The 2026
BAPO Annual Meeting Programme.

(provisional and subject to change) 

Thursday 24th September

8:30am-9:30am

Registration

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9:30am-9:40am

President’s Welcome

Su De

Session 1: 9:40am-10:50am

Chair: Kate Blackmore

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9:40am-10:20am

BAPOJ Research Prize 2026

View the shortlist
Panel: 
Andy Hall, Haytham Kubba, Jess Bewick 

10:20am-10:50am

Panel: Emergency Debates

Moderator:
Mike Saunders 

Panel:
Kate Stephenson, Moe al Salem, Sheneen Meghji, Andrew Hoey 

10:50am-11:20am

Coffee and Browse Posters

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Session 2: 11:20am-12:40pm

Chair: Mira de Kruijf

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11:20am-11:40am

Keynote:
From training in Paediatric ENT in three continents to building a service Down Under.

Marlene Soma 

11:40am-12:00pm

Nurse/AHP Presentations
National tracheostomy survey, nurse led clinics.

Anita Lee, Louise Ross

12:00pm-12:20pm

Who needs sleep anyway?

Chris Grime

12:20pm-12:40pm

What after an adenotonsillectomy for children with Down syndrome and OSA?

Liam Sutton

12:40pm-1:40pm

Lunch and meet the sponsors 

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12:40pm-1:40pm

Nurse breakout session

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1:10pm-1:40pm

Present your poster (judging session)

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Session 3: 1:40pm-3:30pm

Chair: Su De

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1:40pm-2:10pm

The John Evans Lecture:
A Wilde Knight

Ray Clarke

2:10pm-2:40pm

Pop up Presentations 1: 
5×5 mins each

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Moderators:
Mat Daniel, Andrea Burgess 

2:40pm-3:00pm

Managing allergic rhinitis in children

Vibha Sharma

3:00pm-3:30pm

Coffee and Browse Posters

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Session 4: 3:30pm-5:20pm

Chair:Sarah O’Donnell

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3:30pm-3:35pm

Update on Greener Future Sustainability Prize

Jonny Abbas

3:35pm-4:05pm

Pop up Presentations 2: 
5×5 mins each

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Moderators:
Adam Donne , Lesley Cochrane

4:05pm-4:25pm

The Importance of aetiological assessment on access to early hearing intervention  

Sharon Cushing

4:25pm-4:45pm

National Button Battery Guidance Update

Nara Orban

4:45pm-5:15pm

Panel:
Craniofacial, Pierre Robin syndrome, BAHIs, microtia, Treacher Collins

Moderator:
Sunil Sharma 

Panel:
Anusha Hennedige, Rob Nash, Juliana Bonilla-Velez, Sharon Cushing 

5:15pm-6:30pm

Reception

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From 7pm

Networking Event

Flight Club, Liverpool

Friday 25th September

Session 5: 9:00am-10:30am

Chair: Ayla Tabaksert 

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9:00am-9:30am

Panel: Trainee matters
Research, innovation and life in paediatric ENT

Moderator: 
Hannah Emerson 

Panel: 
Tom Hampton , Jonny Abbas, Lizzie Maughans, Michael Maher

9:30am-9:35am

SALT: The Paediatric Laryngology Working Group

Marion Alston

9:35am-9:40am

BAPOJ Research Prize 2025
Update from last years research prize winner

Ben Talks

9:40am-10:00am

From Patient to Patient Voice

Thomas Pearce 

10:00am-10:30am

Pop up Presentations 3: 
5×5 mins each

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Moderators: 
Marianne Elloy, Malin Wendt

10:30am-11:00am

Coffee and browse posters

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Session 6: 11:00am-12:40pm

Chair: Hasnaa Ismail-Koch

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11:00am-11:15am

Presidential Address

Su De

11:15am-11:50am

Panel:
Otology/ implants including RABBIT launch

Moderator: 
James Ramsden 

Panel:  
Sunil Sharma, Sharon Cushing, Andy Hall, Jaya Nichani 

11:50am-12:20pm

Pop up Presentations 4: 
5×5 mins each

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Moderators: 
Samantha Goh, Keith Trimble 

12:20pm-12:40pm

Launch of BAPO/BRS septoplasty/turbinate surgery guidance. Update on Choanal Atresia Surgery

Grace Khong 

12:40pm-1:40pm

Lunch and meet the sponsors 

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1:10pm-1:40pm

BAPO Annual General Meeting

BAPO Members

Session 7: 1:40pm-2:55pm

Chair: Su De

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1:40pm-2:00pm

Working with sick children – looking after yourself

Suzanne Crowe 

2:00pm-2:20pm

Toward Precision Medicine for Head and Neck Lymphatic Malformations

Juliana Bonilla-Velez

2:20pm-2:55pm

Airway Panel

Moderator: 
Michelle Wyatt 

Panel:  
Marlene Soma, Steven Powell, Rania Mehanna, Ian Lilly 

2:55pm-3:25pm

Coffee and Browse Posters

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3:25pm-3:45pm

Prize Giving 

Hasnaa Ismail-Koch, Mira de Kruijf, Kate Blackmore 

3:45pm-4:00pm

Presidential Handover and invitation to BAPO 2027 

Steven Powell 

Networking Event.

Join us at Flight Club Liverpool for a lively evening of networking, good food and a little friendly competition. After a day of learning and discussion, it’s the perfect chance to relax with colleagues, make new connections and enjoy a game or two of social darts in one of Liverpool’s most vibrant venues.

  • 24th September
  • 5 Kenyons Steps Liverpool, L1 3DF
  • From 730pm
  • £25

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

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

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 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 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