`Happy Patients, Stressed Researcher’ CDT i4health seminar
04 February 2020, 5:00 pm–6:00 pm

Professor Laurence Lovat, CDT i4health Clinical Seminar
Event Information
Open to
- All
Organiser
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cdtadmin@ucl.ac.uk
Location
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G08 LT Roberts Engineering BuildingGower StreetBloomsburyWC1E7JE
Professor Lovat will chart his translational research journey which has led to the development of novel minimally invasive therapies for patients with Barrett’s oesophagus – a pre-cancerous complication of acid reflux disease. He will show how happy patients can become when offered new tests and treatments but just how stressed it can make the poor researchers!
About the Speaker
Laurence Lovat
Professor Laurence Lovat was a full scholar at City of London School. He studied medicine at University College London where he achieved a first class Honours intercalated degree in nutrition and a merit in his bachelor of medicine degree. He trained at London teaching hospitals including Guy’s, St George’s and the Hammersmith Hospital. He undertook a PhD at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School following which he was appointed Senior Lecturer in Gastroenterology and Laser Medicine at UCL. He has led multidisciplinary teams for 20 years and is now the Clinical Director of the WEISS Centre at UCL, an initiative by the Wellcome Trust and EPSRC to bring engineers and medical academics together to develop novel engineering solutions to problems in medical intervention. His research interest is novel optical technologies to diagnose and treat diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. His team, together with Prof Stoyanov at WEISS has raised over £5m in grants in the last year to develop AI for endoscopic detection of pre-malignant lesions. This includes a UK Space Agency grant to use satellite technology to predict cancer and an EU Horizon 2020 grant.