Alumni News Highlights
Queen's Birthday Honours lists 2017
OMA extends many congratulations to the following people who received honours in June 2017:
Knighthood - Professor Simon LOVESTONE Professor of Translational Neuroscience, University of Oxford. For services to Neuroscience Research.
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire - Sir David WEATHERALL Regius Professor of Clinical Medicine Emeritus,The Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford. For services to Medicine.
Commander of the Order of the British Empire - Professor Andrew HATTERSLEY, FRS Professor of Molecular Medicine, University of Exeter, and Consultant Physician, Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust. For services to Medical Science.
In May 2018 Data Protection Law is changing.
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The new law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is expected to come into effect on 25 May 2018. It is a wide-ranging law, which will govern how organisations use the personal data of individuals.
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New Year Honours 2017
Among those recognised in the 2017 New Year honours are Professor Nicholas White, professor of tropical medicine at Oxford and Mahidol University, Thailand, who was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George for services to tropical medicine and global health; Dr Premila Webster, director of public health education and training at the Nuffield Department of Population Health who was appointed MBE for services to public health and Sir Roger Bannister, former Master of Pembroke College, who was made a Companion of Honour for services to sport.
Joseph Colin Smith
Joe Smith OBE FRCS died peacefully at home on 28th October 2016, aged 85. Qalified London 1954, St Cross College, urological surgeon, Oxford Medical School. At his request, the funeral will be a celebration held at St Bartholomew Church, Yarnton, on 16th November at 1pm.
Oxford top of the World University Rankings 2016-2017 for clinical, pre-clinical and health
Oxford has come top in the 2016-2017 Times Higher Education World University Rankings' for clinical, pre-clinical and health. The table judges world class universities across all of their core missions – teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.
Oxford tops world university rankings
Oxford University has come top of the Times Higher Education world university rankings - a first for a UK university.
Oxford knocks California Institute of Technology, the top performer for the past five years, into second place.
The rankings show a mixed picture for European universities, while Asian institutions continue to rise.
The Times Higher tables rank universities worldwide on measures including teaching, research and international outlook - for example, numbers of overseas students and staff.
2016 New Year Honours lists
we are delighted that the following Oxford Medical Alumni were honoured:
Christopher John Kent BULSTRODE For services to Humanitarian Medicine.
Professor Christopher Bulstrode, Emeritus Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Emeritus Fellow of Green Templeton College, consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the John Radcliffe Hospital and the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre from 1982 until his retirement in 2010, has been appointed CBE for services to humanitarian medicine.
Professor Bulstrode, was honoured with a CBE for his work with Doctors of the World. The charity provides medical care to people affected by war, natural disasters, disease, hunger, poverty or exclusion around the world. Professor Bulstrode has worked with the organisation in a number of countries, including Afghanistan, Haiti, Nepal, Palestine, Sierra Leone and Ukraine. He said: ‘Getting involved in humanitarian aid work is the dream for many of us doctors and nurses. It has been an honour to be invited to join the teams set up by Doctors of the World and to contribute what I can. Certainly helping those less well off than ourselves, especially when war or disaster has struck, feels like one of the most useful thing that we can do. I do hope this award will stand as a recognition of the work of those teams, not of an individual. Sometimes the work can be dangerous. I don’t have any solutions to that. Luckily there is usually very little time to think of the risks, and it seems to me that if a job has to be done and all possible precautions have been taken, then the sooner you get on with it and finish the job, the better.’
Professor Charles Frank Craddock For services to Medicine and Medical Research.
Professor Charles Craddock, Professor of Haemato-Oncology at the University, and a consultant haematologist at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham (QEHB), receives the CBE for services to medicine and medical research, while the University’s Director of Legal Services, Mrs Carolyn Pike, has been awarded the OBE for services to higher education and the legal profession.
Professor Craddock is Director of the Blood and Marrow Transplant Unit at QEHB and heads the hospital’s Centre for Clinical Haematology. He was Transitional Director of the £24 million Birmingham Institute of Translational Medicine, which opened last year.
In 2003 he-founded the blood cancer charity Cure Leukaemia, which has established a network of specialist research nurses.
Keith Malcolm WILLETT - for services to the NHS.
Professor Keith Willett, Professor of Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery, Fellow of Wolfson College and Director for Acute Care at NHS England, has been appointed CBE for services to the NHS. An NHS consultant surgeon for 24 years, Professor Willett has a particular research interest in the care of the multiply injured patient, acetabular and pelvic fractures, fractures in the elderly, limb fracture surgery, fracture biomechanics, accident prevention and clinical outcome studies of orthopaedic trauma surgery techniques.
In 2003 he established the Oxford Trauma Research Group and founded the Kadoorie Centre for Critical Care Research and Education, which focuses on the treatment of critically ill and injured patients. In 2009 he was appointed the first National Clinical Director for Trauma Care at the Department of Health and was charged with developing and implementing government policy across the NHS to radically improve the care of older people with fragility hip fractures and with establishing Regional Trauma Networks and Major Trauma Centres.
As Director of Acute Care for NHS England, he now has the national medical oversight of acute NHS services ranging from pre-hospital and ambulance services, emergency departments, urgent surgery, acute medicine, children’s and maternity, armed forces, and health and justice services and national major incidents. Of his honour, he said ‘I have been enormously privileged to build a career with so many dedicated individuals and friends who are our NHS.