British Lourdes Medical Association | Lourdes Doctors | Lourdes Nurses | Pilgrimage Medicine

Conference Programme
Saturday 1st November, Mount Pleasant Hotel

08.30 – 09.00 Coffee & Registration
09.00 – 09.50 Annual General Meeting of BLMA (all members welcome)

10.00– 10.10 Prayers, Welcome, introductions

10.10 – 11.10 From Plastic surgery to Priesthood - Our Lady of Lourdes and being pilgrims of Hope
Fr James McTavish

11.10 – 11.30 Tea / Coffee

11.30– 12.30 Feedback from 2025 Pilgrimage and themes from the Pilgrimage Questionnaires
Jude Raper & David Knight

12.30 -14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 15.00 Lourdes Miraculous Cures and the Cure of John (Jack) Traynor
Dr Kieran Moriarty

15.00 – 15.30 CMIL, AMIL and the Lourdes Medical Bureau
Dr Sandro de Franciscis

15.30 – 15.50 Tea/Coffee

15.50 - 16.40 Common Infectious Diseases Associated with Pilgrimage
Rev Dr Ken Agwuh

16.40 – 17:10 Travel Update
John Tangney & Bernard Lavery

18.00 VIGIL MASS
19.30 Buffet & Entertainment

Sunday 2nd November, Mount Pleasant Hotel

08.45 – 9.15 BLMA Council Meeting
09.30 Morning Prayers

09.40 – 10.00 BLMA Training – where we are and what next?
Emilio, Kim and Jenny

10.00 -11.00 Does compassionate care really matter when organising and delivering a pilgrimage?
Dr Monica Doyle

11.00 – 11.20 Tea/Coffee

11.20 – 12.30 Open discussion and messages to bring to the Director’s Conference
Kim O’Connor, Paula Mitchell, Russell Brynes & Hamilton Grantham

12.15 – 12.30 Discussion & Closing Prayer (Conference Close 12:30)