College Response to the Asian Tsunami
Total Page：16
File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb
COMMENTTHE COLLEGE NEWSLETTER ISSUE NO 158 | FEBRUARY 2005 College response to the Asian tsunami HE WORLD’S MOST devastating areas around the rim of the Indian who come from the areas affected A person within each School natural disaster in centuries Ocean. by the tsunami, and thankfully at the has been appointed to act as a Thas wreaked havoc in the King’s has around 500 students time of going to press no fatalities contact to advise those who have had been reported. That does not been affected in connection with mean, however, that they or their their studies. families have not suffered. This part The College is aware that there of the world is also popular among are a number of examinations, medical and dental students taking practical assessments and course their electives, and is a favourite submission deadlines in the first tourist destination. part of this term. The College The College has instigated a Regulations permit flexibility for number of initiatives. students who have been adversely affected by their personal Website circumstances. They should To help any students or staff who contact the Examinations Office have been affected, the College has with any queries. established a small review group chaired by the Academic Registrar. Reconstruction One of the results is a dedicated Looking to the area’s future, the website: www.kcl.ac.uk/tsunami International Policy Institute (IPI) with an email address (tsunami- is organising a Tsunami Forum on [email protected]) for students to 10 February at 12.00 in the Great contact the College if their return to Hall, Strand campus. King’s has been delayed. For those who have practical or emotional concerns, the telephone Continued on page 2 numbers of the Counselling Service, Welfare and Advice, Student web Finance, the Health Service, the www.kcl.ac.uk/tsunami Accommodation Office and email Chaplaincy are all listed. [email protected] View from the clock tower: prize winning photo of a view from the Maughan Library taken by philosophy student Roni Pacht, see page 13 3 Gray’s Anatomy | 5 Glands from gills | 6 Da Vinci award | 7 Profile: Mike Yianneskis | 8 King’s people | 11 Departmental focus: History | 12 Transparency Review 14 eLearning | 17 Flashback | 18 In the news | 19 Student news | 20 Books News Continued from page 1 ‘By the end of last night [26 Eyewitness December], we had more than 700 casualties and 120 dead This will be a panel discussion, open bodies in our hospital alone. The to all members of the College, to King’s medical student hospital had run out of space and discuss different aspects of the Bala Karunakaran was resources and we had to divert crisis affecting Asian countries and minor injuries to a local school to to suggest appropriate responses in northern Sri Lanka have medical students attend for an organisation such as King’s. It gaining work experience them.’ will be chaired by Professor Sir at the Killinochchi Lawrence Freedman, Vice-Principal, General Hospital when People were rushed to our hospital with Professor Michael Clarke, in buses and HGVs. Our mortuaries Director, IPI; Chris McDowell, the region was hit. are overflowing with bodies. Most Director, Information Centre about of the dead are women and Asylum and Refugees in the UK; Bob N THE IMMEDIATE AFTERMATH children. We have many young Picciotto, Visiting Professor and of the disaster, Bala writes, children in our wards that are yet to formerly of the World Bank; and I‘I have never seen such chaos. be identified. others to be confirmed. The College’s extensive experience and expertise in the a series of media interviews Michael Champion at president@ first-hand accounts of events in School of Social Science & Public including an interview on the Radio kclsu.org. Asia. There was an auction run by a Policy and Institute of Psychiatry 4 PM programme about the effect Sothebys’ auctioneer and a prize has been brought together in a on India explaining how the raffle. Proceeds went to Care submission to various government Government and country would be a panel discussion, International and the Sri Lankan departments. The proposal advises able to cope with the disaster. open to all members High Commissioner’s Appeal. on managing the resettlement, The Principal, Professor Rick reconstruction, livelihood re- Events of the College Trainor said, ‘On behalf of the entire establishment and the psycho-social The College, the Students’ Union College, I would like to express trauma of the displaced and and Unison are jointly organising sincere condolences and homelessness population as a a fundraising event for the tsunami A fundraising event for the relief sympathies to all students, staff and result of the Asian earthquake. appeal. It will be held in Tutu’s, effort organised by Dr Sophie alumni affected by the disaster in Dr Robert Bradnock, Senior Strand campus, on 22 February at Farooque, School of Medicine, was the Indian Ocean. This is a tragedy Lecturer in the Department of 18.30. A wide-ranging programme is held on 27 January at the Royal that has touched us all. I am very Geography, was quoted in the planned including readings, music, College of Physicians. The evening proud that all sections of the King’s Guardian and Times about early dance, etc. If you would like to take consisted of classical music and community have responded in such warning systems. He also undertook part, contact KCLSU President poetry readings by celebrities plus a positive way.’ staff – an unprecedented boost to The Chairman of our teaching and research Commemoration capability. In terms of our estate, Council writes the redevelopment of the Strand Oration campus will be mostly completed Dear Colleagues this year, the culmination of a £400 HE PRINCIPAL, Professor 2004 was a very busy year for million investment in our facilities. Rick Trainor, will deliver the the College. It was marked, in We continue to build partnerships Tannual Commemoration particular, by the hugely with major national institutions and Oration on Thursday 10 February successful celebrations for our anticipate an early outcome of our in the Great Hall at the Strand 175th Anniversary, and by the the anniversary, will continue this bid to the Medical Research Council campus at 17.15. He will address arrival of a new Principal. year and that Rick Trainor has to house the National Institute for the topic of what universities are There is no danger that 2005 agreed to deliver it. Medical Research on the Guy’s for. It is open to all and a will be any less busy, and I am King’s goes from strength to campus. It is sure to be an reception will be held afterwards pleased that the Commemoration strength. Academically, we are exciting year! at Tutu’s in the Students’ Union. Oration, which was revived for poised to recruit up to 63 senior Baroness Rawlings 2|COMMENT | February 2005 News the e-dition will entitle the user to King’s professor applies radical directly receive regular e-mail updates on advances. The new edition of Gray’s will surgery to famous medical tome prove invaluable not only to the wide range of medical and healthcare clinicians, but also to HE 39TH EDITION of one of and describe anatomy in the way in access through a dedicated website biologists, artists, lawyers, the best-known texts in the which they use it, that is, regionally.’ that features weekly updates which teachers, fashion designers, and Tworld, Gray’s Anatomy, was The book is also available for the will reflect the latest advances in sculptors, in fact, to all those for published in December by Elsevier first time as one of Elsevier’s new the field. whom a knowledge of functional and launched at the Gordon ‘e-ditions’, combining the traditional The text of the e-dition is fully anatomy is essential in their Museum at Guy’s. The Editor-in- printed text with two CD-ROMs that searchable and allows users to professional lives. Chief is Susan Standring, Professor contain all the book’s illustrations download and incorporate all the Professor Strandring was also of Experimental Neurobiology, and and nine fully rotatable and images to their own teaching and interviewed on Radio 4’s Today Head of the Department of strippable images, along with online presentations. In addition, buying Programme about the book. Anatomy & Human Sciences. DOMINIC TURNER The new edition of this definitive guide to human anatomy has been rewritten and restructured, and is now organised by body region rather than by body system. The number of pages has shrunk from 2,100 to 1,600, but the number of illustrations has increased to nearly 2,000, of which almost 400 are new. Professor Standring comments, ‘This is the first time since it was published in 1858 that Gray’s Anatomy has undergone such radical surgery. The editorial team for this edition decided that a book Professor Susan Standring with Erik Engstrom (CEO Elsevier), Fiona Foley (Executive VP Global which would be of the greatest Medicine, Elsevier), Professor Harold Ellis, Mr benefit to practising clinicians Andrew Williams, Drs Jeremiah Healy, David should mirror their daily practice Johnson, Caroline Wigley and Patricia Collins (all on the Editorial Board of 39ed) Healthy interest in design R JACQUES MIZAN from research and discuss how people- which in turn could improve job improving primary care facilities the Department of General centred design could benefit the satisfaction and staff recruitment nationwide, that these facilities will DPractice & Primary Care mental and physical health of both and retention rates. just be ‘more of the same’. ‘I hope has recently launched an exciting patients and healthcare providers.