Evangeline Wassmer, Honorary Professor of Paediatric Neurology at Aston University will be delivering her Inaugural Lecture on Tuesday 21 January at 16:30 in the Adrian Cadbury Lecture Theatre at Aston University. 

Join Evangeline for her talk ‘White Matter Matters: An update on demyelination and dysmyelination in children – the ‘what?’, ‘when?’, ‘how?’, and ‘why?’ questions patients have, and how research is answering them.

Date: Tuesday 21 January

Time: 4.30pm

Location: Adrian Cadbury Lecture Theatre, Conference Aston, Aston University, Aston Street, Birmingham, B4 7ET

Registration: https://forms.office.com/e/SFbRguMsLW 

BHP’s Reducing Bureaucracy in Clinical Trials programme launched in November 2023 with the aim of establishing Birmingham a leader in delivering cutting-edge clinical research more efficiently.

Join Professors Pam Kearns and Lorraine Harper and the BHP team to hear about our programme of work, ask questions, and contribute your ideas.

Register for this online event at the following link: https://forms.office.com/e/4Tu7Q4u1pg

Are you a medical or dental clinician with an interest in exploring how to get started in research?

If so, you are invited to an exciting free online event featuring talks from some senior leaders from across the Birmingham Health Partners group, with national and international reputations in research. There is also a talk from the Academy of Medical Sciences about grants and career development opportunities within AMS.

This lecture will briefly outline challenges in quality and safety in healthcare, will identify the patchy history of attempts to make improvements, will emphasise the need to build and evidence base for improvement, and will outline some of the challenges and opportunities in evidence generation.

Mary Dixon-Woods is Director of THIS Institute and The Health Foundation Professor of Healthcare Improvement Studies in the Department of Public Health and Primary Care at the University of Cambridge.

The Department of Health and Social Care’s Chief Scientific Adviser joins BHP to reflect on maximising the impact of health and care research in the UK, as well as her personal journey at DHSC – including taking up her role in the midst of the pandemic.

Professor Chappell has overall responsibility for DHSC research and development, including the NIHR, and supporting the department’s analysis function.

Dr Bola Owolabi, Director of Healthcare Inequalities, will deliver a seminar focusing on the work being done in NHS England and NHS Improvement to narrow the health inequalities gap and will discuss what individual practitioners can do to contribute.

Dr Owolabi will field questions about the policy landscape and programme of work as well as her own career journey.