{"id":3220,"date":"2016-11-21T11:19:26","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T11:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/?p=3220"},"modified":"2016-11-21T11:19:26","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T11:19:26","slug":"athena-swan-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/athena-swan-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Athena SWAN Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3227 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/med.st-andrews.ac.uk\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2016\/11\/2016-11-18-global-health-pres-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"2016-11-18-global-health-pres\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" \/>On Friday 18th November, the School hosted Professor Moira Whyte, OBE, MBBS, FMedSci, FRCP, Sir John Crofton Professor of Respiratory Medicine, Head of Medical School, Director of the MRC\/UoE Centre for Inflammation Research,\u00a0University of Edinburgh to give their inaugural Athena SWAN lecture. \u00a0The lecture entitled \u2018Life, Death, and a Career in Academic Medicine\u2019 was well attended by both staff and students.<\/p>\n<p>Moira Whyte is Sir John Crofton, Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the University of Edinburgh and Head of the Medical School at that institution.\u00a0 Her research interest is in the field of inflammation biology of lung disease and she is Director of the MRC\/University of Edinburgh, Centre for Inflammation Research.\u00a0 She undertook her undergraduate medical training at St Bartholomew\u2019s Hospital in London and much of her postgraduate training at Hammersmith Hospital.\u00a0 She was a Wellcome Trust Advanced Training Fellow before becoming Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the University of Sheffield in 1995.\u00a0 She has a particular interest in the training of clinical academics and Chairs the MRC Training Panel.\u00a0 She was recently Registrar at the Academy of Medical Sciences.\u00a0 She was awarded an OBE in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.cir.ed.ac.uk\/investigator\/professor-moira-whyte<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday 18th November, the School hosted Professor Moira Whyte, OBE, MBBS, FMedSci, FRCP, to give their inaugural Athena SWAN lecture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":3227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[107,1002],"class_list":["post-3220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorised","tag-athena-swan","tag-scale"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-15 06:58:07","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}