In this episode we're talking about saving the planet with Professor Mark Maslin, a climate change expert and author of "How to Save the Planet: the Facts". Mr Manish Chand, Associate Professor in Surgery, joins us to discuss how he's using the latest technology to make surgery smarter and less invasive to save lives. We also talk to Dr Dexter Penn, creator of an app that can help identify vulnerable people at risk of being financially abused.
Act 1 - Prof Mark Maslin on Saving the World
Mark Maslin FRGS, FRSA is a Professor of Earth System Science at UCL. Maslin is a leading scientist with particular interest in understanding the climate change and the major challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. He has published over 175 papers in journals such as Science, Nature, and The Lancet, with a current citation count according to Google Scholar over 20,000 (H=67 and i10 index=168) with 40 papers that have been cited over 100 times. He has supported this cutting-edge research with funding of over £70m from government, charities and the private sector.
Mark has written 10 books and over 60 popular articles (e.g., for New Scientist, Independent, Guardian, Telegraph, New York Times and The Conversation – currently over 2.9 million reads). He appears regularly on radio and television, including BBC One David Attenborough’s ‘Climate Change: the fact’. His latest book is “How to save our planet: the facts" published by Penguin in early 2021.
Mark also co-founded Rezatec Ltd which is now one of the world’s leading geospatial analytics companies providing AI “big data” solutions to environmental issues for companies, NGOs, and local and national Governments and is currently valued at £30-50m. He was included in Who’s Who for the first time in 2009, made a Royal Society industrial fellow in 2012 and was granted a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Scholarship in 2011 for his work on East Africa.
Act 2 - Mr Manish Chand on Saving Lives
Manish Chand is Associate Professor of Surgery at UCL and a practising colorectal surgeon at University College Hospital, London; Apollo Hospital, India; and Al Zahra Hospital, Dubai. His clinical interest and expertise is minimally-invasive surgery (laparoscopy and robotic) for colorectal cancer for which he is recognised as a global trainer and key opinion leader. He is the Chief Medical Officer for AIS Channel which is recognised as the world’s leading surgical video platform.
His research interests are in surgical technology which includes image-guided surgery, fluorescence; AI and Augmented Reality. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed articles and continues to research these areas and their integration into the next generation robotic platforms.
Act 3 - Dr Dexter Penn on Saving Money
Every year, around five million older people in the UK are targeted by fraudsters and one in five fall victim to scams.
Dexter Penn created Kalgera, an award-winning mobile and web application that helps protect the finances of vulnerable people, to address this. The tech-for-good company is now welcoming its first users.
