Sohini Chakrabortee

New @UKHSA guidance for elective surgery implements @CovidSurg evidence! UKHSA recommend dropping requirements in minor surgery for 🔸 Preop isolation - see evidence in @Anaes_Journal: …-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/an… 🔸Preop PCR test - see evidence in @BJSurgery: academic.oup.com/bjs/article/10…

Amazing launch of the first ever comprehensive Intellectual Property and Commercialisation training program at @ITMBirmingham @unibirmingham. Thanks to @BirminghamBRC, @UoBEnterprise, @UoBLibServices, @unibirm_TRT, UKRI IAA and all the speakers for their support.

Our study led by @CongxinSun & @ESeranova with @VIKorolchuk, funded by @wellcometrust & @lifearc1, on loss of #autophagy depleting #NAD to cause cell death of human neurons, having implications for #ageing and #neurodegeneration, is out now in @CellReports cell.com/cell-reports/f…

Exploring the future of clinician education: How virtual reality has the potential to change practice - Thoughts from the Centre blogs.deloitte.co.uk/health/2022/11…

We have also launched our brand new website, showcasing the work of the NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Global Surgery. globalsurgeryunit.org Come and take a look... @NIHRresearch #NIHRGSU

A variety of strategies were developed to mitigate against risk of COVID-related mitigations, including: 🔹Pre-operative SARS-CoV-2 screening 🔹Delaying surgery in patients testing SARS-CoV-2 positive 🔹COVID-free surgical pathways More info in SIU report globalsurgery.redcap.bham.ac.uk/surveys/?s=JPY…

CHALLENGE 1 - THE BACKLOG NHS waiting lists were already growing before the pandemic. Since the pandemic started the NHS has done 2.2 million fewer operations in England than would otherwise have been expected, causing waiting lists to shoot up. #SoMe4Surg

Grateful to @eddiemair & @LBC for opportunity to discuss the government's response to the NHS elective surgery backlog. Govt focus on the backlog is very welcome, but the whole surgical community needs to be engaged to tackle four big challenges This thread expands on these...

And we are off!! The first India Sub Hub (East) takes off, contract signed, team raring to go!! Congratulations Robin Thambudorai and team @TMCKolkata Looking forward to exciting times and surgery changing research in 🇮🇳 @NIHR_GSU @SohiniChakrab @aneelbhangu @pdhaque @Atul_Suroy

CMC Vellore leading the GSU South Indian network: dissemination and training activities at the Sub hub. Thanks @Atul_Suroy and @SohiniChakrab. @OffCMCVellore @NIHR_GSU @GlobalSurgeryI1

From the archive - the week @FalconRct was designed! FALCON's results will be published in @TheLancet in 90 minutes! Astonishing collaboration across 5⃣4⃣ LMIC hospitals. Also, remembering our friend Hosni Khairy Salem (5th from left in second photo) who sadly died last year.

We have two major, practice changing papers coming out soon. Publications are just the start - we now need your help to push them into clinical practice. Please start thinking about what we can do together. @CovidSurg > @TheLancetOncol (Wednesday) @FalconRct > @TheLancet

Professor Dion Morton highlights how the challenge of COVID-19 facing the global health sector has created new ways of working together and new opportunities for enhanced collaboration.

Dr Sohini Chakrabortee, @NIHR_GSU Programme Manager, comments on the critical role the Global Surgery Unit provides in addressing inequalities in surgical care in low- and middle-income countries.