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25 May 2012
KCL and NICE
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between King’s College London and the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE). The aim is to build upon the research, teaching, service development and capacity building activities currently undertaken by both organisations with the emphasis on exploring new research programmes that will benefit local, national and international populations. The day to day running of the MoU is overseen by a steering committee and it has already had its first meeting. The lead people within King’s are Prof Charles Wolfe and Prof Peter Littlejohns from the Division of Health & Social Care Research (Department of Primary Care & Public Health Sciences), and Gillian Leng and Kalipso Chalkidou represent the Institute. The steering committee has agreed a joint research programme to develop innovative approaches to implementing evidence into practice in order to improve public health. The proposed projects cover a range of health and social care settings and will also address global health priorities.
17 May 2012
The Division is delighted to announce the appointment of three Visiting Professors: Dr Clare Gerada MBE, Chair of Council, RCGP; Dr Kalipso Chalkidou, Director of NICE International and Dr Gillian Leng, Dr Gillian Leng CBE, Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Health and Social Care, NICE.
Professor Charles Wolfe, Head of Division, commented:
"These appointments are truly welcomed by all in the Division of Health & Social Care Research. All three appointees have a wealth of knowledge and experience that is directly relevant to our work. We look forward to working closely with our new Visiting Professors over the course of the next few years."
More information on each of the new Visiting Professors is set out below:
Dr Clare Gerada MBE
http://www.rcgp.org.uk/contact_us/college_officers/chair.aspx
Dr Kalipso Chalkidou
NICE International was established in 2008 by Kalipso Chalkidou. It offers:
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strategic advice on evidence-based policy-making
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technical support on critical appraisal and health technology
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assessment to inform decisions
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input on strengthening existing or designing new decision-making
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frameworks, with a focus on transparency, stakeholder involvement, public engagement and consultation
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support with evaluating the effectiveness of health system
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innovation.
Kalipso Chalkidou is the founding Director of NICE¹s international programme established in 2008 to work with individual governments or funding agencies to support local teams develop local solutions:
http://www.nice.org.uk/aboutnice/niceinternational/AboutNICEInternational.jsp
Dr Chalkidou has been involved in the Chinese rural health reform and also in national health reform projects in Colombia, Turkey and the Middle East, working with the World Bank, PAHO, DFID and the Inter-American Development Bank as well as national governments.
Dr Gillian Leng CBE
http://www.nice.org.uk/aboutnice/whoweare/board/executivedirectors/gillianleng.jsp
2 March 2012
Dr Toby Prevost
I am delighted to announce that Toby Prevost has had the title of Professor of Medical Statistics conferred upon him with effect from 1 September 2012. Toby joined the Division in 2009 as Reader in Medical Statistics having previously worked at Cambridge since 1991, latterly as Senior Consulting Statistician at the Centre for Applied Medical Statistics.
Toby’s research lies principally in the area of public health interventions, typically involving lifestyle behaviours. He has made substantial contributions to applied and methodological research programmes in public health, primary care, health and lifestyle research, health psychology and complex interventions and biomarker research.
Please join me in congratulating Toby on his Professorship.
Professor Charles Wolfe, Head of Division
29 February 2012
Professor Naomi Fulop
Professor Naomi Fulop has been at King’s for 7 years now, initially in the School of Social Science and Public Policy and latterly in the Division of Health and Social Care, School of Medicine. She has recently been appointed to a Chair in Health Care Organisation and Management at UCL and starts there in April with her team from King’s. During her time with us she has established and directed the NIHR Patient Safety and Service Quality Centre, one of two such centres nationally, which has been using social science research to develop new ways of improving the quality and safety of care. The Centre has both generated important findings that have had relevance locally and nationally and provided opportunities for local healthcare professionals to engage in research in this area.
Collaborations with colleagues at King’s have centred around the organisation and improvement of care and these collaborations will continue in major projects such as the reconfiguration of stroke services in England and a translational study of organisational and cultural factors in quality and safety in five European countries. We are looking forward to building on these collaborations between KCL and UCL, and developing the contribution of the management and organisation to the improvement of health care. I would like to thank Naomi for her leadership in this area and as a collaborator and wish her every success at UCL.
Professor Charles Wolfe, Head of Division
21 February 2012
As part of King's International Lecture Series, Professor Mark from Stanford University will be giving a talk on 'Becoming a Meta-Physician: Better Clinical Information in the Future of Health Care' in Lecture Theatre 1, New Hunt's House, Guy's Hospital at 5pm. Professor of Medicine (Biomedical Informatics), Mark Musen is known for his research on the application of intelligent computer systems to assist healthcare workers in guideline directed therapy and management of clinical trials.
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13 February 2012 - First NIHR Statistical Meeting held at King’s College London
In conjunction with NIHR Office for Clinical Research Infrastructure (NOCRI), The Department of Primary Care and Public Health at King’s College London hosted the first NIHR statistical meeting on Monday 13th February in the Roben’s Suite, 29th Floor Guy’s Tower. The meeting was conceived by Victoria Cornelius with the aim of bringing together statisticians funded across the wide range of NIHR-funded units to facilitate networking and collaboration, and allow the sharing of research practice.
The meeting was attended by 90 statisticians and unit managers from six of the NIHR initiatives (CTU, RDS, BRU, BRC, CLAHRC, EMEC) who were located in 30 institutions across the UK. The morning began with an opening address by Mark Samuels (Managing Director of NOCRI) and was followed by two sets of invited talks. The first set focussed on statistics and medical research and were given by Prof Martin Bland (University of York), Dr Toby Prevost (King’s College London), and Dr Ian White (MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge). The second set of talks focused on the role of statisticians in NIHR, and on innovative use of existing data and were given by Prof Deborah Ashby (Imperial College London), Dr Rick Lones (Bristol-Myers Squibb ), and Prof Lucinda Billingham (MRC Midland Hub, University of Birmingham) .
The afternoon programme included a session of organised statistical networking, and a workshop in NIHR unit groups to discuss and pool ideas the future of NIHR statistical group.
The programme for the day is attached and slides from the will be posted in the NIHR website.
NIHR Statistical Meeting Agenda
26 January 2012
Victoria Manning, one of our final year PhD students at the Physiotherapy Department, has been awarded the BHPR/Arthritis Research UK Silver Medal Research Prize for her work evaluating physical activity in rheumatic conditions. We are extending our warmest congratulations to Victoria!
January 2012
Dr Christopher McKevitt and colleagues have been awarded a two year grant from the Medical Research Council under the Life Long Health and Wellbeing: Research for Healthy Ageing programme to investigate the nature of resilience and its part in recovery after stroke.