News Archives - NESTAC

International Clinical Trials Day – Trials in Surgery

International Clinical Trials Day - Trials in Surgery, 20th May We are delighted to invite you to the International Clinical Trials Day – Surgical Cancer Trials Event being held face to face in the Keeton Lomas Lecture Theatre in Newcastle University’s Armstrong Building and via Zoom from 1100 to 1400 hours on Friday 20th May…

NIHR Clinical Research Network – Tomorrow’s Leaders Programme 2022

The NIHR Clinical Research Network is pleased to announce that the Tomorrow's Leaders Programme 2022 will run this summer between May and July. The programme is designed to support early career researchers to develop and deliver surgical cancer studies. It is supported by trainee research collaboratives across all specialties involved in the multi-disciplinary care of…

NESTAC/NESS Online Event 2022 – Prize Winning Opportunities

The North East Surgical Training Academy (NESTAC), in association with the North East Surgical Society (NESS), are now receiving applications for the award of three prizes at their joint virtual meeting on 29th April, 1-5pm. We welcome abstract submission by the 2nd April deadline for the opportunity to win one of three £250 prizes. NESTAC…

Spring 2021 Meeting Report and Winners

Congratulations to all the medal and prize winners at the May joint NESS and NESTAC meeting and thanks to all the contributors, your feedback has been very positive. NESTAC Student medal Joint winners Alex Lea and Nasreen Akter NESS Junior Doctor medal Jakub Chmelo Feggetter Prize Lu Wang In 2016 we had 8 abstracts submitted…

Announcement by the Royal College of Physicians on behalf of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges and NIHR CRN.

RCP is working in collaboration with AoMRCs and NIHR CRN to provide training opportunities to clinicians new to research. This scheme will ultimately be a charged for programme, however they are about to commence a pilot of the scheme free of charge -please see below link for further details. They have indicated that they are…

NESTAC Committee Announce Abstracts Prizes

The NESTAC committee are delighted to announce that at the forthcoming meeting the following abstracts will be presented in the prize sessions. Three judges scored all the abstracts, with the best 2 marks being combined to form a composite score. If the judges were involved in the work they withdrew from marking that particular abstract.…

NESTAC/NESS Online Event 2021 – Prize Winning Opportunities

The North East Surgical Training Academy (NESTAC), in association with the North East Surgical Society (NESS), are now receiving applications for the award of three prizes at their joint virtual meeting on 7th May, 2-5pm. We welcome abstract submission by the 2nd April deadline for the opportunity to win one of three £250 prizes. NESTAC…

North East General Surgical Teaching

Date and Time Friday June 5th 2020 13:00 – 15:00 BST Location ZOOM We were delighted to welcome 50 trainees to the online teaching 1300 Introduction - C Wilson 1310 Colorectal Liver Mets - S Pandanaboyana > DOWNLOAD SLIDES 1330 Organ retrieval for FRCS - A Amer > DOWNLOAD SLIDES 1350 Liver lumps, how to investigate…

Prof Dave Deehan to give the 2020 Pybus Lecture

NESTAC and NESS are delighted to welcome Prof Dave Deehan to give the 2020 Pybus Lecture – “The past, present and future of Robotics in surgery”.

Spring Meeting Report & Medal Winners

Congratulations to Emily Thompson and Raiyyan Aftab who won the Feggetter and NESTAC medals respectively (and £250 each) for 2 excellent presentations on exciting and novel research. Many thanks to all 78 attendees at the NESTAC/NESS pybus lecture and scientific day in May. The standard of presentations was extremely high, demonstrating the abundance of quality…