BIR Annual Congress

The British Institute of Radiology’s (BIR) annual congress has become a tradition at this time of year and it says that this year’s event on November 7-8 brought together professionals from diverse roles, with insightful talks and discussions that highlighted the ongoing advances in imaging and oncology. The two-day conference in London, titled Optimising Multidisciplinary Care […]

This year the BIR Annual Congress takes place on November 7-8 at the IET London: Savoy Place and promises an impressive line-up of speakers and topics with the overarching theme of “Optimising multidisciplinary patient care”. The scientific content will be delivered in three exciting streams offering a comprehensive programme. Highlights include sessions on artificial intelligence, […]

The BIR/Aidence Mayneord Memorial Award was presented to senior strategy advisor in medicine at the University of Nottingham Professor Sir Jonathan Van-Tam. Prior to receiving the award, Sir Jonathan gave the eponymous lecture titled ‘Science, policy and leadership during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic’. In his engaging talk, Sir Jonathan explained how the Government and science community […]

Several awards were presented at The British Institute of Radiology’s annual congress last September. Among them was the BJR/Jusha Early Career Investigator Award. This was presented to Dr Wali Bader and team from Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, for the paper ‘Safety and efficacy of repeat Y90 radioembolisation to the same […]

At the BIR Annual Congress the Barclay Medal was awarded to Dr Manish Devendra Mair and his team from the department of otorhinolaryngology at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust for his paper published in the British Journal of Radiology (BJR). Dr Mair received the award at the congress for the paper ‘A systematic review […]

Consultant radiologist at Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust Dr Giles Maskell was given the BIR/Aidence Mayneord Award at the BIR Annual Congress in September. Prior to receiving the award Dr Maskell gave the eponymous lecture on ‘Practising radiology’, a subject that echoed the theme of the congress this year of ‘Looking back to the future: […]

The BIR Godfrey Hounsfield Memorial Lecture was delivered by Dr Thomas Flohr at the BIR Annual Congress in September. The award was presented after his talk ‘A brief history of computed tomography – from Hounsfield’s brain scanner to photon-counting CT’. Dr Flohr is associate professor of medical physics at the University of Tübingen, Germany. Dr […]

The British Institute of Radiology made a number of presentations to deserving recipients during its annual congress in September. The BIR/Siemens Research Award was presented to clinical oncologist at Mount Vernon Cancer Centre Dr Kevin Chiu for a project to move towards fully automated adaptive radiotherapy in head and neck cancer. This research bursary is […]