School of Dentistry
Research Symposium
25th & 26th February 2016
Crieff Hydro Hotel
Thursday 25th February
08:30-09:00
Session 1
Registration/Coffee • Ballroom
• Earn
Joint with the School of Dentistry and the School of Nursing & Health Sciences
Chair: Professor Mark Hector
09:00-09:15
Professor Mary Renfrew
Welcome and Opening Remarks
09:15-09:30
Professor Tim Croudace
Centre for Health and Related Research
09:30-09:50
09:50-10:10
10:10-10:30
Improving the Research Environment
PhD students: Abubaker Qutieshat/tbc
Early Career Researchers: Colin Leavy/tbc
PIs and Senior Researchers: Jan Clarkson/tbc
10:30-11:00
Tea and Coffee • Ballroom
Session 2
Chair: Professor Margaret Smith
11:00-11:20
Improving the research environment – Structured Discussion & Action Points
11:20-11:40
Professor Tim Newman
University research strategy and the Schools of Dentistry and Nursing and Health
Sciences
11:40-12:15
Professor Peter Mossey
Strategy for Improving the quality and impact of our research
Discussion
12:15-13:30
Lunch • Meikle Restaurant
Session 3
Joint with the School of Dentistry, Medicine, and Nursing & Health Sciences
• Drawing Room
Chair: Professor Peter Mossey
13:30-13:40
Dr Dilip Nathwani
“Academic Health Sciences Partnership”
13:40-13:50
Professor Mary Renfrew
“Centre for Health and Related Research”
13:50-14:00
Dr Fiona Williams
“Academic Health Sciences Partnership – Research Stream”
14:00 – 14:15
Professor Nicola Innes (School of Dentistry)
“Turning FiCTION into Fact; Making Non-adherence to Protocol Useful in a
Randomised Trial of Children’s Dentistry”
14:15-14:30
Professor Russell Petty (School of Medicine)
“Defining novel biological subgroups of oesophageal cancer to stratify and optimise
targeted treatments”
14:30 – 14:45
Professor Tim Croudace (School of Nursing & Health Sciences)
“General health questionnaires and general wellbeing factors: understanding
instruments from multiple epidemiological perspectives”
14:45-15:20
Tea and Coffee • Ballroom
Session 4
Chair: Dr Fiona Williams
15:20-15:35
Dr Mike Macluskey (School of Dentistry)
“Early detection of oral cancer using a laser detector (EDOCALD award)”
15:35-15:50
Dr Andrea Rodriguez (School of Dentistry)
“Scottish oral health improvement homelessness programme (Smile4life project)”
15:50-16:05
Professor Bruce Guthrie (School of Medicine)
“Improving primary care prescribing safety: four trials in 550 general practices”
16:05-16:20
Dr Stuart Schembri (School of Medicine)
“Screening for lung cancer - where are we now?"
16:20-16:35
Dr Alison McFadden (School of Nursing & Health Sciences)
“Enhancing trust between health services and Gypsy/Travellers: a study funded by the
Department of Health Policy Research Programme”
16:35-16:50
Dr Steve MacGillivray (School of Nursing and Health Sciences)
“Innovative approaches to evidence synthesis: the work of the Evidence Synthesis
Training and Research (STAR) Group”
17:00-17:45
Professor Tim Newman – introduced by Professor Mary Renfrew
“University Research Strategy: Culture and Sustainability”
17:45-19:00
Poster Session and Wine Reception • Loggia & Ballroom
19:30
Dinner • Ferntower Suite
Friday 26th February
07:30-09:00
Breakfast • Meikle Restaurant
Session 5
• Earn
Chair: Professor Mark Hector
09:00-09:10
Professor Mark Hector
Welcome and Introduction
09:10-09:20
Professor Peter Mossey
“What we know about preparing for REF 2020”
09:20-09:30
Professor Jan Clarkson
“Dental Research Strategy – Maximising impact”
09:30-09:40
Professor Nicola Innes
“Enhancing the Dental School Research Environment”
09:40-09:50
Professor Ruth Freeman
“Dental Research Strategy – Public Engagement”
09:50-10:35
Interdisciplinary research opportunities
4 student led speed talks - examples of success
Bystander project – Ekta Patel;
Dental education and learning resources – Paulina Poblete;
HoPSCOTCH – Laura Beaton;
Algorithm for occlusal scoring - Catherine Martin
10:35-11:05
Tea and Coffee • Ballroom
Session 6
11:05-12:05
Workshops • Earn/Barvick
1.
Bringing the World to Dundee for Dental Research (Suchi Nanjappa)
2.
Clinical trials in enhancing the evidence base (Nicola Innes)
3.
Dental translational research – knowledge into action (Jan Clarkson /Linda Young)
4. Research / Teaching interface - research in the undergraduate programme
(Mark Hector/David Edwards)
5.
12:05-12:40
The research potential of an artificial oral cavity (Graham Chadwick/Abubaker Qutieshat)
Workshop feedback and discussion
12:40-14:00
Lunch • Meikle Restaurant
Core Facilities • Ballroom
Session 7
Chair: Professor Peter Mossey
14:00-15:40
Current School research results
From Higher Degree projects
3D imaging projects - Grant McIntyre (Elinor Chalmers)
Forensics - Andrew Forgie (Paulina Poblete)
Genotype - phenotype correlation – Peter Mossey (Heba Sabbagh)
Molecular Palatogenesis - Sarah Jones (Miriam Figge)
Behave2 (Childsmile) – Siyang Yuan
Scottish Oral Health Improvement Prison Programme – Ayse Cinar
INTERVAL – Jan Clarkson
IQUAD – Thomas Lamont
SDCEP – Linda Young
Antibiotic prescribing – David Edwards
15:40-16:00
Professor Peter Mossey
Closing remarks