Thursday 15 August 2013

ICUH 2014 Speaker Profiles: Professor Ian Jacobs

www.icuh2014.com  is proud to announce Professor Ian Jacobs, The University of Manchester’s Vice President and Dean of the Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences as one if its special guest speakers at the conference next March (4th-7th).
Professor Jacobs qualified from Cambridge University and the Middlesex Hospital specialising as a    surgical gynaecological oncologist, focusing on women’s health throughout his distinguished career. In 2005 he established the Uganda Women’s Health Initiative which he Chairs and which conducts a series of projects in Uganda including a cervical screening programme. He has also been president of the British Gynaecological Cancer Society (2001-2004) and of the European Society of Gynaecological Oncology (2005-2007) and is now: Medical Advisor to the Eve Appeal (Gynaecology Cancer Research fund) which he founded in 1985, a Patron of Safehands for Women, a consultant to Becton Dickinson, non-Executive Director of Abcodia Ltd and holds an NIHR Senior Investigator Award.
He has undertaken some groundbreaking research focusing on: genetics, epidemiology, proteomics and biomarkers in risk assessment, detection and screening for gynaecological cancer, with him and his team winning grant awards worth more than £25 million and he is considered to be one of the foremost authorities on gynaecological cancers.
As well as his roles at the University of Manchester, Professor Jacobs is also Director of the Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre (MAHSC) http://www.mahsc.ac.uk/. A partnership between the University of Manchester and six NHS organisations, including: the Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, the Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust, Salford Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust and University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust.  In a recent list, compiled by the Health Service Journal, several  MAHSC members were named as some of the most influential people in health, Including Professor Jacobs, they say their purpose is “to realise the full potential of our academic-healthcare and wealth creation capabilities, to generate real benefits for people in Greater Manchester, the UK and worldwide.”
To hear Professor Ian Jacobs talk about his work at ICUH 2014 (4th – 7th March) you can register at http://www.icuh2014.com/Home/RegCard or via our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/icuh2014 and don’t forget to follow us on Twitter! https://twitter.com/ICUH2014
You can also stay up to date on Professor Jacobs’ work and any other goings on in the Faculty of Medical and Human Science in ‘The Dean’s Update’at: http://blogs.mhs.manchester.ac.uk/dean/.