We are delighted to announce the next speakers for our MAHSC Inaugural Lecture Series.

We are honoured to host:

• Professor Michelle Harvie,  Lead Research Dietician at the Prevent Breast Cancer Research Unit, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
• Professor Susmito Biswas, Consultant Paediatric Ophthalmologist, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust.

Register your place here in advance to join via Zoom, watch the live stream or watch back the recording here. 

Join us in a lecture series that celebrate MAHSC Honorary Clinical Chairs in Greater Manchester, hear their professional and personal journey, clinical and research areas, plans for the future with an opportunity to share your questions.

Access:

• https://zoom.us/j/91798150400 [zoom.us]
• Meeting ID: 917 9815 0400
• Passcode: 860083

Professor Michelle Harvie

Professor Michelle Harvie is an award-winning research dietitian working at the Prevent Breast Cancer Research Unit.

Michelle Harvie was one of the first to demonstrate that weight loss can reduce risk of breast cancer. Her collaborative epidemiological study with the Iowa Women’s health study cohort (33,000 women) suggested risk reduction of 25-40%.

She’s been a leader in her field for 24 years and has had her findings published in many major scientific journals. Indeed, in research funded by Prevent Breast Cancer, Michelle was one of the first to demonstrate that weight loss can reduce risk of breast cancer.

Right now, She’s investigating how we can reduce risk in high-risk women in a number of ways.

They have shown a dietitian call centre helps women across three centres to follow a healthy diet and become more active, and therefore lose weight, which we know can significantly reduce a woman’s chances of developing the disease. She believes that we need to do more work across a range of centres to show this service can be rolled out to the NHS.

Prof. Harvie said: “One thing we always see is that younger women, especially young mothers, don’t manage to follow the diet so well and have the least weight loss and therefore risk reductions. I am supervising a PhD student who is developing a family based intervention which aims to help women and their families follow the diet and physical activity recommendations.

We are also interested in how some people can be helped by more intensive weight loss interventions, including low calorie diet total diet replacement programmes and weight loss drugs including Wegovy, and Mounjaro.”

Professor Susmito Biswas

Professor Susmito Biswas attended medical school at St Bartholomew’s Hospital between 1986-1992 and completed Ophthalmology training at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital in 2002. He then completed an Ocular Genetic research fellowship in 2000, and a Paediatric Ophthalmology fellowship at Great Ormond Street Hospital and King’s College Hospital in 2002.

Susmito Biswas is currently a Consultant Ophthalmologist at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital with a specialist interest in paediatric ophthalmology.

Established:

• Popular and highly sought after paediatric ophthalmology training fellowships.
• Paediatric corneal transplantation service.
• Multidisciplinary clinics in paediatric cornea,  ocular allergy and retinal disease.

Contributor to national guidelines for Retinopathy of Prematurity Screening and Treatment in the UK.

Authored or co-authored over 30 publications in peer reviewed journals plus chapters in textbooks.

The MAHSC Honorary Clinical Chairs are awarded on an annual basis by The University of Manchester’s Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health Promotions Committee. They are awarded to individuals from across Greater Manchester who have made a major contribution to their clinical specialty, including excellence in research and education. There are now 86 MAHSC Honorary Clinical Chairs.

We look forward to your participation and engaging discussions.