The BAPO

Annual Meeting 2025 Agenda

Take a look at what was on the agenda at our 2025 Annual Meeting

2025’s conference was held in the beautiful Sir Charles Wilson Building, part of the historic University of Glasgow. Founded in 1451, the university is the fourth oldest in the English speaking world and has produced some of the world’s greatest minds, including economist Adam Smith and physicist Lord Kelvin.

Our keynote speakers were

Prof. Natalie Loundon

Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, France

Dr. Anika Mitchell-Daley

Cornwall Regional Hospital, Jamaica

Dr. Ramanan Daniel

Royal Children’s Hospital, Victoria, Australia

Prof. Talal al-Khatib

King AbdulAziz University Hospital, Saudi Arabia

Ms. Colleen Heffernan

Children's Health Institute, Dublin, Ireland

The Agenda

Thursday 11th September

0900-1000

Registration

1000-1010

President’s Welcome

Haytham Kubba

Session 1

Chair
Alok Sharma

1010-1030

Simulation in training

Tash Kunanandam

1030-1110

BAPOJ Research Prize 2025

Panel
Su De
James Ramsden
Sunil Sharma

1110-1140

Coffee and browse posters

Session 2

Chair
Kate Blackmore

1140-1150

BAPOJ Research Prize 2024 winner: Glue ear in a dish

Angus Lawson

1150-1210

Priorities for ENT clinical trials in the UK

James O’Hara

1210-1230

Basic science research in paed ENT

Jason Powell

1230-1330

Lunch and meet the sponsors

1300-1330

Present your poster (judging session)

Session 3

Chair
Haytham Kubba

1330-1410

John Evans Lecture: Gene therapy for hearing loss

Natalie Loundon

1410-1430

Balance

Kerrie McAllister

1430-1450

Endoscopic ear surgery

Arun Iyer

1450-1520

Coffee and browse posters

Session 4

Chair
Tash Kunanandam

1520-1620

Short papers 1

1620-1640

Challenges in tracheostomy care in Scotland

Emma Clark

1640-1700

Challenges in airway surgery in the Caribbean

Anika Mitchell-Daley

1700-1730

Drinks

Session 5

Chair
Mike Saunders

1715-1830

Fighting Talk

Panel
Kate Blackmore
Tash Kunanandam
Scott Rickert
Soham Roy
Steve Sobol

1900-0200

Ceilidh with buffet and drinks at Oran Mór

The Agenda

Friday 12th September

Session 6

Chair
Joost Bittermann

0900-0920

Trisomy 21

James Ramsden/Olivia Kenyon

0920-0950

Nasal surgery in children

Ram Daniel

0950-1015

Vascular malformations MDT

Paula Beattie/Linda Watkins

1015-1045

Laser fires and OR safety

Soham Roy

1045-1115

Coffee and browse posters

Session 7

Chair
Yasmine Kamhieh

1115-1215

Short papers 2

1115-1215

Parallel session: ENT CNS/ AHP roundtable networking session (Downstairs seminar room)

Chair
Joyce Gray

1215-1330

Lunch and meet the sponsors

1245-1330

Annual General Meeting (AGM)

Council Applicants
Financial Accounts

BAPO Members

Session 8

Chair
Sophie Wilkinson

1330-1400

Difficult cases panel (recurrent TGDC, tongue tie/lip tie, PRS)

Panel
Colleen Heffernan
Nico Jonas
Steve Powell
Zahrah Taufique

1400-1420

Recent trends in management of neonatal bilateral vocal cord paralysis

Talal Al Khatib

1420-1440

Recurrent croup

Colleen Heffernan

1440-1500

Coffee and browse posters

1500-1520

Prize Giving

Kate Blackmore
Hasnaa Ismail-Koch

1520-1530

Closing Remarks, Presidential Handover and Invitation to BAPO 2026

END OF CONFERENCE

BAPOJ Revision Course

Wednesday 10th September

We also held an exam revision course for paeds.

The Agenda

0845-0915

Arrival, Registration and Coffee

0915-1030

Welcome/Airway

Chair
Mira de Kruijf

0915-0930

Laryngomalacia

Colleen Heffernan

0930-0955

Subglottic Stenosis
(to include haemangioma/subglottic cysts)

Ram Daniel

0955-1010

Vocal Cord Immobility

Soham Roy

1010-1035

Open and Endoscopic Airway procedures

Soham Roy

1035-1050

Questions and Discussion

1050-1110

Coffee

1110-1230

Head and Neck

Chair
Simone Schaeffer

1110-1125

Cervical Lymphadenopathy

Mira de Kruiif

1125-1135

Trisomy 21

Kate Blackmore

1135-1150

Branchial Abnormalities

Ram Daniel

1150-1210

Lympho-Vascular Anomalies

Yasmine Kamhieh

1210-1225

Nasal Dermoids

Grace Khong

1225-1245

Questions and Discussion

1245-1330

Lunch

1330-1500

Otology

Chair
Sunil Sharma

1330-1345

Congenital abnormalities/Microtia

Sunil Sharma

1345-1400

Assessment of Hearing

Kerrie McAllister

1400-1415

Congenital Hearing loss

Andy Hall

1415-1430

Implants

Matt Ellis

1430-1445

OME/AOM/Complications

Sunil Sharma

1445-1500

Questions

1500-1515

Coffee

1515-1700

Rhinology/General/ Emergency

Chair
Kate Blackmore

1515-1535

Securing the Emergent Airway

Ravi Thevasagayam

1535-1550

Nasal Obstruction /Polyposis/ PCD /Rhinitis

Andy Hall

1550-1605

Rhinosinusitis; orbital & intracranial complications of rhinosinusitis

Eishaan Bhargava

1605-1620

ENT-related syndromes/ Craniofacial Syndromes

Michelle Wyatt

1620-1635

Paediatric Tracheostomy

Rania Mehanna

1635-1655

OSA/Obstructed Sleep Disordered Breathing
(incl sleep studies)

Stephen Powell

1655-1715

Final Questions and Close

Pop-up Presentations Session 6

O6.1 Endoscopic vs External Paediatric DCR: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, United Kingdom; Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Rohan Pinto; Grace Khong

O6.2 Paediatric one stop neck lump clinic: A pilot service evaluation
Sheffield Children’s Hospital, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Gyanesh Sethi; Nicola Stobbs; Christopher NG

O6.3 Predictors of Recurrence Following Nasal Dermoid Sinus Cysts Excision: A 13-Year Retrospective Cohort Study
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom; Bolton NHS Foundation Trust, Bolton, United Kingdom
Arshad Zubair; Dillan Shetty; Ravi Sharma; Grace Khong

O6.4 DigiBel: A Pilot Evaluation of a Web-Based, Child-Friendly Audiometry App for Detecting Conductive Hearing Loss
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Norwich, United Kingdom; Cambridge University Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Rachael Collins; Tamsin Holland-Brown

O6.5 BapoGPT: Artificial Intelligence Versus ENT UK for Patient and Parent Information
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Dalton Barham; William Greenough

Pop-up Presentations Session 5

O5.1 Dynamic Four-Dimensional CT in the Evaluation of Paediatric Tracheobronchomalacia: A Ten-Year Single-Centre Retrospective Review
Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, United Kingdom
Sophie Bondje; Elizabeth Maughan; Colin Butler

O5.2 Microlaryngobronchoscopy in Children with Recurrent Croup: Are We Performing Too Many?
Cambridge University Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom; The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan
Mohammad Ghunaim; Imogen Seago; Chloe Swords

O5.3 Cumulative corticosteroid exposure in paediatric subglottic stenosis
Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Chloe Swords; Mohammad Ghunaim; Chong Kang; Nico Jonas; Jessica Bewick

O5.4 Transitioning adolescent tracheostomy patients to adult care: A national survey of current practice
Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom; University Hospital Wales, Cardiff, United Kingdom
Bay Hill; Yasmine Kamhieh; Julie Bickel; Andrew Hall

O5.5 Multidisciplinary Paediatric Airway Guide and Simulation Training
University Hospitals Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
Sarah Humphries; Isabella Atherley; Thomas Geyton

Pop-up Presentations Session 4

O4.1 Higher Revision Adenoidectomy Rates in Afro-Caribbean Children Compared with the General Paediatric Population: A Five-Year Tertiary Centre Review
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, Oxford, United Kingdom
Amna Qamar; Ilan Elango; Harrypal Panesar; Ciba Paul

O4.2 Should day-case adenotonsillectomy criteria be expanded to allow for the growing childhood obesity epidemic? A retrospective review of 99 children undergoing adenotonsillectomy with weight over 98th centile.
Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children, Belfast, United Kingdom
Aisling Clarke; Gavin Donaldson; Conor Jackson; Keith Trimble

O4.3 Paediatric ENT litigation in England: a retrospective analysis of NHS Resolution claims notified 2018–2023
University College London Hospital, London, United Kingdom
Foteini Stefania Koumpa; Talisa Ross; Annakan Navaratnam; Su De

O4.4 Does Clot Size Matter? Rethinking Anticoagulation Duration in Paediatric Otogenic Sinus Thrombosis
Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Sara Mahmood; Randa Ghazal-Asswad; Kristin Bryce; Sunil Sharma

O4.5 Do patients require ongoing medication for drooling despite salivary gland surgery?
Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Mohammad Ghunaim; Chloe Swords; Chong Kang; Nico Jonas; Jessica Bewick

Pop-up Presentations Session 3

O3.1 Preliminary Safety and Efficacy of AK-OTOF Gene Therapy for Otoferlin Gene (OTOF)-mediated Hearing Loss
Eli Lilly and Company
Brian Lin; on behalf of the AK-OTOF-101 trial

O3.2 Paediatric Eustachian Tube Balloon Dilatation: The First UK Experience
Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Emma Hogg; Grace Khong; Sunil Sharma

O3.3 Patterns and Predictors of Hearing Aid Rejection in Paediatric Patients: A Single-Centre Experience
Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Dickson Dewantoro; Yeshua Mirani; Timothy Davies; Oliver Little; Sunil Sharma

O3.4 Beyond Drainage: Tympanic Membrane Perforation upon Presentation as a Major Risk Factor for Complications in Pediatric Mastoiditis
Shamir medical center, Zerifin, Israel
Ofer Israel; Itai Asher; Jacob Pitaro; Rona Bourla; Yael Garti; Haim Gavriel; Yuval Mizrakly

O3.5 Paediatric SENTIO™ Transcutaneous Bone Conduction Hearing Implant: Our Tertiary ENT Paediatric Experience
Alder Hey Children’s, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Emma Hogg; Dickson Dewantoro; Kristin Bryce; Timothy Davies; Oliver Little; Sujata De; Sunil Sharma

BAPOJ Research Prize 2026

BAPOJ1: Developing novel materials for paediatric tracheostomy tube design
Josh Law; Jennifer Olsen; Jason Powell

BAPOJ2: Are sterile drapes and gowns necessary for all paediatric ENT operations? Assessing the exposure of bodily fluids during adenotonsillectomy procedures
Chee Yen Soon; Henry Dunne; Chong Yi Kang

BAPOJ3: Who Progresses? Phenotyping Long-Term Audiological Trajectories Following Newborn Hearing Screening
Chloe Swords; Mohammad Ghunaim; Chong Kang; Nico Jonas; Jessica Bewick