News & Updates News CLINICAL TRIALS AND PATIENT INVOLVEMENT We will be 'On The Spot' with Professor Rowan Pritchard Jones, Medical Director, Consultant Plastic Surgeon and Professor Marc Moncrieff, Consultant Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon on Tuesday 1st March at 5pm discussing Clinical Trials and Patient Involvement. Clinical trials are essential steps to bringing life-saving and life-changing medicines to market. They are important for discovering new treatments for diseases, as well as new ways to detect, diagnose, and reduce the chance of developing the disease. They can show researchers what does and doesn’t work in humans that cannot be learned in the laboratory and can also help doctors decide if the side effects of a new treatment are acceptable when weighed against the potential benefits. Let us demystify clinical trials from what they are, the process, how safe they are, patient eligibility and the uncertainties that a patient may face. During the webinar Professor Marc Moncrieff will also be discussing the recent global melanoma MelMarT-II clinical trial For more information click here. Biography - Professor Rowan Pritchard Jones Rowan trained in Bristol as a Plastic Reconstructive Surgeon with a special interest in skin cancer. Rowan has worked all over the world, earning his Fellowship in the United States and working with the US Army Trauma Team. He has perform cleft reconstruction in the Nepalese Himalayas and served as a British Military Surgeon. Rowan specialises in skin cancer reconstruction as both surgeon and academic holding an associate chair at Liverpool University where his team specialises in chemo resistance in melanoma. He also leads and runs a number of clinical trials offering patients the opportunity to be part of world-class research. Biography - Professor Marc Moncrieff Marc Moncrieff is a British-trained plastic surgeon specialising in all aspects of skin cancer surgery and reconstruction, including the new techniques of sentinel lymph node biopsy and Isolated Limb Infusion for melanoma. He provides a specialist service for the diagnosis, removal and reconstruction of soft tissue tumours deep to the skin, both benign and malignant. Marc also has a major specialist interest in head and neck reconstruction and provides a specialist service in the surgical management of facial paralysis. To register for this webinar click the link below. 'ON THE SPOT' - CLINICAL TRIALS