Mayneord Memorial Lecture

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 […]

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 British Institute of Radiology has presented the BIR/Canon Mayneord Award to King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust chief executive Professor Clive Kay. Professor Kay went on to deliver a talk titled ‘Integrated care – reasons to be cheerful and reasons to be watchful’ at the BIR Annual Congress in November. This theme reflected the […]

Professor Mathias Prokop will be delivering the BIR/Canon Mayneord Memorial Lecture at UKIO on Monday, June 10 titled ‘Advanced computer analysis in oncologic imaging: a necessity or a hype?’ Professor Prokop from Radboud University, the Netherlands, is an expert in body imaging with a special focus on multislice CT and new imaging technologies. As one […]

BIR president Andy Rogers, Canon Medical managing director Mark Hitchman and Professor Perry Pickhardt. Professor Perry Pickhardt delivered the eponymous Mayneord Memorial Lecture titled ‘The natural history of colorectal neoplasia?’ to an audience of radiologists, radiographers, scientists and oncologists at UKRCO in Liverpool. In his talk, Professor Pickhardt said colorectal cancer is the second leading […]

Professor Perry Pickhardt. Professor Perry Pickhardt will be delivering the BIR/Canon Memorial Lecture at UKRCO on Monday, July 2.  His lecture will be titled ‘The natural history of colorectal neoplasia’. Professor Pickhardt has a worldwide reputation as a clinician, academic and educator in GI imaging.  He is currently chief of gastrointestinal imaging at the University […]

Presenting the award to Professor Adrian Dixon (right) are Dr David Wilson and Toshiba Medical Systems managing director Mark Hitchman. This year’s recipient of the BIR/Toshiba Mayneord Award, Professor Adrian Dixon delivered the keynote eponymous lecture ‘Has imaging become too effective?’ at UKRC to a packed audience of radiologists, radiographers and other healthcare professionals. Professor […]

Dr David Wilson and Mark Hitchman congratulate Dr John Buscombe (right) on his award. Dr John Buscombe, clinical lead and consultant in the department of nuclear medicine at Cambridge University Hospital, was the recipient of the BIR Toshiba Mayneord Memorial award, following delivery of the memorial lecture ‘Exploring the nature of altheroma in-vivo using PET’ […]