THE JENNER SOCIETY Medical Science at Moreton Hall AUTUMN TERM 2020 - PROGRAMME Scholarship | Gaiety | Humanity THE JENNER SOCIETY MEDICAL SCIENCE AT MORETON HALL Now in its tenth year, the Jenner ever choosing Science as a career, Society is a Medical Science we hope to provide our pupils with Society established and run by the resources that they need to the Sixth Form at Moreton Hall, excel. with the support of the Biology Department. We invite speakers to In the current situation of discuss biological developments COVID-19 restrictions the Jenner in the news and attend a range of Society has gone virtual. In the events and workshops that have all previous term all of our weekly helped Moreton girls to investigate events were delivered online. This and pursue careers in the Medical term we hope to achieve some Sciences and in Veterinary Science. level of a return to normality but until it is safe to visit in person, We have been delighted by the our speakers have been invited to interest and support that the deliver their talks by video. For this Jenner Society has received and term we have invited a wide range have invited a group of leading of speakers who we believe will 3 PAGE medics and academics to help us help our pupils to pursue careers to steer the Society into the future, in Medical and Veterinary Science. under the Chairmanship of Ruth Longfellow. Details of the Jenner If you are reading this programme Society Steering Group are included as a parent, Old Moretonian or in this booklet. simply as a pupil interested in Medical Science, have a look at Our aim is to make the Jenner which events and speakers you Medical programme available as a would like to attend or perhaps forum for pupils from other local consider coming and talking to schools and colleges to learn and the Jenner Society yourself. In the explore advances in Medical Science. new virtual world this has never The Society’s real and online events been easier! are open to all pupils and parents at Moreton Hall as well as any other interested pupils. With Moreton’s HANNAH PEEL strong tradition of preparing girls Head of Biology for medical and veterinary careers, this is a very exciting time for the Jenner Society. With more girls than DATES FOR AUTUMN TERM 2020 EVERY FRIDAY 5.10pm - 6.00pm SEPTEMBER 4TH Plastics in Medicine 18TH Spinal Cord Injury Research Dr Gary Ogden Dr Charlotte Hulme TH The Life of a Female 11 Veterinary Surgeon: From Turtles to Event Horses Dr Rachel Warner OCTOBER 2ND Becoming a Midwife 9TH Think You Know What a Vet Rebecca McHale (OM 2015) Does…? Dr Patricia Colville & Dr Jan Dixon PAGE 5 PAGE NOVEMBER TH Life as a Recently Qualified TH Equine Surgery 6 Doctor 27 Dr Tim Froydenlund Dr Georgie Muir (OM 2013) 13TH MMI Event The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital DECEMBER 4TH Stem Cell Research Dr Jade Perry MORETON HALL STEERING COMMITTEE PROFILES DR RUTH LONGFELLOW Consultant Anaesthetist, Associate Medical Director, Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Gobowen. MB ChB (Edinburgh), FRCA, Diploma in Medical Education (Nottingham). Interests: Peri-operative medicine, regional anaesthesia, patient safety. MR RICHARD SPENCER JONES Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Royal PAGE 6 PAGE Shrewsbury Hospital and Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Director of Specialist Registrar Training Programme. Lead Consultant, Arthroplasty Firm, RJAH Member of Alliance Surgical Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, Shropshire Nuffield Hospital Director of Specialist Registrar Training Programme (Oswestry / Stoke on Trent Rotation). DR CARON MORTON GP Partner Station Drive Surgery, Ludlow. Undergraduate training completed in South Africa. GP training completed in the UK, focusing on neurology and acute medicine. Interests: Neurology, women’s and children’s health and mental health alongside helping to develop community based projects with local charities and community service. Caron also trains GP registrars and medical students. THE JENNER SOCIETY PROFESSOR SALLY ROBERTS Professor, ISTM, Keele University and Director of Spinal Research at RJAH Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry. Director of Spinal Research unit specialising in bioengineering. Jenner members were invited to visit RJAH to look around their research labatories and to take part in the preparation of microscope slides. MR ANDREW TAPP Consultant Surgeon in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Practices at The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Nuffield Health Shrewsbury Hospital, The Princess Royal Hospital - Apley Ward. Specialist Areas: General gynaecology, gynaecological surgery, pelvic floor surgery, urogynaecology. Special Interests: Minimal access surgery. PAGE 7 PAGE DR MELISSA GRANT A lecturer in biological sciences within the school of Dentistry at Birmingham University. Public engagement ambassador in the School of Dentistry. Special interest in defining proteomic profiles of inflammatory fluids and disease development. ANNA WARNER & MOLLY CREASER-OGDEN Moreton Hall Student Leads MORETON HALL SPEAKER PROFILES DR GARY OGDEN Dr Gary Ogden has over 25 years experience in high performance polymer applications and is currently Technical Manager at Wells Plastics Ltd with responsibility for the development of novel additive masterbatches to suit customer and market requirements, which has recently seen a much increased demand for medical applications. He is greatly involved with both the regulatory (ASTM, ESMA, BSi, GSA, KSA) and political aspects of the plastics industry pertaining to oxo-biodegradable technology and biodegradable compounds. He is a Fellow of The Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining (IOM3) and a Chartered Scientist with the UK Science Council, a former Chairman of The Manchester Polymer Group (IOM3) and is currently Chairman of the Oxo-Biodegradable Plastics Federation. DR RACHEL WARNER BVMS MRCVS Dr Warner graduated from Glasgow University Veterinary School in July 1993. During her undergraduate time at PAGE 8 PAGE Glasgow she organised an exploration society project in Trinidad and Tobago; also undertaking conservation work on turtles in Northern Turkish Cyprus. Once graduated she was offered a position in a mixed practice, as the first female veterinary surgeon ever at Senlac Veterinary Centre, East Sussex. After 3 years she pursued a position to do a greater percentage of Equine practice - in mixed practice in Much Wenlock, Shropshire. After a further 3 years she gained a position in a specialist Equine practice- Fyrnwy Equine Clinics. Also becoming their first female Veterinary surgeon! DR CHARLOTTE HULME Dr Charlotte Hulme is a postdoctoral research scientist within the School of Pharmacy and Bioengineering at Keele University but based in the research laboratories at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital. Charlotte gained a BSc in Biology and then a PhD in Developmental Biomedicine from the University of Manchester. Her PhD investigated placental dysfunction in pregnancies complicated by diabetes mellitus. In 2015, she started her role as a postdoctoral researcher, applying skills she developed during her PhD to the field of orthopaedics. Here she works on the identification of molecules (called biomarkers) that can be used to predict the outcome neurology of patients with spinal cord injury (SCI) and on the stratification of patients to the most appropriate surgical interventions aimed at treating cartilage defects and early osteoarthritis. THE JENNER SOCIETY REBECCA MCHALE (OM 2015) Becca left Moreton in 2015 and trained at Staffordshire University School of Nursing and Midwifery. She is now working, specialising in Midwifery, Reproductive Medicine and Maternal-Child Nursing. Becca is going to talk to the Jenner Society about her journey into Midwifery and why she loves her work. DR PATRICIA COLVILLE BVMS MBA MRCVS Tricia qualified from Glasgow University Veterinary School in 1993. She worked in a small animal private practice for three years before joining the PDSA for 14 years. She moved to Vets Now in 2009 where she worked initially as Hospital Manager for the first Vets Now 24/7 Emergency and Specialty Hospital. She completed a Masters in Business Administration in 2014 and was President of the British Small Animal Veterinary Association between 2015-2016. Tricia is currently Business Development Director with Vets Now, a Trustee of Vetlife, UK Director for the Federation of European Companion Animal Veterinary Associations’, Volunteer for StreetVet and involved with the Scottish 9 PAGE branch of the British Veterinary Association. DR JAN DIXON BVMS MRCVS Jan qualified from Glasgow Veterinary School in 1993, and began her career in Scotland. Sunny climes drew her to practice in New Zealand and Australia for a year, before returning to the UK where she helped establish the largest out of hours veterinary emergency business in the UK. Jan helped set up the Pet Blood Bank Scottish Team, and was in poultry practice in Scotland. Jan is Honorary Secretary of the British Veterinary Bee Association and has thirty hives herself. Three children, three Vizslas (also blood donors), cats, emus, rheas, peacocks and too many chickens, all help occupy her time. DR GEORGIE MUIR (OM 2013) Georgie left Moreton in 2013 and studied Medicine at Newcastle University Medical School. A founding member of the Jenner Society,