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DESCRIPTION:'Will the Future be Biopsy-free?'\n\n \n\nSpeaker: Prof. Mark E
 mberton\, OBE\, FMedSci\n\n\n	Mark Emberton OBE FMedSci held the position o
 f Dean of the UCL (University College London) Faculty of Medical Sciences 
 from 2015-2025. Prior to this he was Director of the UCL Division of Surge
 ry and Interventional Science. He leads a clinical innovation team that ma
 jors in experimental medicine by combining bio-engineering and nanotechnol
 ogy with early phase trials in men with prostate cancer. His work encompas
 ses the areas of diagnosis\, risk stratification and therapy. He is also i
 nterested in the methodological aspects of clinical research\, particularl
 y on the use of alternatives to the randomised control trial in surgery an
 d design aspects of diagnostic studies. He is involved in guideline produc
 tion and appraisal and is interested in the formulation of evidence based 
 management policies. He is an active researcher\, lectures widely and has 
 published over 600 peer-reviewed articles in numerous scientific journals 
 and has been cited around 50\,000 times. He is a founding Patron of the ch
 arity Prostate Cancer UK. He now serves as a non-executive Director on the
  boards of UCLH NHS Foundation Trust and Whittington University Hospital N
 HS Trust and chairs the Quality and safety committees of both organisation
 s. In recognition of this work\, he was appointed Officer of the Order of 
 the British Empire (OBE) in 2021 for his services to prostate cancer resea
 rch.\n\n\n\nHybrid Event:\n\nIn-person location: RI-MUHC Amphitheatre\, RV
 H (ES1-1129)\n\nZoom link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/88400705583\n\n\n
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SUMMARY:Department of Surgery Grand Rounds: 36th Annual Fraser N. Gurd Visi
 ting Professor: Mark Emberton
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