{"id":948,"date":"2018-07-04T12:37:08","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T11:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/eda-news\/?p=948"},"modified":"2018-07-04T12:39:46","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T11:39:46","slug":"dr-mohamed-sakel-from-eda-among-nhs70-most-influential-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2018\/07\/04\/dr-mohamed-sakel-from-eda-among-nhs70-most-influential-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Mohamed Sakel from EDA among NHS70 \u2018most influential\u2019 staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eda.kent.ac.uk\/school\/staff_detail.aspx?pid=66\">Dr Mohamed Sakel<\/a>, a member of the School of Engineering and Digital Arts since 2010, has made the top 70 in a poll of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhsconfed.org\/news\/2018\/06\/nhs-hails-standout-stars-to-mark-70th-birthday\">health and social care\u2019s standout stars of the last 70 years<\/a>. A Consultant Physician and Director of Neuro-Rehabilitation and Research &amp; Development at the East Kent University Foundation Hospitals Trust, he has worked closely on a number of joint projects with EDA. Recent projects include the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/science\/9734\/clinical-trials-of-robotic-legs-help-patients-walk-again\">first clinical trials of robotic legs<\/a>\u00a0for patients with mobility problems and, in a collaboration with colleagues from the School of Psychology,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/science\/10307\/treatment-can-offer-hope-for-relief-of-parkinsons-symptoms\">research into Parkinson\u2019s Disease<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Karen Cox, who became Vice-Chancellor in August 2017, is one of the 70 most influential nurses and midwives from 1948 to 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.england.nhs.uk\/nhs70\/about\/\">NHS turns 70<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a05 July 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Mohamed Sakel, a member of the School of Engineering and Digital Arts since 2010, has made the top 70 in a poll of\u00a0health and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2018\/07\/04\/dr-mohamed-sakel-from-eda-among-nhs70-most-influential-staff\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39150,"featured_media":949,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[197040,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":957,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions\/957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}