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SUMMARY:Webinar: Medicines Management in Professional Sport
DESCRIPTION:Join Medilink East Midlands\, in partnership with MedsOnTrack and JensonR+ to discuss Medicines Management in Professional Sport. \nOur speaker\, Steve Simbler\, is a pharmacist with over 20 years’ experience working in elite sport. Steve will share some of his experiences as one of the lead pharmacists for the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics\, as well as some of the other events with which he has been involved. He will also describe his work with elite teams in various sports\, including topics such as: \n• the volumes of analgesics and anti-inflammatories taken by players/athletes\n• storage and security issues in training grounds and also associated with travel\n• lack of full time doctors in professional sport and problems associated with other healthcare professionals administering medications to players\n• record-keeping issues\n• controlled drugs issues\n• emergency & trauma medications management in a sports environment\n• lack of regulatory oversight or independent monitoring\n• concerns over doping issues \nDURATION: 1 HOUR \nThis free to attend event is held as part of the INSTILS programme – a project part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund\, click here to be re-directed to further information about the project. This event is classed as State Aid to participating businesses\, the value of which is £127\, but is delivered completely free of charge to participants \nSpeaker Profiles: \n \nSteve Simler MRPharm.s\, MedsOnTrack \nSteve has been working as a pharmacist in elite sport for over 20 years\, initially in a supply capacity\, and for the past 10 years in providing medicines management consultancy and software to teams in the Premier League and English Football League as well as national governing bodies for football\, rugby\, athletics\, tennis\, cricket\, rowing\, and cycling amongst others.\nHe was one of the lead pharmacists for the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics\, then again for the London 2017 Athletics and Para-Athletics World Championships.\nAs well as giving talks about vitamin D\, he lectures on various topics pertaining to drugs in sport and the use of analgesics and anti-inflammatories in sport.\nIn 2006\, sport doctors approached Steve to advise on obtaining a reliable source of vitamin D that could pass tests for WADA-prohibited substances\, this prompted an association with Synergy Biologics\, makers of Pro D3\, and this relationship is ongoing\, and stimulated an interest in vitamin D on which he keeps abreast of research\, and reads extensively.\nSince 2016 Steve has been a pharmacist panel member for the General Pharmaceutical Council’s Fitness to Practise Committee\, and has recently started as an NHS Test and Trace clinical contact tracer on a part time basis. \n \nJanet Worrell\, Head of Regulatory\, JensonR+ \nJanet is an experienced regulatory affairs professional\, having supported a diverse portfolio of products\, for a number of companies across the East Midlands. Janet’s experience covers early concept development\, food supplements\, over the counter (OTC) medicines\, inhaled therapies and clinical trial applications. Janet enjoys collaborating with companies to develop their regulatory strategy to deliver commercial success. Janet is an independent board member of the East Midlands Academic Health Science Network supporting innovation within NHS.
URL:https://staging.medilinkmidlands.com/event/webinar-medicines-management-in-professional-sport/
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jo Rudzki":MAILTO:info@medilinkem.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201110T103000
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SUMMARY:Webinar: The Value of Digital Health
DESCRIPTION:Digital Healthcare has undergone a dramatic acceleration during 2020. The requirement to deliver care remotely has accelerated adoption of new technologies\, new care pathways and new learning like never before. \nThis event is in partnership with the Digital Health Team at De Montfort University will provide an insight into the latest developments in this area\, supporting the future of healthcare. \nThis webinar will cover: \n-Examples of real-world application of digital technology in health and social care. \n-Examining the challenges and solutions to enhancing equitable access. \n-Exploring the benefits of digital health for patients\, healthcare professionals\, and society. \n-Understanding how partner organisations can demonstrate their digital health intervention delivers value. \nThis webinar is open to all organisations keen to explore and understand the digital health landscape. \nDuration: 1 hour \nThis free to attend webinar will be held as part of the SoLSTICE programme – a project part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund. For further details please click here. This event is classed as State Aid to participating businesses\, the value of which is £127\, but is delivered completely free of charge to participants. \nThe webinar is part of the programme of events for Leicester Business Festival 2020\, De Montfort University are proud to be Headline Partner. For further details on the festival\, please click here. \nSpeaker Profiles: \n \nDr Simon Oldroyd\, Interim Deputy Vice-Chancellor \nDr Simon Oldroyd is the University’s Interim Deputy Vice-Chancellor (iDVC).  Simon is Deputy to the Interim Vice-Chancellor on all academic matters.  His responsibilities include day-to-day academic leadership of the university and strategic and operational oversight and line management of the faculty Pro Vice-Chancellor/Deans and three cross cutting Pro Vice-Chancellor portfolios. \n  \n  \n  \n \nProfessor David Mba\, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research and Enterprise) \nProfessor David Mba was appointed Pro Vice-Chancellor and Dean of Computing\, Engineering and Media in August 2017. In May 2019\, he also took on the role of PVC (Enterprise)\, and in March 2020 he also took on the role of PVC (Research). \nDavid’s current research is focused on machine condition monitoring\, machine fault diagnosis\, model based prognostics and machine performance prediction. \n  \n  \n \nProfessor Bertha Ochieng\, Professor of Integrated Health and Social Care \nBertha Ochieng is Professor of Integrated Health and Social Care\, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences\, De Montfort University. A key aspect of her research is in examining digital solutions that support development of integrated models of health and social care and community engagement. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nProfessor Barnaby Poulton\, MRPharmS FFCI; Hon. Professor of Digital Medicine and Director Digital Health and Care Unit. Digital Health Strategist \nBarnaby is a pharmacist by training who has switched his focus to digital health.  He has built and led multiple digital health companies and co-founded the Digital Health and Care Unit at DMU to support the evaluation of novel technologies\, enabling them to enter market and deliver benefits to patients. \n 
URL:https://staging.medilinkmidlands.com/event/webinar-the-value-of-digital-health/
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jo Rudzki":MAILTO:info@medilinkem.com
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SUMMARY:East Midlands Academic Health Science Network Virtual Coffee Break
DESCRIPTION:Join EMAHSN for a virtual coffee break on Thursday 12 November at 10:30am\, to have a chat about the digital landscape in the NHS. This informal gathering will be hosted by Mike Watson\, Digital Lead and you will have the opportunity to share your experiences and find out how the EMAHSN can help. \nNetworking opportunities are a key part of Medilink EM events and whilst the current COVID-19 crisis still restricts face to face events\, this online opportunity enables the life sciences community to still connect with one another. \nGrab a coffee\, a biscuit and join us. \nIf you have any topics that you’d like to discuss in future AHSN coffee breaks\, please feel free to email any suggestions to us by clicking here. \nJoining details will provided to delegates by a member of the Medilink EM events team once the online registration form has been completed. \n[popup_trigger id=”2016″ tag=”button” classes=”eventbutton”]Book Now[/popup_trigger] \n 
URL:https://staging.medilinkmidlands.com/event/nov1211/
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ORGANIZER;CN="Becky Sharpe":MAILTO:events@medilinkmidlands.com
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR: Medical Technologies & Systems Special Interest Group (SIG)
DESCRIPTION:The next Medical Technologies & Systems Special Interest Group (SIG) will take place online\, join us as we discuss Digital Therapeutics\, Diagnostics and Connected Devices. \nAttend to hear about:\n– Technical challenges in using wearables for depression prevention\, diagnosis\, monitoring and treatment\n– Technological approaches towards dementia diagnostics and safeguarding\n– Using machine learning to predict and diffuse meltdown events in students with autism \nDURATION: 1.5 hours \nThis free to attend event is held as part of the INSTILS programme – a project part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund\, click here to be re-directed to further information about the project.  This event is classed as State Aid to participating businesses\, the value of which is £190\, but is delivered completely free of charge to participants. \nSpeaker Profiles:  \n\nChaired by: Professor Philip Breedon\, Professor of Smart Technologies\, Nottingham Trent University \nAs well as his role at Nottingham Trent University\, Philip is also a Chartered Engineer and a Chartered IT professional. He is a member of the Department of Health’s National Institute for Health Research invention for innovation funding panel and holds a number of journal editorial positions. His research interests and latest projects centre on new and emerging technologies and materials. This includes wearable technologies\, 3D printing of pathological models\, additive and subtractive manufacturing for medical applications\, surgical robotics\, cardiovascular devices\, augmented /virtual/immersive technologies and environments\, the surgical pathway and investigative research related to the utilisation of ‘smart materials’ for medical applications. Through promoting his work and research activities he now works with a number of surgeons and clinicians across Europe. \n \nProf. David J. Brown – Professor in Interactive Systems for Social Inclusion\, Nottingham Trent University\nDavid is Professor of Interactive systems for Social Inclusion\, with the Department of Computer Science at Nottingham Trent University. Recent grants on which he has acted as PI include 2 EU H2020 projects (MaTHiSiS and No One Left Behind) on affective computing and digital game making for students with learning disabilities and autism\, an EPSRC project (An Internet of Soft Things) on co-design of networked soft textile interfaces to promote mental wellbeing\, and a range of EU Erasmus projects (e.g.\, Pathway+) to use affective computing to provide personalised learning pathways for students with learning disabilities. He is Conference Co-Chair for the International Conference of Virtual Reality\, Disability and Associated Technologies\, and Associate Editor for Frontiers – Virtual Reality and Medicine. \n\nDr John Broulidakis- Research Scientist\, Emteq Labs\nJohn was educated at the university of Sussex where he gained a first-class honours degree in Psychology with Neuroscience. John completed his PhD at the University of Southampton in Cognitive Neuroscience in 2019. He has direct experience of the issues and challenges associated with managing large and complex clinical studies having successfully managed a €2.5million EU funded study. Currently he is working as a research scientist for medical device manufacture Emteq Labs. There he is involved in manufacturing ecologically valid\, “context aware” emotion recognition systems though novel wearable devices\n \n\nProf. Michael Hornberger- (Professor of Applied Dementia Research\, Norwich Medical School\, University of East Anglia) Associate Dean of Innovation\, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences\, University of East Anglia)\nMichael is the Professor of Applied Dementia Research at the Norwich Medical School and the Associate Dean of Innovation\, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. His research focuses on improving diagnosis\, disease progression tracking and symptom management in dementia. His research group employs various research methodologies (clinical\, cognition\, sensor technology\, neuroimaging and genetics) as well as disease interventions (pharmacological and non-pharmacological) for their research studies. His current research is particularly focused on spatial orientation and navigation deficits in dementia and how this has an impact on people’s outdoor activities such as driving and walking safely.
URL:https://staging.medilinkmidlands.com/event/medical-technologies-systems-special-interest-group-sig-4-2nov/
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ORGANIZER;CN="Becky Sharpe":MAILTO:events@medilinkmidlands.com
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SUMMARY:Webinar: Is your Business Case NHS Ready?
DESCRIPTION:Registration for this event is now closed. \nJoin the second of our two-part CPD accredited virtual workshops\, Is your Business Case NHS Ready?\, delivered by the East Midlands Academic Health Science Network (EMAHSN). \nThe challenge as innovators and companies selling to the NHS is often that when you have a product that improves patient outcomes and saves cost you still cannot get it adopted by the NHS. This is frequently because there isn’t a fully developed business case. \nPART 1 is a pre-recorded 40 minute webinar that you can watch at a time convenient to you. \nThe webinar will cover: \n– What a business case is\, what is its purpose and why is it so important? \n– Who reviews the business case and how are they evaluated? \n– How to construct a good business case \n—————— \nPART 2 is a live 1-hour Q&A session that will take place on Thursday 19th November. \nIn order to gain access to this live session\, delegates are required to watch the pre-recorded webinar prior to attending.  \nThe Q&A session will be held with a panel of experts from the EMAHSN and delegates will have the opportunity to ask questions directly to the team. \nThis free to attend virtual event will be held as part of the SoLSTICE programme – a project part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund. Click here to be redirected to further information about the project. This event is classed as State Aid to participating businesses\, the value of which is £222\, but is delivered completely free of charge to participants. \n  \nUpon registration you will be sent a link to the pre-recorded webinar by a member of the Medilink East Midlands events team.  Joining details for the live Q&A session will be distributed separately once the webinar has been viewed.  \nSPEAKER PROFILE: \n \nNicholas Brown\, Commercial Manager\, East Midlands Academic Health Science Network \nNick joined the East Midlands Academic Health Science Network as Commercial Manager in 2015. Prior to this\, Nick has more than 20 years’ experience of the medical industry working with manufacturers\, distributors and clinical staff from the UK and European health sectors\, from both the sales and marketing side\, as well as in a consulting and advisory role. His Commercial Manager role focuses on building closer links between healthcare and businesses; identifying new services and products that can be introduced for the benefit of patients throughout the region – as well as marketed throughout the UK and abroad\, providing wealth creation opportunities across the East Midlands.
URL:https://staging.medilinkmidlands.com/event/webinar-is-your-business-case-nhs-ready-2/
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR: Ensuring your Clinical Trial helps you to sell your products
DESCRIPTION:Join this webinar to hear from Afortori Development and Pym’s Consultancy\, on tips and advice for ensuring your Clinical Trial helps you to sell your products. \nThe reason for conducting trials is to validate your product or service so that you can enter the market or increase sales.  \nBefore you start planning your trial you need to establish what your long term goals are\, and then how evidence and validation will help you reach those goals. In this way your research and development strategy is embedded into your overall business strategy – in short every element of your business complements the others and your company has a clear road map for the future helping you to maximise your return on investment in all parts of the business. \nIn the sales process a successful trial starts as a talking point\, delivers evidence to support your sales pitch\, and validates your product to the wider NHS environment\, broadening your reach into the market. \nAttend to learn about the above and take the opportunity to get your questions answered by the experts. \nDURATION: 1 hour \nThis free to attend event is held as part of the SoLSTICE programme – a project part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund\, click here to be re-directed to further information about the project. This event is classed as State Aid to participating businesses\, the value of which is £127\, but is delivered completely free of charge to participants. \nSpeaker Profiles: \n\nDr Nicola Wall\, Chief Executive Officer\, Afortori Development\nNicola Wall \, along with Elizabeth Ralph founded Afortiori Development after long careers in clinical research within a variety of roles. Both bring a commitment to well designed and successfully executed clinical trials. \n\nKate Pym\, Managing Director\, Pym’s Consultancy\nKate Pym is Managing Director of Pym’s Consultancy Ltd\, an independent consultancy providing services for SMEs and universities supporting grant applications\, responses to tender and commercialisation\nKate has over 20 years’ experience of working in Health and Social Care for companies\, including Allergan Inc.\, AstraZeneca\, Mitie and Baxter Healthcare. With a focus on innovative products and services. She has worked across the NHS\, public\, private and third sectors to produce patient-centred\, high quality\, outcome based services and facilitate the market entry and growth of new products.\nKate’s experience covers: Product launches\, writing winning bids\, working with commissioners to model population outcomes\, designing\, selling and mobilization of new integrated services. She has a clear focus on outcomes and what is required to demonstrate them\, with a view to extension and expansion of constructive innovation.  Since 2014 Kate has supported over 40 organisations as managing director of Pym’s.
URL:https://staging.medilinkmidlands.com/event/webinar-ensuring-your-clinical-trial-helps-you-to-sell/
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