PROFESSOR CHRIS DAY, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University
175th Anniversary of the Medical School in Newcastle – Past, Present and Future Success
Date/Time: 3rd March 2010, 17:30 - 18:30
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The first Medical School in Newcastle was established in 1834. From these early days, it has grown to emerge as an acknowledged leader in medical education and biomedical research. Newcastle University’s Faculty of Medical Sciences is now home to globally recognised research focussing on some of the world’s biggest health challenges – ageing, chronic degenerative diseases, neurological and brain diseases and cancer. These studies are underpinned by strong basic research in genetics and cell biology, including bacterial and stem cell biology, and excellent health services research.
Newcastle is in an ideal position to deliver real progress towards medical breakthroughs both in the UK and internationally. In partnership with regional hospitals, it aims to translate the scientific advances made in the Medical School into benefits for patients.
The Medical School’s anniversary year provides an excellent opportunity to reflect on the successes of the past 175 years and to look at how we can collectively invest to share in and enhance future success here at Newcastle.
Chris Day qualified from Cambridge University in 1983 and subsequently trained in General Medicine and Hepatology at Newcastle, becoming Consultant Hepatologist in the Liver Unit at Newcastle’s Freeman Hospital in 1994 and Professor of Liver Medicine at University of Newcastle University in 2000. He was formerly Head of the School of Clinical Medical Sciences at the University and since April 2008 has been Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the Faculty of Medical Sciences.
Professor Day’s research interests focus largely on fatty liver disease related both to obesity and to alcohol, with additional interests in drug-induced liver injury and liver fibrosis. His work has been funded by the MRC and the Wellcome Trust and he is a former MRC Clinical Training Fellow and Clinician Scientist Fellow. In 1999 he was the Goulstonian Lecturer of the Royal College of Physicians and in 2000 was awarded the research gold medal of the British Society of Gastroenterology. He is a Fellow and Councillor of the Academy of Medical Sciences, an Executive Member of the Medical Schools Council and an NIHR Senior Investigator. He is also Chief Editor of the Journal of Hepatology, and is on both the Populations and Systems Medicine Board and the Translational Stem Cell Research Committee of the Medical Research Council.
