School of Social and Community Medicine News28 June 2011 Trevor Thompson, Consultant Senior Lecturer in General Practice, has been elected to the Council of the University of Bristol as representative for "non-professorial academic staff". The Council meets about six times per year and he will be keeping a close eye on how wider political shifts may impact on the Faculty of Medicine and the School of Social and Community Medicine. He welcomes all representations from his new found constituents. Form an orderly queue! 22 June 2011 Abigail Fraser (PI), together with Debbie Lawlor from the School of Social and Community Medicine, Alun Hughes from Imperial College London, John Deanfield from University College London and Naveed Sattar from the University of Glasgow, has been awarded £130,493 by the British Heart Foundation to study “Modifiable early life determinants of adolescent NAFLD and its association with metabolic and vascular traits”. The grant will run for two years commencing in May 2012. 9 June 2011 Debbie Lawlor (PI), together with Kate Tilling, Jenny Donovan, Amanda Owen-Smith, Abigail Fraser, Sue Ring and George Davey Smith from the School of Social and Community Medicine; Carol Propper and Sarah Smith from the Department of Economics; Jon Tobias from the School of Clinical Sciences; Caroline Relton from the University of Newcastle; Scott Nelson and Sattar N, from the University of Glasgow; Diana Kuh from the MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing; and documentary photographer Ian Beesley, has been awarded £1,502,949 from the Lifelong Health and Wellbeing - Phase 3 initiative funding initiative to complete multidisciplinary research into health, social, economic and psychological changes over the period of the menopause and how these influence healthy ageing in women. The grant will run for five years from September 2011. Debbie Lawlor (sole applicant) has been awarded a Wellcome Trust travel award for £64,650 to establish an international multidisciplinary collaboration concerned with understanding the relationship of pregnancy changes and future health of mothers and their offspring. 2 June 2011 Congratulations to the following whose progressions (mostly from 1st August) have now been confirmed: Carol Joinson, Senior Lecturer 27 May 2011 Matthew Hickman PI, Natasha Martin, Peter Vickerman, Fiona Gordon (UBHT), Chris Davis (UBHT), Nat Wright, Graham Foster, Charles Gore, Javier Vilar, Tim Rhodes, Vivian Hope, Erika Duffell, Daniela De Angelis Sharon Hutchinson, Noel Craine and Charles Millson have been awarded an NIHR PDG grant:- Can HCV treatment be delivered to injecting drug users in order to reduce HCV transmission and prevalence in the population: an empirical demonstration and evaluation. £96,342 administered by UBHT. It will run from Sept 2011-March 2013. 12 May 2011 The "Whole Person Care" course for Year 1 medical students has been awarded a prize for Innovation in Education by the College of Medicine. This is a new organisation, headed up by former GMC Chair Graeme Catto, which aims to promote holistic patient centred medicine. Congratulations to Trevor and the WPC team for their sustained efforts on this innovative course. The press release can be seen here. 18 April 2011 Congratulations to the following colleagues who have been promoted, effective from 1st August: Kate Tilling, Professor of Medical Statistics 25 March 2011 Laura Howe has been awarded an MRC Population Health Scientist fellowship "Longitudinal modelling of adiposity, its determinants and its health consequences across childhood and adolescence". 23 March 2011 George Davey Smith has been awarded £199,599 from the MRC along with J Cussens, P Burton and N Sheehan "A graphical model approach to pedigree construction using constrained optimisation". It will run from 1 June 2011 for 36 months. Debbie Lawlor (PI), together with Ruth Kipping, Russ Jago, Rona Campbell, Cathy Chittleborough, Tim Peters and Sian Noble (all from the University of Bristol) and Julie Mytton from NHS Bristol, has been awarded £1.5 million by the NIHR Public Health Research Programme for the Active For Life Year 5 (AFLY5) school based randomised controlled trial to assess the effectiveness of a teaching intervention to promote healthy levels of physical activity and consumption of fruit and vegetables in 9-10 year olds. The study will run from 2011 to 2015. Debbie Lawlor, together with colleagues from the University of Glasgow - Scott Nelson (PI), Robbie Lindsay, Alex McConnachie and Naveed Sattar - and also from the University of Bristol - Sue Ring and Kate Tilling. Have been awarded £222,000 by the Chief Scientist Office of Scotland to examine the relationship between maternal thyroid status in pregnancy and offspring development.The grant will run for 2 years from Spring 2011. Debbie Lawlor, together with colleagues from the University of Glasgow - Scott Nelson (PI), Robbie Lindsay, and Naveed Sattar - and also from the University of Bristol - George Davey Smith, Sue Ring and Kate Tilling have been awarded £250,000 by the Wellcome Trust to examine whether measures in cord blood can be used to predict long term offspring phenotype in key health related areas. The grant will run for 36 months from Summer 2011. PRIZE 18 March 2011 Zuzana Deans has been awarded the University 'Rising Star' award for teaching. This is to recognise and celebrate her tremendous commitment and innovative contribution to teaching in the Centre for Ethics in Medicine. The award is judged by the Faculty Education Directors. It is given to someone who has worked in higher education for less than 5 years and has provided very high quality teaching and has developed their teaching career in a way which shows great potential for the future. 11 March 2011 It was recently announced at Senate that the following eminent individuals have been awarded Visiting Professorships in the School of Social and Community Medicine: Professor J Lynch, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal Professor T I A Sorenson, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, University of Copenhagen Professor L A R Moore, Director, Cardiff Institute of Society, Health and Ethics 22 February 2011 Beate St Pourcain, George Davey Smith, Paul Franks, Angelica Ronald, Robert Plomin, Claire Haworth, David Skuse, Oliver Davis, Hakon Hakonarson and Jean Golding have been awarded $120.000. Autism Speaks."Genetic variation and gene-environment influences in autistic-like traits". It will run from 1/12/2011 - 30/11/2013. 27 January 2011 Tony Ades, Nicky Welton and Patricia Guyot have been awarded £150,497 from the MRC Methodology Research Pramme entitled "Analysis and synthesis of time-to-event data from cancer trials in the assessment of cost-effectiveness". This grant started on 01/01/2011 and will run for 30 months. Tony Ades, Matthew Hickman, Nicky Welton and T Millar (University of Manchester) have been awarded £674,100 from the MRC "Incidence, prevalence, harms and intervention effects for problem and injecting drug use: crime, morbidity & mortality" It will run from 2011 until 2013. 26 January 2011 Using clinical practice variations as a method for commissioners and clinicians to identify and prioritize opportunities for disinvestment in health care. Will Hollingworth, Jenny Donovan, Jonathan Sterne, Amanda Owen-Smith, and Penny Whiting with colleagues at NHS Bristol and NHS Suffolk, have been awarded £277,725 by the NIHR Service Delivery and Organisation programme to develop and refine the process by which NHS commissioners identify clinical procedures that are over-utilised in their area and establish a process for disinvestment. The project begins in January 2011 and will run for 24 months. 21 January 2011 Professor Tony Ades has been awarded £600,000 for the "National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence Clinical Guidelines Technical Support Unit". The Unit will start on 1st April 2011 for 3 years. This resulted from a successful tender for a contract to supply Technical Support to the teams from NICE and the National Collaborating Centres who are responsible for developing Clinical Guidelines for NICE. The staff of the Unit are: Director Tony Ades, Deputy Director Nicky Welton, Scientific Coordinator Sofia Dias. The Unit will also call on other member of the Multi-Parameter Evidence Synthesis group in the School, and on experts from Centre for Health Economics, York; Department of Health Sciences, Leicester; School of Health and Related Research, Sheffield; and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The Unit will provide a Rapid Response service, training for Clinical Guideline Development Groups, and research. 2 December 2010 Debbie Lawlor (PI), along with colleagues Abigail Fraser, George Davey Smith, Kate Tilling, Sue Ring, Tom Palmer, Jonathan Tobias (School of Clinical Science), Scott Nelson and Naveed Sattar (University of Glasgow) and Caroline Relton (University of Newcastle) have been awarded £1.3 million to examine the relationship of the menopausal transition to healthy ageing and chronic disease risk. 23 November 2010 George Davey Smith and co-applicants Lynn Molloy, Susan Ring, Andrew Ness, Deborah Lawlor, John Macleod, David Evans, Alan Emond, Glyn Lewis, Kate Tilling, Jenny Donovan, Joathan Tobias, Beate Glaser, Paul Burton, Caroline Relton, Nicholas Timpson, John Henderson, Leena Peltonen and John Lynch have been awarded £6million over three years from April 2011 for the core support of ALSPAC: an international resource for population genomics and lifecourse epidemiology. The award is funded jointly by Wellcome Trust and Medical Research Council. 17 November 2010 Will Hollingworth along with co-applicants Deborah Lee, Badrinath Padmanabhan, Chris Hine, Jenny Donovan, Jonathan Sterne, Amanda Owen-Smith, Penny Whiting have been awarded £277,725 from the National Institute for Health Research "Using clinical practice variations as a method for commissioners and clinicians to identify and prioritize opportunities for disinvestment in health care". The project will start on 1 October 2010 and will run for 2 years. 12 November 2010 Kate Tilling, Richard Martin, Chris Metcalfe, Jenny Donovan, Athene Lane, Julia Wade, Freddie Hamdy and David Neal have been awarded £319,407 by NETSCC HSR Programme "Development, validation and evaluation of a clinical instrument for active monitoring of men with localised prostate cancer". The grant will run from 1st March 2011 for 30 months. 28 October 2010 Eleanor Bull, who was on a placement here from April until September, has been awarded a distinction in her MSc in Health Psychology at Bath University, and has just obtained a post with NHS Grampian to train as a Health Psychologist. Eleanor will be based in Aberdeen with Professor Marie Johnstone as her academic mentor during her training. 22 October 2010 Ruud Ter Meulen has been awarded 1,1350,000 Euros for EPOCH: Ethics in Public Policy-making: the Case of Human Enhancement. It is a Collaborative Project with 10 EU and non-EU partners, starting on 1st November 2010 and will run for 2 years. 21 October 2010 Dr Alastair Hay has been notified that he will be awarded the John Fry Award by the Royal College of General Practitioners at their AGM in May 2011. This is given annually to a member of the College who has made a significant contribution to the discipline of general practice through research and publishing. 18 October 2010 George Davey Smith, Matthew Hickman, Glyn Lewis, John MacLeod and colleagues have been awarded £2,112,340 from the National Institutes of Health. Pathways to alcohol use disorders in ALSPAC: a genetic-developmental study. The study will run from 1 October 2010 until 30 September 2015. Andy Ness and colleagues have been awarded £12,813 from the IUGA (International Urogynecological Association). GWAS of urinary incontinence in women. This will run from 1 October 2010 until 30 September 2011. 11 October 2010 Tom Gaunt and co-investigators Ian Day, Colin Campbell (Engineering Maths, Bristol) and Juan-Pablo Casas (LSHTM) have been awarded £310,320 by the UK Medical Research Council entitled "A systems approach to theclassification of genes impacting the cardiovascular phenome. The grant will start 2010 and run until 2013. 27 September 2010 Kate Tilling along with colleagues Jon Heron, Jonathan Sterne, Fiona Steele and Harvey Goldstein (Centre for Multilevel Modelling, Bristol University) and Yu-Kang Tu and Mark Gilthorpe (Leeds University) have been awarded £434,606 from the MRC Methodology Programme. The study develops "Methods for modelling repeated measures in a lifecourse framework" and will run for three years.24 September 2010 Matthew Barber (GP), with Jenny Ingram, Rosemary Greenwood, Matt Hickman, Bristol Drug Project and NHS Bristol - have been awarded £108,700 from NIHR RfPB. "Script in a day for injecting drug users: feasibility trial" Collaboration between School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol Trials Unit, Non-statutory sector and NHS Bristol. 22 September 2010 Hannah Christensen received an Igor Stojiljkovic Memorial Award to attend the International Pathogenic Neisseria Conference where she gave a presentation (by all accounts excellent) on "Modelling the cost-effectiveness of new meningococcal vaccines in England". 16 September 2010 Dr Shu-Sen Chang has just been awarded a 1 year post doctoral fellowship to study at Bristol by the National Science Council, Taiwan (Sept 2010-August 2011). 8 September 2010 Rona Campbell and Sara Brookes are co applicants along with Gill Mezey (PI) Ravinder Barn, Chris Bonnell, Elaine Chase, Steve Gillard, Alison Hadley, Nadia Mantovani, Catherine Shaw, Kaye Wellings and Sarah White on a successful grant application to the NIHR HTA entitled 'Developing and piloting a peer mentoring intervention to reduce teenage pregnancy in looked after children and care leavers'. The award is for £692,249. 13 August 2010 Many congratulations to Sarah Gunn, Emily Henderson, Amanda Owen-Smith, Kyla Thomas, Rob Whistance, Helen Cramer, and Alison Gregory on their recent fellowship successes. Here are the details of their fellowships: Sarah Gunn NIHR: PhD fellowship. "Physical activity and emotional wellbeing in young people". 5 August 2010 Will Hollingworth along with colleagues Jonathan Sterne, Penny Whiting, Roger Harbord, Rod Laing and Nicholas Higgins have been awarded £144,910 from the NIHR HTA Programme. The study evaluates the "The diagnostic utility and cost-effectiveness of selective nerve root blocks in patients considered for lumbar decompression surgery" The grant will run for 15 months from September 2010. 2 August 2010 Today the Departments of Social Medicine and Community Based Medicine became the School of Social and Community Medicine. |
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