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We are so excited about our Evening Webinar on Monday 28th March, 18.00-20.15 (GMT+1/BST). Don't forget to 'register' for the event and then 'join' on the day
AGENDA
-18.30: Webinar start, introduction from the chair
-18:35: Start of Dragon’s Den (6 minute presentations, followed by 8 minutes of questions)
-19:40: Close of Dragon’s Den by Chair
-19:40:Â ASiT National Research Collaborative Meeting Grant winner - prize presentation
- 19.50: Dragon’s to be invited back into the main stage to give feedback and present the winner
-Â 20:10: Chair to bring session to a close
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SPEAKERS
Professor Jane Blazeby FMedSci is Professor of Surgery at the University of Bristol and an Honorary Consultant Upper GI Surgeon at the University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust. She directs the Bristol Centre for Research and the Surgical Innovation theme of the Bristol NIHR Biomedical Research Centre. She is chief investigator of the By-Band-Sleeve Study and supports many other surgical trials including ROMIO and Sunflower. She has methodological expertise in outcome selection, measurement and reporting, and in early and later phase surgical study design and conduct. She is a member of the COMET executive group and the MRC Trials Methodology Research Partnership. She enjoys multi-disciplinary collaborative working and working with patients to optimise study design, delivery and implementation. She is an NIHR Senior Investigator
Professor Deborah Stocken is Director of the Surgical Interventions, Diagnostics and Devices (SIDD) Division in the Clinical Trials Research Unit, University of Leeds. The SIDD division hosts the Leeds Royal College of Surgeons Surgical Trials Centre is formally affiliated with both the National Institute for Health Research Leeds Med Tech and In Vitro Diagnostic Cooperatives.
With a broad spectrum of knowledge and experience including successful NIHR and charity peer-reviewed funding for a clinical trials portfolio ranging from early phase safety studies to multi-centre, international definitive trials. Research interests in surgical device and diagnostic interventions. Statistical interests in adaptive trial design and multivariable diagnostic prediction modelling. An independent member of NIHR and charity funding committees and trial oversight committees. Responsible for developing and delivering methodologically robust research scalable for NHS adoption and fostering multi-disciplinary links for portfolio expansion.
Dr Mark Edwards is a Consultant in Anaesthesia & Perioperative Medicine at University Hospital Southampton and an Honorary Associate Professor, University of Southampton. He completed his higher degree at University College London in perioperative medicine and immunology, exploring the role of perioperative lymphocyte dysfunction in postoperative morbidity. His current clinical activities include anaesthesia for major adult surgery and developing clinical services within perioperative medicine. Academic interests include perioperative haemodynamic optimisation and mechanisms of postoperative morbidity. He is leading the NIHR-funded FLO-ELA (FLuid Optimisation in Emergency LAparotomy) trial and CAMELOT (Continuous rectus sheath Analgesia in eMErgency LaparOTomy) and is Deputy Chief Investigator of the OPTIMISE II trial. He is also Deputy Director of NIAA’s UK Perioperative Medicine Clinical Trials Network, and Wessex NIHR CRN Specialty Group Lead for Anaesthesia, Perioperative Medicine and Pain
Professor Graeme MacLennan is Professor of Medical Statistics at the University of Aberdeen. He directs the Centre for Health Care Randomised Trials (CHaRT) within the Health Services Research Unit and Aberdeen’s Royal College of Surgeons Surgical Trials Centre. His overarching research interest is in designing fair tests of health care treatments and policies, with a specific interest in evaluating surgical and complex interventions. He is also interested in improving the design, conduct, and analysis and reporting of clinical trials through the development and application of methodological research to clinical trials from CHaRT.
Professor Rupert Pearse is a Professor of Intensive Care Medicine and his clinical duties are on the Adult Critical Care Unit at The Royal London Hospital. He leads the Critical Care and Perioperative Medicine Research Group at Queen Mary University of London. Rupert’s main research interest is in improving patient outcomes following major surgery, and has led numerous large multi-centre randomised trials, epidemiological studies and mixed-methods research projects in his field. He devotes an increasing proportion of his time to research to improve perioperative care in low and middle-income countries
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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS!
Applications: https://forms.gle/4NPStRUGLYtgNLPh7
The 13th National Research Collaborative meeting will be a free virtual evening webinar. We are inviting abstract submissions for a Dragons’ Den, looking for innovative ideas to optimise outcomes, treatment pathways and/or care for patients on waiting lists (which may now be longer secondary to the Covid-19 pressures).
Proposals may relate to any kind of NHS service affected by long waits: for example, diagnostic (e.g. radiology, endoscopy) or treatment (e.g. elective surgery or procedures, GP appointments, outpatient clinics) services. Solutions should be patient-centred and might involve, for example: optimisation and reducing peri-operative risk; enhancing efficiency; staff recruitment and retention initiatives; outsourcing of services; technological solutions; improved screening processes; improvements to referral pathways; pre-operative or public health initiatives.
Your abstract should be structured with the following subheadings: rationale; existing evidence; study design; PICO (population, intervention, comparison, outcome); and conclusion; and should be no longer than 2000 characters / 400 words. Proposals for RCTs are preferred, but any study design will be considered. The deadline for submission is February 18th.
We encourage applications from clinicians of all specialties and grades. Multidisciplinary and collaborative approaches are particularly encouraged.
All accepted abstracts will be offered exclusive support prior to presentation in the Dragons’ Den.
The winner(s) of the Dragons’ Den will win financial support to help develop the research idea. We hope some of these abstracts will have the potential to develop into the next big research study.
Applications below: