Brighton And Sussex Medical School

Today (12 May) is #FibromyalgiaAwarenessDay. We caught up with Dr Jessica Eccles, one of our leading researchers on this debilitating condition, to find out more about her involvement in a ground-breaking study.
“Our study looks at brain-body interactions, for example, how the brain of a Fibromyalgia patient responds to inflammation, and what causes autonomic hyperactivity. I see lots of people in my clinic who have Fibromyalgia or have significant fatigue, and I want to fin...d real, practical ways to help them.”
Check out the full video here https://youtu.be/-h85lQUPRFw
#Fibromyalgia #FibromyalgiaAwarenessMonth #Fibro
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Check out these stills taken by Dr Ricardo Governo, Lecturer in Anatomy, on his #GoPro camera! The pics were taken while flying over Brighton at 1,900 feet high last weekend.
This unique bird's eye view shows the progress being made at the new 3Ts hospital at Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals!
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The BSMS #wideningparticipation programme BrightMed at BSMS won the Widening Access Initiative (Outreach) award at the National Education Opportunities Network (NEON) Awards last week. The initiative gives young people the opportunity to develop the skills they need before applying to study medicine.
Read the full story here 👉 http://bit.ly/2YgeSN5

A worldwide study involving academics from BSMS has found that people with ADHD have subtle differences in the cerebral cortex, the brain's outer layer. The disorder affects more than one in 20 children worldwide.
Professor Mara Cercignani, Academic Director of Clinical Imaging Sciences Centre at BSMS and contributing author on the study, said: “This study is an example of the importance of large, multi-centre studies for understanding conditions such as ADHD, characterised... by very subtle brain changes. It simply would not be possible for a single site to recruit a sufficiently large sample. This type of study is becoming more common and it is important for BSMS researchers to be part of this effort.”
Read more 👉 http://bit.ly/2V6W9Sf
#research #adhd #brain
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ICYMI: Prof Carrie Llewellyn & Dr Duncan Shrewsbury from our Primary Care and Public Health Department, gave evidence to the Women and Equalities Comittee at the UK House of Commons this week. The pair discussed how frontline health staff can be more #LGBT inclusive and revealed the long-term mental health problems faced by LGBT patients. Watch the session here https://pa…/Event/Index/b1302cdb-5fbf-4 fbd-91c5-898564a3966e

Dr Arianne Shahvisi, Lecturer in Ethics & Medical Humanities at BSMS, has published a paper in the #BMJ with Dr Fionnuala Finnerty from Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust about migrant women's access to #pregnancy care.
Read their blog in the BMJ Journal of Medical Ethics 👉 https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2019 /04/26/charging-migrant-women-for-pregna ncy-care-is-a-worrying-sign-of-the-times /?fbclid=IwAR2GybAfdu9jt6_8e93Q7OLOXdPHd 7cV9ZkGLtp8YR9Yo6fbGhYhvxnFhW8
#bioethics #clinicalethics

Dr Dipesh Gopal, an Academic Clinical Fellow (ACF) in General Practice at Queen Mary University of London and BSMS Alumni, has recorded a podcast with colleagues about the importance of academia in general practice as well as happiness/purpose in life.
The podcast is designed to reach out to students and junior doctors who might be interested in the topic.
Dr Gopal says: "If it wasn't for the guidance of Simon Glew, a previous ACF at BSMS and Prof Helen Smith, previously Pr...ofessor of General Practice at BSMS, I would have not been introduced to the exciting world of Academic General Practice – my current job and dream job."
Listen to the '2 GPs in a Pod' podcast here https://soundcloud.com/2gpsinapod/dipeshe bra
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Wishing all our staff, students and colleagues a very happy Easter. And thank you to our colleagues and BSMS Alumni in the #NHS who continue to provide healthcare for those who need it. #EasterWeekend #HappyEaster

Jo Middleton, Research Fellow at BSMS, is presenting his research at the next Brighton and Sussex Medico-Chirurgical Society Lecture,titled 'From parasites to planetary health'. The lecture takes place on 2 May 2019, all welcome. #publiclecture #parasites #publichealth

BSMS alumni, Dr Emma Davies, reveals her favourite memories of BSMS and tells us what she's up to now, as part of our BSMS Alumni #alumniinfocus series.
Read her interview here 👉 https://www.bsms.ac.uk/…/alumni-in-focu s-dr-emma-davies.aspx
#alumni #studentviews

The latest issue of BSMS Pulse magazine has landed! Our spring/summer issue looks at the effects of smoking shisha, if medicine is failing women & how our students benefit from learning on the frontline of an A&E department.
Read the latest issue 👉 http://bit.ly/2v5LQmV

BSMS staff, friends & colleagues University of Sussex & University of Brighton are invited to attend 'Ethical quandaries: blurred boundaries and transformations in genomic medicine', a symposium taking place on 11 June.

Meet the guest speakers & register here http://bit.ly/2TVng20

The majority of men who have sex with men would prefer face-to-face HIV testing by a healthcare professional out of a range of testing options, a new collaborative study shows.
#Research #HIV #NewResearch #healthcare #menshealth
The research was a collaboration between the Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; our Department of Primary Care and Public Health at BSMS; the Department of Psychology, University of Southampton, the Roy...al South Hants Hospital, Solent NHS Trust, and the Institute for Global Health, UCL Institute for Global Health, UCL.
Read more 👉 http://bit.ly/2Uvr3bK
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Year 5 BSMS student Alexa Warnes has published her thesis ‘Exploring Pronatalism and Assisted Reproduction in UK Medicine’ in the Journal of International Women's Studies! She argues that pronatalism – a social bias in favour of biological motherhood – entrenches harmful social norms for women as a group.
Read her paper here 👉 https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol20/iss4/8/

You can now take a 360 tour of our lecture theatre & simulation suite! Check out our lecture theatre 👉 https://bsms6636.brighton.domains/Lecture Theatre/ & check out the simulation suite 👉 https://bsms6636.brighton.domains/SimSuit e/
You can explore more on our virtual open day page 👉https://www.bsms.ac.uk/undergraduate/ …/virtual-open-day.aspx
#virtualtour