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SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME

THURSDAY

THURSDAY 3rd October

09:00 - 09:05 Welcome

Dr Melissa Werndle, Bristol

09:05 - 10:30
SESSION ONE: NEUROONCOLOGY

CHAIRS: Dr Marcus Bradley, Bristol & Dr Owen Thomas, Manchester

 

09:05

Awake craniotomy

Mr Neil Barua

Bristol

 

09:30

Equity in genomics

Prof Kathreena Kurian

Bristol

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10:00: Free paper (abstract 1) - VASARI-auto: performant, equitable, efficient, economical, and survival-predictive featurization of glioma MRI
Dr James Ruffle, London
10:10: 
Free paper (abstract 2) - MRI findings in a cohort of patients with Fabry disease: a 13-year experience from a tertiary referral centre
Dr Amarit Gill, Sheffield
10:20:
Free paper (abstract 3) - 3D FLAIR subtraction for the detection of new or enlarging multiple sclerosis lesions
Dr Louis Tapper, Sheffield

10:30 - 11:00

Refreshments, Exhibition, Posters

11:00 - 12:30
SESSION TWO: MEDICO-LEGAL

CHAIRS: Dr Samantha Mills, Liverpool & Dr Fionnan Williams, Bristol

 

11:00

Trips and traps for doctors and medical experts in the family courts 
His Honour Stephen Wildblood KC 
Bristol

 

11:30

Behind the Scene: Forensic imaging
Bryony Jones, Helen O’Hora, Katherine Holloway (all from South West Police Forensics)
Exeter 

 

11:50

Lifetime in the witness box
Dr Neil Stoodley
Bristol

Prof Stavros Stivaros

Manchester
 

12:20    Panel questions: Stavros Stivaros, Neil Stoodley, Stephen Wildblood

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12:35

An update from the de Boulay professors

Dr Andy Mackinnon, London &, Dr Kshitij Mankad, London

12:45 - 14:00

Lunch, Exhibition, Posters

PLUS: 13:15 - 13:45 - PERSONAL PRACTICE SESSION

Functional neuroradiology Facilitator: Marcus Likeman, Bristol

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14:00 - 15:30
SESSION THREE: INTERESTING CASES AND TOPICS

CHAIRS: Dr Tom Campion, London & Dr Rebecca Hunt, Bristol 

 

14:00 - 14:50

Expert Panel 
Prof Stavros Stivaros, Manchester 
Dr Samantha Mills, Liverpool
Dr Daniel Scoffings, Cambridge

 

​Facilitators:
Dr William Brown, Bristol
Dr Fraser Merchant, Bristol

 

14:50

The rise of medical misinformation - and what it means for clinicians and patients 

Dr David Grimes
Dublin
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15:30 - 16:00

Refreshment, Exhibition, Posters

16:00 - 16:50
SESSION FOUR: Brian Kendall Lecture
Pulsatile tinnitus: diagnosis and treatment, about a recent series of 1228 cases

Professor Emmanuel Houdart
Professor of Neuroradiology, Université Paris VII. 
Director, Department of Neuroradiology, Lariboisière Hospital, Paris, France

Introduced by Dr Dipayan Mitra, Newcastle upon Tyne

16:50 - 17:10

SESSION FOUR continued:

CHAIRS: Dr Dipayan Mitra, Newcastle upon Tyne & Dr Shelley Renowden, Bristol

 

16:50: Free paper (abstract 4) - Utility of routine postoperative imaging in adults undergoing primary ventriculoperitoneal shunts
Dr Adnan Alnaser, Salford

 

17:00

Results of workforce survey

Samantha Mills

Liverpool

17:10

Annual General Meeting

18:00

CLOSE DAY 1

18:45 - 23:30
BSNR Black Tie Gala Dinner

Coach pick-up @ 18:45

Return pick up back to the hotel @ 23:30

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