19 March 2012
I am with one of the Rector’s Ambassadors, Kavita Aggarwal (Medicine), who joined me for a student recruitment fair in Cyprus. I met a lot of students with seven A-levels who were worried that they didn’t have enough work experience to study at Imperial!
Tags: International Office, Medicine, Meet the Reader, Royal College of Art, Royal College of Music
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12 March 2012
Sherry Morris has been a PA in the Department of Primary Care and Public Health for six years, supporting a small team of researchers at the Dr Foster Unit as they analyse hospital data and focus on patient safety. She shares her experiences of being involved with Imperial’s Pegasus talent development programme.
Tags: Business School, Medicine
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12 March 2012
Dr David Sharp (Medicine) was awarded a professorial fellowship from the National Institute for Health Research in February. He tells Reporter how he aims to help people with traumatic brain injury through his research.
Tags: Medicine, Mini Profile
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12 March 2012
Dr Abigail Zabron (Medicine) has been awarded the Dame Sheila Sherlock Travelling Fellowship in Hepatology, administered by the Royal College of Physicians.
Tags: Awards and Honours, Medicine
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9 March 2012
Across the College – in lecture theatres, in hallways and in common rooms – ideas flow like oxygen. Imperial staff and students believe in the power of ideas to benefit society; a vision shared by the founders of the not-for-profit organisation TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design), which is the driving force behind the first TEDxImperialCollege event to be held on 24 March.
Tags: Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, Computing, Humanities, Medicine, Physics, racing green
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28 February 2012
Psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, suppresses activity in areas of the brain that regulate our experience of the world, according to a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in January.
Tags: Medicine
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28 February 2012
Patients’ ratings of hospitals tally with objective measures of the hospital’s performance, according to an independent study published on 13 February in Archives of Internal Medicine.
Tags: Medicine, Public Health
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27 February 2012
From 12–14 January, Dr Jasmina Saric, a lecturer in biomedical parasitology in the Department of Surgery and Cancer, held a workshop about metabolic profiling hosted by the Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques (CSRS) in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, and supported by the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) and the Wellcome Trust. She reports on her experience.
Tags: Medicine, Public Health, Surgery and Cancer, Wellcome Trust
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27 February 2012
Professor Kath Maitland, Clinical Senior Lecturer (Medicine) leads a group at the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme in Kilifi, Kenya, researching diseases and conditions including malaria and malnutrition. She talks to Reporter about her experience of living in Kenya for the past 12 years.
Tags: Medicine, Mini Profile
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21 February 2012
Tags: Business School, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Media Mentions, Medicine, Physics
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21 February 2012
Primary school pupils from Brighton have been testing the air quality in their school playgrounds with the help of Imperial physicist Dr Mark Richards to monitor how pollution from neighbouring roads might affect them and their environment.
Dr Richards hopes to use data to assess the impact that vehicle emissions have on human health.
Read the full press release here.
Tags: Medicine
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21 February 2012
Renewed support from the British government will enable research groups based at Imperial to distribute an additional 100 million treatments for schistosomiasis in Africa. The Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI) and the Partnership for Child Development (PCD) will play a key role in a global push to eliminate infectious tropical diseases announced on 23 January by the International Development Minister Stephen O’Brien.
Tags: Medicine
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17 February 2012
Keep your eyes peeled for our Olympic fencing hopefuls, Hannah and Maiyuran, both of whom study medicine at Imperial. Reporter asked them;
Tags: London 2012, Medicine
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17 February 2012
In July 10,500 Olympic athletes from around the world will arrive in London in peak condition. Their focus will be to perform at their very best after years of preparation. Hoping to be among them are two Imperial students — Melanie Wilson (left) and Adam Scholefield. Reporter spoke to them about their rigorous training and the final push to earn a place in the Olympic Games.
Tags: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, London 2012, Medicine
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9 February 2012
International health delegates from the State of Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Cuba, Barbados, Bahrain, El Salvador, Columbia, and Sudan visited Chelsea and Westminster Hospital on 7 February to hear about innovations in the treatment of chronic lung disease.
Staff from the World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Public Health Education & Training at Imperial, led by Professor Salman Rawaf (Public Health), learned how a new “care bundle” has helped patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, the fifth leading cause of death worldwide.The theme was evidence based implementation support evidence based medicine.
Tags: Medicine, Public Health, World Health Organisation
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