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Sydney Driscoll NeuroScience Foundation

Education and Research

Welcome to the Sydney Driscoll Neuroscience Foundation Website

ORIGIN

Neuroscience in Action

The Foundation was started in 1989 with a generous donation from Mrs Lucille Driscoll in memory of her late husband Sydney, who had been treated in the Department of Neuroscience at Preston in the 1960s by the first neurosurgeon at Preston; the late Mr Ken Tutton. She was delighted with the idea that the money which she had donated would be used to enhance neuroscience education and research.

A trust Fund was established as a registered charity and is administered by nine Trustees who meet regularly. The late Mr Ken Tutton was one of the founder members of the Trust.
The (current Trustees?) Directors are:. expand arrow

  • Nihal Gurusinghe – Consultant Neurosurgeon, RPH
  • Andrew Ferguson – Solicitor
  • John Bolton
  • Jan Winnard – Lecturer and Teacher Educator, Myerscough College
  • Amal Shervington – Senior Lecturer in Molecular Biology, UCLAN
  • Gwam Rajiah
  • Chris Coutinho – Consultant Radiologist, RPH
  • Tahir Majeed – Consultant Neurologist, RPH
  • Karen Gundry – Senior Sister Ward 2a Neurosurgery, RPH

AIMS & ACTIVITIES

The aim was to build upon the Department’s reputation as a centre of excellence in the field of neuroscience, by continuing to develop and expand the facilities for Education, Training and Research.

The Library

1. NEUROSCIENCE LIBRARY

The first task was to set up and equip the Sidney Driscoll Library on Ward 2 of the Royal Preston Hospital. The Library contains a range of books and journals on the neurosciences for the use of the department's medical and nursing staff.

2. ANNUAL NEUROSCIENCE LECTURE

A prominent Neuroscientist is invited each year to deliver a lecture to an audience of medical practitioners from the North West. The lectures are destined to become a landmark in the scientific progress of the medical community.

3. ANNUAL NEUROSCIENCE AWARD

An annual award for a research paper submitted by a trainee neuroscientist, gives an opportunity for further study at a centre of excellence in the neuroscience in the UK or overseas. Details of past award winners.

4. CONFERENCE & TRAINING COURSES

The Foundation will support the attendance by medical and nursing staff at neuroscience conferences and training courses, enabling them to keep abreast of the latest in diagnostic methods, treatments and neurosurgery.

5. CLINICAL OR LABORATORY RESEARCH

The foundation will support research carried out in and by the Department. During the past five years the Department has made a number of important contributions to scientific literature.

Much of the most valuable education and research activity of the Department is financed by the Foundation.

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