Inaugural Professorial Lecture - Professor John Dockerty

Join us for Professor John Dockerty's Inaugural Professorial Lecture titled "While you were sleeping: making international collaborations work".

About Professor John Dockerty's research:
John is an epidemiologist and public health physician who has worked in New Zealand and the United Kingdom. He has a special interest in unravelling the causes of cancer in children. John is an active member of the Childhood Cancer and Leukemia International Consortium (CLIC). His methodological approaches have included studies of time trends and demographic differences, clustering, case-control studies and cancer survival. He has also researched the psychological, social and economic effects of childhood cancers, and has worked on systematic reviews and international pooled analyses.

John is committed to excellence in study design, and the real-world application of research findings. This comes through in his teaching and supervision of students who are learning how to make their own worthwhile contributions to research in public health and medicine.

John has additional research threads in Health Care Evaluation and Medical Education, with the aims of improving quality and ensuring patients’ views are heard.

More information can be found here, including a link to the live streaming site: https://www.otago.ac.nz/news/events/inaugural-professorial-lecture-professor-john-dockerty

This lecture will be followed with light refreshments, tea, coffee & juice.

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