PenCHORD Seminar

Professor Martin Utley (Professor of Operational Research) and Dr Sonya Crowe (Senior Research Associate) from the Clinical Operational Research Unit (CORU) of University College London (UCL) are speakers at this event.

Martin and Sonya will be talking about the issues surrounding implementation of models and their outcomes in clinical practice. The issues they will be discussing will be of great interest to many of you and, with this in mind, we will be also be running a session following the talk to debate issues of implementation of models, and to look for solutions that could improve the uptake of Operational Research and Evidence-Based Decision Making in practice.

In the afternoon there is an interactive workshop session entitled “The Beer Game”, which is an interactive game designed to demonstrate the importance of information sharing, communication and collaboration between elements of a system, and the need to consider ‘whole systems thinking’ when planning organisational changes. The group hopes that this will be yet another fun but enlightening workshop session that will be of great interest to attendees.

The itinerary for the day is as follows (please note that the day will be split across three different venues, but all will be on the main University of Exeter Streatham Campus) .

PART 1 – BATEMAN LECTURE THEATRE, BUILDING:ONE

0900-0930: Arrival (Tea and Coffee)
0930-0945: Welcome (Dr Daniel Chalk)
0945-1045: PenCHORD Seminar : Issues with implementing models in clinical settings (Prof Martin Utley and Dr Sonya Crowe)
1045-1100: Break (Tea and Coffee)
1100-1200: PenCHORD Debate : How do we improve the implementation of Operational Research in Clinical Practice? (Dr Daniel Chalk)

LUNCH – ROOM B315, AMORY BUILDING
1200-1300 Lunch

PART 2 – ROOM 203, HARRISON BUILDING
1300-1530 PenCHORD Workshop : The Beer Game (Dr Daniel Chalk)

As always, attendance at this event is free of charge, but it is requested that you register for this event for catering purposes. To register click here