Healthcare Professional Academic Group

Title: Patient Public Involvement & Engagement- how, why and when
Date: Tuesday 30th January at 12.00-14.00

Chair: Dr Margaret Coffey

Speakers:

• Maria Piggin - Introduction to the NIHR Imperial Patient Experience Research Centre (PERC) and Public Involvement in Research (Maria Piggin presentation HPAG)
• Jenny Crow - How patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE) is informing and shaping my research focused on a personalised approach to follow-up care after minor stroke
  (Jenny Crow presentation HPAG)

Title: Collecting good data to inform future care
Date: Monday 20th February 2023 13.30-14.45

Chair: Dr Justin Roe

Speakers:

• Lauren Leigh-Doyle, SLT working in oncology in the Royal Marsden Hospital Foundation Trust
• Pernilla Lagergren, nurse and professor of surgical care science working at Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London and Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
• Q&A

 Title: Medical physics research, development and innovation to deliver best practice care for our patients
Date: Wednesday 29th June 2022 14.00-15.30

Chair: Dr Ruth McLauchlan

Speakers:

• Meagan de la Bastide & Oli Steel, Department of Radiation Physics & Radiobiology
• Priten Khagram, Radiological Sciences Unit (Nuclear Medicine)
• Dr Mary Finnegan, Radiological Sciences Unit (MRI)
• Dr Simona Avramova-Cholakova, Radiological Sciences Unit (DR)
• Q&A

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Title: Utilising routinely collected data for research
Date: Friday 22nd April 12.30-14.30

Chair: Professor Mary Wells

Speakers and schedule:

• Mr Ben Glampson, Research Informatics Programme Manager | NIHR HIC Programme Lead ICHT | ICHT Data Officer, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
• Mr Erik Mayer, Clinical Reader in Urology |Transformation Chief Clinical Information Officer (Analytics & Informatics) | Consultant Surgeon | Imperial College London | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust | Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
• Mr Scott O’Brien, Research Fellow and former Head of Children’s Nursing | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

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Title: Lessons learnt & looking ahead in Healthcare Science and innovation
Date: Tuesday 21st December 2021

Chair: Dr Emma Walker

Speakers:
Ian Wright and Michael Fudge - Advanced Cardiac Physiologists
Gill Twigg - Principle Clinical Scientist in Sleep Science
Arthi Anand - Consultant Clinical Scientist in Histocompatibility
Emily Frost - Healthcare Science Education Lead
Ed Wilkes - Consultant Clinical Scientist in Clinical Biochemistry
Q&A

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Title: Co-Design of care pathways; examples from the shop floor
Date: Wednesday 6th October 2021 12.30-13.30

Chair: Dr Caroline Alexander

Speakers and schedule:

Dr Justin Roe, Speech and Language Therapist
National Centre for Airway Reconstruction | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Division of Surgery | Department of Surgery and Cancer | Imperial College London

PhD student Grainne Brady, Speech and Language Therapist working at the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust in London. NIHR Clinical Doctoral Research Fellow.

Title: Medication adherence and resilience - and doing research in the Covid-19 pandemic
Date: Wednesday 21 April 2021

Chair: Professor Bryony Dean Franklin

Speakers and schedule

"Medication adherence and resilience: What can we learn from the Covid-19 pandemic?"

Dr Sara Garfield, research pharmacist at The Centre for Medication Safety and Service Quality, Pharmacy Department, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, & UCL School of Pharmacy, London.

“A facilitated discussion and sharing of experiences and suggestions around conducting research during a global pandemic”

Led by Professor Bryony Dean Franklin, Executive Lead Pharmacist Research & Director, Centre for Medication Safety and Service Quality | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Alison McGregor, Professor of Musculoskeletal Biodynamics, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Surgery & Cancer. Imperial College London.

Title: Use of research to positively impact patient care - Seminar and networking

Date: Tuesday 13th October 2020

Speakers and schedule: 

"Not just dysp​noea - swallowing as a concern for adults with laryngotracheal stenosis who undergo reconstructive surgery?"
Gemma Clunie, NIHR Clinical Doctoral Fellow, Department of Surgery & Cancer

"Understanding the biomechanical impact of recurrent low back pain in patients with lumbar disc degeneration using state of the art technology"
Dr Janet Deane - Post doctoral research associate, Department of Surgery & Cancer

"Peer support for Healthcare Professionals outside of Medicine"
Dr Janet Deane - Post doctoral research associate, Department of Surgery & Cancer

Chair: Dr Margaret Coffey

Title: Using wearables in healthcare research

Date: Thursday 9th January 2020

Location: Charing Cross Campus

Speakers and schedule: 

Chair: Professor Mary Wells

"Breaking the mould of dietary assessment"

Professor Gary Frost Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction and Dr Benny Lo, Department of Surgery & Cancer

"Developing a screening tool for shoulder dysfunction in breast cancer patients’"

Marie-Clare Johnson, Physiotherapy Practitioner Upper Limb, Therapies Department, Charing Cross Hospital

Title: HPAG Seminar 3

Date: Wednesday 4th September 2019

Location: Hammersmith Hospital, Wolfson Centre, Seminar Room 4

Speakers and schedule:

"Exploiting routinely collected data to improve nurse-sensitive outcomes: delayed discharges and adverse events" Enrique Castro Sanchez, Lead Academic Research Nurse

"A day in the life of a Female genital mutilation (FGM) specialist service" Juliet Albert, Specialist FGM Midwife

Title: HPAG Seminar 2

Date: Tuesday 11th June 2019

Location: 

Speakers and schedule: 

"Keeping amputees on their feet" Professor Alison McGregor

"An exploration of the relationships between staff perceptions of safety in adult intensive care (ICU) and patient and staff characteristics" Clare-Leon Villapalos

Title: Writing for Publication Workshop – facilitated by Felicia Cox FRCN MSc RN

Date: Friday 10th May 2019

Location: 

Speakers and schedule: 

Workshops offering staff who are already writing for publication an opportunity to explore the development of a framework for a publication – involving identifying a topic, audience, platform, and undertaking a basic lit search.

Title: HPAG Seminar 1

Date: Thursday 6th December 2018

Location: St Mary’s Hospital, Clinical Lecture Theatre (2nd Floor Cambridge Wing)

Speakers and schedule: 

"From a clinical observation to a randomised clinical trial and change of clinical practice – an example" Professor Pernilla Lagergren

"A feasibility study on intervention for swallowing dysfunction after laryngectomy" Dr. Margaret Coffey

• Dr Justin Roe receives an MBE for services to Speech and Language Therapy, as part of the Queens New Year Honours
• Dr Caroline Alexander has been awarded a Professor of Practice
• Grainne Brady and Lauren Leigh-Doyle awarded NIHR fellowships
• Publication - impacts of clinical academic activity by healthcare professionals – with HPAG members as authors

• The chair of HPAG Professor Pernilla Lagergren - Nurse
• Professor Mary Wells - Nurse
• Dr Lina Johansson - Dietitian
• Dr Donna Kennedy – Hand therapist
• Dr Margaret Coffey - Speech & Language Therapist
• Prof Caroline Alexander - Physiotherapist
• Gemma Stanford - Physiotherapist
• Dr Enrique Castro-Sanchez - Nurse
• Dr Claire Nolan - Physiotherapist
• Professor Bryony Franklin – pharmacist
• Predoctoral fellow Layla Bolton Saghdaoui – nurse

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