British Medical Ultrasound Conference in Harrogate: what to expect
Submitted by BMUS scientific organising committee chair Jeannette Kraft
The BMUS 56th Annual Scientific Meeting, Ultrasound 2025 is coming to Harrogate from December 9-11, 2025. This year’s conference promises to be a must-attend event for medical ultrasound professionals, with a packed program of keynote lectures, proffered talks and posters, practical workshops and our fantastic technical exhibition.
Keynote speakers
The keynote lecture for the Donald MacVicar Brown Award will be given by international guest speaker Paula Kinnane from the Australian Radiographer Association. Paula, a dedicated educator in medical ultrasound, who has devoted her career to advancing women’s and newborn imaging will give her lecture at the end of the first day of the conference.
Program highlights
The conference program covers a variety of the major clinical applications of medical ultrasound, as well as some less common ones. Here are just a few of the highlights:
- Day 1: Plenary 1 focuses on general medicine, including sessions with a liver, abdomen and men’s health focus. Plenary 2 offers sessions on head and neck imaging with talks on lymph node imaging, salivary glands and neck nerves followed by an afternoon dedicated to medico-legal topics. In Plenary 3 there will be a morning of vascular imaging including AAA/EVAR and leg imaging followed by the BMUS Quiz. The student, trainees and early careers satellite session will focus on advancing ultrasound through research and on professional development. The day ends with the prestigious DMB Lecture followed by our welcome drinks’ reception.
- Day 2: Plenary 1 focuses on obstetrics with sessions on cardiac scanning, preterm birth prevention and first trimester care. Plenary 2 starts with a session on supporting the ultrasound workforce followed by the ultrasound debate and the new past presidents session, finishing with a Working Smarter Not Harder session. Plenary 3 starts with the competitive young investigator session, followed by paediatric sessions focussing on abdominal and small parts imaging. In Plenary 4 there is a breast ultrasound session, the highly anticipated Ultra-Sound Ideas and Innovation Pitch and 2 ThUNDDAR sessions. SonoUK offers a whole day of PoCUS in a satellite session.
- Day 3: Gynaecology sessions are offered all morning in Plenary 1 followed by the Endometriosis Masterclass. Plenary 2 focuses on MSK imaging with sessions on advanced scanning and innovation, trauma and shoulder ultrasound. Plenary 3 focuses on physics and artificial intelligence and Plenary 4 offers a session for practice educators and a health and wellbeing session.
Practical workshops
There are 3 full days of practical sessions.
- Day 1 practical sessions include an interventional workshop and a head and neck practical.
- Day 2 offers a brand-new quality assurance workshop, the Endometriosis practical as well as MSK shoulder and foot and ankle masterclasses.
- Day 3 practical sessions include bowel and liver doppler workshops as well as the Tiny Tickers Fetal Heart masterclasses.
Technical exhibition
On top of all that, there is the ever-popular technical exhibition, where you can wander through the stands, chat with our friendly, knowledgeable industry colleagues, and try out all the latest equipment. This year we have Canon Medical Systems, GE Healthcare and MIS Healthcare as the gold sponsors of the meeting. I am sure you would all agree the exhibition makes the meeting and we are grateful for our industry partners continued support.
Winter ball
The conference will have its Annual Winter Ball and Awards Ceremony on the Wednesday evening in the beautiful ballroom of the Majestic Hotel. This is a fantastic opportunity to enjoy some fun time with your friends and colleagues.
Registration for the conference is now open. To register, please visit the BMUS website.
We look forward to seeing you in Yorkshire!
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