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  • This meeting is open to BPNS members and other professionals working in relevant areas, but not to patients or members of the general public without advance permission.
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BPNS Autumn Meeting 2020
Start Date
End Date
Friday 6 Nov 2020 09:30 AM
Friday 6 Nov 2020 14:30 PM
Location
33 Queen Square, London and online via Zoom
Details

We are pleased to invite you to a slightly modified autumn BPNS meeting to reflect current social distancing requirements. We are able to host the meeting in the large lecture theatre in 33 Queen Square. Because of recent changes to the COVID rules, only 6 people from Queen Square will attend in person and the remainder of the meeting will be conducted online. Lectures and clinical cases will either be presented in person or remotely and streamed live on the Zoom platform.  There will be no pharma presence, no refreshments, or lunch provided and no post-conference dinner on this occasion. Prices have been reduced to reflect these changes: £10 for associate & retired members, £20 for ordinary members, £30 for non-members. Once you register you will recieve a Zoom link to access the meeting. On line attendees will be able to ask questions and make comments via Zoom with an in house chairperson managing the virtual and real audience to promote an interactive feel to the meeting. It may be possible to increase the numbers of attendees in person but we will not be able to confirm until closer to the time. Attendence will be permitted in the following order: NHNN staff and trainees, presenters, BPNS council members (as the AGM will follow the meeting) and then others in order of registration.

We are keen to support cases from our broad membership. Please submit abstracts via the website in the usual way, deadline: October 23rd at 5pm. We look forward to an interesting informative and interactive meeting delivered in a novel way.

From Aisling Carr, Mike Lunn and Stephen Keddie
Submit an abstract for consideration
Programme
DateTimeType Presenter
Fri 6 Nov 202009:00Registration  
Fri 6 Nov 202009:30Lecture Modern insights into the anatomy of the peripheral nerve Professor Alison Lloyd Insititute of Neurology, UCL/ NHNN
Fri 6 Nov 202010:10Abstract No association between COVID-19 and Guillain-Barré syndrome: a BPNS collaboration Dr Stephen Keddie
Fri 6 Nov 202010:25Abstract Prone position plexopathy; an avoidable complication of prone positioning for COVID-19 pneumonitis? Dr Josh King-Robson
Fri 6 Nov 202010:40Refreshment Refreshment break  
Fri 6 Nov 202011:00Lecture A practical guide to the interpretation of WGS in CMT Professor Sinead Murphy, consultant neurologist, Tallaght Hospital Dublin, Honorary professor of clinical neurology, Trinity College Dublin
Fri 6 Nov 202011:40Abstract Diagnostic utility in CMT: A lucky dip. Dr Carolynne Doherty
Fri 6 Nov 202011:55Abstract Severe congenital myopathy and neuropathy with congenital cataracts. Dr Anirban Majumdar
Fri 6 Nov 202012:10Abstract Fables and Poetry Collide Dr Surapi Bhairavi Wijayendran
Fri 6 Nov 202012:25Abstract A case of inherited inflammatory neuropathy Dr Katie Brennan
Fri 6 Nov 202012:40Refreshment Lunch  
Fri 6 Nov 202013:30AGM  
Fri 6 Nov 202014:30Close  

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