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果冻影院鈥檚 first Healthcare Engineering Symposium for Early-Career Researchers

27 October 2021

The first Healthcare Engineering @ 果冻影院 ECR Symposium organised by IHE鈥檚 Careers Delivery Group took place on 19 October 2021 featuring cutting-edge research from across 果冻影院.

Panel discussion

The online聽symposium focused on 3 core themes: prevention, monitoring and diagnostics, and therapies and interventions. Through these themes, early-career researchers from across 果冻影院鈥檚 healthcare engineering community were invited to submit abstracts. From these eight oral presentations and 27 flash talks were accepted.

Prof Vivek Dua, Chair of the IHE Careers Delivery Group and one of the judges of the talks commented: 鈥淭he standard of the symposium was at the international level. I was particularly impressed by the confidence and presentation skills of the ECRs, the skills that they will need to successfully progress in their careers, in addition to the in-depth technical knowledge of their subject. Many聽congratulations聽to the organisers for a very professional delivery of the symposium and to the participants for their engaging and stimulating talks, presentations and questions.鈥

Prizes were awarded to the speakers who scored highest with the judges with 1stprize oral presentation (拢200) to Rebecca Baker, 2nd prize oral presentation (拢150) to Benjamin Miller, 1st prize flash talk (拢150) to Matthew Webber, 2nd prize flash talk (拢100) to Emmanouil Dimitrakakis, 3rd prize flash talk (拢75) to Natasha Liou and 4th prize flash talk (拢50) to two speakers, Thomas Wemyss and Gergana Atanasova. Congratulations to all for the high-quality of presentations.

The day also included a plenary talk from Prof Marianna Obrist, IHE Digital Deputy Director and a panel discussion with Prof Manish Tiwari, Prof Marianna Obrist, Prof Adrien Desjardins and Dr Weng Wong exploring how researchers at the early-stage of their career can accelerate the translation of their research. 聽

The symposium was organised and delivered by early-career researchers from within the delivery group;聽Dr Olga Perski, Dr Martyna Michalska, Dr Victoria Roberton and Dr Martin Smith. They said: The presenters did an聽excellent聽job of communicating complex science to an interdisciplinary audience, which sparked many questions and comments.聽Congratulations聽to all speakers and contributors - especially the prize winners! We ended the Symposium with an engaging panel discussion on how to create wider impact in healthcare engineering, with senior academics and staff from the 果冻影院 community sharing their valuable experiences.聽We were thrilled with the attendance and the high-quality contributions to the first IHE ECR Symposium and look forward to future events!"

We hope that this symposium will become an annual event. If you would be interested in joining the organising committee for next year鈥檚 symposium or in building your project management and leadership skills through other opportunities with IHE鈥檚 Careers Delivery Group, then email healthcare-eng@ucl.ac.ukto find out more about the group. 聽