Massive congratulations for the third time this year to Dr Emmylou Rahtz on her third peer-reviewed publication in the Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery (JPRAS). Dr Rahtz’s research challenges the common assumptions about the psychological effects of facial injuries.
Professor Iain Hutchison talks to Spanish surgeon Dr. Quico Serrano, who volunteers his skills to a range of medical organizations in the developing world, and Félix Losada, Chief Marketing & Institutional Relations Officer at Deloitte about his foundation’s work and the challenges and successes of reconstructive surgery.
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On Friday 20th December 2013, Jaia underwent surgery which was carried out by Professor Hutchison, to remove a haemangioma on the bridge of her nose. We are incredibly happy to hear that Jaia is doing well nearly four years on after her surgery.
On 17th of June, Gwendolen Davis celebrated her 80th birthday by raising funds for Saving Faces! She celebrated in style with a fundraising party at the Queen Elizabeth Public House in Chingford. Seventy guests from 16 different countries were invited to a buffet lunch. The event also coincided with Jo Cox’s husband’s request for the celebration of things we have in common rather than concentrating on our differences.
Congratulations again to Dr Emmylou Rahtz for her second publication this year in The Conversation. Dr Rahtz completed her PhD in May 2015, funded by Saving Faces, which looks into the psychological impact of gang violence.
A group of ex-art students of Somerset College of Art in the 1960’s, decided to hold an exhibition of their work and titled it the ‘Then & Now’ at the CICCIC Gallery. Whilst organising the exhibition, the students were told of the untimely death of Geoff Rigden, an abstract artist and a much admired past student from the 60’s who had died in January 2016.
If you think climbing up Kilimanjaro to Uhuru Peak to raise funds for schools in Africa and head and neck cancer patients is enough, think again!
Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) researcher Professor Ahmad Waseem (Institute of Dentistry) and his team are developing a novel way to identify the increasing number of HPV-driven head and neck cancers. This is vital for improving cancer patient care as HPV related tumours have a much better outcome than those caused by other factors such as alcohol, tobacco or areca nut consumption. Personalisation of treatment using this new technology may also allow for less invasive ‘de-intensified’ treatment strategies with fewer side-effects.
We are pleased to announce that the respected British Medical Journal (BMJ) Open has published a research article on psychological outcomes following violent injuries based on Dr Emmylou Rahtz‘s PhD thesis, which was funded by Saving Faces – The Facial Surgery Research Foundation.
Congratulations to Fatima Qadir and her team at Queen Mary University of London who were awarded the prize for best research poster at the 2017 British Association of Head and Neck Oncologists (BAHNO) scientific conference. Fatima is a PhD student funded by Saving Faces and is now in the final year of her studies. The title of Fatima’s research was “Can genetic profiling aid clinical decision making in head and neck cancer?”.