Institution of Mechanical Engineers, London
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Overview
Improving process and engineering design within healthcare has long proved challenging, with classical approaches to systems engineering often falling short when applied to tools and products for non-engineers.
Instead, the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Engineering Better Care study demonstrates how a new approach, focussing on the pillars of people, systems, design, and risk, can deliver effective tools for transformation and continuous improvement across all facets of healthcare.
This lecture will outline the engineering methods developed through this study, with a focus on their application to pharmaceutical products and processes. Attendees will also be able to put forward their questions to a panel of experts to find out how this toolkit can be further adopted by manufacturers for the benefit of patients.
Day 1
18:00 - Lecture Programme
18:00 - Registration
18:30 - Lecture to commence
19:10 - Panel discussion and questions from the audience
19:45 - Lecture concludes
Professor John Clarkson FREng: Director, Cambridge Engineering Design Centre
John Clarkson returned to the department in 1995 following a seven-year spell with PA Consulting Group's Technology Division. He was appointed director of the Engineering Design Centre in 1997 and a University Professor in 2004. He has been directly involved in the teaching of design at all levels of the undergraduate course.
At PA John was Manager of the Advanced Process Group where he gained wide experience of product development with a particular focus on the design of medical equipment and high-integrity systems, where clients required a risk-based systems approach to design to ensure timely delivery of safe systems.
His research interests are in the general area of engineering design, particularly the development of design methodologies to address specific design issues, for example, process management, change management, healthcare design, inclusive design and automotive design. As well as publishing over 800 papers, he has written and edited a number of books on medical equipment design, inclusive design and process management.
John is currently leading a team with the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Royal College of Physicians, The Royal College of Anaesthetists and the Academy of Medical Sciences to develop Engineering Better Care, a systems approach to health and care redesign and improvement.
Bob Hayes: Managing Director, SeerPharma
Bob is Managing Director of SeerPharma. He has worked in the Pharmaceutical Industry for over thirty years - predominantly in manufacturing and distribution. Having also worked outside the pharmaceutical industry, he has a detailed understanding of best practices found in other sectors including Aerospace, Insurance, Food, and Electronics. Bob is a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (London) and is Vice Chair of the IMechE Pharmaceutical Technical Activity Committee (Pharma TAC), playing an active role in various of the IMechE’s activities in the pharma sector.
Jujar Panesar: Chief Executive, CentDS
Dr Jujar Panesar is the chief executive and an engineer at CentDS, a Leeds based engineering and technology start-up which aims to address key issues in the formulated goods industry (FMCG, Pharma, Chemicals). Prior to CentDS, he worked at Unilever R&D, where he was responsible for the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) activities in the company. During his career he also held a CFD engineer role in the Modelling and Simulation division within Proctor & Gamble, and a mechanical engineer role at EDF Energy Sizewell B Nuclear Power Station. Jujar holds a PhD from University of Leeds where he worked on a National Nuclear Laboratory sponsored project to develop novel CFD models to predict the flows inside industrial evaporators operating at the Sellafield nuclear site. Jujar holds a BEng(hons) in Mechanical Engineering from Queen Mary, University of London and an MSc in Computational Fluid Dynamics from University of Leeds.
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