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Bi-annual lecture series
We are delighted to invite you to the next bi-annual lecture hosted by the School of Life Course Sciences. These lectures, as key events for our School, will be held twice a year. We are very pleased to welcome Professor Sir Rory Collins as our next guest speaker.
The Need for Large Prospective Cohorts in Different Populations
Professor Rory Collins is an epidemiologist who studies how to prevent and treat cardiovascular disease. He trained in Medicine at St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School, London University, and Statistics at George Washington University and Oxford University. He joined Oxford University in 1981 to run large randomised trials which showed that emergency treatment of heart attacks with clot-dissolving and clot-preventing treatment could more than halve mortality. Subsequently, he has shown that lowering cholesterol with statin therapy safely reduces the risk of heart attacks and strokes in a wide range of individuals. These treatments have become part of routine care. Rory was appointed BHF Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at Oxford University in 1996, Principal Investigator of the UK Biobank prospective study of 500,000 people in 2005, and Head of Oxford University’s Nuffield Department of Population Health in 2013. He was made a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2004 and of the Royal Society in 2015, and was knighted for services to Science in 2011.
There will be an opportunity for question and answers at the end of the lecture.
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