Awards announced at an International Symposium on Poetry and Medicine on Saturday 10th April 2010.
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The 2010 Hippocrates Prize judges
Dannie Abse Poet and chest physician, whose celebrated writings have brought him many literary awards and distinctions, including election as a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature and an honorary doctorate from the University of Wales. His New Selected Poems was recently published by Hutchinson.
Professor Sir Bruce Keogh NHS medical director. Sir Bruce is an eminent cardiac surgeon and Past-President of the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland.
James Naughtie Broadcaster, journalist and writer, is a presenter of Today on BBC Radio 4 and host of Radio 4's monthly Bookclub. He worked as a political correspondent at Westminster for many years and has written two books on the Blair era, and an account of the story of classical music. He is Chancellor of the University of Stirling, a trustee of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction and a Fellow of the British-American Project.
A new annual competition for a poem on a medical subject
James Naughtie Dr Dannie Abse & Professor Sir Bruce Keogh at the 2010 Prize judging panel.
