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Watch videos of the presentations from the links below. Presentations containing unpublished data are not included.

Session 1 Tobacco Evidence: starting is worse but stopping is better

Rory Collins - Welcome

 

Alan Lopez - Introduction

 

Mike Thun - The health ravages of tobacco use - just the evidence please

 

Tom Frieden - Changing minds and saving hearts by asking the right, big questions

 

Blake Thomson - Smoking kills, stopping works: continuing the tale of two Richards

 

Judith Mackay - Tracking and tackling tobacco

 

Varied friends - Video message from Boston

 

Prabhat Jha - Knight of the living (and dead) 

 

Session 2 Observational Studies: really knowing the known risk factors

Valerie Beral - Introduction

 

Francis Collins - Making the case for large cohort studies

 

 Sarah Lewington - Halving premature mortality: studying the other 99%

 

Vendhan Gajalakshmi - No smoke without fire: tales from India

 

David Zaridze - Saving Russian lives: one steppe at a time

 

Zhengming Chen - Long march through the Middle Kingdom

 

Dylan Morris - Blood glucose, diabetes and aortic aneurysm: not so bleeding obvious

 

Julian Peto - The multi-stage model of cancer - the answer to a maiden's prayer

 

John Danesh - Emerging from the shadows 

 

Session 3 Randomised Trials: moderate treatment effects matter

Bob Temple - Introduction

 

Mike Brown - Getting the cholesterol-lowering evidence right

 

Larry Norton - Icon of iconoclasm

 

Richard Gray - Medical statistics: life in the fast lane

 

Rob Califf - Large simple trials (LST) versus small crappy trials (SCT): not a hard decision for Peto

 

Tom Peto - Tropical malady: fever trees and RCTs

 

Salim Yusuf - Making a world of difference: making a different world

 

Jeremy Farrar - End notes: why do we still need Richard Peto?

 

 

After Dinner Speeches

Charles Warlow, Paul Nurse and Richard Peto

Photographs

 Presentations at event to mark Richard Peto's retirement, 28 June 2018

The photographs of the event were taken by John Cairns and are available to view here.