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Conference Programme
6.00 Registration and Poster setup - sign in at front desk and collect badges
6.30 Welcome address from Professor Chris Pugh, Director of OUCAGS
6.40 Mr Zeeshan Akhtar: The Beginnings of an Academic Career
7.00 Dr Chris van Tulleken: Truth and Lies: Medicine in the Media or How I learned to stop worrying and love the BBC
7.30 Poster session 1 - Even numbered posters to present
8.00 Poster session 2 - Odd numbered posters to present
8.30 Judge's deliberations
8.45 Keynote speech from Prof Dame Anne Johnson: Beating Bugs: One Epidemiologist's Journey
9.15 Prize Ceremony
Click here to download the 2013 RiCP programme booklet
6.30 Welcome address from Professor Chris Pugh, Director of OUCAGS
6.40 Mr Zeeshan Akhtar: The Beginnings of an Academic Career
7.00 Dr Chris van Tulleken: Truth and Lies: Medicine in the Media or How I learned to stop worrying and love the BBC
7.30 Poster session 1 - Even numbered posters to present
8.00 Poster session 2 - Odd numbered posters to present
8.30 Judge's deliberations
8.45 Keynote speech from Prof Dame Anne Johnson: Beating Bugs: One Epidemiologist's Journey
9.15 Prize Ceremony
Click here to download the 2013 RiCP programme booklet
Keynote Speaker: Professor Dame Anne Johnson, Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Co-director of the Institute of Global Health, UCL
Prof Dame Anne Johnson trained in medicine at Cambridge and Newcastle, then went on to specialise in Epidemiology and Public Health. She has worked in research in the epidemiology and prevention of HIV and sexually transmitted infections and other infectious diseases for over 20 years. She co-directed the Medical Research Council, UK Centre for Co-ordinating Epidemiological Studies of HIV and AIDS from 1985 until 1999. She was principal investigator on the 1990 first National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal 1990), and all subsequent follow-up studies. Her current research portfolio includes international HIV cohort studies, behavioural intervention studies and a community study of the epidemiological and immunological determinants of seasonal influenza transmission (MRC Fluwatch). She collaborates with colleagues in Europe, Africa and China. She was made Dame Commander of the British Empire in the 2013 Queen's Birthday Honours List.
Clinician Scientist: Dr. Christoffer van Tulleken, Infectious Diseases Registrar and MRC Clinical Research Fellow, UCL
Christoffer van Tulleken graduated in medicine from Oxford in 2002 and is currently undertaking a molecular biology PhD in HIV as an MRC Clinical Research Training Fellow at UCL . Since graduating he has combined clinical training with humanitarian medicine, documentary film making and presenting several television series for the BBC. Chris is a patron of the medical aid agency Merlin.
Junior Clinical Academic: Mr Zeeshan Akhtar, MRC Clinical Research Fellow, JR
Mr Akhtar qualified from Oxford Medical School in 2007 and went on to complete Foundation Training in London. He returned to Oxford in 2009 to commence Core Surgical Training as an Academic Clinical Fellow. During this time Mr Akhtar developed an experimental interest in donor management and organ preservation under the supervision of Prof Rutger Ploeg, Dr Susan Fuggle and Prof Chris Pugh. He is currently completing a DPhil in Surgical Sciences as an MRC Clinical Research Fellow.