Massive congratulations for the third time this year to Dr Emmylou Rahtz on her third peer-reviewed publication in the Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery (JPRAS). Dr Rahtz's research challenges the common assumptions about the psychological effects of facial injuries.
Congratulations again to Dr Emmylou Rahtz for her second publication this year in The Conversation. Dr Rahtz completed her PhD in May 2015, funded by Saving Faces, which looks into the psychological impact of gang violence.
Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) researcher Professor Ahmad Waseem (Institute of Dentistry) and his team are developing a novel way to identify the increasing number of HPV-driven head and neck cancers. This is vital for improving cancer patient care as HPV related tumours have a much better outcome than those caused by other factors such as alcohol, tobacco or areca nut consumption. Personalisation of treatment using this new technology may also allow for less invasive ‘de-intensified’ treatment strategies with fewer side-effects.
We are pleased to announce that the respected British Medical Journal (BMJ) Open has published a research article on psychological outcomes following violent injuries based on Dr Emmylou Rahtz's PhD thesis, which was funded by Saving Faces - The Facial Surgery Research Foundation.
Congratulations to Fatima Qadir and her team at Queen Mary University of London who were awarded the prize for best research poster at the 2017 British Association of Head and Neck Oncologists (BAHNO) scientific conference. Fatima is a PhD student funded by Saving Faces and is now in the final year of her studies. The title of Fatima's research was "Can genetic profiling aid clinical decision making in head and neck cancer?".
The commissioning arrangements for the National Head and Neck Cancer Audit (HANA) are changing for the reasons outlined below. HANA will continue as a national audit under new funding arrangements, and due to this change it will no longer be part of the National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes Programme (NCAPOP). This is not the first audit to undergo such a change in status: the national IBD audit has also recently left the NCAPOP and transitioned to sustainable funding within the new IBD Registry.
The Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) is pleased to announce the contract to manage the National Head and Neck Cancer Audit has been awarded to facial surgery research organisation Saving Faces.
