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View current eventsBeardmore Hotel and Golden Jubilee Hospital, Clydebank
27 May 2015, 8.45am-4.00pm
Healthcare and industry: challenges and opportunities – past, present and future
Join CENSIS and other events partners including University of Strathclyde, Stirling Innovation Park, SHIL, NHS Forth Valley and others to explore partnerships to health innovation.
Keynote Speaker
Dr Kevin Fong, Consultant Anaesthetist, UCL Hospitals
Kevin is an astrophysicist, medical specialist and a natural storyteller. After training with NASA he now runs an intensive care unit, co-presents Health Check, teaches extreme environment physiology and works with the UK Science, Technology & Facilities Council. He’s also published ‘Extremes: Life, Death and the Limits of the Human Body‘. Kevin talks about the second space age (Mars in a month), risk management, and how exploration not only solves but creates problems.
Who Should Attend
This event offers industry, universities and the NHS the chance to explore health innovation opportunities, and will be of particular interest to:
- Innovative companies and individuals interested in the medical industry
- Healthcare professionals
- Representatives of the medical devices industry
- Academics and researchers
Further Information
Registration for the event is now open.