Month: September 2015

Upcoming events in 2015

  • Thinking about a baby?
    Workshop aimed at all Postdocs in the Faculty of Medicine to explore the issues surrounding having a baby
    8th October , 2 pm – 2nd Floor Clinical Science Centre Seminar Room

          More details

  • Surgery and Cancer Departmental Meeting
    Meeting for all S&C staff to discuss changes to the Department and the upcoming Silver Athena SWAN application
    21st October, 3:30 pm – G34, SAF Building, South Kensington
  • How to support staff going on maternity leave
    This event is designed for managers in the Faculty of Medicine who want to know more about how to support staff going on maternity and paternity leave. The session will include a question/answer session covering the most common queries from both managers and staff, and a number of case studies of common scenarios and conversations which need to be held between managers and the staff going on leave.
    28th October, 3:00 pm – Wolfson cafe area, Hammersmith
  • First Departmental Athena SWAN Lecture
    Surgery and Cancer’s first Athena SWAN Lecture, delivered by Miss Clare Marx, the first female President of the Royal College of Surgeons
    2nd December, 5:00 pm – G34, SAF Building, South Kensington, 

 

Advances in patient safety: CPSSQ Symposium 2015 review

 

CPSSQPatient safety experts gathered for the Centre for Patient Safety and Service Quality (CPSSQ) annual symposium last week. The CPSSQ is a partnership between Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Imperial College London and comprises a highly specialised set of research groups, working together to improve patient safety and the quality of healthcare services.

Read the full review here.

Abstract secures funding to attend symposium

Congratulations to Mr Edward St John, Clinical Research Fellow supervised by Prof Ara Darzi, Prof Zoltan Takats and Mr Dan Leff, who has won a prestigious American Association for Cancer Research Scholar-in-Training Award after his abstract was highly rated.

The prize money will go towards Mr St John attending the 2015 Breast Cancer Symposium, in San Antonio, Texas this December where he will present his abstract: Rapid evaporative ionisation mass spectrometry towards real time intraoperative oncological margin status determination in breast conserving surgery

 

Clinical Applications of Solid Phase Micro Extraction (SPME)

The Division of Computational and Systems Medicine is delighted to present:
Professor Janusz Pawliszyn, Professor of Analytical Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Canada

CSM Guest Seminar_Sept 2015 Prof Pawliszyn 15092015v2“Clinical Applications of Solid Phase Micro Extraction (SPME)”
Tuesday 29 September 2015 at 10 – 11am
Lecture Theatre 311, Huxley Building, South Kensington

Chaired By: Professor Zoltan Takats
For more information contact:
Professor Zoltan Takats, Dr Phyllis Quinn 

Event details

Fellowship to fund research on type-2 diabetes resolution following bariatric surgery

indexCongratulations to Nicholas Penney, a clinical research fellow supervised by Prof Elaine Holmes, Prof Ara Darzi and Mr Sanjay Purkayastha who has recently been awarded the Sutherland-Earl Clinical Research Fellowship 2015 by the Diabetes Research and Wellness Foundation.

The value of the award is £209,164 and will fund research toward his clinical study which is looking at the mechanisms and prognostication of type-2 diabetes resolution following bariatric surgery.

GAP year students work with Digestive Diseases PROLIFICA project in Gambia

Three future medical students starting this year, spent their gap year in Gambia working with the PROIFICA team which is part of the Digestive Diseases division.

PROIFICA (Prevention Of Liver Fibrosis & Cancer in Africa) is an EC funded project investigating liver cancer, which arises because of cirrhosis of the liver, a chronic condition that can stop the liver from functioning.

 

Prof Alun Davies becomes Distinguished Fellow Member

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Congratulations to Prof Alun Davies who has just been appointed a Distinguished Fellow Member of the American Venous Forum. The AVF is dedicated to improving the health of patients suffering from disorders of the venous and lymphatic systems.

Distinguished Fellows are AVF Members who have enhanced AVF through volunteering for committees, volunteering as meeting Faculty, provided educational enhancement for trainees, and/or advanced venous disease by research or education.

Prof Davies has been invited to attend the 28th AVF Annual meeting in Florida next year for his award to be formally recognised in front of fellow AVF members.

Prize winners at the International Union of Phlebology

Congratulations to three of the Vascular team who won prizes at the recent UIP conference in Seoul, Korea last month. The conference provided an opportunity to exchange ideas and explore strategies to address issues in the field of Phlebology.
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Francine Heatley being awarded the 2015 Union Internationale de Phlébologie Award ‘In recognition of an exceptionally outstanding presentation at Seoul UIP 2015’ for the abstract entitled: EVRA (Early Venous Reflux Ablation) ulcer trial: A randomised clinical trial to compare early versus delayed endovenous treatment of superficial venous reflux in patients with chronic venous ulceration.
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Roshan Bootun receiving the 4th Union Internationale de Phlébologie Research Fellowship/Kreussler Young Scientist’s Sclerotherapy Award 2015 from Dr Angelo Scuderi (President of UIP) and Dr Christian Freyberg (Chemische Fabrik Kreussler & Co. GmbH) for the project entitled: Randomised Controlled Trial of Compression Therapy following Foam Sclerotherapy.
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Joseph Shalhoub receiving the 2015 Union Internationale de Phlébologie / Servier Research Fellowship from Dr Angelo Scuderi, the President of the UIP, and Dr Françoise Pitsch, Servier, for a project entitled: Metabonomic profiling for the identification of novel biomarkers in deep vein thrombosis.