Department of Primary Care and Public Health
Week Commencing: 3 rd October 2011 Issue 53
DEPARTMENT NEWS:
Professor David Price - Professor of Family Medicine and Head of Department, McMaster
University will be giving a lecture entitled 'Close to home: medical education outside the university hospital'. The lecture will be held on Tuesday 4 th October at 1.00 pm in the 1 st floor meeting room, Michael Griffiths Lecture Theatre (the one next door to Neuadd).
All staff are encouraged to support this event
Staff News: We would like to welcome three new members of staff who start in the department this week:
 Miguel Cossio, Database programme in SEWTU.
 Kirsty Roberts, Trial Manager in WCTU
 Claire O’Neill, Trial Manager (Research Associate) in SEWTU
We are delighted to be welcoming new postgraduate students starting Monday 3rd October:
1. Christian Bannister
Supervisors: Glyn Elwyn, Irena Spasic
PhD project title: 'Automatic construction and validation of practical prognostic indices by applying genetic programming to large medical' (MRC)
Christian will be based both on the 2nd floor NM & COMSC
2. Anwen Cope
Supervisors: Chris Butler, Ivor Chestnutt, Fiona Wood, Nick Francis
PhD project title: 'Understanding the use of antibiotics for primary care dental problems'
(President's Research Scholarship)
Anwen will be based on the 3rd floor open plan area NM
3. Stephanie Smits
Supervisors: Kate Brain, Glyn Elwyn
'Development of an ovarian cancer symptom management leaflet for women at increased genetic risk' (MRC)
Stephanie will be based on the 2nd floor NM
4. Sara Southall
Supervisors: Glyn Elwyn, Adrian Edwards, Sharon Mayor
MPhil project tile: 'To what extent do existing measures of patient decsion making consider
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Stephanie will be based on the 2nd floor NM
5. Veronica Tudor
Supervisor: Marion McAllister
Internship project title: 'Measuring patient benefits from using clinical genetics services'.
Veronica will be based on the 3rd floor open plan area NM
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DEPARTMENT ADMINISTRATION:
Christmas Party Reminder –
Thank you for those who have provided a preference for the
Christmas party. As we have only received a small response I would be grateful if you could email your preference to pcphadmin@cardiff.ac.uk
by Friday 7 th October.
Swalec Stadium , Off Cathedral Road (available for most Fridays in December)
Please see attached menu for three course meal for the evening
Callaghan's Pub (in Holiday Inn Cardiff Central)
Buffet with DJ, Disco and two drinks for £15.25
Dates - 9th and 23rd December evening
Grape and Olive
Buffet with disco for £20.00
Dates - 9th and 16th December
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Holiday Inn: Please see attached the fantastic promotion the Holiday Inn Cardiff City Centre are offering. If you would like to enquire for a meeting or training room please feel free to contact
Sabrina Tanti at the Holiday Inn on 0871 942 9240.
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MEIRIONNYDD: Please note that the main doors are now fully operational and is the main access for the building.
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SE Wales REC - Expert Membership: The South East Wales Research Ethics Committee are looking to recruit Expert members for Panel D of the South East Wales REC. Our last recruitment drive was successful in finding members for both Panel B and Panel C but Panel D continues to have vacancies for a number of expert members and we would be grateful for any assistance you might be able to offer.
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I have attached an Expert member person specification together with a copy of the Schedule of
Meetings for the remainder of 2011. Individuals interested in becoming a member of the REC should contact either Carl Phillips or Jag Sidhu in the first instance either by telephone or e-mail for either an informal chat about membership, or to request a copy of the Expert member application form. Carl.phillips@wales.nhs.uk
jagit.sidhu@wales.nhs.uk
. The REC office telephone numbers are 02920 376822 & 376823.
HTA Survey Reminder: As you are no doubt aware a request went out last week asking that all PI's complete an online questionnaire concerning the Human Tissue Act, the completion date should have read by 30th September 2011 (see the attached memo, all relevant attachments are included). Remember also that if you do not have human tissues stored in your freezers (the online survey has to be completed in either case) also the disclaimer proforma to that effect needs to be completed and returned to Barbara Coles <colesb2@Cardiff.ac.uk>.
To complete the survey please read the attached information and follow the link, if you need any further assistance please contact Dr Clive Gregory (gregoryc1@cardiff.ac.uk, ext 87221)
The e-mail sent read as follows:
As you may be aware, the Heath Park campus receives a full research licence from the Human
Tissue Authority and your School is one that carries out licensable activities under the Human
Tissue Act 2004.
In order to ensure all users of human tissue have been captured, the Licence Holder and
Designated Individual (DI), Professor Jon Bisson, have decided that it is essential for all Principal
Investigators in School's holding human tissue to complete the Human Tissue Act Survey 2011.
For those who do not use human tissue, the survey will be very short and your response is essential to obtain a complete picture of tissue holdings. For those who do hold tissue the survey will take approximately 10 minutes to complete (see memo below).
Surveys in subsequent years will revert back to just those who hold tissue.
The survey will be open until the 30 October 2011 and can be found at the following location: https://www.surveys.cardiff.ac.uk/hta2011medic
Availability of Teaching Space in the Cochrane Building: We have been advised that the
Cochrane building will not be available for use until the second half of November. If you have teaching booked in the Cochrane building before then you need to make alternative arrangements.
Gareth Pugh in the school of medicine will be able to tell you the exact date that the Cochrane building teaching space will be available as soon as this information is available.
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DATES FOR THE DIARY:
Science Cafe is back!
Science Cafe is a place where, for the price of a cup of coffee or a glass of wine, anyone can come to explore the latest ideas in science and technology. Meetings take place in the relaxed and informal setting of the Cafe Bar at The Gate Arts Centre, Roath, Cardiff. Previous topics covered include Science in Comedy, Nuclear Risk, Nano Technology and the Psychology of Online
Romance.
Our first meeting of 2011-2012 will take place on 4th October at 8pm in The Gate Arts Centre,
Roath.
Venus Transit Expedition - Huw James, Science Junkie In 2012, one of the rarest natural scientific events takes place in the form of a Transit of Venus across the face of our Sun. The Venus Transit
Expedition is an 8 week Ed-venture to the West Pacific rim in April 2012, looking to inspire the next generation of scientists and explorers in a science expedition in the public eye. The group aims to carry out the expedition, view and record the Venus Transit and filter content back to class rooms, living rooms and many more venues across Britain. The Venus Transit Expedition Project is designed to bring back the days of scientific endeavou r. It’s looking to emulate Captain Cook’s maiden voyage, for the Royal Society, to witness and record the path of Venus across the Sun which happens twice every hundred and twenty years or so. Huw James will lead a team across the planet to witness and record this phenomenal event that is now literally, a once in a life time experience and is sharing it with the world. In this talk he’ll look at the trials and tribulations of those that went before him and the obstacles they have to overcome including dysentery, water vapour and looting! We hope to see you there! If you would like to be added to the Science Cafe mailing list to receive updates about future events please contact community@cardiff.ac.uk
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Healthcare Improvement Research Seminar Series 2010-2012 Dr Gareth Parry Public Lecture -
Wednesday 5th October 2011, 5pm
Dr Gareth Parry is a Senior Scientist at the IHI and has been instrumental in a number of research and evaluation projects within the patient safety and healthcare improvement agenda. (Please see attached Bio).
Gareth will be giving a public lecture at the Glamorgan building at 5pm on Wednesday 5th
October . The title of the lecture is 'Quality Improvement and Evaluation - The Emerging Science' and will include an assessment of where we are in evaluating programmes of quality improvement.
We would be very grateful if you could circulate news of Gareth's visit through your organisation.
So as to be aware of numbers to expect, please could you and other interested parties follow the link below to complete the registration form for the lecture as soon as possible: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/JZQLG8Z
Should you require any further information please contact Dawn Cassley on cassleydm@cardiff.ac.uk
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City and Regional Planning Forthcoming Events
– October to December 2011:
There are a number of events taking place in CPLAN. Please following the link to view these. Please note that you need to register to attend these events http://www.cplan.cf.ac.uk/events/
The first Translation, Innovation, Methods and Engagement (TIME) Institute Conference will take place on 17th November 2011 at the Hilton Hotel, Cardiff
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The day will include:
The Launch of TIME Institute
And discussion on the following:
Challenges facing Translational researchers
How to successfully translate research
Innovation in academia and the NHS
Translational resources available within the School of Medicine
Engagement in the trenches
Event details
Hosted by the Translation, Innovation, Methods and Engagement Institute and the Severnside
Alliance for Translational Research (SARTRE)
Please note there is no registration fee for this event.
FULL PROGRAMME TO BE PUBLISHED SHORTLY.
Please register at https://www.surveys.cardiff.ac.uk/timeconf
6 th International Conference on Nanotoxicology: Following the 5th International Conference on
Nanotoxicology in Edinburgh, UK (2010), the 6th in a series, Nanotox 2012 will be held on
September 4th(Tuesday) -7th (Friday), 2012, Beijing, China. Nanotox 2012 will provide an international forum for presentation and discussion of current and emerging sciences of all-round
Nanotoxicology, Nanomedicine, Nanobiotechnology, Nanobioanalytical sciences, Bionanomaterials, Nano-bio Chemistry, Nano-Bio Inorganic chemistry, Eco-environmental
Nanoxicology, New methodology, Modeling of Nano-bio interface, Nano standardization, Risk
Assessment, etc. You are cordially invited to attend the Nanotox 2012 conference. All submitted abstracts received will be reviewed on the basis of scientific merit, novelty and application.
Website: http://english.nanoctr.cas.cn/nanotoxicology2012/
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Event
Primary Care and Public
Health Symposium
Date
26 th October
2011
Further information http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HealthSymposium
Further
Info –
Newsletter
Issue 53
Evidence-Based Practice in Public
Health
6 th Julian Tudor Hart Lecture
UK Society for Behavioural
Medicine 7th Annual Scientific
Meeting
SWSAPC 2012
22 nd
November
20 th
December
Annmarie Nelson,
MCPCRC/WCTU tbc
24 th – 25 th
Oct 2011
30 th Nov
13 th – 14 th
December
1 March 12
Newsletter Issue 47
MacdonaldZ@cardiff.ac.uk
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http://uksbm.org.uk/asm2011/ www.swsapc2012.co.uk
Issue 47
Issue 53
Issue 41
TRIALS METHODS SEMINAR SERIES: The aim of this series is to provide trialists across the
School a chance to meet and discuss current issues & methods relating to trials. An initial set of seminars has been proposed for this term, but ideas and offers for future sessions are welcome. All are from 2-3pm.
Date
25 th
October
Speaker
Kerry Hood,
SEWTU
Title
Does how you ask matter? The impact of mode of data collection on reporting of subjective outcomes
Measuring what matters: the case for qualitative research in drug trials tbc tbc
Issue 53
Location
1F09, Michael Griffiths LT
1F09, Michael Griffiths LT
The following events have already been advertised in the newsletter. Please refer to the relevant edition for booking forms. Past editions of the newsletter can be found on the department webpages.
TRAINING
With the start of the new semester just around the corner it's time to kick off our schedule of IT training courses for the 2011/12 academic year.
We always wait until the busyness of the start of the academic year has died down and so our courses this year will be starting in w/b 10th October. Our schedule of courses is available at http://blogs.cf.ac.uk/insrveducation/en/category/IT+training+programme which will also update with availability of places for each course. We are currently working on some new additional courses
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Department of Primary Care and Public Health that we hope to schedule before Christmas as so our current schedule only runs up until early
November but will be extended soon up to the end of the year.
All courses this year have been updated to the latest version of supported applications which means that our most popular courses, Microsoft applications, are now offered as Office 2007 versions.
Refer to our web pages at http://www.cf.ac.uk/insrv/educationandtraining/ittraining/courseprogramme.html
for details of course content and prerequisites.
If you would like to book onto any of these courses we will need to know your Cardiff University username and email address, a daytime contact number where we can get back to you and details of the course(s) you wish to book onto.
On receipt of your booking we will contact you to confirm your request with details of how to make the appropriate payment to cover the cost of attending the course, or courses, you have booked onto. Where your school or division is covering this cost we accept internal trade payments via the
Oracle finance system but we can also accept cash, cheque and credit card payments if you are paying for your own course booking.
To contact us, or to check availability of course places, send a message to insrveducation@cf.ac.uk
or give us a ring us on university extension 74698.
IT
Kaspersky Key Expiry: It seems that many users still believe they must upgrade to Sophos immediately, even if they haven't received the Kasperksy license renewal reminder on their desktop. Please reassure users that Sophos is *not* mandatory at this time - the University's
Kaspersky license will remain valid until next summer.
A script is being run frequently to automatically update the Kasperksy license key on standard imaged workstations as soon as they are switched on.
If anyone receives a 'key expiry' message then the automatic update hasn't worked for some reason - this may be because Kasperksy was installed on the machine via the web rather than the image, or it could be that the school has changed the admin password for its images. In either case, the advice is to manually uninstall Kasperksy and run the Sophos application object from
Start→Networked Applications→General Software→Trial Applications→Deploy Sophos.
If uninstalling Kasperksy and replacing it with Sophos will cause undue problems (for example if this has to be done on a large teaching lab) then please log a call with insrvConnect and the
Security Team will advise.
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Special Offers for Staff:
Michael Forever Tribute Concert – 8 th October: Cardiff University staff are being offered a 55% discount on tickets for the 'Michael Forever Tribute Concert' which is taking place at the Millennium
Stadium on Saturday 8th October.
Headline acts brought together for this fantastic live event include The Black Eyed Peas; Christina
Aguilera; Jamie Foxx; Cee Lo Green; Motown legends Gladys Knight and Smokey Robinson;
Leona Lewis; Alexandra Burke; JLS, and Diversity plus many more. The Jackson Brothers and La
Toya Jackson will perform for the first time in 20 years in honour of their brother. There will also be an exclusive appearance by Beyonce via video.
General Admission t ickets (normal price £55) are available for a limited time, at the special price of
£25 for the Staff of Cardiff University
Click http://tickets.michaelforevertribute.com/offers/ and enter Promotional Code CUSTAFF25 to claim the discount.
Rhinestone Mondays in the New Theatre: The New Theatre are offering £13 off Stalls tickets for the production of 'Rhinestone Mondays' which is at the theatre from the 4th until the 8th of October.
Please see the attached flyer for further details
Items for the Newsletter: If you would like to include a contribution to the newsletter, please email pcphadmin@cardiff.ac.uk
by Friday at 3.00 pm
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