Saving Faces and NFORC attended the BAOMS with AAOMS Annual Scientific Meeting 2019 on the 3rd and 4th of July 2019 at The International Convention Centre in Birmingham.
The hugely successful 2019 NFORC/BAOMS Collaborative Research Summit aimed at medical/dental students and trainees took place on 19th June 2019 at the Rotblat Lecture Theatre, London.
Surgeons, nurses, trainees and researchers from around the country gathered on the 9th May 2019 at the Richard Desmond Paediatric Ophthalmology Hospital, for the head & neck and oculoplastic collaborative research summit.
Title: Living with and beyond head and neck cancer: Psychosocial factors associated with impact of cancer and quality of life
Elisavet Moschopoulou was a PhD student at the Centre for Psychiatry, a World Psychiatric Association Collaborating Centre, Queen Mary, University of London.
Update: As funders of the study, we are delighted to announce that Elisavet successfully submitted and defended her thesis in September 2018 with no further corrections. The research is the first to examine post-traumatic stress in head and neck cancer survivors and their carers.
An interesting new study is being conducted by Hannah Saunders at Durham University, who is looking into whether workplace laws in the UK are effective at achieving equality for people with a visible difference.
Title: Cellular and Molecular Signature of Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma
Fatima Qadir was a PhD student under the supervision of Dr Muy-Teck Teh and Dr Ahmad Waseem at Queen Mary, University of London. Her project was funded by Saving Faces, which was a biomarker study that focused on the role of exosomes in oral cancer diagnosis and development.
Update: Fatima Qadir successfully submitted her final thesis and passed her PhD viva with minor corrections in May 2018. You can read Fatima’s PhD thesis here.
Follow the project log here: https://www.researchgate.net/project/Pattern-recognition-in-human-gene-expression-network
Title: An investifation on the effects of HPV16-induced immortalisation and POU2FC regulation in keratinocytes
Katarzyna Niemiec was a PhD student under the supervision of Prof Ahmad Waseem and Dr Muy-Teck Teh at Queen Mary University of London. Her project, funded by Saving Faces and Rosetree Trust, focused on human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV16) and its role in head and neck cancer.
Update: Congratulations to Katarzyna for successfully submitting her final thesis and passing her PhD viva with minor corrections in February 2018.
For the first seminar of the Medicine & Me series, we were invited by the prestigious Royal Society of Medicine to discuss with other experts and patients about life after facial trauma, domestic violence and knife crime for a one day seminar.
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.
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.