Explore the new image

Advances in medical technology will be explored in a free lecture at the University of Teesside on Wednesday 9 February. Entitled ‘The New Image’ the lecture will be delivered by Professor Mike Smith, the University’s Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Enterprise), and takes place in the Centuria building, Victoria Road, Middlesbrough from 6.30pm-8pm.

There will be an opportunity for questions after the lecture, which is part of the University’s annual Honorary & Professorial lecture series. Refreshments are available from 6pm.

Professor Smith said: “The ability to look inside the human body is essential to find out what may be causing an illness or whether a patient is getting better. For most of the last century, X-rays were the only way we could look inside the body but scientific and technological breakthroughs over the last 30 years now allow us to take pictures inside the human body of everything, from the workings of the brain to the beating of the heart. I’ll be describing techniques using sound, magnetism, light, radio waves and radiation, along with many examples of images that have been taken from all areas of the human body.”

Professor Smith is the University's Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Enterprise) and has 25 years experience of research in Medicine and Health working in Universities, the NHS and commercial companies. A physical scientist, Professor Smith worked at the Universities of Edinburgh and London before moving to the University of Leeds first as Professor of Medical Physics, then latterly as Dean of Research in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry, Psychology and Health. Professor Smith has also been President of the British Institute of Radiology in its Centenary year.

For more information please contact Sarah Irving, Alumni Officer on 01642 384255 or e-mail alumni.office@tees.ac.uk

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