Pre-Medical School Taster Course at The Clinical Exchange - March 2011

Last night we completed the Spring 2011 pre-medical school taster course held at The Clinical Exchange in Guildford.

The photograph above shows Mark Whiteley (left), Consultant Gynaecologist Sovra Whitcroft (middle) and Consultant Vascular Surgeon Mr Barrie Price (right) with some of the delegates who passed the course.

The course entailed one evening a week for 8 weeks, with lectures on medical subjects, hands on experience of stitching, injecting, taking blood, ultrasound, and mock medical school interviews.

For more information see Pre Med Taster Course on

http://www.facebook.com/PremedTasterCourse  

Sunday Times Article - Mark Whiteley quoted

Mark Whiteley was quoted today in the Sunday Times (The Sunday Times, 6th March 2011, Page 7 - "Chill out, chubby: ultrasound and freezing to end yo-yo diets").

Mark and his colleague, Vicki Smith director of Absolute Aesthetics, have been the UK centre for a multi-centre international trial of Liposonix over the last year.

Liposonix is a HIFU (High Intensity Focused Ultrasound) machine that has been designed to destroy fat deposits on the abdomen non-invasively. It is not used for removing large mounts of fat - only dieting or liposuction will do that. However for stubborn areas of fat on the belly, or for love handles, the HIFU can be used to destroy these fat cells and therefore allow body countouring.

Mark Whiteley has been investigating the use of Liposonix for over a year and has presented his work at IMCAS in Paris in 2010 and recently at The Royal Society of Medicine (see earlier in this blog).

For maore information see: http://www.ultrasoundliposuction.co.uk/

Zimbe!

We are proud to be sponsoring a production of Zimbe! at Guildford as part of the Guildford Music Festival on 26th March this year.

For more information http://www.guildfordinternationalmusicfestival.co.uk

Money raised from this event will be used for the Disability Challengers Charity and to support the Nyumbani children's home in Kenya.

For more information about the music of Zimbe! - visit http://www.zimbe.net

Guest Speaker at the Interventional Cosmetics - Recent Advances and Controversies Meeting

Yesterday Mark Whiteley was a guest speaker at:

3rd Annual meeting of the ICG-RSM
Interventional cosmetics: Recent advances and controversies at the Royal Society of Medicine in London.

His talk was:

"New advances in non-surgical lipolysis - methods and machines"

At the same meeting, two research posters were presented by the researchers at The Whiteley Clinic and its aesthetic division, Absolute Aesthetics:

"One year experience of Laser Sweat Ablation (LSA) for Axillary Hyperhidrosis"
Sophie Strong, Mark Whiteley

"Ultrasound changes of adipose tissue following treatment with HIFU (High Intensity Focused Ultrasound) using the Liposonix System" 
George Edward Badham, Victoria Carolyn Smith, Mark Steven Whiteley