2nd   ANNUAL NIHR TRAINEES CONFERENCE
    10-11 September 2008
Renaissance Manchester Hotel
     
     

 

 
programme
     
    Day 1 – Wednesday 10 September 2008
     
11.00   Registration and Refreshments
 
12:00 Lunch and Poster Exhibition
 
13:00 Chairman’s Introduction and Welcome
Professor Jim Neilson
Dean, NIHR Faculty Trainees

13:15 Keynote Speech
The NIHR and NIHR Trainees – The Future of Patient and Public based Research
Professor Sally Davies
Director of R&D, Department of Health
 
13:45 How to be Successful in Research
Professor Martin Roland
Director, National Primary Care Research and Development Centre

 

14:15 Breakout Sessions: NIHR Trainee Experiences
     
    1. NIHR Career Scientists
       
    2. NIHR Clinical Lecturers and Clinician Scientist
       
    3. NIHR Post Doctoral
       
    4. NIHR Doctral
       
    5. NIHR Academic Clinical Fellows
 
15:15 Afternoon Tea and Poster Exhibition
 
15.35 Showcasing NIHR Research – Research Presentations by three NIHR Trainees
 

Dr Charidimos Tzagarakis
ACF Specialist Registrar in Psychiatry, NIHR and University of Oxford

Dr Vishal Aggarwal
Clinical Lecturer in Primary Care Dentistry, NIHR and University of Manchester

Professor Harry Hemingway
Clinical Epidemiology, UCL, NIHR Career Scientist 2001-2006

 

17.05 The Academy of Medical Sciences’ National Mentoring and Outreach Scheme
Professor Patrick Maxwell FMedSci
Registrar, The Academy of Medical Sciences and Head of the Division of Medicine, UCL

 

17:25 Close – Free time and Poster Exhibition

 

19:00 Pre dinner reception

 

20:00 Dinner and Poster Prize Presentation
Prizes presented by Dr Russell Hamilton, Deputy Director of R&D, Department of Health

 

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    Day 2 – Thursday 11 September 2008
     
08:45   Coffee
     
09:15   Chair’s Introduction
Dr Lisa Cotterill
Director of the NCCRCD
     
09:30  

Breakout Sessions:

How to Move up the Career Ladder

     
    1.

Raising Your Profile
Professor Eileen Kaner
Institute of Health and Society, University of Newcastle
Dr Linda McGowan
School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, University of Manchester

       
    2. Grantsmanship
Professor Celia Davies
Programme Director, Research for Patient Benefit Programme
Dr David King
Director, NIHR Central Commissioning Facility
Catherine Gedling
Deputy Director, Health Research Design Service North West
       
    3. How to get a Research Training Fellowship (ACFs)
Dr Lisa Cotterill
Director, NCCRCD
Dr John Williams
Science Programme Manager, Wellcome Trust
Ms Catherine Farnon
Fellowships Operational Manager, MRC
       
10:30   Coffee
   

 

10:45   Breakout Sessions

How to Move up the Career Ladder (Continued)
     
    1. Success with Publications
Dr Fiona Goodlee
Editor, British Medical Journal
Professor Selena Gray
Editor, Journal of Public Health
       
    2 Grantsmanship (continued)
       
    3. How to get a Research Training Fellowship (ACFs continued)
     
11:45   Keynote Speech
The Opportunities Offered by the UK Clinical Research Network
Professor Stephen Smye
Deputy Clinical Director, UKCRN
   

 

12:45   Plenary Session and Feedback
   

 

13:00   Close and Lunch