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We are absolutely delighted that our Fellow Dr Juliet Usher-Smith - who is one of our Directors of Studies in Medicine - has been awarded one of this year's Pilkington Prizes, which are awarded by the University to recognise truly outstanding teachers. As only one of two recipients from the Clinical School, the University have recognised the excellence in Juliet's teaching and teaching leadership for medical students, postgrad taught students and postgrad research students. The Clinical Dean of the School of Clinical Medicine, Professor Paul Wilkinson said: "It is really rare for someone to be leading teaching at such a high level across all three, especially if (like Juliet) they are also conducting world-class research." She joins seven other members of our Fellowship - including four in the medical field - who are previous recipients of the Pilkington Prize.

Her world-class research is interested in how we measure, understand and use risk within the context of healthcare. Through her data analysis, she is able to estimate each person’s risk of developing, or dying from, a given disease with increasing accuracy, and gives potential to allocate healthcare resources more efficiently, and to reduce the potential harms of screening, diagnostic tests or treatment amongst those least likely to benefit. She works on stratifying care in this way, developing valid and reliable means of estimating risk, taking into consideration how it would best be implemented, including the practical, ethical, psychological and behavioural impacts.

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