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The UKCRF Network was formally established in 2008, with funding provided from the Department of Health (DH), and the Chief Scientist Office (CSO) in Scotland. The development of this Network has given members a wider and emerging sense of professional community, facilitated collaboration across centres and supported existing experimental medicine facilities while accelerating the development of new sites.

This 9th Annual UKCRF Network Conference provides a platform for sharing of information across CRFs, for development of best practice and a structured opportunity to develop personal networks. The conference programme for 2013 has been developed jointly by the Birmingham NIHR / Wellcome Trust CRF and the Strategic Management Team with a focus on demonstrating the breadth of experimental research being carried out in Clinical Research Facilities across the UK & Ireland. For the first time this year there will be with many speakers from different CRFs nationally showcasing their research.

Delegate numbers attending the conference have increased year on year, with 2012 attracting over 270 delegates. Attendees include research nurses, trial co-ordinators, operational and business managers, laboratory staff, IT staff and clinical researchers / Principal Investigators.

Programme

The programme has yet to be finalised but will include:

Day 1 – Invited Speakers
Dame Julie Moore – CEO University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Professor Sir Keith Porter – Director of the NIHR Trauma Research Centre
Professor Janet Lord - Director of the MRC-ARUK Centre for Musculoskeletal Ageing Research and the Medawar Centre for Healthy Ageing Research
Professor Paul Stewart – Dean of Medicine and Deputy Head of College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham

Day 2 – Invited Speakers
Dr Louise Wood – Head of NHS Research Infrastructure and Industry R&D Relations, Department of Health
Mr Simon Denegri – Chair of INVOLVE & NIHR lead on PPI / PPE
Professor Andrew Morris – Chief Scientist at the Scottish Government Health Department and Dean of Medicine, Ninewells Hospital & Medical School, Dundee

Thursday 11th July, Day 1

Thursday 17th May
08.30	Registration & Refreshments
08.30	SMT Meeting Helen Pidd, UKCRFN and NIHR/WTCRF, Manchester
09.30	Business meetings / Parallel Networking Session/ Tours of Unit / HRB / Atrium
	Directors’ Meeting Chair - Dr Una Martin, Programme Director, NIHR /WTCRF Birmingham
	Various business meetings To be confirmed with chairs of each group
11.00	Plenary Session 1 Developing an integrated research infrastructure
	Opening remarks Dame Julie Moore, CEO, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
11.10	NIHR Trauma Research Centre Professor Sir Keith Porter, Director of the NIHR Trauma Research Centre, Birmingham
11.40	Old Age Should be Enjoyed, not Endured Professor Janet Lord, Director of the MRC-ARUK Centre for Musculoskeletal Ageing Research and the Medawar Centre for Healthy Ageing Research
12.10	Academic Health Science Networks Professor Paul Stewart, Dean of Medicine and Deputy Head of College of Medical and Dental Sciences. University of Birmingham
12.40	Lunch and poster viewing
13.30	Parallel Sessions
	Parallel session 1A - Educating the next generation of researchers Funding Academic Research Programmes - Dr John Williams, Head of Clinical Activities, Neuroscience & Mental Health, Wellcome Trust Developing Clinical Leadership for Research Delivery - Dr Susan Hamer, Organisational and Workforce Development Director, NIHR Delivering Academic Training Programmes - Professor Lorraine Harper, Education Director, Birmingham NIHR/WTCRF
	Parallel session 1B - Novel Therapies Developing the Infrastructure Required to Deliver Advanced Therapies - Dr Philip Newsome - Clinical Director of the Birmingham University Stem Cell Centre, University of Birmingham The Role of Advanced Nurse Practitioners to Support Immunotherapy Research - Michelle Davies, Christie NIHR CRF
	Parallel session 1C Developing new methods for screening low risk women for adverse pregnancy outcome - Professor Gordon Smith, Professor & Head of Dept Obstetrics & Gynaecology University of Cambridge Challenges facing childhood Cancer trials; from new drug development to practice changing trials - Dr Pamela Kearns, Senior Lecturer in Paediatric Oncology and Honorary Consultant Paediatric Oncologist at the Birmingham Children’s Hospital.
	Parallel session 1D Building a Quality Infrastructure Platform for Future Research - Dr Jane Steele, Director, Human Biomaterials Resource Centre, University of Birmingham Sharon Wood, Director of Safety Services, Universal Safety Consultants Ltd
14.40	Parallel Sessions continued
	Parallel session 2A - Perspectives from CRFs Nationally The Lothian Birth cohorts of 1921 and 1936 - Dr Simon Cox, Edinburgh WTCRF Tiny Babies, Big Impact - Dr Charlie Orton, Alderhey NIHR CRF
	Parallel session 2B Premature coronary disease and accelerated atherosclerosis in SLE - Professor Ian Bruce, Manchester NIHR/WTCRF Translational Research Partnerships in Chronic Disease Cohorts - Professor Chris Buckley, Arthritis Research Campaign Chair Of Rheumatology, University of Birmingham
	Parallel session 2C Opportunities for synergy with the Experimental cancer Medicines Network - Dr Jonathan Bull
	Parallel session 2D Clinical Interface Between a BRU and a CRF in Birmingham -Professor David Adams, Director NIHR BRU in Liver Disease, Birmingham Paediatric Research Cohorts - Professor Deidre Kelly, Consultant Hepatologist, Birmingham Children's Hospital
15.40	Refreshments and poster viewing
16.00	Workshop 1 Education / Paediatric Research Paediatric Emergency Scenario Training Sharon McDermot, Chair of Education workstream
	Workshop 2 PPI Workshop Martin Lodemore, Imperial College London and Pippa Bayfield, Cambridge NIHR/WTCRF
	Workshop 3 Imaging Workshop Follow up from last year and recent survey Jason McMorrow, Chair of Imaging Workstream
	Workshop 4 CRFManager® User Group Meeting Erika Bullen, Edinburgh WTCRF
	Workshop 5 - Invitees only NIHR CRF Directors and Managers Dr Mags Sara and Dr Sonja Tesanovic
17.00	Close
19.00	Birmingham Town Hall for Indian Banquet

Friday 12th July, Day 2

Thursday 17th May
08.30	Registration, refreshments and poster viewing
09.15	Parallel Sessions
	Parallel session 3A Clinical trials of enzyme replacement therapy in lysosomal storage disorders – an 'eventful history' - Dr C Breen, Manchester NIHR / WTCRF A randomised controlled phase I trial of the Novel SIRT1 Activator SRT2104 in Healthy Elderly Volunteers - Dr Vincenzo Libri, Imperial College NIHR/WTCRF
	Parallel session 3B Cortisol and the control of metabolic phenotype - Dr Jeremy Tomlinson - running research programmes through a Clinical Research Facility Metabolic research in transition from childhood to adulthood -Professor Tim Barrett, NIHR / WTCRF Birmingham Children's
	Parallel session 3C Infrastructure for paediatric research - Professor Michael Beresford, MCRN Dr Una Martin - Athena SWAN
	Plenary session 2 Electronic Capture of research data Development of PICS - Dr Jamie Coleman (to be confirmed) CRFManager® Overview - Dickon Jackson, Edinburgh WTCRF Research informatics - Debbie Berrill / Ellen Ward-Lindley, Birmingham NIHR/WTCRF
10.15	Refreshments and poster viewing All entrants to be present for poster viewing
11.00	Plenary session 2
11.05	Public and Patient Involvement in research Mr Simon Denegri, Chair of INVOLVE & NIHR lead on PPI / PPE Public And Patient Involvement in research
11.45	NIHR - What's new? Dr Louise Wood, Head of NHS Research Infrastructure and Industry R&D Relations, Department of Health NIHR
12.15	Gearing an entire country for Informatics and and Big Data Research Professor Andrew Morris, Chief Scientist at the Scottish Government Health Department and Dean of Medicine, Ninewells Hospital & Medical School, Dundee
12.45	Lunch and poster viewing
13.45	Workshop 6 Costing and Sustainability Dr Stephen Barnet, Great Ormond Street CRF
	Workshop 7 PPI workshop Martin Lodemore, Imperial College London and Pippa Bayfield, Cambridge NIHR/WTCRF
	Workshop 8 CRFManager® Beginners Training Elizabeth McDowell, Edinburgh WTCRF
13.45 - 15.45	Workshop 9 Double Paediatric session Dr Saul Faust, Southampton NIHR /WTCRF
	Workshop 10 Poster presentations (to be confirmed)
14.50	Workshop 11 Clinical Support Services Pharmacy workstream - Inaugural session (to be confirmed) Anthea Mould / Amisha Desai
	Workshop 12 Patient experience of being involved in research (to be confirmed)
	Workshop 13 CRFManager® Advanced Training Erika Bullen, Edinburgh WTCRF
	Workshop 14 Emergency Scenarios Kornelia Hathaway , Cambridge NIHR/WTCRF
15.45	Closing remarks and Prize Giving
16.15	Close

Programme subject to change

Photography

There will be a photographer on site during the conference and at the evening reception and photographs may be used for promotional purposes both for the UKCRF Network, the Birmingham NIHR / Wellcome Trust Research Facility and for the University of Birmingham. By completing registration, delegates consent to the taking of photographs.

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