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The 2023 UN Climate Conference – better known as COP28 - begins today, November 30th 2023. Three members of the School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition (SMMSN) have been accepted as online delegates for the event. This is the first time that online delegate positions have been awarded. These colleagues…
Early morning on Sat 22nd Feb 2020…a chilly day in Aberdeenshire as I set off from home to Aberdeen International Airport. Where was I going? To India, to talk with potential students from various schools, colleges and universities in three cities throughout the country.
Ever since being a child I…
In mid April 2019, I was travelling to Iraq as part of a charity organisation made up of doctors, pharmacists and surgeons from around the world. The group included people from Canada, America, Tanzania, Madagascar, Iraq, London and Paris. The aim of this visit was to provide medical aid, as…
I returned to the UK on Sunday, touching down at 5am to a cold and driech December morning in London.
The temperature was even lower by the time I reached Aberdeen, 10 - but at least the sun was out.
During my last day in Sydney I started thinking about…
I’m writing this 10 hours ahead in Townsville, where it’s 38oC and very humid. Townsville is in Northern Queensland in Australia and officially in the dry tropics. I’m attending as Keynote speaker at the joint meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Clinical Anatomists and Australasian Society for…
Australia is vast - 7.7x106 km2 and would accommodate Scotland a 100 x over, but with a population of only about five times the size. And as Bill Bryson remarked, ‘it has more things that will kill you than anywhere else’: the world’s top ten poisonous snakes - all Australian;…
This is my first trip to Australia and after twenty-two hours travelling and three flights, I finally arrived in Sydney. It was then a two and half hour drive, north, to Newcastle.
The week at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, was spent meeting researchers interested in signaling, extracellular…
Dr Pradeep Ratnasekare, Consultant in Medical Administration and Healthcare Management, Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka, recently spent time at the School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition as an Honorary Visiting Fellow. Here he reflects on his experience of living and working in Aberdeen.
"I am a medical doctor and…
Last weekend, as part of Aberdeen’s annual soundfestival, I co-led a walk, ‘Sounds like Aberdeen’, between two of the programme’s performances.
The walk was one of a series hosted by my colleagues and I over the last couple of years and used our app, [M]apping, which we co-developed with funding…
Prof Shaun Treweek from the University of Aberdeen’s Health Services Research Unit and Dr Violet Warwick from the University of Dundee’s Breast Imaging Research Group will be turning to steampunk to give an exposition extraordinaire on three important decisions that are made in clinical trials as part of TechFest’s ‘Snappy…
