Scottish University of the Year 2017 Higher Education Contribution to Health Science Innovation Professor Sir Pete Downes Principal, University of Dundee Lead Member for Health, Universities Scotland 28 July 2017 dundee.ac.uk Page 1
Large-scale Scottish assets contributing to health science innovation: Digital Health & Care Institute Innovation Centre Stratified Medicine Innovation Centre Division of Signal Transduction Therapy Drug Discovery Unit Academic Health Science Partnership dundee.ac.uk Page 2
AHSP as an enabler of transformation Academic health centres exist for the overarching purpose of improving health and reducing the burden of illness in society. Financial pressure Research & innovation Tripartite Mission Demonstrate value added Education and Training All of our staff, on every level, have opportunities to further their training and education R&D and Innovation Integral to the delivery of high-quality treatment and care for patients is pioneering research and development and opportunities to innovate. Education Healthcare dundee.ac.uk Page 3
Our model: Engage Facilitate Direct Innovate Health & Social Care Sector 9 Schools External partners collaborators industry/se Discover Lead dundee.ac.uk Page 4
Making a difference... Aligning partner strategic priorities including in education & training, quality & safety, research and informatics Providing space for developing ideas across professions and disciplines, domains, services and structures Connecting people and linking existing initiatives Leading on development of new collaborations and strategic partnerships including with industry Leveraging third party funding Increasing partner influence through a joint approach to other stakeholders Developing novel translational models and promoting the uptake of innovation in healthcare delivery Promoting staff recruitment and retention Single point of contact for NHS Tayside and University of Dundee Improving business processes and communication dundee.ac.uk Page 5
Examples of AHSP achievements Strategic Partnering and Investment clinical service development, training, new models of care - Medtronic Graduate Entry Medical Programme ScotGem, Physician s Associate Programme Address opportunities in health and social care integration / delivery Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance Partnership with Digital Health & Care Institute e-health and Informatics Healthcare related design, innovation 225k in research awards for non-medical healthcare professionals NHS Tayside Internationalisation Strategy and Business Toolkit / UoD NHST Framework Agreement Education product development master-classes and qualification bearing Local and national economic growth building a Biomedical Cluster Tay Cities Deal dundee.ac.uk Page 6
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AHSP-Medtronic Collaboration The AHSP offers an integrated one-stop platform for their education, innovation, research, informatics and health service design and improvement ambitions. The commitment to an investment of 200 million for elective diagnostic and treatment centres will support the changes in capacity that will be required as a result of an increase in surgical procedures especially those that are significantly age-related (such as cataract extraction, and knee and hip replacements) dundee.ac.uk Page 8
Centre of Antimicrobial Resistance The Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance at the University of Dundee brings together biologists, chemists, physicists, clinicians, mathematicians, epidemiologists, engineers and designers to focus on innovation in tackling antimicrobial resistance. dundee.ac.uk Page 9
Tacking AMR: multiple approaches DISCOVERY (of new antibiotics) DIAGNOSTICS (rapid, accurate and robust) STEWARDSHIP (of existing medicines, and creating an efficient clinical trials network for new antibiotics; use of informatics and improvement or behaviour science to drive improved prescribing) Control over use of antibiotics in farming Implementation science Informatics- impact, risk profiling Education Crops, soil, environment Our vision DDS-Scotland, a pan-scotland Research Network focused on Gram negative bacteria. Need organisations to work together dundee.ac.uk Page 10
Development of current Tayside AHSP Highlands Grampian Tayside Fife dundee.ac.uk Page 11
Potential functions and connections of an AHSP as an Innovation Hub / Cluster NHS Boards IJPBs H&S care Universities Colleges Offices R&D RIS Education Innovation Etc. Others UK healthcare SGHD Other AHPs / international network INDUSTRY AHSP Innovation Centres SHIL SE dundee.ac.uk Page 12
Scottish Meta-AHSP North East, East and West Hubs [Regional configurations can be different] dundee.ac.uk Page 13
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