Translational
Clinical Sciences

Translational Clinical Sciences

Within the Translational Clinical Sciences theme, we actively support collaborative research between university and health care organisations. Current Areas of internationally recognised expertise include Clinical Sciences and Clinical Medicine. Research topics include: concussion, cancer, cardiovascular disease, pulmonary diseases, infectious diseases, genetics, gastroenterology, intellectual disability and education.

Key Achievements

Professor Umesh Chauhan : Research published in Lancet Psychiatry: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2215036614000790

Member of the Guidance Development Group for NICE Guideline NG54:Mental health problems in people with learning disabilities: prevention, assessment and management.
https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng54

Relevant Links

East Lancashire CCG

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care North West Coast

The Society for Academic Primary Care

Our Impact

Speaker on NICE Guidelines

At the IASSIDD Health Issues SIRG 2017 Conference in Belfast, June 2017

Our Impact

Contributor to a RCGP Toolkit

The Health checks for people with learning disabilities toolkit from the Royal College of General Practitioners

Meet The Team

Senior members of the Translational Clinical Sciences Research Theme include:

Umesh Chauhan

Translational Clinical Sciences Theme Lead, Clinical Medicine Group Lead
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Professor Cathy Jackson

Head of School of Medicine, Clinical Sciences Group Lead
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Douglas Hammond

Head Injury Management Group Lead
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Research Groups

Latest News & Events

3rd August 2018

Senior Lecturer appointed a Visiting Professorship at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

Mr Douglas Hammond, Senior Lecturer and Consultant in Maxillo-Facial Surgery in the School of Dentistry and Faculty Lead for the Head Injury Management Group within the Faculty Research Theme of Translational Clinical Sciences, has been appointed to a Visiting Professorship at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. The visiting Professorship is in recognition of his pioneering research into the management of concussion in professional and amateur sport where he has forged academic partnerships on behalf of UCLan with England Rugby, England and Wales Cricket Board, The Rugby League, Birmingham University and University College London. Douglas commented ‘It’s a great honour to be appointed to this Visiting Professorship and an endorsement of the important research we are doing at UCLan in collaboration with our partners’.

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Senior Lecturer appointed a Visiting Professorship at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

Mr Douglas Hammond, Senior Lecturer and Consultant in Maxillo-Facial Surgery in the School of Dentistry and Faculty Lead for the Head Injury Management Group within the Faculty Research Theme of Translational Clinical Sciences, has been appointed to a Visiting Professorship at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. The visiting Professorship is in recognition of […]
27th July 2018

Global review finds antibiotics frequently supplied without prescription

About three in four antibiotic requests and three in five consultations in community pharmacies around the world result in the sale of antibiotics without a prescription, according to new research led by academics at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) and published in the Journal of Infection.

For the full story, please visit https://www.uclan.ac.uk/news/antibiotics-research.php

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Global review finds antibiotics frequently supplied without prescription

About three in four antibiotic requests and three in five consultations in community pharmacies around the world result in the sale of antibiotics without a prescription, according to new research led by academics at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) and published in the Journal of Infection. For the full story, please visit https://www.uclan.ac.uk/news/antibiotics-research.php Tweet
24th July 2018

British Society of Paediatric Dentistry Annual Scientific Meeting

Professor Richard Welbury, Research Lead for the School of Dentistry, is an invited guest speaker at the British Society of Paediatric Dentistry Annual Scientific Meeting between 15 and 18 September 2018 in Dundee, Scotland. The title of his presentation is ‘FiCTION Trial – impact on clinical practice and teaching’.

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British Society of Paediatric Dentistry Annual Scientific Meeting

Professor Richard Welbury, Research Lead for the School of Dentistry, is an invited guest speaker at the British Society of Paediatric Dentistry Annual Scientific Meeting between 15 and 18 September 2018 in Dundee, Scotland. The title of his presentation is ‘FiCTION Trial – impact on clinical practice and teaching’. Tweet
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University probiotics research review findings could impact paediatric healthcare

Dr Morris Gordon, Reader in Medicine, will be giving an oral presentation at the World Congress of Gastroenterology to be held October in Orlando, Florida (USA). The title of the presentation is: Probiotics for the Management of Functional Abdominal Pain in Children: A Cochrane Systematic Review. The presentation won the Paediatric award for the conference.

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