{"id":4599,"date":"2018-10-30T13:55:46","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T13:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/?p=4599"},"modified":"2018-10-30T13:55:46","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T13:55:46","slug":"townsend-and-gown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/townsend-and-gown\/","title":{"rendered":"Townsend and Gown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nw_fullstory_wrapper\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4608 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/med.st-andrews.ac.uk\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2018\/10\/Townsend_Blaikie-K1024-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" \/>The St Andrews Rotary Club hosted an evening of conversation and questions with Gregor Townsend MBE, Scotland Rugby Head Coach, to raise funds for the School of Medicine Arclight project.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Arclight is a new revolutionary handheld solar-powered diagnostic tool to help in the fight against preventable blindness and deafness.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Student Alex and graduate Merlin are currently undertaking an eight-month cycling expedition over 10,000 km from Cairo to Cape Town to distribute 2000 Arclight devices to medical practitioners in low income countries.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">You can find out more about Arclight and the expedition, and donate to Alex and Merlin\u2019s crowdfunding page, through <a href=\"http:\/\/intheloop.newsweaver.com\/intheloop\/1k11xvow6c980lckojdj9o?a=6&amp;p=88732&amp;t=10173\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SaintsFunder<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>Caption: Gregor\u00a0Townsend\u00a0(left) tries out the Arclight\u00a0on the School of Medicine&#8217;s Dr Andrew Blaikie<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Article: Christine Tudhope<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Image: Glen Kennedy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The St Andrews Rotary Club hosted an evening of conversation and questions with Gregor Townsend MBE, Scotland Rugby Head Coach, to raise funds for the School of Medicine Arclight project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":4608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11,1],"tags":[98,165,293],"class_list":["post-4599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-outreach-public-engagement","category-uncategorised","tag-arclight","tag-cairo-to-capetown","tag-dr-andrew-blaikie"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-17 10:11:00","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\/4599","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=4599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}