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SUMMARY:UK Biobank: opportunities and challenges - Professor Catherine Sud
 low\, Chair of Neurology and Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Ed
 inburgh and UK Biobank’s Chief Scientist and Senior Epidemiologist
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CONTACT:Lucy Lloyd
DESCRIPTION:I will give an overview of this population-based\, prospective
  study that includes an unparalleled breadth and depth of data on half a m
 illion UK adults\, middle aged at the time of their recruitment between 20
 06  and 2010. I’ll talk briefly about the range of data that have been o
 r are being collected\, including questionnaires\, physical measures\, sam
 ples\, accelerometry\, biomarker assays\, genome wide genotyping\, imaging
  and follow-up through data linkage and additional online questionnaires. 
 I’ll then focus on two of the key challenges that I’ve been intimately
  involved with: how we follow the health and disease of half a million par
 ticipants\; and our approach to managing incidental findings in the imagin
 g study.\n\nProfessor Catherine Sudlow is Professor of Neurology and Clini
 cal Epidemiology at University of Edinburgh and has been the Chief Scienti
 st at UK Biobank since 2011. Her role at UK Biobank’s is leading the fol
 low-up programme\, including development and implementation of our strateg
 y for linkages to national health datasets\, and establishing methods for 
 deriving health related outcomes from complex linked health data for use i
 n research. She also plays a key role in several of UK Biobank’s other p
 rogrammes of work\, including: advising on participant engagement\, scient
 ific communications\, data quality\, researcher access to the resource\, a
 nd publications policy\; liaising with scientists about development and us
 e of the resource\; advising on quality assurance and quality control for 
 the imaging sub-study\; developing and assessing the procedures for feedba
 ck of incidental findings in the imaging sub-study. Prof Sudlow has longst
 anding interest in the global epidemiology of stroke and have made importa
 nt contributions to this area. She leads an ongoing programme of work on g
 enetics of stroke and related phenotypes\, focusing on large scale collabo
 rative studies and meta-analyses. \n\nThis talk will be chaired by Profess
 or Hugh Markus\, who is a neurologist with clinical and research interests
  in stroke\, based at the Neurology Unit at the School of Clinical Medicin
 e here in Cambridge.
LOCATION:Large Seminar Room\, 1st Floor\, Institute of Public Health\, Uni
 versity Forvie Site\, Robinson Way\, Cambridge
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