King's Health Partners

Another jam-packed KHP News should soon be arriving in your inboxes. This edition features: - the first interview with Prof Graham Lord, our new Executive Director; - open funding call from KHP Centre for Translational Medicine to allow for protected research time; - video roundup and on-the-day reaction from #KHPConference2024; - new device to track and predict epileptic seizures; - explore the new KHP Learning Hub; and - 'a new lease on life', video of patients discussing life after heart surgery. And much more! Including #KHPeople, and all the events and opportunities from across the partnership. Read it here ▶ https://lnkd.in/e64jzf_r King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust * South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust * Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust * King's College London

Information session times have now been confirmed for anyone wanting to learn more about the King's Health Partners Executive Fellowship in Surgical Leadership. The bespoke programme is designed to empower surgical and perioperative specialists to navigate modern healthcare challenges. Fellows will gain knowledge, skills and tools in the following areas: - healthcare executive leadership - risk management - Med Tech innovation - healthcare entrepreneurship The course is hybrid and delivered flexibly to support attendance for participants with busy clinical commitments. Application deadline for the 2025 programme is 10 December. The information sessions are on: 📅 Wednesday 6 November, 12:30pm - 1pm, and 6pm - 6:30pm 📅 Friday 6 December, 12:30pm - 1pm, and 6pm - 6:30pm. Register for a session here ▶ https://bit.ly/3UohMz5 Prokar Dasgupta OBE * Peter Gogalniceanu, MEd PhD FRCS * Prof. Prashant Jha

Build your network and your knowledge at the online KHP Rare Disease Grand Round on Thursday 7 November 💻 Chaired by Dr Cristina Dias, this event will be an opportunity for you to join the King's Health Partners research and clinical community, and hear from experts involved in rare diseases research. This event will feature the following talks from expert speakers: 🧬 New avenues to treat rare diseases: precision therapeutic gene correction using DNA editing for Recessive Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa - presented by Dr Joanna Jacków-Malinowska, Senior Lecturer in Therapeutic Gene Editing, King's College London. 💊 Drug repurposing to help patients with inherited skin diseases - presented by Prof John McGrath, Professor of Molecular Dermatology & Head of Department, St John's Institute of Dermatology, King's College London. Book today to get your ticket ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eCQ-KkuC

✨🚨 Vacancy alert Do you have a high level of work organisation, self-motivation, drive for performance and improvement, and flexibility in approach and attitude? The King’s Health Partners Clinical Trials Office is looking for a Deputy CTO Director to provide senior leadership to the King’s Health Partners organisations, to support the management of commercial clinical trials and a Quality Operations and Compliance function to support non-commercial trials. The successful candidate will have: 🎓 A postgraduate qualification at Masters level in a health related discipline, or equivalent experience. ⭐ Significant leadership experience, including performance and operational management of complex teams within a large and highly research active context, working across multiple sites and organisations. 🖋 Excellent written and verbal communication, interpersonal and influencing skills, alongside practical, sound numeracy and problem solving skills. Apply before Tuesday 5 November 📧 https://lnkd.in/epaTTfBJ

🎉 Dr Claire Shannon has been elected as the next President of The Royal College of Anaesthetists. Congratulations Dr Shannon and thank you for the difference you are making across the partnership and beyond ✨ Read the full story ➡ https://lnkd.in/eifaWC3b

📣 Quality manager vacancy 📣 The King’s Health Partners Clinical Trials Office is seeking a quality manager, to drive a quality approach to the conduct of non-commercial clinical trials conducted within Kings Health Partners. This is a full time post (35 Hours per week), and the successful candidate will be offered an indefinite contract. We are looking for someone who has: 🔎 Experience supporting regulatory inspection, especially by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). 🧠 Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of standards and legislation that govern research in the NHS and academia. ❤️ The ability to work as an effective member of a multidisciplinary team and ensure quality related issues are identified and followed up in a timely manner. Closing date - Thursday 31 October 2024. Apply now 📧 https://lnkd.in/eZrndQPx

📣 There's still time to register for the upcoming KHP Academic Surgical Grand Round. Join our surgical community online tomorrow, Thursday 24 October, 5:30pm - 6:30pm. For the next Surgical Grand Round expert speakers will discuss 'transplantation' 🏥 To sign up please visit ➡ https://lnkd.in/eAYEznNU Foad J Rouhani, Ioannis Loukopoulos, Prokar Dasgupta OBE, Anna Kyungha Kim, Joseph Casey

In case you missed the fantastic KHP Annual Conference, all the sessions are on the KHP YouTube channel 🎥, easily found if you type in '@kingshealthpartners'. There were many highlights across a busy day, including: - The Hon. Julia Gillard AC, former Prime Minister of Australia and Chair of the King's Global Institute for Women's Leadership, discussing gender equality, how the Australian healthcare system and NHS compare, and how to deal with a crisis situation; - practical approaches to advancing equality, diversity, and inclusion, featuring talks from Dr Saima Ajaz, Nadine Fontaine-Palmer PhD, and Dr Sabrina Bajwah; - experts by experience Angela Price-Rowe, highlighting her struggles with chronic pain, and Ronke Dosumu, talking about her remarkable sickle cell disease story; and - the partnership's work in personalised health, featuring presentations by Prof Philip Newsome, Dr Ryan McNally, PhD, Dr Yevedzo Ntuli, and Dr Matthew Hollocks. And much, much more! The video below gives a taster of the event 🔽 Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust * King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust * South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust * King's College London

As well as being a fantastic opportunity to learn about the latest themes in surgery, our Academic Surgical Grand Rounds are also an opportunity for practicing surgeons, undergraduate and postgraduate trainees, and allied healthcare professionals to develop relationships with national and international colleagues 💻🌍 At the next Grand Round, Mr Ioannis Loukopoulos, Prof Sandy Feng and our our session chair Mr Foad J Rouhani will focus on transplant surgery. 📅 On Thursday 24 October join our surgical community for an informative evening event. Get your ticket 🎟 https://lnkd.in/eZbNsTFB Prokar Dasgupta OBE, Joseph Casey, Anna Kyungha Kim

For #WorldMenopauseDay we wanted to talk about the work Prof. Prashant Jha, King's College London has been doing to empower women with a smart wearable called Coolzen. At last month's KHP Annual Conference he told us more about this innovative product that he said could have more than a billion users globally. Together with GPs and menopausal specialists, he conducted the largest study ever done on menopause sufferers, watch Prof Jha's full presentation to hear what he found ➡ https://lnkd.in/ephTv4ZC