The monthly Faculty Research Seminar Series is open to all staff and students and offers an opportunity to celebrate FBMH’s research achievements.
Research Domain host: Population Health & Ecosystems
Speakers:
Miguel Belmonte: “Uncovering drivers of antibiotic prescriptions in UK primary care”
Tjeerd van Staa: “Overprescribing of antibiotics in UK primary care: ‘ignorant’ patients or GPs or are the causes more complex?”
Vicki Palin: “The Learning Health Care System in action”
Information about the speakers:
Miguel AG Belmonte, PhD, is a Research Associate in FBMH, working in BRIT (big data research to tackle antibiotic resistance) under Greater Manchester Connected Health Cities project. He obtained a PhD in Statistics from Warwick followed by a Research Fellowship in Economics at Strathclyde. He has worked in industry for two years analysing and forecasting employee sickness absence in private and public companies. Current research interests lie in the application of computationally efficient methods to analyse vast amounts of health-related observation records in a timely manner. Models and inference methods adopted aim at uncovering latent relationships and drivers of data generating processes that are useful to formulate policy recommendations.
Vicki Palin is an epidemiologist in training, having recently submitted her PhD, researching glucose sensing of the placenta in pregnancies complicated my maternal diabetes, at the University of Manchester. She received a Master’s degree in Maternal and Fetal Health Research at the University of Manchester (2011) and a bachelor’s degree in Human Medical Sciences from the University of Leeds (2010). Her current position is within Manchester’s Connected Health Cities (CHC) research group, where she is part of a team deciphering the challenges we face with antibiotic resistance. Bacteria are becoming more resistant to antibiotics and as a result less effective. The team hope to make better use of health data to understand the misuse of antibiotics prescribing and implement changes to practice to reduce the unnecessary overuse of antibiotics in the UK. Vicki is particularly interested in the patient factors that influence antibiotic use in primary care and which patient groups are currently at risk from antibiotic failure.
Tjeerd-Pieter van Staa is a physician with training in Pharmaco-epidemiology from McGill University and Utrecht University and training in Medical Ethics from Kings College. He is Professor of Health eResearch at the Health eResearch Centre/Farr Institute, University of Manchester. Previously, he was the Scientific Director of the Clinical Practice Research Datalink. One of his current research interests is Efficient Trials, which aims to harness advanced health informatics and electronic health records to improve clinical trials. Another interest is the Learning HealthCare System in which routinely collected data are used to feedback actionable information to clinicians and patients. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles and is a well-recognised speaker in the field of pragmatic trials and clinical epidemiology.
Registration is recommended and can be made via Eventbrite https://fbmh-research-seminar-17may2017.eventbrite.co.uk, or by contacting lorna.tittle@manchester.ac.uk.
About the Faculty Research Seminar Series:
The monthly lunchtime Faculty Research Seminar Series is open to all staff and students from across the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health and the University, offering an opportunity to celebrate the Faculty’s research achievement and stimulate scientific interaction.
Each event focuses on one of the eight strategic research domains. Each month one of the Research Domain Directors selects two speakers from within the Faculty to highlight and showcase an area of research in their domain. There will usually be one senior speaker and one junior/early career researcher. Speakers include clinical, non-clinical and basic science researchers. Presentations are pitched at a non-specialist level, as the series aims to attract people from across the Faculty.
Held on Wednesday lunchtimes each month, each meeting lasts an hour, comprising two 20 minute presentations, with each presentation being followed by 5-10 minutes questions and discussion.
Lunch is available 12.30-1pm; presentations run 1-2pm. The series is led by Professor Nigel Hooper and administered from the Strategic Funding Team (by Lorna Tittle).
http://www.staffnet.manchester.ac.uk/bmh/about-fbmh/news-and-events/events-and-seminars/faculty-research-series/
Held on Wednesday lunchtimes each month, each meeting lasts an hour, comprising two 20 minute presentations, with each presentation being followed by 5-10 minutes questions and discussion.
Lunch is available 12.30-1pm; presentations run 1-2pm.
The series is led by Professor Nigel Hooper and administered from the Strategic Funding Team (by Lorna Tittle).
http://www.staffnet.manchester.ac.uk/bmh/about-fbmh/news-and-events/events-and-seminars/faculty-research-series/
