Richard Doll Seminars Archive: 2010 to 2011

Programme for academic year 2010 to 2011

Note: Details about the seminar programme have not been updated and may be incomplete

• Michaelmas 2010 (Oct to Dec)

• 12 Oct   Dr Peter Campbell, Sanger Institute, Cambridge: Genetics of lung cancer in the context of smoking
• 19 Oct    Professor Nilesh Samani, University of Leicester: New insights into the genetic basis of coronary artery disease
• 26 Oct    Sir Iain Chalmers, James Lind Library, Oxford: Controlled trials before randomisation
• 2 Nov     Professor David Matthews, OCDEM, University of Oxford: Oxford Health Alliance
• 9 Nov     NO SEMINAR
• 16 Nov    Professor Doug Altman and Dr Iveta Simera, University of Oxford: EQUATOR
• 23 Nov    Professor Ian Roberts, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine: Treating Severe Haemorrhage
• 30 Nov    Professor Dame Valerie Beral and Dr Jane Green, Cancer Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford: Hormonal factors in Ovarian Cancer and Cancer of the Gastrointestinal Tract and HRT
• 7 Dec      Professor Sir Richard Peto, CTSU, University of Oxford: Treatment of early breast cancer: new EBCTG results

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Hilary 2011 (jan to mar)

• 18 Jan    NO SEMINAR
• 25 Jan    Professor John Walley, Nuffield Centre for International Health and Development, University of Leeds: Getting service delivery research into practice at scale in low-middle income countries
• 1 Feb      Professor Andrew Hall, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine: Hepatocellular carcinoma prevention: progress and barriers
• 8 Feb     Dr Gary Fooks, University of Bath: Understanding Contemporary Trends in Corporate Influence over Public health Policy. What can we learn from Corporate Social Responsibility in the Tobacco Industry?
• 15 Feb    Professor Sir Rory Collins, CTSU, University of Oxford: UK Biobank: a 500,000 person resource for health research
• 22 Feb    Dr Leanne Hodson, OCDEM, University of Oxford: Heaptic fatty acid partitioning: the art of tracing dietary fat in humans
• 1 Mar      NO SEMINAR
• 8 Mar      Professor Sarah Darby and Dr Paul McGale, CTSU, University of Oxford: Smoking-related mortality in Japan

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Trinity 2011 (Apr to Jun)

• 3 May     Professor Sally Macintyre, Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow: Evaluating the effects on health and behaviour of natural experiments
• 10 May    Dr Trudie Lang, Centre for Clinical Vaccinology and Tropical Medicine, University of Oxford: Global Health Clinical Trials: An Online Research Community
• 17 May    Dr David Heymann, Health Protection Agency: Molecular epidemiology in public health: the good, the bad and the evil
• 24 May    Dr Robert Clarke, CTSU, University of Oxford: Folic acid, homocysteine and prevention of cardiovascular disease
• 31 May    Professor Michael Goldacre, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford: Some uses of record linkage in epidemiological and health services research
• 7 Jun       Professor John Oates, Vanderbilt University Medical Center: Metabolic syndrome associates with resistance to aspirin in patients with coronary artery disease
• 14 Jun     Professor Sir Nick Wald, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, University of London: Nutrition in prevention: time for SASS tax
• 21 Jun     NO SEMINAR