A fourth year PhD student and research fellow in the School of Health Sciences at The ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ has been awarded the Pediatric Critical Care Medicine top award at the 7th World Congress on Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care.
Joseph Manning's abstract entitled, "Long-Term Psychosocial Well-Being Following Acute Life Threatening Critical Illness: Exploring Childrens' Narratives of Survival" was one of six selected to be awarded this accolade from over 1200 submissions from around the globe.
Joseph presented his paper on 7 May 2014 at the congress in Istanbul, Turkey. He was awarded a certificate and $1000 from the Editor-in-Chief of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Professor Patrick M. Kochanek and the congress chair Professor Jos Latour.
Joseph said, 'I feel extremely honoured to have been awarded such a prestigious accolade for the research that I have been conducting over the past four years. It is a great privilege to be recognised by the leading clinicians and researchers in the field. It was a fantastic platform to represent the School of Health Sciences, share my work, glean feedback, and develop international collaborations for future work.'
The abstract has been published in a .
Joseph’s PhD research is supervised by Professor Sarah Redsell, Professor of Public Health, Anglia Ruskin University (formerly Principle Research Fellow, School of Health Sciences, The ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½) and Dr Pippa Hemingway, Lecturer in Nursing Children and Young People, School of Health Sciences, The ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½.
Posted on Wednesday 28th May 2014