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
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
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