The 4th Schools Science Conference comprised the following exciting sessions:
- Welcome & Introduction
- Science for Interaction
- Science in Practice – Interactive stands
- Healthy Lifestyle – Your Choice – Interactive Workshop
- Meat and Two Veg (or Proteins, Fats and Carbs) – Interactive Workshop
- Science for Inspiration
- Keynote speech
- Round-up & Prize Giving
Science in Practice
Interactive Exhibits
Meet the Scientists and Healthcare Professionals
Hands-on interactive sessions where you meet scientists, try out some scientific equipment, undertake scientific assessments, answer questions for prizes and learn how science is applied to healthcare.
AND don’t forget to ask scientists what they do and why they love their jobs.
Science at the Heart of the NHS – 2006
Interactive talk
- Introduction
- Don Henderson
Consulltant Clinical Scientist and Divisional Manager for Immunology, Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust - Dr Keith Ison
Chairman, Federation for Healthcare Science
Keith Ison trained in physics and materials science. He worked in a variety of scientific roles in the NHS and University sectors before spending two years helping to plan a new hospital project and three years as an NHS general manager. He is currently Head of Medical Physics at Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospitals, responsible for physicists and engineers who support and check a wide variety of equipment and systems, ranging from X-ray machines to blood pressure meters; who plan and deliver cancer treatments; and who develop new equipment. He is Chairman of the Federation for Healthcare Science, a national body that represents healthcare scientist professions. - Pippa Hodgson
Programme Manager for the Modernising Healthcare Science Careers Programme, Skills for Health
Following a clinical career as a physiotherapist in stroke rehabilitation, Pippa moved into human resources specialising in the areas of management & organisational development and education & training. She worked on projects nationally and locally before leading on a partnership project with two teaching hospitals as an alternative to merger. Her role prior to joining Skills for Health was as the Healthcare Science and Allied Health Professional lead at Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland Strategic Health Authority where she was also the lead for Diagnostic Modernisation. Her areas of special interest are clinical education, organisational development and clinical leadership.
- Don Henderson
A Day in the Life of…
Interactive workshops on healthcare careers
A Day in the Life of a…
- Occupational Therapist Working in Orthopaedics
- Marie Callanan and Sumaira Rizvi
Specialist Occupational Therapists, The North West London Hospitals NHS Trust
- Marie Callanan and Sumaira Rizvi
- Sleep Scientist
- Mary J Morrell
Senior Lecturer / Wellcome Trust University Award Fellow, Imperial College
- Mary J Morrell
- Microbiologist
- Maureen Chadwick
Principal Biomedical Scientist – Microbiology, The Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust
- Maureen Chadwick
- Clinical Virologist
- Dr Mark Atkins
Consultant Virologist, Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust
- Dr Mark Atkins
- Plastic Surgeon
- Mr Niall Kirkpatrick
Consultant Craniofacial Plastic Surgeon, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital
- Mr Niall Kirkpatrick
- Speech and Language Therapist
- Anna Ostmeier and Antonia Aldous
Speech and Language Therapists working with paediatric caseloads, Hounslow PCT
- Anna Ostmeier and Antonia Aldous
- Nuclear Medicine and PET Radiographer
- Bernadette Cronin
Service Lead / Clinical Specialist Radiographer for Nuclear Medicine and PET, The Royal Marsden Hospital
- Bernadette Cronin
- Defense Against Bioterrorism Scientist
- Dr Rebecca Ingram
Research Associate, Imperial College
- Dr Rebecca Ingram
- Physiotherapy in Learning Disabilities
- Agnieszka Lang
Physiotherapist, West London Mental Health Trust- Tony Hegarty
Superintendent Physiotherapy, West London Mental Health Trust
- Tony Hegarty
- Agnieszka Lang
- Pandemic and Avian Flu Expert
- Dr Jonathan Van Tam
Consultant Epidemiologist, Health Protection Agency
- Dr Jonathan Van Tam
Healthy Lifestyle – Your Choice
Interactive workshops
Meat and Two Veg
(or Proteins, Fats and Carbs)
Interactive workshops
Keynote Speaker
Alison Mowbray
Alison Mowbray talks about her career and striving to be the best
Alison was on the British Rowing team for seven years and competed in five World Championships and two Olympic Games. Having not even stepped in a boat until she went to Liverpool University at the age of 18, she then kept rowing on the back burner for many years while she pursued an academic career. Having achieved a PhD in Genetic Engineering from Cambridge University in 1997, at the age of 26 she finally moved to London to attempt National selection.
Three years later, Alison achieved a last minute qualification for the Sydney Olympics and finished 10th in the single sculls event. It was not until then, at the age of 29, that an Olympic medal seemed even a possibility. “By the Monday of the Sydney Games I had decided I wanted to row for just four more years, I wanted to go to Athens and I wanted to come back with a medal”. The story of the next four years is one of dedication, teamwork and personal leadership.
Four years later, in the Quad sculls in Athens, Alison achieved her ambition to bring home an Olympic medal; she knows what it is to work towards and achieve a dream. Having retired from international competition Alison now works as an inspirational speaker to help and motivate others to realize their own ambitions.
Alison Mowbray
Olympic Medalist