New travel fellowships awarded to PhD students
We are delighted to award three Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research PhD students with travel fellowships to support their participation at international respiratory research meetings.
Lee Koh, QMUL-based student, was awarded funding to attend the American Thoracic Society Conference in San Diego, where she will present a poster exploring her PhD research: Reducing exposure of asthmatic children to black carbon particle matter air pollution.
University of Edinburgh-based student Tracy Jackson will be attending the International Primary Care Respiratory Group (IPCRG) Conference in Porto, to deliver an oral presentation on her qualitative study in Northern Ireland: Perceptions among primary care staff towards financial incentives to promote implementation of asthma self-management.
Also attending the IPCRG Conference, Luke Daines – GP and University of Edinburgh-based student – will deliver two oral presentations. Luke will present his systematic review of clinical prediction models to support the diagnosis of asthma in primary care. Luke will also deliver a talk on Estimating the accuracy of diagnostic tests for asthma: the impact of alternative reference standards - a presentation for which he was recently awarded Best Oral Presentation at the Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research Annual Scientific Meeting in Bristol.
Congratulations Lee, Tracy and Luke!
Links
Link to Lee Koh’s student profile
Link to Tracy Jackson’s student profile
Link to American Thoracic Society Conference website
Link to International Primary Care Respiratory Group Conference website