This page is a placeholder for this year’s online Barts and Queen Mary Science Festival which will take place on Monday 24 June 2024. Paul Curzon will be speaking, on “The illusion of good medical device design“, from 11.25am to 12pm.

The festival is aimed at older secondary school pupils who might be considering a career in STEM or medicine.

On our CS4FN website we have put together a “Computing and… medicine and health” portal containing blog posts and magazine articles highlighting the links between computer science and medical research, diagnosis or treatment. We’ve also added several archived job adverts (with links to copies of the job descriptions) so that your class can discuss the types of career options available that mix medicine and computing.

We’ll add more information about the festival programme when we have it.

The talks will take place over Teams and Zoom and if you’d like to register your class for a place please contact Jane Batchelor at sciencefestival@qmul.ac.uk.

Barts and Queen Mary Science Festival 2024

10am-10.25am
Talk 1: How Will Technology Change the Way We Practice Medicine
Tatiana Christides, Queen Mary University of London
Format: Teams

10.30am-10.45am
Talk 2: Mini talk on dentistry
Community Smiles (dental student volunteers)
Format: Teams

10.45am-11am
Break/chance to browse website resources

11am-11.20 am
Talk 3: “Some studies show…” Trials and travels in clinical research
Ben Dowsing, Barts Health Trust
Format: Teams

11.25am-12pm
Talk 4: Human Error and Medical Device Design
Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London
Format: Teams

12.05pm-1.05pm
Break/chance to browse website resources

1.05pm – 1.30pm
Talk 5: Muscle loss after intensive care
Ashley Thomas, Barts Health Trust
Format: Teams

1.35pm-2pm
Talk 6: What is Pharmacology?
Emma Taylor
Format: Teams

2.05pm-3pm
Talk 7: Talk about the William Harvey Heart Centre (details tba)
David Collier
Format: Zoom

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