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\t\t\t\t<\/p>\nInterdisciplinary workshop on Head and Neck Cancer \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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Aim
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Areas of the workshop
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Important details
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWhen:\u00a0Tuesday 10th March 9.30-4.30Where:\u00a0Private Dining Room 1, County South,\u00a0Lancaster UniversityWho: Researchers, Academics and Clinicians in the fields of statistics, data science, ML, Radiotherapy and H&N\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Speakers
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe current confirmed speakers are listed below, more will be added in the coming weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Glyn Shentall
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGlyn Shentall is the Head of Radiotherapy Physics at the Rosemere Cancer Centre in Preston and Visiting Professor at the University of Cumbria. Glyn has over 37 years experience working in this field, previously working at The Royal Free Hospital and The Royal Marsden Hospitals in London. Glyn has been involved with innovative research through the clinical application of physics particularly in dynamic radiotherapy.<\/p>\n
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Andrew Green
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDr Andrew Green is a research fellow in software engineering based at the Christie Hospital in Manchester. His research focuses on generating hypotheses that will inform clinical practise and improve cancer survival through exploratory data analysis. His work includes the use of a novel atlas for muscles of mastication to reduce inter observer variability in H&N radiotherapy contouring and Machine learning to explore the effect of Sarcopenia for patients undergoing cancer treatments.<\/p>\n
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North West Cancer Research
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNorth West Cancer Research (NWCR) is the leading cancer charity for the North West and North Wales, focusing on types of cancer that affect people in the region. They fund pioneering research into the cause, care and cure of cancer. NWCR highlight H&N cancer as a regional cancer that requires addressing, therefore prioritising this as an area of continued funding.<\/p>\n
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Jamie-Leigh Chapman
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDr Jamie-Leigh Chapman is a Data Scientist at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS. Her work involves developing and implementing systems based on routinely collected hospital data to contribute towards service improvement. Prior to this Jamie was the lead data scientist at Howz and completed a PhD in statistics and operational research. Projects she has worked on include forecasting online delivery sales for a large supermarket, learning people\u2019s routines and detecting changes using smart home data and developing an admission risk score for A&E attendees.<\/p>\n
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Matthias Ehrgott
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMatthias is Professor in Management Science at Lancaster University. He is the current president of the International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making. He studies the theory, methodology and application of multi-objective optimisation in particular in transportation and health. Matthias has worked on many aspects of radiotherapy treatment planning in oncology and is interested in data driven methods to help treatment planners achieve the best outcome for patients.<\/p>\n
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Rob Lyon
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRob is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at Edge Hill University. His research interests include the development of new machine learning algorithms for imbalanced learning problems, real-time data processing, image analysis,and the ethics of A.I. He is the principle investigator for an STFC funded project that set up the Radiotherapy Machine Learning Network<\/p>\n
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Chris Kennelly
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u00a0Chris Kennelly is a former NHS therapeutic radiographer and founder of Cievert. Cievert has enhanced a wide variety of clinical disciplines: addressing referral management, revolutionising patient follow-up and improving delivery of consultations. In particular Casper Oncology is an intelligent web-based system that uses logic to manage specialist secondary to tertiary referrals dynamically in radiotherapy, brachytherapy, chemotherapy, and nuclear medicine. Their platforms collect rich, standardised data which can be anonymised for research. \u00a0Cievert is currently working with Durham University Computer Science Dept to explore whether this rich data can provide valuable medical insight, with the goal of developing an AI-enabled platform that stratifies risk and can detect conditions earlier by using ML techniques. \u00a0Cievert software currently manages approximately 20-25% of all UK radiotherapy patients at some point in the patient pathway and has growing clinical operations in a range of disciplines including gastroenterology, endoscopy, renal, orthopaedics, mental health and rheumatology.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRegistration is free and open to all Researchers, Academics and Clinicians in the fields of statistics, data science, Machine Learning, Radiotherapy and Head and Neck cancer. \u00a0All bookings are done through Eventbrite<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIf you have any questions, please contactEmma Stubington, Impact Research Associate- e.stubington@lancaster.ac.ukJulia Carradus, Data Science Administrator- j.carradus1@lancaster.ac.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"