HRB-TMRN & RCSI Study Day
Jane Blazeby FMedSci is Professor of Surgery at the University of Bristol and an Honorary Consultant Surgeon at University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust. She studied Medicine at the University of Bristol and undertook higher surgical training in the South West of England. Jane has a long-standing interest in patient centred surgical care and standards of surgery. She has developed and validated an international portfolio of patient reported outcome measures which are widely used in clinical trials in surgical oncology. She collaborates with surgeons, methodologists, trialists and patient partners to design and deliver randomised controlled surgical trials. She enjoys embedding methodological research into the trials. She is developing a of team academic surgeons and methodologists with special interests in evaluating surgery.
Jane directs the Bristol Centre of Surgical Research. The Centre includes the Surgical Innovation theme of the Bristol Biomedical Research Centre and Royal College of England Surgical Trials Centre. The MRC ConDuCT-II Hub for Trials Methodology Research was previously hosted in the Centre. Jane is Chief Investigator of the NIHR HTA By-Band-Sleeve study in bariatric surgery and she mentors and supports consultant surgeons to become chief and principal investigators. She is a member of the COMET (Core Outcome Measures in Effectiveness Trials) management group. She is an NIHR Senior Investigator.
Over the past 5 years with funding from the NIHR Bristol Biomedical Research Centre Jane has investigated how innovative surgery occurs within the NHS. She has led work exploring the governance of innovative procedures and what surgeons tell patients undergoing new and modified procedures. She initiated projects to develop new outcomes to be measured when innovation is occurring. Findings are emerging and leading to new and safer ways for developing innovative surgical procedures prior to full evaluation and/or implementation in practice. Ultimately Jane wants to see evidence based surgical practice in the UK.
