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The Nuffield Department of Population Health (NDPH) of Oxford University is located at the Old Road Campus in Headington, Oxford, England. It is one of the largest departments within Oxford University's Medical Sciences Division. [1] The head of department is Professor Sir Rory Collins. [2]
The Old Road Campus is a University of Oxford site south of Old Road, in Headington, east Oxford, England. The Churchill Hospital , a teaching hospital managed by the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust , is to the south.
The area also includes the main campus of Oxford Brookes University, Ruskin College (which moved in its entirety from central Oxford to its Headington site in 2012), and the city's main hospitals, including the John Radcliffe, Nuffield and Churchill. Headington Clock, at the centre of the Headington shopping centre. Headington's most famous ...
The Richard Doll Building (RDB) is a University of Oxford building on the Old Road Campus, in Headington, east Oxford, England. [1] [2] The building is named after the physician and epidemiologist Sir Richard Doll CH OBE FRS (1912–2005). [3]
Old Road is a long street in Headington, east Oxford, England, extending into Oxfordshire as a road east of Oxford, to Littleworth near Wheatley. [2] It is part of the main old road between Oxford and London until the late 18th century, [3] passing over Shotover Hill. [4] Nowadays it crosses the Oxford Ring Road with a bridge.
The trust was formed in 2011 by a merger with the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre NHS Trust. It achieved foundation trust status in October 2015. [4] Sir Jonathan Michael, then chief executive, announced in November 2014 that he planned to retire in 2015 – by which time it was hoped that the trust would achieve foundation trust status.
The Clinical Trial Service Unit (CTSU) is a medical research institute within the Nuffield Department of Population Health at Oxford University. It primarily conducts large scale clinical trials (phase III – Final Testing) and epidemiological studies of chronic diseases, especially cancer and vascular conditions. [1]
In recognition of Morris' contribution, the hospital became the Wingfield-Morris Orthopaedic Hospital in 1930. [3] In 1936, Lord Nuffield announced a further gift to Oxford University Medical School which created five clinical chairs, and Professor Gathorne Robert Girdlestone became the first Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery in 1937. [3]