{"id":2834,"date":"2015-07-25T11:43:06","date_gmt":"2015-07-25T10:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/?p=2834"},"modified":"2015-08-03T11:44:07","modified_gmt":"2015-08-03T10:44:07","slug":"faculty-of-medicine-awards-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/2015\/07\/25\/faculty-of-medicine-awards-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty of Medicine awards update"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Mr Chris Lattimer wins second prize at the <strong>16th Annual European Venous Forum Meeting<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-2835\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/files\/2015\/08\/Prize_Lattimer-300x228.jpeg\" alt=\"Prize_Lattimer\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/people\/c.lattimer09\/honours-and-memberships.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mr Lattimer<\/a> collected the award on behalf of his team at the <a href=\"http:\/\/europeanvenousforum.org\/index.php\/prize-winners\/\" target=\"_blank\">EVF Annual Meeting<\/a> in St. Petersburg, Russia, for their presentation; &#8216;Increasing thigh compression pressure correlates with a reduction in the venous drainage index of air plethysmography.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>This highly competitive award has provided a grant of \u00a31,500 for Mr Lattimer to present his team&#8217;s work on venous drainage at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Venous Forum, to be held in Orlando, Florida, next February. This is acknowledged to be the most prestigious venous meeting globally.<\/p>\n<h3>Dr Mick Jones receives multiple teaching awards in 2014\/15<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/files\/2015\/08\/Dr-Mick-Jones.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"270\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-2839\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/files\/2015\/08\/Dr-Mick-Jones-300x270.jpg\" alt=\"Dr Mick Jones\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/people\/m.d.jones\" target=\"_blank\">Dr Jones,<\/a> Reader in Molecular Medicine in the Department of Medicine and Course Director of the MSc in Molecular Medicine, picked up numerous teaching awards this year:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The top prize at the Department of Medicine Teaching Awards, 2015 for Outstanding Contribution to Education<\/li>\n<li>The awards for Outstanding Contribution to Teaching and Supervision and the Top Contributor to Teaching based on the 2014 Teaching Hours Survey<\/li>\n<li>The award for the Best Teaching for Postgraduates at the 2015 Student Academic Choice Awards<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Professor Charlotte Bevan appointed to the Executive Committee of the BACR<\/h3>\n<p>Professor of Cancer Biology, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/people\/charlotte.bevan\" target=\"_blank\">Charlotte Bevan<\/a> will take up the new role at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bacr.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">British Association for Cancer Research<\/a> in the autumn of this year.<\/p>\n<h3>Professor Simon Taylor-Robinson elected to Royal College of Physicians Council<\/h3>\n<p>In July <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/people\/s.taylor-robinson\" target=\"_blank\">Simon Taylor-Robinson<\/a>, Professor of Translation Medicine in the Department of Medicine, was elected to the Council of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rcplondon.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Royal College of Physicians<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Dr Brijesh Patel elected to European Society of Intensive Care Medicine NEXT committee<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/people\/brijesh.patel\" target=\"_blank\">Dr Patel<\/a>, a Clinical Lecturer in the Department of Surgery and Cancer, has been elected to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esicm.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">European Society of Intensive Care Medicine<\/a> NEXT (Network of EXecptional Trainees) committee.<\/p>\n<p>In June he was also awarded a 2015 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thoracic.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">American Thoracic Society<\/a> abstract scholarship.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Chris Lattimer wins second prize at the 16th Annual European Venous Forum Meeting Mr Lattimer collected the award on behalf of his team at the EVF Annual Meeting in St. Petersburg, Russia, for their presentation; &#8216;Increasing thigh compression pressure correlates with a reduction in the venous drainage index of air plethysmography.&#8217; This highly competitive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":777,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416,7666,7659],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-achievements","category-awards-2","category-staff-interviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/777"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2834"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2843,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2834\/revisions\/2843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}