The RSTN Trials Day 2019 will be on Friday 14th June in the Main Building, Cardiff University, Central Cardiff.

This year we have a theme of “Getting it Right First Time”.

rstnteam@gmail.com

Organising committee

Tom Dobbs (co-Chair)
Anna Allan (co-Chair)
Jeremy Rodrigues

Tickets are free. Registration is via our Eventbrite page here: Click here to register for free!

We are very grateful for the support of our sponsors.

The Vipers’ Nest has four 15 minute slots for oral presentations of new project ideas. Poster presentations willl also be accepted. The oral and poster prize winners will receive a certificate and book prize from Oxford University Press.

The ideas might be for a package of work leading to a clinical trial or other prospective audit. Perhaps you have an idea for a systematic review, prospective audit or RCT.

The idea remains yours. The RSTN can provide advice and put you in touch with a trials unit.

Please use the PICO format for the abstract (Population, Intervention, Comparator, Outcome) for trial ideas.

The posters can be for either new trial ideas or updates on live projects. There is a maximum of ~250 words.

We are pleased to announce that 6 bursaries of up to £100 will be available to support the travel expenses of the teams submitting successful abstracts to the Vipers’ Nest oral and poster prizes. All abstracts will automatically be considered for the bursaries.

Click here to submit an abstract. Deadline 1st May at midnight.

Ken Dunn

Mr Ken Dunn is a consultant plastic and reconstructive surgeon at the Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust. He is Director of the Manchester Burns Service and has an honorary appointment to the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital. His particular areas of interest lie in the organisation and funding of services and clinically in the management of wounds, scars and amputation stump problems. He specialises in complex wound and lower limb problems including urogenital reconstruction. He also brings his experience of post burn injury scarring and reconstruction to other areas of scar management.

He is a past Chairman of the British Burn Association, and a past member of Council of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons (now called the British Association of Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgeons). He is currently the Medical Director of the International Burn Injury Database (iBID: www.ibidb.org).

Professor Hayley Hutchings

Professor Hayley Hutchings is Professor of Health Services Research at Swansea University Medical School. She is also Co- Director of Swansea Trials Unit and Director of the South West Wales Research Design and Conduct Service. She has over 20 years of post-doctoral research experience with interests in patient reported outcome measures, the use of routine data within clinical trials and trial design

Dr Katherine Middleton

Babylon Health

Professor Iain Whitaker

Iain has always been a supporter of the RSTN since its inception and has strongly supported Welsh Involvement.

Iain Whitaker is the Professor of Plastic Surgery in Wales, based at Swansea University Medical School and an NHS consultant based at The Welsh Centre for Burns & Plastic Surgery. After reading medicine at Cambridge University, Iain completed a sub-internship in plastic surgery at Harvard Medical School and further specialised plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery training in Yorkshire, Wales, Sweden, USA, Australia and France.

Highlights of Iain’s plastic surgery training include him being the first plastic surgeon to receive the Rowan Nick’s Award (2011), the most prestigious of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons international awards, the European Association of Plastic Surgeons (EURAPS) Young Plastic Surgeon Scholarship to work in Paris (2012) and the recent 2019-21 American Association of Plastic Surgeons (AAPS) / European Association of Plastic Surgeons (EURAPS) Academic Scholarship to collaborate with Mass. General Hospital and Harvard Medical School (2019-21).

Iain has won numerous other awards during his career from the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS) (Poster Presentation Prize (2007), Mentor Prize in Aesthetic Surgery (2010), Paton Masser Research Award (2013) and the Pump Priming Grant (2015)) and The Royal College of Surgeons of England (Ronald Raven Award 2011, Pump Priming Grant (2017), the Clarke Medal for advances in surgical technology and 3D bioprinting (2016) and the International Surgical Fellowship in Ear Reconstruction (2018)).

His research efforts are internationally recognised, including over 200 journal publications (Hirsch index 35, i10 Index 88) and several books. Over the past 5 years he has built a large Reconstructive Surgery research group with awards totaling over £3.5 million. The group includes several full time clinical academic lecturers who have been awarded 3 Royal College of Surgeons of England Research Fellowships, a Medical Research Council Clinical Research Training Fellowship, a Fullbright Scholarship and numerous bursaries and awards from Professional Bodies.

Iain is currently the Surgical Specialty Lead for Health and Care Research Wales (2019-22), a member of the Specialist Advisory Committee in Plastic Surgery (Academic Lead), sits on various Journal Editorial Boards and has been invited to be a visiting Professor to Mass General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and The Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine in 2019.

His research interests focus on two themes, the Use of big data and PROMS in plastic surgery and translational research, focusing on the tissue engineering of cartilage for facial reconstruction using novel natural biomaterials and stem cell sources in combination with the platform technology of 3D printing.

0930 Registration
1000 Welcome – Professor Iain Whitaker, Chair of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Swansea University Medical School

Session 1
1015 Get it Right First Time – Mr Ken Dunn, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon and Clinical Lead for Plastic Surgery GIRFT
1100 Refreshments, networking and Vipers’ Nest Posters

Session 2
1130 Interactive session on GIRFT
1230 Elevator update – THESEUS
1235 Elevator update – PLACEBO
1240 Elevator update – NEON
1245 Elevator update – WIRE
1250 Elevator update – LINEUP
1255 Elevator update – NINJA
1300 Lunch and Networking

Session 3
1400 Talk 3 – PRASIS update on indemnity
1415 Talk 3 – Application of technology to help with GIRFT – Dr Katherine Middleton, Babylon
1435 PROMs in Trials – Professor Hayley Hutchings
1455 Discussion
1500 Refreshments, networking and Vipers’ Nest Poster judging

Session 4 – Vipers’ Nest new trial ideas
1530 Slot 1
1545 Slot 2
1600 Slot 3
1615 Slot 4

1630 Close of Meeting

The meeting will be held in the Wallace Lecture Theatre and Viriamu Jones Gallery in the Main Building, Cardiff University.

Information about visiting, including travel directions and maps are here.