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.
Spring 2024 Meeting: VIRTUAL
Start Date
End Date
Friday 22 Mar 2024 10:00 AM
Friday 22 Mar 2024 17:00 PM
Location
The Liverpool Medical Institute
Details

Our usual mix of case presentations (neurology/neurophysiology) and invited lectures is of interest to trainees/consultants and nerve specialists/non-specialists alike.  This years meeting follows our 2-yearly Teaching Course the preceding day, which may also be of interest.  Both meetings will be at the historic Liverpool Medical Institute, located in the heart of Liverpool and a short walk from the Anglican and Catholic cathedrals.  The meeting is in person or virtual via Zoom, with pricing the same for both to reflect rising AV costs and encourage in-person attendance.  There will be a dinner after the meeting which is booked separately on the website (dinner listed as a separate meeting).

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.  REGISTRATION WILL OPEN AFTER THE BPNS AUTUMN MEETING ON 10/11/23

Programme (can change before the event)
DateTimeType Presenter
Fri 22 Mar 202409:30Registration All sponsors of this meeting have no input into the organization or agenda; our sponsors are: CompanyA, CompanyB, CompanyC  
Fri 22 Mar 202410:00Other See under IN-PERSON meeting for full program  

Registration details will be announced shortly.

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Kings Neuromuscular Symposium 2024

The 22nd annual King's Neuromuscular Disease Symposium, Friday 26th January 2024, is now open for registration

The format will be a hybrid of face-to-face or online webinar. To encourage a live audience, we are offering free lunch for those attending in person (if pre-reserved). Registration will be the same cost whether you attend in person or virtually.

The venue will again be the stunning contemporary atrium and lecture theatre of the Fetal Medicine Research Institute at King’s College Hospital, London SE5 8BB, just next to Denmark Hill station.

09.00 – 09.25     Registration and tea/coffee

Session 1              

09.25 – 09.30     Welcome from the organisers

09.30 – 10.00     Peripheral Neuropathy in Complex Genetic diseases: Approach to Diagnosis.  Dr Alex Rossor,

                             St Thomas’ Hospital

10.00 – 10.30     Lymphoma, Paraproteins and Neuropathies. Dr Shirley D’Sa, UCLH. 

10.30 – 11.00     Clinical and EMG guide to Spontaneous Motor Hyperexcitability.    Dr James Bashford, KCL

11.00 – 11.25     Tea/coffee – Atrium

Session 2              

11.25 – 11.55     Immunosuppression in Neuromuscular Diseases. Dr Aisling Carr,

                             Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery

11.55 – 12.35     Richard Hughes Lecture.  Treatment of Neuropathic Pain. Prof Nadine Attal, Paris

12.35 – 13.05     Ulnar Neuropathy. Prof Simon Podnar, Ljubljana 

13.05 – 13.50     Lunch – Atrium

Session 3              

13.50 – 14.20     Physiotherapy Management of Neuromuscular Disorders.  Jo Reffin, KCH

14.20 – 14.50     How to Interpret a Muscle and Nerve Biopsy Report.  Dr Matthew Clarke, UCLH

14.50 – 15.15     Tea/coffee – Atrium

Session 4            
15.15 – 15.45     Congenital Myopathies for the Adult Neurologist.  Dr Anna Sarkozy, GOSH

15.45 – 16.15     Differentiating between Acquired and Genetic Myopathies.  Dr James Lilleker, Manchester

16.15 – 16.25     Concluding remarks and Finish

 

Registration HERE

 

Organisers: Dr Rob Hadden, Dr James Burge, Dr James Bashford & Dr Ahmed Abbas

For Queries please contact our administrator: Ms Lai Tsang  kch-tr.KNMS@nhs.net

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