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UoL School of Medicine @livunimedicine.bsky.social · Oct 20
We’re delighted to welcome Professor Andy McKeown as the new Dean of the School of Medicine.

His appointment marks an exciting new chapter for the School as we continue to advance medical education and improve health across the Liverpool City Region.

🔗 www.liverpool.ac.uk/medicine/new...
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This National Care Leavers’ Month @LivUni is celebrating welcoming more than 100 care experienced students to courses supporting incredible students like fifth year medic Mia to unlock their potential with us here at Liverpool. (1/2)

#NationalCareLeaversMonth #NCLM2025
November 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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New paper klaxon 🚨🚨

One of our @livunimedicine.bsky.social intercalators has their 1st publication (with a team from @alderhey.nhs.uk, @liverpooluni.bsky.social & @manchester.ac.uk): it's an education piece on how to approach a baby with suspected congenital heart disease ep.bmj.com/content/earl...
Fifteen-minute consultation: A neonate with suspected critical congenital heart disease
A focused, practical guide for general paediatricians and resident doctors managing neonates with suspected critical congenital heart disease (CHD), a spectrum of life-threatening cardiac defects requ...
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November 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Fabulous news - congratulations Dan!
livuniresearch.bsky.social Research@LivUni @livuniresearch.bsky.social · Oct 29
Professor Dan Hawcutt has been appointed as the Founding Director of the Liverpool Institute of Child Health and Wellbeing, a new initiative that will bring together world-leading expertise from across the @liverpooluni.bsky.social and other partners.

news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/10/27/f...
Founding Director appointed of new Liverpool Institute of Child Health and Wellbeing - University of Liverpool News
Founding Director appointed of new Liverpool Institute of Child Health and Wellbeing
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October 30, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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We’re delighted to welcome Professor Andy McKeown as the new Dean of the School of Medicine.

His appointment marks an exciting new chapter for the School as we continue to advance medical education and improve health across the Liverpool City Region.

🔗 www.liverpool.ac.uk/medicine/new...
October 20, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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1/ 🎤 Today's PHPS forum was on "Lessons from smoky kitchens: Unveiling the hidden burden from wood-fuelled cooking in sub-Saharan African schools" #PublicHealth

🗣️ Speakers: Dr Esther Kalkman & Prof Dan Pope

💨 Featured work by NIHR CLEAN-AIR (Africa) Global Health Research Unit: cleanairafrica.com
Talk title: Lessons from smoky kitchens: Unveiling the hidden burden from wood-fuelled cooking in sub-Saharan African schools Abstract: In 90% of sub-Saharan African schools, meals are prepared on polluting wood stoves, posing a major health risk to staff and learners. Our latest research from schools in Rwanda and Kenya has found dangerously high levels of air pollution from wood-fuelled cooking, highlighting serious health concerns for millions of school populace. Using clean fuels like LPG and electricity in schools, as recommended by the WHO, can protect cooks, children, and the environment. Our global health research partnership calls for urgent action to accelerate the transition to clean cooking in schools and aims to support such transitions with impact evidence (health, education and environment) that can inform policy on the most effective solutions. Speaker: Dr. Esther Kalkman is a health and environmental scientist and a postdoctoral researcher at the NIHR CLEAN-Air (Africa) Global Health Research Unit. About CLEAN-Air(Africa) The NIHR CLEAN-Air(Africa) Global Health Research Unit is a collaboration of international experts in environmental public health from the UK, Kenya, Cameroon, Tanzania, Rwanda, and Uganda. The partnership implements research, health systems strengthening, and capacity-building activities across the five focus countries with the explicit objective to address the health burden from household and institutional air pollution from reliance on polluting solid fuels (e.g., wood, charcoal, coal, and biomass) and kerosene. CLEAN-Air(Africa) aims to provide policy-relevant evidence to raise population awareness of the issue and to support prevention through the transition to clean fuels and energy for cooking. CLEAN-Air(Africa): Main Aims To facilitate transition for vulnerable communities and public institutions to clean cooking to address health, environment, climate and gender impacts from reliance on polluting fuels. To evaluate chronic and hidden additional health burdens from household air pollution that can be addressed through clean cooking. To advocate for disease prevention from reductions in air pollution through national clinical and community health systems strengthening. Investing in the future; to develop a sub-Saharan African Air Pollution Centre of Excellence through capacity building, training and investment. Maximising impact through community and stakeholder engagement. Key activities under CLEAN-Air(Africa) The Unit builds on research, capacity and health systems strengthening initiated under the NIHR CLEAN-Air(Africa) Global Health Research Group in Cameroon, Kenya and Ghana. The Group was launched in 2018 and has achieved significant impact since this time in three key areas to address the global public health burden from reliance on polluting solid fuels and kerosene for household energy. Exposure to household air pollution: Using state of the art monitoring equipment to quantify adult and child health impacts from exposure to air pollution from cooking with polluting fuels. Transition to clean cooking: Identifying and addressing barriers to cooking with clean fuels. Informing clean energy policy in sub-Saharan Africa. Strengthening health systems: Training clinical and community health workforces in primary and secondary prevention of household air pollution.
October 14, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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🎉 It was fantastic to welcome partners from some truly inspirational organisations from across the Liverpool city region to a Third Sector networking event this week.

We hope the event was useful in building connections within the sector. It's a pleasure to work with you! ❤️
October 3, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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😍 It's been a wonderful few weeks here in Liverpool as we have welcomed our students back to campus, as well as the arrival of our new student doctors in Year 1!

🔗https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/medicine/news/stories/title,1530764,en.php
October 2, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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This September, we say a fond farewell to Professor Hazel Scott as she retires after eight impactful years as Dean of the Liverpool School of Medicine, leaving behind a stronger community and an enriched curriculum.

🔗 www.liverpool.ac.uk/medicine/new...
September 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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🥳 Happy Welcome Week everyone!

👋 Looking forward to meeting our newest student doctors this morning for their course induction and welcoming them to campus

😊 For starters, it was great to see one our students featured by the BBC: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
September 15, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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🥺 Earlier this week we unfortunately said goodbye to Clinical Skills Lecturer Vicky Bond after almost 28 years in the Clinical Skills Dept.

🎉 Wishing you all the very best for the next chapter Vicky!
September 12, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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🏆We’re proud to announce that ILCAMS has been awarded the Athena Swan Gold for our sustained commitment to gender equality in medical sciences.

💪 Huge credit to the submission team & everyone driving change across our institute.

🔗 www.linkedin.com/pulse/athena...

#AthenaSwan #GenderEquality #EDI
Athena Swan Gold Award in celebration of gender equality
Earlier this year, the Institute of Life Course and Medical Sciences (ILCAMS) received an Athena Swan Gold Award for significant and sustained progression and achievement in promoting gender equality....
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June 27, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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🌍 From Fiji to Fazakerley and from Belize to Birmingham, Year 4 students begin their 4-week Elective placements this week!

📸 Best of luck to all you - we hope you find the experience enriching and rewarding!
June 26, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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An achievement to be extremely proud of!

Massive congratulations to Louise - we look forward to hearing more about it throughout the summer! ❤️
brainiigroup.bsky.social Brain Infection & Inflammation Group @brainiigroup.bsky.social · Jun 3
Well done to Louise Osborne on being awarded her Association of Physician's award for a Summer Studentship with @brainiigroup.bsky.social

👉Read more about the studentship: liverpool.ac.uk/medicine/new...

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June 6, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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The UK’s heart health declined more quickly at the start of the 2020s than in any other decade for over 50 years 📉

Today @thebhf.bsky.social launched its new strategy to reverse this worrying trend. As part of this strategy, we're influencing policy to save more lives from cardiovascular disease 💡
thebhf.bsky.social British Heart Foundation @thebhf.bsky.social · May 19
Cardiovascular disease is still the world's biggest killer.

We're committed to saving more lives, discovering groundbreaking treatments and cures, and providing vital information.

With your help, we can support everyone with heart disease to live a longer, healthier life. ❤️
May 19, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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This Deaf Awareness Week we are celebrating a 20-year partnership with Merseyside Society for Deaf People giving Liverpool student doctors the chance to boost their skills, knowledge and confidence in communicating with deaf patients. #daw2025

🔗 Learn more on our news page: tinyurl.com/deafaware25
Student doctors take part in a training session with a Deaf facilitator
May 6, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Did you know that April is #StressAwarenessMonth?

🎉 As we begin to gear up for the assessment period, our Wellbeing team have put together their top stress-busting tips - whether you’ve got 5 minutes or 1 hour to spare!

🔗https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/medicine/news/stories/title,1515063,en.php
April 30, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Congratulations Mumtaz! 👏

A fantastic achievement 🎉
liverpooluni.bsky.social University of Liverpool @liverpooluni.bsky.social · Apr 30
We're proud to share that Dr Mumtaz Patel has been elected the 123rd President of the Royal College of Physicians — the first woman of Indian descent and only the fourth woman to hold the role. 👏

Read the full story ▶️ news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/04/30/r...

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Photograph of Dr Mumtaz Patel.
April 30, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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livuni-iph.bsky.social Institute of Population Health @livuni-iph.bsky.social · Apr 17
This year's Henry Cohen History of Medicine lecture will feature Professor Matt Smith presenting on “Can history help solve the mental health crisis? Five insights from the past.”

📆 Thursday 22 May
🕠 5:30pm - 7:30pm

Limited spaces, so book your place today ➡️ bit.ly/42elyPP

#MentalHealth
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April 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Blossom season on campus 😍🌸 #Spring #Liverpool #UniversityOfLiverpool #Blossom #SpringInLiverpool
April 9, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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We're thrilled to announce that the University of Liverpool has been awarded the prestigious title of University of the Year at the Educate North Awards! 👏

Read the full story ▶️ news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/04/04/l...

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University of Liverpool named University of the Year at Educate North Awards.
April 4, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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👏 Student Doctor Katy Rushforth joined the School this September after benefitting the from Welsh Seren Medics Programme.

🗣️ "It supported me throughout the whole application process to medical school"

You can read more about Katy's journey into medicine below ⬇️ www.liverpool.ac.uk/medicine/new...
April 9, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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The Smile Squad team was recently invited to attend the LFC legends charity match at Anfield. We are proud to collaborate with the LFC Foundation, where we work to address the pressing issue of childhood dental health across the Liverpool City Region. Read more 👇

www.liverpool.ac.uk/dentistry/ne...
April 8, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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🎉We're a key partner in the DORIAN GRAY EU-funded project exploring the link between cardiovascular disease and mild cognitive impairment.

The initiative will use real world data and AI to develop strategies to improve brain and heart health in ageing populations. 🧠

#CVD #MCI
March 27, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Today was week two of Toddler Science Club at @evertoninthecommunity.org 🧫 this week we were learning about brilliant bodies and how medicines make us healthy! 💊

Thanks to our super scientists from the @therexuol.bsky.social team!
March 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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♥️ Alongside this, we were privileged to welcome back alumni for a tour of campus this afternoon

🔗 Graduating years ranged from 1976 - 2000. Truly the bonds formed during your study years are incredibly strong!

💃 We hope everyone attending this evening has a lovely time!
March 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM