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Electromagnetic Energy to Transform Surgery
22 March 2021, 12:00 pm–1:30 pm
Chris Hancock, Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor will provide this talk exploring real-life examples of new advanced treatment solutions that are now making a difference to the life of patients all over the world. | This talk is aimed at undergraduate and taught Master Students, it is part of a series of lectures being presented by Professor Hancock as RAEng visiting professor.
This event is free.
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Open to
- All | UCL staff | UCL students
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
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Robert Thompson – Institute of Communications and Connected Systems
Electromagnetic Energy to Transform Surgery
Real-life examples of new advanced treatment solutions that are now making a difference to the life of patients all over the world
This talk looks at a number of nominally and non-invasive energy delivery devices that have been developed to address a range of unmet clinical needs, including treatment of cancerous and non-cancerous nodules in the airways of the lungs using a miniature flexible microwave energy delivery device, a new device that delivers focussed bipolar RF and microwave energy and a new clinical technique for treating early-stage colon cancer, and a focussed high-frequency microwave energy needle device used with endoscopic ultrasound to treat tumours in the pancreas, liver and kidneys. This talk will also consider the utilisation of energy produced at a number of wavelengths within the electromagnetic spectrum for advanced diagnostics as well as therapeutics, where the region of the EM spectrum is chosen to produce energy that provides the optimal tissue affects.
This talk is part of a series of lectures being presented by Professor Hancock as RAEng visiting professor. Other talks in the series are:
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About the Speaker
Professor Chris Hancock
Chief Technology Officer and Founder at Creo Medical Limited
Creo’s advanced therapeutic energy therapeutic system and miniature instruments have been used now for treatment of patients worldwide for a range of cancers and has transformed the lives of many people – the aim of the company has always been to produce better patient outcomes. In 2009, he was appointed to the chair in Medical Microwave Systems at Bangor University and in 2018 he became a Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting professor at UCL. In 2019 he was awarded the Institute of Physics Katherine Burr Blodgett Gold Medal and Prize for work on the development of advanced therapeutic energy delivery systems to perform minimally invasive surgery. Chris is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, a Chartered Physicist, Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology, a Chartered Engineer and a Senior Member of the IEEE. He is a named inventor and lead author on over 1000 patents/patent applications and scholarly publications.