Time

Event

07.30 

Registration 

07.45

Fellows and Members Networking Breakfast 
hosted by the RCSI President and Council 

kindly supported by

09.00

President's Welcome

09.05 – 09.45

Keynote speaker

Achieving Excellence in Surgical and Academic Research & Training

Dr Ayesha Noorani
MB BChir, MA(Cantab), PhD, FRCS.
CRUK Clinician Scientist and Honorary Consultant Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeon,
Wellcome Sanger Institute and Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge University Hospital NHS Trust, Cambridge, UK

09.45 – 11.00

Symposium I
RCSI National Surgical Research Support Centre Research Symposium

Session I

• Part 1: NSRSC Surgical Trial Updates

• Part 2: RCSI National Surgical Research Competition Presentations 

11.00 - 11.30

Refreshments and exhibition
including poster viewing 

11.30 – 12.30

Session II

How Patient Involvement Improves Surgical Research

The importance of including the patient's voice in developing relevant research questions

12.30 – 12.45

Launch of the RCSI Early Career Surgical Network (RCSI-ECSN)

12.45 – 13.45

Lunch and exhibition
including poster viewing

13.45 – 14.15

Keynote speaker

Patient and Community Engagement – should we use in all research types?

Dr Ori Rotstein
Vice-President of Research and Innovation, Unity Health Toronto, and
Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Surgery,
University of Toronto, Canada

14.15 - 14.30 

Oral and poster award presentation
Award for outstanding achievement in clinical trial activity

1st prize for Best Surgical Research oral presentation will receive the
RCSI National Surgical Research Medal

1,2,3rd place prizes for surgical research poster presentation

14.30 - 16.30

Symposium II

RCSI Faculty of Surgical Trainers Symposium
Supporting Excellence in Surgical Training 

featuring keynote:

Supporting High Performance Teams and Individuals 

Mr Enda McNulty
Former All Star Gaelic Games Athlete and Founder & CEO of McNulty Performance

17.00 – 17.45

47^th Millin Lecture

followed by reception