Gill Adair announced as Global Head of Talent Acquisition
Gill, who has progressed throughout Ashfield since joining the company straight from AstraZeneca 17 years ago, has been appointed in order to drive forward the company’s innovative and progressive recruitment campaigns, to identify new talent, and to nurture the careers of those already working within the group.
Ashfield Healthcare Communications employs 700 staff worldwide with more than 350 UK-based associates.
Speaking about the focus of her new role, Gill commented: “I’m thrilled to have taken on this exciting new role. Not only will my role focus on our approach to acquiring talent, but it will also allow me to ...
Source: Ashfield Healthcare News - April 28, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Sarah Edwards Tags: Ashfield Source Type: news
Physician satisfaction: Why leadership qualities matter
Physician leaders have a significant impact on the well-being and satisfaction of the physicians they supervise, according to a new study. Learn which leadership qualities are essential to promote healthy professional environments that reduce the likelihood of physician burnout.
Effective leaders increase physician well-being
Physician leaders who inform, engage, inspire, develop and recognize the physicians they supervise are more likely to have employees who feel professionally satisfied and less likely to show signs of burnout, a study published in the April issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings found.
Study authors a...
Source: AMA Wire - April 26, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Troy Parks Source Type: news
NLM Announces Reissuance of Career Development Award in Biomedical Informatics and Data Science (K01)
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) Career Development Award in Biomedical Informatics (K01) is intended to provide support for promising junior investigators as they launch their research careers in biomedical informatics research and data science. NLM supports research career development in healthcare/clinical informatics, translational bioinformatics, clinical research informatics and public health informatics. We define informatics as the intersection of computer science, information science, data science and social/behavioral sciences with one or more biomedical application domains. Application domains of interest ...
Source: News from the National Library of Medicine - April 22, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Univ. of Hawaii Awarded $3M Mesothelioma Research Grants
The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) awarded three grants totaling more than $3 million to researchers at the University of Hawaii Cancer Center last month to advance their studies of mesothelioma.
The awards were part of the Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program funded by the DOD. The University of Hawaii has been a national leader in the study of mesothelioma, which strikes a disproportionate number of military veterans.
“We’re grateful that all the work we’ve put into research in the past is being recognized and appreciated,” Dr. Michele Carbone, director of thoracic oncology at the cancer center, told Asbestos....
Source: Asbestos and Mesothelioma News - April 19, 2016 Category: Environmental Health Authors: dev Source Type: news
Univ. of Hawaii Awarded $3M Mesothelioma Research Grants
The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) awarded three grants totaling more than $3 million to researchers at the University of Hawaii Cancer Center last month to advance their studies of mesothelioma.
The awards were part of the Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program funded by the DOD. The University of Hawaii has been a national leader in the study of mesothelioma, which strikes a disproportionate number of military veterans.
“We’re grateful that all the work we’ve put into research in the past is being recognized and appreciated,” Dr. Michele Carbone, director of thoracic oncology at the cancer center, told Asb...
Source: Asbestos and Mesothelioma News - April 19, 2016 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Tim Povtak Tags: Research & Clinical Trials Source Type: news
NSF CAREER award focused on improving the 'broken movies' of biology
(Morgridge Institute for Research) Anthony Gitter, a biostatistics expert with the Morgridge Institute for Research and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has received a 2016 Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation to advance a central research challenge about the dynamic nature of cellular and genetic signaling. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - April 5, 2016 Category: Biology Source Type: news
Barbhaiya, Hardin, Morizane and Pozdnyakova Receive 2016 Faculty Career Development Awards
Medha Barbhaiya, MD, MPH, Megan Hardin, MD, MPH, Ryuji Morizane, MD, PhD, and Olga Pozdnyakova, MD, PhD, were recently named 2016 Faculty Career Development Award (FCDA) recipients. (Source: BWH News)
Source: BWH News - April 4, 2016 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: news
Enlisting talented students for a second campaign
This is the second time in recent months that the college students have been provided with valuable workplace experience by the agency. The students recently collaborated with the agency to produce a recruitment video to help attract the best talent to the medical communications sector, as part of their own coursework.
Ashfield Healthcare Communications, one of the largest employers in Macclesfield, approached the college students with a second project after it enjoyed the ‘fresh perspective’ that the students brought to the table during the last digital communications project.
Annie Ashton, Programme Leader, Visual an...
Source: Ashfield Healthcare News - April 1, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Sarah Edwards Tags: Ashfield Source Type: news
UCLA scientists pinpoint cancer gene responsible for neuroendocrine prostate cancer
Scientists at the UCLA Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research have discovered that a protein produced by a cancer gene leads to the development of a deadly, late-stage form of prostate cancer called neuroendocrine prostate cancer. The discovery could be a significant step toward a more effective treatment.
The findings, which were published in the journal Cancer Cell, are particularly important because neuroendocrine prostate cancer does not respond to standard treatments, and men who are diagnosed with the disease typically live for less than a year afterward. Up to one-quarter of t...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - March 31, 2016 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Arthritis Research UK Fellow wins prestigious Garrod prize
Congratulations to Dr Helen McGettrick, a career development fellowship holder from the University of Birmingham, who has been awarded the prestigious Garrod prize.
Awarded annually by the British Society of Rheumatology, this prize is open to scientists with a non-clinical background who are working in rheumatology or a related discipline.
The award is named after Sir Alfred Baring Garrod, who was responsible for recognising the difference between osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis and for initiating the thread test for uric acid in the blood.
Helen’s research focuses on exploring the role played by synovial f...
Source: Arthritis Research UK - March 30, 2016 Category: Rheumatology Source Type: news
UH Cancer Center and Jabsom researchers receive $3 million US Department Of Defense Awards
(University of Hawaii Cancer Center) University of Hawai'i Cancer Center and John A. Burns School of Medicine researchers were awarded three out of only 45 United States Department of Defense grants for cancer research and career development. The awards to the University of Hawai'i are for malignant mesothelioma research and total more than $3 million. (Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer)
Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer - March 30, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news
The role of personal accomplishment in physician burnout
Physician burnout is on the rise, but providing an environment that boosts doctors’ sense of personal accomplishment and increases professional rewards could help them feel less emotionally exhausted and more energized about their daily work. Experts say it is one of a number of areas that need to be addressed to reverse the burnout trend.
Less personal satisfaction
Nearly 55 percent of physicians who responded to a Mayo Clinic survey in 2014 were professionally burned out, up from nearly 46 percent just three years earlier, according to the study in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings. When asked specifically about their se...
Source: AMA Wire - March 29, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Troy Parks Source Type: news
Kidney Cancer Research Proposals Wanted
The Department of Defense Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program (PRCRP) has $50 Million dollars to invest for FY2016. One of the cancers they would like to have better represented among the proposals received is kidney cancer. There are multiple award mechanisms including a translational science team award for $1 million dollars. For more information, please click here.
Award Mechanism
Eligibility
Key Mechanism Elements
Funding
Career Development Award
Principal Investigator (PI): Independent early-career investigator within 10 years ...
Source: Kidney Cancer Association - March 28, 2016 Category: Urology & Nephrology Source Type: news
