Seminars
Wednesday 20th May 2009
Programme:
- 5-5.20pm: "An integrated approach to the treatment of arthritis” By Prof Costantino Pitzalis
- 5.20-5.30pm: Discussion
- 5.30-5.50pm: “3D Analysis of Interactional Synchrony in Schizophrenia” By Dr Rose McCabe
- 5.50-6pm: Discussion
- 6-7pm: Refreshments
Speakers:
Prof Costantino Pitzalis, Head of Centre for Experimental Medicine & Rheumatology.
After his university education and early clinical training in Italy, Professor Pitzalis came to England in 1985 as a Research Fellow to the Department of Rheumatology at Guy’s Hospital. Here he carried out full time laboratory research for 4 years that lead to a PhD at the University of London. He then went back to full time clinical training in General Medicine in the UK, gaining the MRCP in 1992. He returned to the Department of Rheumatology at Guy’s in 1993 as the Arthritis Research Campaign Lecturer/Senior Registrar. In 1996, he was awarded a Senior Lectureship/Career Development Award from the Wellcome Trust. In 2000 he was conferred the Chair of Experimental Rheumatology at King’s College London School of Medicine. In 2007 Professor Pitzalis was recruited to the William Harvey Research Institute to direct the Centre for Experimental Medicine and Rheumatology.
Email: c.pitzalis@qmul.ac.uk
Dr Rose McCabe, Senior Lecturer, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine
My research programme has two complementary strands: the first on therapeutic relationships and interactions in mental health care and the second on interactional markers of schizophrenia. It draws on concepts and methods from psychology, psychiatry and sociology.
Current projects:
Doctor-patient communication and outcome in the treatment of schizophrenia (MRC)
Structured patient-clinician communication and one-year outcome in community mental health care (European Commission FPV)
Talk about suicide in psychiatric consultations
Specifying interactional markers of schizophrenia
Email: r.mccabe@qmul.ac.uk
