All entries for Wednesday 07 May 2008
May 07, 2008
Brittle bone scan developed by Warwick’s Deputy Vice–Chancellor helps own secretary
Writing about web page http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/brittle_bone_scan/
University of Warwick Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor Stuart Palmer was amazed this week when his own PA Gill Gough asked for time off to take up the opportunity of a bone density scan at the University’s Sport Centre being offered to women at risk of brittle bones – osteoporosis. What amazed him wasn’t Gill’s perfectly reasonable request for the time off, it was the fact that he originally led the team that invented the machine that had now returned almost to his doorstep.