23/04/2014 taking the lead 5 th annual nihr trainee meeting leeds, 2001 hywel williams director of...
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10/04/23
Taking the lead
5th Annual NIHR Trainee MeetingLeeds, 2001
Hywel Williams
Director of Centre of Evidence-based Dermatology and
Chair of the NIHR HTA Commissioning Board
♫ “I did it my way” ♪
Briefly – my career path
• Medicine and dermatolology in London• Wellcome Trust Clinical Epidemiology Fellowship MSc and PhD• Senior lecturer 1994 at Nottingham, Professor in 1998• Started Centre of Evidence-Based Dermatology – Cochrane Skin
group, UK Dematology Clinical Trials Network, NHS Evidence• 300+ papers and grant income £1million per year plus• 1998 Director of R&D for the Trust• Then Trent Institute for Health Services Research• Started Nottingham Clinical Trials Unit in 2005• 2006 – Chaired RfPB East Midlands• 2010 chair HTA Commissioning Board
Story 1: the birth of dermato-epidemiology
European Dermato-Epidemiology Network, Venice, 1999.
Tip one
• Beat your own paths (and learn leadership along the way)
Tip two:
• Turn your demons into your strengths
Story 3: “One day they will find me out”
Tip three:
• Do you realise why you are successful?
Story 4: Your other interests
I really wanted to do art and music
Tip four:
• Find a way of bringing your true self into your work
Story 5: Hywel and the helpful professor
Tip five:
• Find a good mentor
Story 6: Getting the balance rightbetween pushing and pulling
Tip six:
• Let go (for a while)
Story seven: the Empire strikes back
Tip seven:
• Invest in people – different people
Story eight: The loneliness of good science
Tip eight:
• Eschew fashion - Good science will prevail
Story 9: the failed application
Tip nine:
• Pick yourself up and learn from your mistakes
Story 10: how green was my valley
Tip 10:
• Know who you are, and where you come from
Final thoughts
• All of you are good, but do you know why?
• Know when to compete and when to collaborate
• Never underestimate your own ability to forge your own career path
• The most important: Be true to yourself