Richard Doll Seminars Archive: 2013 to 2014
Programme for academic year 2013 to 2014
Michaelmas 2013 (Oct to Dec), from 1-2 pm
The termcard for Michaelmas 2013 is available to download in PDF format here.
Conveners: Dr Fiona Bragg (CTSU) and Dr Dexter Canoy (CEU)
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- 16 Sep (special seminar) Professor Dan Roden, Vanderbilt University: Big data as a tool for personalized medicine
- 15 Oct Professor Gordon CS Smith, University of Cambridge: Understanding the relationship between advanced maternal age and pregnancy outcome
- 22 Oct Professor Dame Valerie Beral and Kath Moser, University of Oxford: Screening for breast cancer and the NHSBSP Age Extension Trial
- 29 Oct Professor Paul Elliott, Imperial College London: Diet, blood pressure and the metabolome
- 5 Nov Professor Stephen Duffy, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry: CANCELLED
- 12 Nov Professor Hans G Lilja, University of Oxford, and Memorial Sloane-Kettering Cancer Center: Long-term risk of lethal prostate cancer by prostate-specific antigen (PSA) and related markers in the blood at age 40 to 60
- 19 Nov Professor Peter Burney, University of Oxford: Is COPD really such a boring disease? The global epidemiology of chronic lung disease
- 26 Nov Professor Erik Ingelsson, Uppsala University Hospital: Cardiovascular molecular epidemiology: Large-scale methods to link genomics, clinical medicine and molecular biology aiming to advance cardiovascular medicine
- 3 Dec Professor Clive Osmond, University of Southampton: The catch-up dilemma in low and middle income countries
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Hilary 2014 (jan to mar), from 1-2 pm
The termcard for Hilary 2014 is available to download in PDF format here.
Conveners: Dr Fiona Bragg (CTSU) and Dr Dexter Canoy (CEU)
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- 21 Jan Professor Nish Chaturvedi, University College London: Clinical phenotyping - the forgotten player in the 'omics revolution'
- 28 Jan Professor Jack Cuzick, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry: The Prevention of Breast Cancer
- 4 Feb Chris Carrigan, National Cancer Intelligence Network: Is cancer a good model for world class public health intelligence?
- 11 Feb Professor Judith Bliss, Institute of Cancer Research: CANCELLED
- 18 Feb Professor Hazel Inskip, University of Southampton: The Southampton Women's Survey: from observation to intervention
- 25 Feb Professor Martin Tobin, University of Leicester: Genome variation, lung function and COPD
- 4 Mar Professor Paul Leeson, University of Oxford: Preeclampsia and predisposition to hypertension in mother and offspring
- 11 Mar Dr Ray Lovett and Raglan Maddox, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and University of Canberra: Effects of alcohol and tobacco on health of Indigenous Australians
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Trinity 2014 (Apr to Jun), from 1-2 pm
The termcard for Trinity 2014 is available to download in PDF format here.
Conveners: Dr Fiona Bragg (CTSU) and Dr Dexter Canoy (CEU)
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- 29 Apr Professor Carol Dezateux, University College London: Changing childhooods - identifying pathways to health in early life
- 6 May Professor John McMurray, University of Glasgow: Heart failure trials: endpoints, adjudication, stopping rules, statistical analyses and other quandries
- 13 May (11am-12pm) Dr Michael Holmes, University Pennsylvania: Mendelian randomization - applications to cardiovascular disease
- 13 May (1-2pm) Dr Michael Pawlita, German Cancer Research Center: Infection and cancer associations analyzed by multiplex serology
- 20 May Dr Reshma Jagsi, University of Michigan: Current issues in post-mastectomy radiotherapy
- 27 May (11am-12pm) Dr Alex Couto Alves, Imperial College London: Systems biology and functional analysis of genetic risk factors for asthma and allergic disorders
- 27 May (1-2pm) Professor Dame Valerie Beral, University of Oxford: Rosalind Franklin, women and cancer
- 3 Jun Professor Stephen Duffy, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry: What would screening for lung cancer in the UK look like
- 10 Jun Professor Paul Foster, University College London: The UK Biobank Eye and Vision Consortium
- 17 Jun Professor Melanie Calvert, University of Birmingham: Current and best practices for patient reported outcome assessment in clinical trials