Department Conference programme

Transforming Primary Care
Chair: Kamal Mahtani

Showcasing some of our research that is helping to influence and improve primary care

• Francesca Dakin - Resilience in general practice
• Chrysanthi Papoutsi - Group/hybrid consultation
• Georgette Eaton - Paramedics in primary care

Minds and bodies : Our research spans mental and physical health – here’s a look at some of our innovative work about both
Chair: Rachel Pechey

• Michael Kidd - Research spanning mental and physical health - plans for the Global Primary Care research theme
• Megan Kirk Chang - Metabolic Psychiatry: bridging the gap between primary care and psychiatric research
• Elena Tsompanaki - Weight loss and the risk for disordered eating; does looking after the body take a toll on the mind?

From the cradle to the grave
Chair: Nerys Astbury

Primary care makes an impact across the lifecycle : here’s some of our research about pregnancy, children and older people

• Ruya Abdulsalam - Trajectories of biomarkers of type 2 diabetes following pregnancy affected by gestational diabetes
• Chloe Chessell - The Oxford Psychological Interventions for Children and adolescents (TOPIC) Research Group
• Melissa Little - Views of adolescents with excess weight towards weight and weight management
• Jenny Hirst – Inequalities in HRT – from uptake to health outcomes
• Becky Garnett – Investigating the willingness of patients and informal caregivers to deprescribe medication

Drugs + data = powerful stuff
Chair: Sue Ziebland

We’ve got big data and we know about medicines – this session brings this work together

• Brian MacKenna - OpenSAFELY: making reproducibility an unavoidable default
• Helen Curtis - Using GP data for research and service improvement
• Rebecca Barnes - Is bigger data always better? Getting up close to (de)prescribing in structured medication reviews

Little acronyms (ARC, MIC, HPRU, PRU, BRC) make big impacts
Chair: Gail Hayward

A chance to learn about some of our important groups and centres that get research evidence into health and care services

• Paula Wray - Connecting the Dots: How the NIHR ARC OxTV Links Research to Local Impact
• Philip Turner - NIHR MIC and HRC: Optimising development and evaluation of community healthtech Sarah Tonkin-Crine - Health Protection Research Units (HPRUs): a collaboration with UKHSA
• Clare Bankhead - NIHR Cancer Awareness Screening and Early Diagnosis PRU
• Rajan Patel - NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) - Intro to the ‘Digital Health from Hospital To Home’ theme

Welcome by the Head of Department Richard Hobbs
Values Awards Launch

Career pathways: rapid talks from different rungs on the career ladder
Chair: Lauren Bandy

• Roisin Dillon - Don’t follow the yellow brick road!
• Dimitrios Koutoukidis - How many rejections does it take to get a fellowship?
• Sara Shaw - I’m going on a bear hunt

Risky business: A selection of our work unpacking risk and looking at how safety netting can mitigate it
Chair: Richard Stevens

• Claire Friedemann-Smith - Safety-netting for potential cancer symptoms: communicating, recording, and following up risk
• Ariel Wang - Predicting the risks of electrolyte abnormality – Development & validation of the STRATIFY-Hyperkalaemia and Hyponatraemia prediction models
• Defne Saatci - Derivation and validation of risk prediction models for childhood, teenage and young adult cancer

Tackling health inequalities
Chair: Pete Scarborough

Highlighting some of our projects that address the thorny problem of inequality

• Bakita Kasadha - Investigating how people research their own health condition(s)
• Marta Wanat - Tackling the global problem of antibiotic resistance by engaging with local communities: a qualitative study with Eastern Europeans and primary care clinicians in the UK
• Mahendra Patel - The Centre for Research Equity

Refreshments and posters in Arco Room / visit information stands on 2nd floor

One thing I do: lightning talks from our Professional Services Staff to give an insight into what they do
Chair: Lucy Curtin

• Freya Cooke - Getting your money back
• Polly Kerr - Training the ‘people’ people
• Kate Markham - Diary mastery is precision play
• Andrew Kong - Have you tried turning it off and on again?
• Cristina Arraes - Grants behind the scenes
• Judy Irving - Clearing a path in the bureaucratic jungle
• Gavin Hubbard - Comms: the bottom bit of the swan...
• Nicola Webb - What is HR Operations?
• Gemma Webb - Improving working spaces
• Melanie Carr - 3 Tips for Clinical Trial Management
• Ruth Sanders - Part of the furniture: the benefits and drawbacks of being a long term staff member