Register now for NESTAC Autumn Meeting 2018

Date and Time 13th October Location Newcastle Medical School The upcoming annual NESTAC Autumn meeting (sponsored by RCSEng and NIHR) is taking place on 13th October at Newcastle Medical School. Register now via the link below (£5 refundable deposit).We hope to see you there for what promises to be an excellent day of talks, networking and…

NIHR affiliation!

NESTAC are honoured to now be officially affiliated with the NIHR! We very much hope this will help propel NESTAC forward and improve research engagement across the region. The following mission statement has been generated by the local NIHR team: Increase NIHR CRN engagement and visibility within NESTAC Where applicable, engage with CRN to ensure…

Regional meetings/courses

Just a few updates regarding local events in the coming months. The RCSEng are holding a free one day meeting on 29th June entitled “Improving your academic profile” and is suitable for both students and trainees – further details are in this link. HEENE are running the excellent “Clinical Research in the NHS Programme”, a…

NESS/NESTAC 2018 meeting review

Many thanks to all who attended the NESS/NESTAC meeting on 4th May. The standard of research in the abstract prize sessions was excellent, and many congratulations to Rory Morrison and Sam Tingle who won the Feggetter and NESTAC medals respectively. Furthermore the Pybus Lecture by Mr Nigel Tai gave us a unique insight into ways…

NESTAC/NESS Meeting – Medal Winning Opportunity!

Date and Time 4th May 1, 5pm Location Institute of Transplantation,Freeman Hospital. NESTAC and the North East Surgical Society (NESS) are holding a joint meeting on 4th May 1-5pm at the Institute of Transplantation, Freeman Hospital. We welcome abstract submission by the 20th April deadline for the opportunity to win either the NESS Feggetter medal…

Launch event success!

Many thanks to all who attended the inaugural NESTAC launch event last weekend. A number of insightful lectures were delivered and the networking session provided attendees excellent opportunities to make connections with regional supervisors – we believe projects are already underway as a result! Furthermore it was extremely impressive how much world class research is…

North East Research Delphi – pitch your ideas!

A pan-speciality collaborative has been announced between the three main trainee research collaboratives in the North East; NoSTRA (General Surgery), CORNET (Trauma and Orthopaedics) and INCARNNET (ICM and Anaesthetics). The aim of this is to develop and deliver research projects across the North East which are relevant to these three main specialities. The first project…

NESTAC Launch Meeting

14th October 2017 Inaugural NESTAC meeting, introducing the academy vision, including talks from representatives from every surgical specialty and the opportunity to network. Provisional programme 9:00-9:20: Welcome Talk from RCSEng President Prof Derek Alderson 9:20-09:40: Prof A Fisher TBC – Dean of Clinical Medicine, Newcastle University 09:40 – 10:00: How the College of Surgeons supports…

NESTAC launch meeting confirmed

The inaugural NESTAC meeting has been confirmed for Saturday 14th October 2017 We are delighted to announce Professor Derek Alderson, the new RCSEng president, will deliver the key note lecture, prior to a day of engaging and hopefully inspiring talks from various regional research leaders from every field of surgery. Book tickets through our events…