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Professor Jim Thornton Professor Jim Thornton is Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Nottingham and Consultant in the Division of Human Development at the City Hospital, Nottingham. He is also Deputy Director of the Nottingham Clinical Trials Support Unit. Jim is ex Editor-in Chief of the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and the European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Reproductive Biology. He is currently involved in a number of research projects including the Growth Restriction Intervention Trial (GRIT) |
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Professor Mike Saks Professor Mike Saks is Senior Pro Vice Chancellor at the University of Lincoln. He was formerly Dean of the Faculty of Health and community Studies at De Montfort University, where he was responsible for the education of a range of health and social care professions. He has published a dozen books on research, professions and health car and given a variety of keynote presentations at national/international conferences on these themes. He has been a member/chair of many NHS committees at all levels - covering a broad span of areas from the changing healthcare workforce to research and development. Mike is the present Chair of the East Midlands University Association Health and Social Care Research Group and a member of the NIHR East Midlands Research for Patient Benefit Committee, East Midlands SHA Health and Higher Education strategic Liaison Group, and East Midlands SHA Innovation Fund Core Panel. In addition, he has frequently acted as an adviser to the UK Departments of Health and professional bodies such as the General Medical Council and the General Social Care Council. He is also a previous Chair of the Research Council for Complementary Medicine and the UK Human Tissue Bank. Internationally, he has been involved in a number of funded research projects, including and INTAS-funded study of the changing attitudes of physicians, in collaboration with the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, and a large CIHR-supported project on care in the community with the university of Toronto. He is the current President of the International Sociological Association Research Committee on Professional Groups.
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Dr Heather Fortnum Dr Heather Fortnum is Director of the NIHR Research Design Service for the East Midlands (NIHR RDS EM). She is medically trained epidemiologist with research methodology expertise. Before joining Trent RDSU (now NIHR RDS EM) she worked for 20 years for the Medical Research Council's Institute of Hearing Research. Heather's research experience is based around the epidemiological study of all aspects of permanent childhood hearing impairment and her MD was a study of hearing impairment following bacterial meningitis in children. She is currently Executive Director of the NIHR National Biomedical Research Unit in Hearing and her research interests are in health technology assessment broadly and specifically in screening services, child health and audiology. Details of current research collaborations and publications can be found on the Nottingham University staff webpages. |
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