Annual Wade Lecture 2012 Event
- Time:
- 17:15 - 18:15
- Date:
- 13 November 2012
- Venue:
- Lecture Theatre 2, Southampton General Hospital
For more information regarding this event, please telephone Sandi Virdee on 023 8079 6439 or email medevent@southampton.ac.uk .
Event details
Professor Sir John Tooke: Harnessing Academia for National Health and Wealth - introduced by Dean of Medicine, Professor Iain Cameron
The Wade Lecture will be followed at 18.15 by wine and canapes
Speaker information
Professor Sir John Tooke,is Vice Provost (Health) and Head of the Medical School at UCL and Academic Director of UCL’s Academic Health Science Centre, UCL Partners. Sir John is President of the Academy of Medical Sciences and the immediate past Chair of both the Medical Schools Council and the UK Healthcare Education Advisory Committee (UKHEAC). He is a member of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Advisory Board and the Health and Education National Strategic Exchange (HENSE). His clinical and research interests focus on diabetes and its vascular complications and he is a recipient of the European Association of Diabetes Camillo Golgi Award. In 2007 he led the Inquiry for the Secretary of State for Health into Postgraduate Medical Educating and Training, culminating in the final report, Aspiring to Excellence. In the same year he led a high-level group for the CMO on Barriers to Clinical Effectiveness, the report of which led to the creation of CLAHRCs (Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care).