Health Sciences news roundup
Professor Dame Jessica Corner will be amongst a panel of distinguished experts joining keynote speaker Professor Peter Johnson, Professor of Oncology at Southampton and Cancer Research UK's Chief Clinician, at the Cancer Immunology Campaign’s Southampton regional launch to discuss immunology, nursing and aftercare. Jessica is joined on the panel by Fiona Dalton, Chief Executive of University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust. Email AREvents@soton.ac.uk if you are interested in attending.
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Well done to all of those who have been shortlisted in the SUSU Excellence in Teaching Awards. They are: Anita Bowser – Outstanding Lecturer; Stephanie Meakin – Contribution to Academic Support Award; and Susan Smith – Teaching and Learning Lifetime Achievement. We wish them all the best at the awards ceremony this evening.
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Congratulations to lecturer in Child Health, Maureen Harrison, who has been invited to act as an external adviser to the validation of a BSc (Hons) Health Care Management Programme for The American College of Greece, in collaboration with the OU, in Athens this week.
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You can now book your tickets to Health Sciences Postgraduate Research Conference which is being held on 18th June from 8.30am to 5pm in B67 on the Highfield Campus. This open-to-all event showcases the outstanding research being carried out by our doctoral students.
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Finally… in the next issue of the British Journal of Nursing Emeritus professor, Alan Glasper, discusses the launch of the latest Care Quality Commission fundamental standards of care which are now the health and social care benchmarks.