Dean's Distinguished Lecture - Maj Gen TJ Hodgetts CB CBE KHS OStJ DL
Innovation at Pace and in Crisis
This lecture provides a reproducible model for innovation at pace and in crisis that is equally applicable to academia, the public sector and industry. The model stems from a deconstruction of the contemporary revolution in combat casualty care, which has yielded unprecedented survival outcomes from critical injury, and identifies the conditions for successful 'innovation adoption'; 'innovation translation'; and creation of new product from original ideas.The corresponding acronyms in the model are ADOPTER, TRANSL8 and CREATE. Also discussed are the predictable obstructions to innovation, or 'innovation constipation', remembered as B-OWELS. Major General Hodgetts led the UK's contemporary revolution in combat casualty care and is responsible in large part for the related concepts, guidelines, curriculum design, re-organisation and rigorous clinical governance. His analysis has created this model from experience of serial, disruptive innovation.
This event took place on Wednesday 30 October 2024.
Brief Bio
Major General Tim Hodgetts is the Master General of the Army Medical Services and the elected Chair of the Committee of Chiefs of Military Medical Services in NATO. He retired as Surgeon General to the United Kingdom Armed Forces in May 2024. His voluntary charity roles are as Trustee of London’s Air Ambulance, Trustee of the Poppy Factory, Trustee of citizen AID, and Patron of Style for Soldiers.
Tim was first appointed a Professor in 1998 at the European Institute of Health and Medical Sciences, then at University of Birmingham (2001); City University of London (2013); and the Defence University of Belgrade (Military Medical Academy) by distinction (2023). He was the inaugural Defence Professor with the Royal College of Emergency Medicine from 2008-2010; and the tenured Penman Foundation Professor of Surgery in South Africa for 2011.
Tim was made Officer of the Order of St John in 1999; Commander of the British Empire in 2009; and Companion of the Order of the Bath in 2023. He received the Danish Defence Medal for Meritorious Service in 2010, and the Order of Military Medical Merit (United States Army) in 2022. He was Queen’s Honorary Physician from 2004 to 2010, became Queen’s Honorary Surgeon in 2018 and has been King’s Honorary Surgeon since 2022. Tim has been a Deputy Lieutenant for the County of West Midlands since April 2023. In 2010 he received the Defence Scientific Adviser’s Commendation for contribution to research and has been awarded 19 academic medals. He has published 37 books and over 150 peer-reviewed articles. His academic department was twice recognised nationally as the “Training Team of the Year” and in 2006 he was honoured with the personal accolade of Hospital Doctor of the Year throughout the NHS. He has been named by the British Medical Association as one of the most innovative doctors in the country.
