In category: SPCR Fellowships

Attending my first School for Primary Care Research (SPCR) Trainee event marked a significant milestone in my Post Doctoral Fellowship, researching physical activity promotion in Primary Care. Fresh from the excitement of being awarded a SPCR Funded fellowship, I arrived at the Manchester Marriott Piccadilly Hotel, eager to immerse myself in the programme of events. […]

As colleagues in Exeter will know a large part of my Deputy Medical Director role within the National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR) Clinical Research Network (CRN) was spent in leading pandemic primary care studies. As the dust settles on COVID-19, now is an appropriate time to reflect on the delivery of the […]

In July I attended the Society for Academic Primary Care (SAPC) conference in Bristol, my adopted home. This year the theme was “Sustainable Primary Care: healthy systems, healthy people”, which seemed fitting as Bristol is the UK’s first cycling city and has been voted the most environmentally friendly city in the UK. It also cannot […]

Switching specialities mid-way through your medical career is hard work. Imagine moving from fast paced Obstetrics and Gynaecology to equally challenging night shift free General Practice. Add to that, trying to change the tracks of your research focus from largely secondary care based women’s health to primary care; it is fun to say the least. […]

In March this year, I attended the Southwest Society for Academic Primary Care conference along with Eve Kingston, Sarah Price and Luke Mounce. Eve and I had been accepted to present on work around the OSCA study (investigating non-attendance at cancer referral appointments in people with anxiety and/or depression), with Eve presenting her scoping review […]

I’m a GP and clinical research fellow, currently working on a Wellcome funded doctoral fellowship. My area of research is improving early cancer diagnosis in primary care and I’m developing cancer risk prediction models for symptomatic patients. I’m also really interested in machine learning and its increasing relevance to our research. My passion outside of […]

At the end of May 2024 I attended a symposium in New Delhi organised by the Indian Council of Medical Research and The Academy of Medical Sciences on ‘Addressing antimicrobial resistance with a One Health approach’. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is associated with or directly attributed to around 5 million of deaths a year according to […]

On Thursday 20 June 2024 the University of Exeter Department of Health and Community Sciences hosted the 8th National Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) Research Conference. This year’s event was organised by Antoinette Davey, Jon Evans, and Ian Porter with a focus on the development and implementation of patient outcome measures across diverse clinical settings. […]

My name is Ge Chen, also known as Wawa. I am a graduate research assistant working in the DISCO group. The project I am currently working on involves combining genetic risk scores with routine test results to predict prostate cancer in primary care settings. The abstract of this project was accepted by the 2024 Ca-PRI […]

I presented a seminar as part of the Academic Primary Care at Exeter (APEx) seminar series in June 2024. The focus of my seminar was the clinical utility of the platelet count, measured as part of a standard full blood count, in cancer detection. This topic is particularly significant given the crucial role that early […]