Meetings

  • 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.
Autumn 2023 Meeting and AGM: IN PERSON
Start Date
End Date
Friday 10 Nov 2023 10:00 AM
Friday 10 Nov 2023 17:00 PM
Location
King's College Hospital, London
Details

The full programme is available by scrolling down this page, and includes:

  • Guest lectures:
    • Cannabinoids for treatment of neuropathic pain: what is the real evidence for benefit and harm? Professor Andrew Rice, Professor of Pain Research, Imperial College London; Honorary Consultant in Pain Medicine, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London; President-elect of the International Association for the Study of Pain.  
    • B vitamin deficiencies and diagnostic assays. Dr Agata Sobczyńska-Malefora, Consultant Clinical Scientist, Human Nutristasis Unit, St Thomas Hospital, London. 
  • The usual clinical case presentations submitted by members - will be confirmed approx two weeks in advance. 
  • AGM

This meeting will be held in the Fetal Medicine Research Institute, 16-20 Windsor Walk, London SE5 8BB. This is one minute walk from Denmark Hill train station. This is served by direct trains from King's Cross/St Pancras, Victoria, Clapham Junction and Farringdon (for Elizabeth line). To find the venue, walk slightly downhill from the Phoenix pub, to the corner of Windsor Walk, around behind the left hand end of the terrace of yellow-brick houses  location. There is no car park. 

It will be a hybrid meeting with a virtual attendance option. To encourage face-to-face attendance, the registration cost will the the same whether virtual or in person (including lunch). After you have registered, if you wish to change between virtual and in-person, please email secretariat@bpns.org.uk so we can cater for the correct numbers. 

Joint organisers - Rob Hadden (King's College Hospital) and Alex Rossor (St Thomas' Hospital). 

There will be a relaxed dinner afterwards in the Vineyard Greek Taverna | Greek and Cypriot Cuisine in London (vineyard-greek-taverna.co.uk), 10 minutes walk away at 3 Camberwell Grove, London SE5 8JA. All welcome. Separate booking will be required. 

Payment information

Cost for associate members is £20, for ordinary members £40, and for non-members £60 for the meeting registration (lunch and refreshments included). Due to PayPal changes, our payment system through the website doesn't work, so instead register through the website 'for free' and then pay separately through PayPal, either by searching for Aisling.Carr@nhs.net through PayPal or more simply by typing PayPal.me/bpns22 into your web browser: you will then be asked to log in or sign up to PayPal before being asked to set the amount to pay Aisling Carr, our treasurer. If you do not have a PayPal account and do not wish to sign up, you can email aisling.carr@nhs.net to agree another option.
Programme
DateTimeType Presenter
Fri 10 Nov 202309:00Registration Registration and coffee. Disclosure statement: we are grateful to Alnylam, CSL Behring, Grifols, Sanofi and Takeda for sponsorship towards the costs of running this meeting. Sponsors have had no input into the organization, agenda or content of this meeting.  
Fri 10 Nov 202310:00Lecture Welcome President (Prof M Lunn) and local organisers (Drs R Hadden and A Rossor)
Fri 10 Nov 202310:05Abstract I am not feeling myself today Dr Tatyana Yermakova, Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
Fri 10 Nov 202310:20Abstract Neuropathy without borders Dr Shadi El-Wahsh, Sydney
Fri 10 Nov 202310:40Lecture Cannabinoids for treatment of neuropathic pain: what is the real evidence for benefit and harm? Professor Andrew Rice, Professor of Pain Research, Imperial College London; Honorary Consultant in Pain Medicine, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London
Fri 10 Nov 202311:20Refreshment Coffee  
Fri 10 Nov 202311:50Abstract Veiled Agony: Unraveling the Secrets of Catamenial Pain Dr Anderson Steven
Fri 10 Nov 202312:05Abstract High resolution diffusion tensor imaging in multifocal motor neuropathy with conduction block Dr Ryan Keh, NHNN
Fri 10 Nov 202312:25Abstract A conflicting case of progressive dysphagia Dr Siew Mei Yap, Royal Free Hospital
Fri 10 Nov 202312:40Abstract Clinical and Financial Impact of Immunoglobulin Cessation Trials in Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy Dr Junie Shiwen Koay, NHNN
Fri 10 Nov 202313:00Refreshment Lunch  
Fri 10 Nov 202313:50Lecture B vitamin deficiencies and diagnostic assays. Dr Agata Sobczyńska-Malefora, Consultant Clinical Scientist, Human Nutristasis Unit, St Thomas Hospital, London.
Fri 10 Nov 202314:30Abstract Peripherin is a biomarker of axonal peripheral nerve injury Dr Stephen Keddie, Royal London Hospital
Fri 10 Nov 202314:50Lecture BPNS/BMS/ABN neuromuscular fellowship update Dr Aisling Carr, NHNN
Fri 10 Nov 202315:00Refreshment Afternoon Tea  
Fri 10 Nov 202315:25Other Travel Bursaries - introduced by Dr James Stevens, Bristol  
Fri 10 Nov 202315:30Lecture A genetic analysis of the human flavoproteome in patients with a clinical diagnosis of Strachan’s syndrome in the UK Dr Caroline Kramarz
Fri 10 Nov 202315:45Lecture GJB1 variant classification Dr Christopher Record
Fri 10 Nov 202316:00AGM  
Fri 10 Nov 202317:00Close  

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