IBSc Clinical Sciences - Notable Achievements

Examination Success

The course has been running since 2006 and is extremely successful. The percentage of students achieving first class honours and a place on the Dean’s List for outstanding academic achievement was 50% (2006/07), 66% (2007/08), 75% (2008/09), 88% (2009/10) and 100% (2010/11). Six students in total have been offered PhD studentships (two in 2008/09 and four in 2009/10). Overall six students have been awarded places on academic foundation programmes.

National/International Awards

Core Pharma Prizes have been awarded to ten students for their project proposals: these prizes, each worth £1,000, and were competed for nationally

Two students have been awarded Core Pharma Prizes, worth £1,000 for the most outstanding research in the field of gastroenterology undertaken by a BSc, MD or PhD student nationally.

Two students have been awarded research prizes of £500 each by the Medical Council on Alcohol.

BASL prizes have been awarded to one student for the best clinical research poster presentation and to another for best clinical research oral presentation.

EASL prize has been awarded for the best poster presentation at a monothematic meeting

A number of travel scholarships were awarded to facilitate participation in national and international conferences to present research findings AASLD (1); BASL (2); BSG (1); EASL; International Neuroscience Society (4).

2006/7

Core /Pharma awards (£1,000)

Awarded for a research proposal in field of gastroenterology

James ‘Hal’ Brindley

Esther Harazi

British Association of the Liver (BASL)

Award for the best clinical poster presented at the annual meeting

James ‘Hal’ Brindley

BASL International Travel Fellowship (£500)

Awarded to support attendance at the American Association of the Liver to present research findings

James ‘Hal’ Brindley

International Society of Neuroscience Travel Fellowships (£300)

Awarded to support attendance at the International Meeting on Hepatic Encephalopathy, Valencia, Spain to present research findings

Christopher W Jenkins

Ian M Head

Core /Pharma awards (£1,000)

Awarded for a UK research project in the field of gastroenterology by a BSc, MSc or PhD student

Kunal Chandarana

British Society for Gastroenterology Travel award (£500)

Awarded to support attendance at the Annual Meeting of the Society in February 2008 to present original work

Kunal Chandarana

European Association for the Study of the Liver Travel bursary (£700)

Awarded to support attendance at the Annual Meeting of the Association in Madrid in April 2008 to present original work

Kunal Chandarana

2007/8

Core /Pharma awards (£1,000)

Awarded for a research proposal in field of gastroenterology

Hannah Wilson

Medical Council on Alcohol Research Awards (£500)

Awarded for a research proposal in the field of alcohol

Tina Tian

Clara Chong

British Association of the Liver (BASL) (£100)

Award for the best oral presentation of a clinical paper at the annual meeting

Hannah Wilson

BASL Travel Fellowship (£500)

Awarded for attendance to present a paper at the annual meeting

Hannah Wilson

Core /Pharma awards (£1,000)

Awarded for a UK research project in the field of gastroenterology by a BSc, MSc or PhD student

Hannah Wilson

2008/9

Core /Pharma awards (£1,000)

Awarded for a research proposal in field of gastroenterology

Mo Hussein

Yee Yen Goh

Robert Tidswell

European Association for the Study of the Liver Travel bursary (£700)

Awarded to support attendance at a monothematic meeting on PSE in Oslo Norway to present original work

Robert Tidswell

European Association for the Study Poster Prize (£200)

Award for the best clinical poster presented at the monothematic meeting

Robert Tidswell

2009/10

Core /Pharma awards (£1,000)

Awarded for a research proposal in field of gastroenterology

Matt Stubbs

Robin Baddeley

Narin Suleyman

2009/10

British Society for Clinical Neurophysiology (£2,500)

Awarded nationally to an IBSc student for a research project in the field of clinical neurophysiology

Vishal Narwani

Scientific Abstracts (IBSc students in italics)

BASL Annual Meeting 2007

IM Head, CD Jackson, CW Jenkins, M Y Morgan. Smooth pursuit and saccadic eye movements in patients with cirrhosis in relation to their neuropsychiatric status

E Harazi, T Darch, J Wells, MY Morgan. Alcoholic liver disease – The Indian dimension.

DK Dhar, JH Brindley, MH Chapman, JS Dooley, S.P. Pereira. Role of tumour M2-PK in biliary tract cancer: diagnostic and prognostic evaluation.

American Association for the Study of the Liver Annual Meeting, Boston, USA, 2007 (Published in Hepatology)

E Harazi, T Darch, J Wells, MY Morgan. Alcoholic liver disease – The Indian dimension.

JH Brindley, DK Dhar, MH Chapman, JS Dooley, SP Pereira. Tumour M2-Pyruvate Kinase has a diagnostic and prognostic role in biliary tract cancer.

International Meeting on Hepatic Encephalopathy, Valencia, Spain 2007

IM Head, CD Jackson, CW Jenkins, MY Morgan. Smooth pursuit and saccadic eye movements in patients with cirrhosis in relation to their neuropsychiatric status

CW Jenkins, CD Jackson, S Montagnese, P Amodio, MY Morgan. Spatio-temporal decomposition of the EEG in patients with cirrhosis: further validation

M Marks, CW Jenkins, CD Jackson, S Montagnese, P Amodio, MY Morgan. Psychometric hepatic encephalopathy scores (PHES) are significantly influenced by the normative population used for reference.

M Marks, CW Jenkins, RW Morris, S Montagnese, MY Morgan. The scoring of the line tracing test (LTT) has a significant effect on the overall psychometric hepatic encephalopathy score (PHES).

M Rayan, CW Jenkins, IM Head, S. Montagnese, MY Morgan. Evoked potentials in patients with cirrhosis

British Society of Gastroenterology Annual Meeting, Birmingham, UK, 2008 (Published in Gut)

KJ Rhee, KA Chandarana, R Ruparelia, E Woolman, S Kanagalingam, M Thomas, MY Morgan. Blood glucose and glycosylated haemoglobin are insensitive diagnostic indicators of glucose intolerance in patients with cirrhosis

KA Chandarana, SJ Eaton, MY Morgan. Slow-release carbohydrates: a rational, patient-acceptable approach for the nutritional management of patients with cirrhosis?

European Society for the Study of the Liver Annual Meeting, Milan, Italy 2008 (Published in Journal of Hepatology)

KJ Rhee, KA Chandarana, R Ruparelia, E Woolman, S Kanagalingam, M Thomas, MY Morgan. Blood glucose and glycosylated haemoglobin are insensitive diagnostic indicators of glucose intolerance in patients with cirrhosis

KA Chandarana, SJ Eaton, MY Morgan. Slow-release carbohydrates: a rational, patient-acceptable approach for the nutritional management of patients with cirrhosis?

International Society for Hepatic Encephalopathy and Nitrogen Metabolism, Padua, Italy, 2008 (Published in Liver International)

M Marks, S Montagnese, CD Jackson, CW Jenkins, IM Head, H Wilson, RW Morris, MY Morgan. Derivation of a normative UK database for the psychometric hepatic encephalopathy score (PHES): confounding effect of ethnicity and test scoring

British Pain Society, 2008

L Morgan-Rowe, B Rai, MY Morgan, A Ordman. A survey of steroid use in interventional pain management procedures among British Pain Society members

L Morgan-Rowe, B Rai, MY Morgan, A Ordman. Triamcinolone in interventional procedures leaches into the Systemic Circulation

BASL Annual Meeting, 2008

H Wilson, CD Jackson, MY Morgan. Critical Flicker Fusion Frequency (CFF) for the diagnosis of hepatic encephalopathy.

British Society of Gastroenterology Annual Meeting, Glasgow, UK, 2009 (Published in Gut)

H Wilson, C Jackson, RW Morris, BD Youl, MY Morgan. Critical Flicker Fusion Frequency (CFF) for the diagnosis of hepatic encephalopathy.

C Chong, E Harazi, T Tian, T Darch, J Wells, MY Morgan. Alcoholic Liver Disease – The South Indian Dimension

5th International Hannover Conference on hepatic Encephalopathy, Mainz, Germany, 2009

H Wilson, CD Jackson, RW Morris, BD Youl, MY Morgan. Critical Flicker Fusion Frequency (CFF) for the diagnosis of hepatic encephalopathy.

European Society for Biomedical Research on Alcohol, Helsinki, 2009 (Published in Alcohol & Alcoholism)

C Chong, E Harazi, T Tian, T Darch, J Wells, MY Morgan. Ethnic difference in alcohol pharmacokinetics: the relationship to body composition variables

T Tian, MD Alexander, BD Youl, MY Morgan. The role of ion channel dysfunction in the pathogenesis of alcohol-related peripheral neuropathy

International Meeting on Hepatic Encephalopathy, Valencia, Spain, 2009

YY Goh, M Hussein, S Montagnese, BD Youl, CD Jackson, M Y Morgan. Visuospatial attention defects and the ocular system in patients with hepatic encephalopathy

British Society of Gastroenterology Annual Meeting, Liverpool, UK, 2010 (Published in Gut)

M Hussein, YY Goh, CD Jackson, MY Morgan. The diagnosis of hepatic encephalopathy: test performance of novel paradigms.

British Society of Gastroenterology Annual Meeting, London, UK, 2011 (Published in Gut)

EM Williams, M Heeren, CD Jackson, H Pflugrad, J Krause, LM Weber, K Weissenborn, MY Morgan. Abnormal EEG activity in patients with chronic hepatitis c (HCV) infection and minimal liver disease

American Association for the Study of the Liver, Boston, USA, 2011 (Published in Hepatology)

EJ Halliday, S Stevens, MA Stubbs, RJ Morris, MY Morgan. The performance validity of breath sample analysis in the diagnosis of hepatic encephalopathy in patients with cirrhosis.

World Congress of Neurology, Marrakesh, Morocco, 2011

V Narwani, T Tidswell, M Pitt. A novel analytical method for the diagnosis of paediatric myasthenia using stimulated single fibre electromyography

World Congress of Neurology, Marrakesh, Morocco, 2011

F Javaid, T Tidswell, H Angus-Lappan. Maximising the efficacy of the EEG for diagnosis and management of epilepsy.

Peer-Review papers

Mani AR, Montagnese S, Jackson CD, Jenkins CW, Head IM, Stephens RC, Moore KP, Morgan MY. Decreased heart rate variability in patients with cirrhosis relates to the presence and severity of hepatic encephalopathy. American Journal of Physiology - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology 2009; 296:G330-338.

Morgan MY, Chandarana K, Morris RW, Madden AM. Hand-grip strength is a measure of nutritional status in men with cirrhosis. Gastroenterology: submitted

Wilson HR, Jackson CD, Morris RW, Youl BD, Morgan MY. Critical flicker fusion for the diagnosis of hepatic encephalopathy: diagnostic considerations and confounders. Hepatology, submitted