, or have been, actively involved in
medical research and/or education.
2. Membership will be simply by application via the College Alumnus Office and on
“pay as you attend” basis.
3. A Steering Group of six alumni made up of three alumni resident in or near
Cambridge and three from further afield shall run the CCMAA. The Steering Group
will be elected annually with due regard for a balanced distribution of members
across different years of matriculation. It is proposed that for 2008 to 2009, the group
shall be drawn from the current steering group, and shall be Abteen Mostofi, Ali
Amini, Fazal-Ali Hasan, James Jones, Ian Johnson and Tim Heymann, together with
the President. One of these six alumni shall be identified by the group as the primary
point of contact for the College. A member of the Alumnus and Development Office
will be secretary to the Group. The steering group is empowered to co-opt other
members.
4. Dr Navaratnam was elected President until 2013.
5. Dr Pratt was elected Honorary Patron of the CCMAA.
6. The aims of the CCMAA shall be:
(i)
To provide a forum for medical and related alumni of Christ’s to meet for
educational purposes, and also to renew old contacts and build new ones.
(ii)
To provide opportunities to enable established medical (and related) professionals
to offer advice to younger colleagues embarking on their medical careers.
(iii) To provide a forum to facilitate mutual education about professional matters.
(iv)
To form a core of medically experienced alumni from whom the College can seek
advice on educational and other matters from time to time.
(v)
To build bridges with the College Medical (Undergraduate) Society.
(vi)
To set up and run a webpage limited to members to facilitate continuing
exchange. Messages from members can be posted on this site via the Alumni
Office.
(vii) To aim for one main meeting per year, the meetings to take forms to be agreed by
alumni, which might be academic, social, or a mix of both, and, if the latter two,
either general or focussed on particular goals.
(viii) To fund-raise for support of disadvantaged students from UK or overseas and/or
for travel funds, and to set up a management structure for the fund.
(ix)
To aim for educational events to carry CPD accreditation and tax relief.
(x)
To provide some family friendly opportunities for partners and spouses (and
perhaps via picnics etc children) to attend.
Approved Notes of a meeting of the Steering Group on Sunday 7th September 2008
1. Present: Dr Navaratnam (in the chair), Abteen Mostofi, Ali Amini, Fazal-Ali
Hasan, Ian Johnson. Apologies from James Jones and Tim Heymann. Martin
Johnson was co-opted for the meeting.
2. The revised Association details were agreed - see above.
3. The Members-limited web site and conditions of use needs to be set up, and
members asked whether they are happy for their email addresses to be listed
thereon (Action: MHJ)
4. The details of the provisional draft of the Fund terms and management details need
to be revised now the Association has met. (Action: VN to pursue this matter and
distribute revised draft)
5. Short paper on relative costs of different activities and ways of encouraging
contributions to the fund to be prepared for the Group initially to consider (Action:
MHJ and Alumnus Office)
6. Next major meeting to be based on the format of the first, but to start at 13.30 on a
Saturday with a business meeting until 14.00. Then from 14.00 to 18.00/18.30 to
have an academic meeting, followed by drinks at 19.00 and dinner at 19.30. Next
morning, informal coffee meeting or similar. (Action: Alumnus Office)
7. Precise content of academic meeting to be agreed nearer the time, but to include:
short presentations by 2-3 MB, PhD clinical students, two substantial lectures with
questions each of 45 minutes, interactive sessions or workshops, and a debate,
perhaps with two main speakers and two supporting junior speakers. (Action:
Alumnus Office)
8. After some discussion of the optimal time of year for the meeting, to meet the
needs of the members and the timetable of the College, MHJ was asked to consult
about available College dates on Saturdays in April-July 2009, second half of
September 2008 and second week of January 2010, and to report back. In addition
(and especially if next meeting could not be until January 2010, to enquire about
availability of Sunday lunch time summer possibilities for a family friendly nonresidential social gathering (Action: MHJ)
9. Financial contribution towards costs of attending for Clinical students to be
investigated (if possible retrospectively) by dialogue between DoS Clinical
Medicine and the tutors (Action: Prof Gillard & Dr Edwardson).
Those partners or spouses who attend events and who wish to come to the academic
sessions to be invited to do so. A special programme for partners and spouses attending
was not felt to be essential. However, if one is arranged, we need to be mindful of the
possible need to provide some where for those