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April news
17 Apr 2016, 3:22 p.m.
Some of the highlights from GO Create! at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) during April.GO Create! Artist in Residence – Dana Al Mazrouei
Emirati Artist Dana Al Mazrouei visited GOSH from 7-11 March 2016. She ran fun creative workshops in Wards and Departments across the hospital including International Private Patients and the Activity Centre.
During the workshops patients used a range of materials and techniques to create colourful, unique, circular artworks.
Each of these artworks represents a Circular Genome Visualisation and like in real Circular Genome Visualisations, the colourful pattern inside each is completely unique for every person, but always takes the form of a circle!
Dana will use the work created by patients during her residency as the starting point for an artwork for the new Zayed Centre for Research into Rare Diseases in Children. Dana’s artwork will celebrate the ground-breaking research which will take place at the Centre, opening in 2018.
GO Create! Learning Difficulties workshop with Swiss Cottage School
In February young people from Swiss Cottage Special Education Needs School in Camden visited GOSH for a sensory workshop led by artist Emma McGarry.
The workshop aimed to provide an opportunity for young people with learning difficulties to creatively and non-verbally share their experience of being in, and navigating around, the hospital.
The group played with a range of sensory materials such as whistles, lavender and foil, and discussed how each of them made them feel: excited, worried, happy, nervous? The group then explored public areas of the hospital and used the materials to signal areas they liked or didn’t like.
The young people especially enjoyed visiting St Christopher’s Chapel and the Reception area which they said was “bright and fun because of the fish!”.
The outcomes of the workshop will be used by Swiss Cottage School and Jim Blair, GOSH’s Intellectual Disabilities Nurse.
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Researchers funded to cure inflammatory disease
Researchers from University College London (UCL) and Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) will join researchers across the UK and international partners in a bid to transform how chronic inflammatory disease is treated.
Innovative imaging project aims to save children’s sight
Researchers from GOSH and UCL are leading a project that could transform how children at risk of sight loss are monitored, by adapting advanced eye imaging technology for use closer to home
Five GOSH clinicians recognised with professorial appointments at UCL
Five clinician researchers from GOSH have been promoted to professor by University College London (UCL), recognising their outstanding contributions to research, innovation and child health.
‘Super elastic’ springs used in world-first surgery at Great Ormond Street Hospital
Surgeons have carried out world-first surgery using innovative super elastic springs which can offer a safer and more effective treatment for a rare skull condition.