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Interdisciplinary Research Excellence

From Everest to ICU Event

Origin:
Population Health
ICU
Time:
09:30 - 19:00
Date:
3 March 2015
Venue:
Lecture theatre area, South Academic Block, Southampton General Hospital

For more information regarding this event, please email UHS R and D office at research@uhs.nhs.uk .

Event details

Southampton's Clinical Research Conference, jointly organised by the Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust

Conference highlights:-

  • Xtreme Everest expeditions and better intensive care, by Professor Mike Grocott
  • How research can benefit Southampton's patients and services
  • Accessing support and collaborating to do research
  • The antimicrobial resistance challenge
  • Personalised medicine
  • Clinical informatics in improving care

Programme (times tbc)

Professor Mike Grocott - ‘Everest to ICU – performing research on Everest to better understand hypoxia, and how that work is driving better clinical care and surgical outcomes.’

Patient benefit insights - three speakers, three examples of research driving patient benefit and service improvements:

  • Professor Saul Faust - ‘How commercial research income supported the establishment of a new outpatient parenteral therapy service’
  • Professor Luca Richeldi – ‘ Improving diagnosis and access to treatments in rare diseases through research’
  • Professor Mandy Fader – ‘Improving services, care and products for people with incontinence’

How can we help? - The comprehensive support available to people interested in developing their research: Christine McGrath, Dr. Chris Edwards, Professor Mark Mullee, Professsor Gareth Griffiths

Dr. Kieran Hand ‘Antimicrobial resistance - The discovery void, antimicrobial stewardship and clinician support interventions ‘

Stratified medicine: Personalised medicine, deep phenotyping in research and the implications of incidental findings - Professor Tony Williams, Professor Ratko Djukanovic and Ms. Gill Crawford

Informatics in improving care: Combining clinical management with research cohort approaches and performing research through online self-management - Dr . Fraser Cummings and Ms. Claire Marsh

The Wade Lecture - Professor Baroness Ilora Finlay , President of the British Medical Association

All UHS and UoS staff can register on Eventbrite here

UHS staff can also book places via the Virtual Learning Environment here .

Contact the UHS R&D office for more information via research@uhs.nhs.uk

Baroness Ilora Finlay, Professor of Palliative Care, Cardiff University and president of the BMA
Baroness Ilora Finlay, Professor of Palliative Care, Cardiff University and president of the BMA
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