ECTU seminar - Annual Update This year’s Edinburgh Clinical Trials Unit’s Annual Update will take place on Tuesday 28 May 2019 (after which lunch will be available). It will follow the same format as the previous two years, so please do come along to hear from ECTU and the 5 presentations from clinical colleagues on their trials with ECTU. After an introduction from Professor John Norrie, Director of ECTU, there will be 5 presentations from clinical colleagues – Professor Nick Mills, Professor Lorna Marson, Dr Suvanka Pal, Professor Rustam Al-Shahi Salman and Dr Gwo-Tzer Ho. After these presentations, there will be around table discussion of events over the last year and opportunities for collaboration going forward with the ECTU Senior Team Leads. A buffet lunch will be available from 12.10pm in Postgraduate Medical Education Centre [PGEC]. Please attend yourself and encourage your fellow researchers with any interest in trials – past, present or future – to come along too. We look forward to seeing you on what promises to be an exciting and informative morning. Register your interest by emailing ECTU – please confirm if you will be joining us for lunch (detailing any dietary requirements). Programme 9.45-10.00 Welcome - Edinburgh Clinical Trials Unit: Professor John Norrie, Professor of Medical Statistics and Trial Methodology, Director of Edinburgh Clinical Trials Unit and Co-Head of Centre for Population Health Sciences, Usher Institute. 10.00 Chief Investigator Presentations (15 minutes each) 10.00 – 10.15 Professor Nick Mills, Chair of Cardiology, Butler BHF Senior Clinical Research Fellow and Consultant Cardiologist - Centre for Cardiovascular Science; Edinburgh Imaging. Data-enabled clinical trials in coronary heart disease-HighSTEACs and longer term SCOT-HEART outcomes 10.15-10.30 Professor Lorna Marson, Professor of Transplant Surgery and Honorary Consultant Transplant Surgeon - Transplant Unit, Royal Infirmary Edinburgh, Centre for Inflammation Research. The HOT2study: Heme arginate in transplantation; from mice to men 10.30-10.45 Dr Suvanka Pal, Consultant Neurologist and Senior Lecturer - Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic, Euan MacDonald Centre for Motor Neurone Disease Research. Innovation in clinical trial design for MND –SMART 10.45 Break - Coffee/Tea - Arthurs Seat room (in the Postgraduate Education Centre [PGEC]) 11.05-11.20 Professor Rustam Al-Shahi Salman, Professor of Clinical Neurology - Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences. The ReSTART and SoSTART trials in atrial fibrillation[SKYPE presentation] 11.20-11.35 Dr Gwo-Tzer Ho, Principal Investigator and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist - Centre for Inflammation Research. Targeting the Pro-inflammatory Mitochondria in Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn’s disease -MARVEL 11.35- 12.00 Q & A with ECTU Senior Lead. Discussion: events over the last year and opportunities for collaboration going forward. 12.00- 12.10 closing remarks 12.10– 1.00 Lunch - Arthurs Seat room (in the Postgraduate Education Centre [PGEC]) HighSTEACS: High sensitivity troponin assay in the evaluation of patients with acute coronary syndrome; SCOTHEART: Role of Multidetector computed tomography in the diagnosis and management of patients attending a rapid access chest pain clinic May 28 2019 09.45 - 12.10 ECTU seminar - Annual Update ECTU seminar Auditorium A, Chancellors Building Register interest with ECTU
ECTU seminar - Annual Update This year’s Edinburgh Clinical Trials Unit’s Annual Update will take place on Tuesday 28 May 2019 (after which lunch will be available). It will follow the same format as the previous two years, so please do come along to hear from ECTU and the 5 presentations from clinical colleagues on their trials with ECTU. After an introduction from Professor John Norrie, Director of ECTU, there will be 5 presentations from clinical colleagues – Professor Nick Mills, Professor Lorna Marson, Dr Suvanka Pal, Professor Rustam Al-Shahi Salman and Dr Gwo-Tzer Ho. After these presentations, there will be around table discussion of events over the last year and opportunities for collaboration going forward with the ECTU Senior Team Leads. A buffet lunch will be available from 12.10pm in Postgraduate Medical Education Centre [PGEC]. Please attend yourself and encourage your fellow researchers with any interest in trials – past, present or future – to come along too. We look forward to seeing you on what promises to be an exciting and informative morning. Register your interest by emailing ECTU – please confirm if you will be joining us for lunch (detailing any dietary requirements). Programme 9.45-10.00 Welcome - Edinburgh Clinical Trials Unit: Professor John Norrie, Professor of Medical Statistics and Trial Methodology, Director of Edinburgh Clinical Trials Unit and Co-Head of Centre for Population Health Sciences, Usher Institute. 10.00 Chief Investigator Presentations (15 minutes each) 10.00 – 10.15 Professor Nick Mills, Chair of Cardiology, Butler BHF Senior Clinical Research Fellow and Consultant Cardiologist - Centre for Cardiovascular Science; Edinburgh Imaging. Data-enabled clinical trials in coronary heart disease-HighSTEACs and longer term SCOT-HEART outcomes 10.15-10.30 Professor Lorna Marson, Professor of Transplant Surgery and Honorary Consultant Transplant Surgeon - Transplant Unit, Royal Infirmary Edinburgh, Centre for Inflammation Research. The HOT2study: Heme arginate in transplantation; from mice to men 10.30-10.45 Dr Suvanka Pal, Consultant Neurologist and Senior Lecturer - Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic, Euan MacDonald Centre for Motor Neurone Disease Research. Innovation in clinical trial design for MND –SMART 10.45 Break - Coffee/Tea - Arthurs Seat room (in the Postgraduate Education Centre [PGEC]) 11.05-11.20 Professor Rustam Al-Shahi Salman, Professor of Clinical Neurology - Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences. The ReSTART and SoSTART trials in atrial fibrillation[SKYPE presentation] 11.20-11.35 Dr Gwo-Tzer Ho, Principal Investigator and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist - Centre for Inflammation Research. Targeting the Pro-inflammatory Mitochondria in Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn’s disease -MARVEL 11.35- 12.00 Q & A with ECTU Senior Lead. Discussion: events over the last year and opportunities for collaboration going forward. 12.00- 12.10 closing remarks 12.10– 1.00 Lunch - Arthurs Seat room (in the Postgraduate Education Centre [PGEC]) HighSTEACS: High sensitivity troponin assay in the evaluation of patients with acute coronary syndrome; SCOTHEART: Role of Multidetector computed tomography in the diagnosis and management of patients attending a rapid access chest pain clinic May 28 2019 09.45 - 12.10 ECTU seminar - Annual Update ECTU seminar Auditorium A, Chancellors Building Register interest with ECTU
