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Lord and Lady Fellowes met Imperial’s President Professor Alice Gast, before being given a flavour of some of the research taking place at the College’s Royal British Legion Centre for Blast Injury Studies.
The Centre, a UK first, is a collaboration between military and civilian clinicians, scientists and engineers including Surgery and Cancer’s Prof Alison McGregor, who was in attendance at the visit.
See the full College story here.
In the College wide maternity survey in 2012 and the College wide paternity survey in 2013, 55% of women and 60% of men said that they would like to see an emergency back- up care service. In January 2014 Imperial College was the first university in the UK to use My Family Care Services to support their working parents and carers through their online portal giving access to their back up care network and range of other services.
If you would like to learn more about this service please see the My family care pages, where once registered you will have access to the wide range of services and resources they offer.
Imperial is hosting a series of events throughout February to mark LGBT History Month.
Celebrated nationally, the month aims to promote lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) history and raise awareness of issues affecting the LGBT community.
The month’s event will include social activities, inclusivity training courses, and a keynote lecture, as well as incorporating the launch of Imperial’s new policy to support trans staff. More information about what’s happening can be found here.
A one day symposium will take place on the 30th April for all healthcare professionals and managers who are interested in leadership, teamwork and improving patient safety in acute cardiac care, to share their experience.
For more information and to register for the event please follow the link.
The Surgery & Cancer Mentoring scheme has been launched and is now open to all academic, research and support staff. If you are interested in having a mentor please use the contact form provided on the website. It is also a good idea to attend a workshop to learn what the scheme can offer you and what to expect from your mentoring relationship.
Next workshop – The next available mentoring workshop is running on Tuesday 24th March at South Kensington from 10 –1pm – please email k.johnson@imperial.ac.uk if you would like to book a place. Workshops are for both potential mentors and mentees and are run by Fiona Richmond from the Learning and Development Centre. The sessions cover starting and ending the mentoring relationship, tools to use within the sessions, and managing boundaries. The workshops are participatory and designed to help people new to mentorship get started and for those who have mentoring experience to refresh their thinking.
We are developing a mentoring pool but still need more participants in order to meet demand and offer a wider range of experience. Not only is mentoring a vital part of a sustainable collegiate environment, it is also a thoroughly rewarding experience. Our scheme is running across all grades and job families but we have a particular need for more Academic and Clinical Academic staff at the moment. We would encourage anyone considering becoming a mentor to come along to a workshop and find out more with no obligation. There is plenty of support on hand for mentors including regular ‘debrief’ sessions.
The workshops are aimed at both potential mentors and mentees and are being held on the following dates:
Tuesday 24th March 10 –1pm at South Kensington
Thursday 16th April 1-4pm at Hammersmith
Wednesday 20th May 10-1pm at St Mary’s
For more information about our Department of Surgery and Cancer scheme, mentoring in general, or to sign up for mentoring please visit the Surgery & Cancer mentor pages.
If you have any questions then please contact Kathryn Johnson (k.johnson@imperial.ac.uk)
A global centre for excellence in innovation and design in healthcare delivery was formally opened at St Mary’s last week by His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales.
Read the full story on the College website here.
You are all invited to a lecture hosted by Professor Jeremy Nicholson on Wednesday 11th of February 2015 from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM at South Kensington campus.
The presentation will be given by Professor Shaw, a pioneer in the field of computational arts, and Dean of the School of Creative Media at City University in Hong Kong, and will examine new paradigms for developing embodied museum experiences, based on the practices of New Media Art.
The talk will explore innovative interactive applications and fully immersive visualization systems that were jointly developed by Professor Jeffrey Shaw (City University Hong Kong) and Professor Sarah Kenderdine (University of NSW, Sydney).
More information and registration details can be found here.
The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception in the Foyer of the Sir Alexander Fleming Building.
A study by one of Surgery & Cancer’s Adjunct Professors, Prof Tom Bourne has been looking into how complaints procedures faced by doctors risk harming patients.
Doctors who go through complaints procedures experience high rates of serious depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts, according to a new study.
Four out of five doctors also reported changing the way they treat their patients as a result of either complaints against themselves, or observing a colleague go through a complaints process.
The authors of the research say that by causing psychological ill health and encouraging defensive practice, the processes designed to hold doctors to account are having negative consequences for patients.
The findings come from a survey of 7,926 doctors published in BMJ Open. Read complete story here.
Catch up on everything happening within the Institute of Global Health Innovation in their quarterly new bulletin, which highlights the latest events and activities at the IGHI.
- New HELIX Centre design studio at St Mary’s Hospital
- Student challenge competition: Enter the dragons den
- Ebola explained
- London Health commission report
Prof Naomi Chayen gave an outreach lecture on the 8th January to a medical ethics group in North London, focusing on the research currently taking place within Computation and Systems Medicine, as well as ethical issues concerning pure research, rather than actual medical issues.
Surgery & Cancer want to try and capture all the outreach work going on in the Department, so if anyone has any news they want to share then please email Kathryn Johnson.
Imperial College Innovation Forum Launch Event
Big Data: The future of Healthcare Innovation?
Every day, we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data — so much that 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone. Big Data has been hailed to be the frontier for innovation, competition and productivity by leading firms around the world.
Join us at the Launch Event of Imperial College Innovation Forum where we have the experts at the forefront of Big Data discuss their thoughts and vision for Big Data and its role in healthcare innovation.
Date: Wednesday 28th January 2015
Time: 6.30 for 7pm
Venue: Lecture Theatre G16, SAF Building, South Kensington Campus, Imperial College London
Our speakers on the day are:
- Professor Paul Matthews, OBE- Head of Division of Brain Sciences in the Department of Medicine of Imperial College London
- Professor Jeremy Nicholson- Head of Department of Surgery and Cancer at Imperial College London
- Dr Rupert Dunbar-Rees- CEO and Founder of Outcomes Based Healthcare
The panel discussion will be followed by networking and drinks reception. This event is free to attend.
Get your tickets at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/big-data-the-future-of-healthcare-innovation-tickets-15174587600?aff=es2&rank=8
Best wishes,
ICIF team
Calling all creative problem solvers…
Could your innovative ideas make a difference in our hospitals?
At Imperial College Healthcare we are continuously looking for new and better ways to improve patient experience. As a result we have launched a series of investigative 2-day events called Imperial Quality Improvement Sprints. For more information see the website.
Interested in taking part?
Whether you are an engineer, artist, musician, entrepreneur, or an organisation looking for a challenging and rewarding new experience for your staff, come and help us revolutionise healthcare at one of the events below:
Monday 2nd to Tuesday 3rd February, all day, W12 Conference Centre, Hammersmith Hospital
Monday 16th to Tuesday 17th March, all day, W12 Conference Centre Hammersmith Hospital
Please email IQISprints@imperial.nhs.uk or call 020 331 25443.
Further details are on the website.
A new trial has been launched by Prof Julian Teare and his team, to investigate the effectiveness of a tube-like device inserted into the small intestine to treat type 2 diabetes. The study is now open for participants and you can read more about it on the Imperial news story or on the EndoBarrier website.
Prof Alison McGregor is now part of a new exhibition at the Science Museum called “Engineer Your Future”, which was opened by HRH The Prince of Wales on Tuesday.
The exhibition is aimed at 11-15 year olds and focuses on getting more children interested in engineering, through a variety of objects and interactive games, one of which features Prof McGregor.
The Engineer Your Future exhibition is free to visit and runs for the next three years at the Science Museum so go have a look.
Congratulations to Professor Nagy Habib who has just been elected by the board of the French Academy of Surgery as an “Honor Foreign Member”
Prof Habib will receive his medal and diploma from the President on the Annual Solemn meeting of the Academy on Wednesday January 21st 2015 in Paris.