RSM Geriatrics & Gerontology Section — Past President
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, hosting symposia 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, including "The failing heart in older people" (October 2019), the annual President's and Trainees' clinical prize meetings, a clinical governance and audit prize meeting (May 2021), and a "Biology of ageing" presidential webinar series in 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.
Impact
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.
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.