AWARD WINNERS
Jennifer Lambert - 2006 Runner Up
Age: 22
University: University of Leeds
Degree: Medicine
'To meet people and be inspired' was Jennifer Lambert's ambition when she started university. But she's achieved much more than that, serving as a source of inspiration herself.
One of her proudest achievements is her research to produce internationally relevant guidelines on child abuse detection. This project, which Jennifer started herself, was sparked by a lecture on the difficulties of detecting child abuse and the lack of standards around the world. Within a year she had arranged and made visits to South Africa and the Caribbean to research the issue.
Her proposal received the University of Leeds' Joan McKinnon award for research related to child health and the community, and was also accepted for presentation at the BMJ Quality Assurance Conference in Prague this year.
Jennifer also gathered acclaim for her research in cardiology and was awarded a Physiology Society-sponsored summer internship, taking on a research project into ECG (electrocardiogram) changes in heart attacks. She later presented the project at a conference in the Netherlands, and in a number of journals.
She says she is very proud to have been selected as an advisor for the General Medical Council Quality Assurance team, consulting on issues affecting the future of the country's healthcare. "I think that I do have a lot of ideas and find that when I come up against hurdles I deal with them by just trying to get the ball rolling," she says. "I find I can achieve my ambitions by setting small goals, which quickly add up to something much bigger."