To apply for a national award (Bronze, Silver or Gold) you should:

1. Get the application form from the ACCEA website;


2. Apply direct to RCR (copy of your application form) by 12 noon 10/10/11;


3. Copy your applicaton to BSNR (copy of application form to the BSNR Secretary) by the same date;


4. Apply online to ACCEA via their website - the closing date for all nominations etc on the website is 9/12/11, but you should do this well ahead of time, as RCR / BSNR / anyone else supporting you needs to add their bit to the application.

The RCR has recently published two new publications, which are now available, electronically on the RCR's web site: Standards in vascular radiology:

http://www.rcr.ac.uk/publications.aspx?PageID=310&PublicationID=352

and Protocol for prevention of and management of vascular air embolism during interventional radiological procedures:

We have been asked by the NPSA on behalf of the four UK Health Departments to nominate expert representatives to sit on the Independent Advisory Groups (IAGS) which oversee each of the four Clinical Outcome Review Programmes (previously known as the Confidential Enquiries). The terms of Reference for the IAGs are attached. Please note that the programmes cover the whole of the UK and the IAGs will comprise representatives from all four countries.

The programmes are:

• Medical and Surgical
• Mental Health
• Maternal and New born
• Child Health

Colleges and Faculties are therefore asked to propose members for the Academy to forward as nominations for consideration.

To be clear:

• There will be 5-7 representative experts in total on each group.
• Those chosen will be on the group because of their personal professional expertise rather than as the representative of their nominating body
• The final selection of representatives will be made by the four CMOs from the nominations submitted by a range of organisations

There is no guarantee that the Academy nominee(s) will therefore be successful

Application deadline November 11th, 2011.

Morning Session: Spine - Vascular, Chairman: Mr Richard Nelson.

Afternoon Session: Spine - Nonvascular, Chairman: Mr. Bronek Boszczyk

1. Biological consequences of anti-angiogenesis therapy;

2. Metastatic disease in the brain - the nature and extent of the problem.

Single day rate registration is available.

• Epidemiology of stroke
• Surviving the long-term
• From experimental models to clinical reality
• Interventional neuroradiology for acute stroke
• NHS SIP sessions including GP led commissioning
• Nurse-led intervention in acute stroke
• Plus four training day streams eligible for CPD points

Register by 15 August to save 15%.
The Call for Abstracts closes on 17 June.

The Hallpike prize, open to ALL, is awarded annually by the British Association of Audiovestibular Physicians for the best project (research, audit or review of subject) of the past 24 month period relevant to the area of audiovestibular medicine. The project can be published or unpublished or be in form of a presentation or poster. The Prize, currently worth £300, was first awarded in 2009 following the kind donation of Dr Jeremy Hallpike, Emeritus Neurologist from Adelaide, Australia, in honour of his father Charles Skinner Hallpike.

Full information, conditions and application form may be found at www.baap.org.uk on the home page and under "Research and Prizes".

CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS: 1st SEPTEMBER 2011.

Dr Bhattacharya has decided to enter the London to Paris Bike Ride 2011 in aid of Action Medical Research. This charity is dedicated to paediatric research. It has contributed to numerous breakthroughs such as the UK polio vaccine, ultrasound scanning in pregnancy, and more recently the fetal heart rate monitor. Dr Bhattacharya will be cycling from London to Paris over 4 days from 20th - 24th July 2011 (85, 71, 65 & 50 miles). He is seeking sponsorship and would be grateful for any contribution, small or large.

You can sponsor Dr Bhattacharya via the Action Medical Research secure server at: http://www.action.org.uk/sponsor/jobhattacharya

For online registration, programme and further details please visit: http://www.neurooncology.org.uk/bnos2011

The following BSNR posts are open for nomination:

PRESIDENT - to be elected 2011, to take over from Dr Gholkar October 2012. 2 year term.

SECRETARY - to be elected 2011, to take over from me October 2011. 4 year term.

These posts are challenging, but very rewarding. Please contact Dr Gawne-Cain if you are interested in standing for either of these posts.

Please register your interest, or your proposal, with me, in time for the next full committee meeting which is on 26/5/11. The final deadline for application is 31/5/11.

Wednesday 8th June 2011, 2pm – 5pm, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, 5-11 Theobalds Rd, London WC1X 8S

This campaign is targeting the top priority identified in “A Manifesto for Everyone Affected by a Brain Tumour” which was launched at the House of Commons in the Autumn of 2010 (www.braintumourtrust.co.uk/manifesto).

Action your strategy: practical advice ideas and solutions to enhance your service delivery. Tuesday 5th July 2011, Mint Hotel, Manchester.

http://www.sbk-healthcare.com/event_intro/1137DD/

Progressing your cost improvement programme: achieve quality service delivery and meet your yearly savings goal. Wednesday 6th July 2011, Mint Hotel, Manchester.

http://www.sbk-healthcare.com/event_intro/1138DD/

The first UK Epilepsy Research Network (UKERN) will take place on Wednesday 21 September 2011, at the University of Aston, between 10:30 and 16:00. We envisage that about two thirds of the meeting will be spent discussing projects in the developmental stage, and about one third discussing projects that have been recently funded and are getting off the ground. The day will include three/four sessions, each overseen by a different panel of UKERN members. During each session people will be given the chance to present their ideas to the other delegates. There will then be time for questions, comments and suggestions from the audience, chaired by the panel.

We would like to invite you to take part in this day, by presenting a project or by contribution to the discussion. We would be particularly delighted if you were to volunteer to present a project, and in order that we may structure the day in advance, we ask that you send your project title and idea to Delphine van der Pauw (delphine@eruk.org.uk) by Friday 17 June 2011. You should identify the relevant gap in research, your research question, any hypotheses you have and your intended method. This will help us identify the most appropriate people to sit on the panel. It is our intention that all submitted ideas be presented, but this will depend on the number of responses we receive.

We do hope that you will accept our invitation and we look forward to hearing from you. Please respond to Delphine by Friday 8 April 2011.

For more information visit: http://events.rcplondon.ac.uk/details.aspx?e=2208
Email: confernces@rcplondon.ac.uk
Telephone: 020 3075 1436

Venue: Hotel Novotel Manchester West, Worsley, Manchester. Aimed at radiology registrars and practising radiologists.

For further details, please visit www.radpath.co.uk.

Course Organiser: Dr Saravanan Munusamy MBBS, FRCR

The 19th Zurich Course on Interventional Neuroradiology will be held August, 24 - 28, 2011 at the University Hospital of Zurich, Switzerland.

For more course information, visit: http://www.cinr-zurich.ch

We are holding a one day “Symposium on Imaging Research in Cognitive Impairment and Dementia” in Aberdeen on Tuesday 16th November 2010. This is jointly organised by the Scottish Imaging Network, SINAPSE, and the Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology and there will be invited talks from national and international speakers. Further information and instructions on registering are available here:

Aberdeen University Website

The 2011 round for National Clinical Excellence Awards (England & Wales) is now open. BSNR is a special interest group that can support your application. This is separate from the RCR support, although the RCR do take account of BSNR's support in their deliberations. Thus if you are thinking of applying, it will be in your interests to send a copy of your application forms to the BSNR secretary at bsnr.sec@gmail.com at the same time that you send them to the RCR.

England and Wales: Please copy your applications to bsnr.sec@gmail.com by Friday 11th October. Sooner is better.
Scotland: The BSNR has been able to support members in the past, so please copy your applications to bsnr.sec@gmail.com.
Northern Ireland: As far as we are aware there is no formal system for our SIG to support you. Let bsnr.sec@gmail.com know if this is wrong.

At the last annual business meeting in October 2009 an updated Constitution was recommended to the membership in draft form by our president, Dr Robin Sellar. The final version of the proposed new constitution is now available here:

Proposed Constitution - View……

The existing constitution is available for comparison here.

Existing Constitution - View……

Dr Gawne-Cain will be posting ballot papers to BSNR members, in order for the BSNR membership vote on whether the proposed new constitution should be adopted.

The deadline for voting is Sunday 12th September 2010. The results will be announced at the next Annual Business Meeting on 18 September 2010.

It requires a 2/3 majority of votes received from full members for this proposed Constitution to be adopted by the society

The RCR has evaluated the content of the online University of Edinburgh 'Neuroimaging for Research' MSc. Category I CPD credits have been awarded for completion of any of the component courses or modules. Details of the CPD awards, and more information about content and registration are available at:www.neuroimage.ed.ac.uk

You can take the materials either synchronously with the MSc students and benefit from interactions with them, or at any time convenient to you and at your own pace. You do not have to enrol in the MSc to gain CPD.

Milosh Perovitch was a Yugoslav physician who spent several years of his academic career in the Department of Radiology at Johns Hopkins Medical Institution in the 1960's and 1970's. Upon his death in 2006, he made a bequest to the JHMI Neuroradiology Division who have decided, in view of Dr. Perovitch's close ties to Europe, to offer reverse sabbaticals to Europeans willing to visit Johns Hopkins for a period one to two months. The goal of the visit will be to exchange knowledge and develop collaborations. The stipend would be used to defray the visitors' expenses for the month as a travel grant. Expenses over the allotted amount ($12,500) would have to be covered by the grantee.

The Division of Neuroradiology is now accepting applications for a visit for calendar year 2011. The application process is a 1-2 page letter addressed to David M. Yousem, Division Director, detailing:

1. Proposed material (educational, clinical, research) to be exchanged with Johns Hopkins Faculty and fellows and residents in the area of neuroradiology
2. If appropriate, proposed technique (interventional or otherwise) which could be taught/shared
3. Months of availability in 2011 and length of stay requested (up to one month)
4. Contact information for one professional reference.

Please include a CV and any reprints or PDF files appropriate for us to evaluate the proposal.

Decisions will be made based on merit and a vote of the JHMI Neuroradiology faculty.

Deadline for receipt of application for 2011 is September 30, 2010. Decisions will be made by November 30, 2010.

The Scottish Imaging Network, A Platform for Scientific Excellence (SINAPSE) research group together with Edinburgh Neuroscience, Legal experts and the Scottish Parliament are currently hosting a programme of workshops to debate the potential wider impacts of brain imaging on society, such as its increasing use in the courts, as a lie-detector, for mindreading or in marketing research or national security.

For example, many will not be aware that there have been at least 90 cases in the USA and several in Europe where fMRI results or subtle structural brain imaging features have been used in capital punishment cases either to try to get a sentence reduced or the person convicted and executed! (not so far in the UK). Or that the Home Office tried to scan prisoners to determine if their rehabilitation had worked and they were safe to release.

We are seeking people’s opinions and concerns about these issues in a short survey.

There are two surveys: One aimed at the lay public and the other aimed at people who already use neuroimaging in their work (whether medical or other).

• British Public
• Expert

We would be grateful if even a few members of the BSNR could complete either survey, and even better if they could distribute it to friends and family and colleagues in their hospitals. Each one only takes a few minutes and it is more entertaining than the usual circular (at least in our hospital!).

It is a great pleasure to invite you to participate in the 18th Zurich Course on Interventional Neuroradiology to take place from 26 August until 29 August 2010 at the University Hospital of Zurich. Traditionally, the Zurich Course emphasizes the links among clinical presentation, anatomic background and endovascular techniques, based on dedicated lectures, video-workshops and extensive discussions between the participants and the Course Faculty. As the field of interventional neuroradiology has matured over the past three decades, long-term follow-ups are becoming availabe, which allow us to appreciate better the real advances which have been achieved but also the persisting limitations and the need for further development. These issues will be integrated and discussed in each main topic of the Course.

This year, the Course will again cover almost the entire spectrum of endovascular interventional neuroradiology with special emphasis on acute and preventive stroke treatment, management of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage and of complex intracranial aneurysmal vasculopathies, devascularization of angiogenetically active skull base and intracranial tumors as well as therapeutic endovascular applications for AV-shunts of the central nervous system.

The prize is awarded annually for the best project of the past 24 month period (research, audit or review of subject) in the area of audiovestibular medicine. The project can be unpublished or be in form of a presentation or poster, but the prize committee must be able to assess its quality from the available information. This committee consists of the Hallpike Hon. Secretary / Chairman, the subcommittee chairs of: Education, Audit and Clinical standards and the Vice President.

The CPD area of the BSNR website has been upgraded and made easier to navigate. A Case of the Month for March 2010 has been added, and includes a new MCQ feature.

Check out the changes and have your say on the Case of the Month by visiting www.bsnr.org.uk and clicking through to the CPD Materials in the Members Area.

It is with a sad heart I write to inform you and the members of the BSNR of the death of Dr Nick Messios, consultant neuroradiologist to the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. As many members will know Nick has quietly and courageously fought a long and hard battle against cancer. This battle ended last Saturday morning. Nick was a stalwart of Leicester radiology for many years. He will be remembered with great affection and respect by generations of radiologists who have trained in Leicester, and consistently voted the 'neuro' attachment into first place. He will also be remembered by his colleagues in neuroradiology, neurology, neurosurgery and ENT both here in Leicester, and also in Nottingham where he had strong professional links and many friendships.

It was Nick's wish to be buried in Cyprus. I will inform members of the Society if there is to be a Service of Thanksgiving for his life, here in Leicester.

In remembering Nick, I am reminded of what Winston Churchill once said: - We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Graham Cherryman

Greetings to One and All. Less than 6 months to go before the neuroradiological highlight of the year! We look forward to receiving your abstracts as soon as possible. Don't forget deadline for Abstract submission is Friday 9th July. Check out the BSNR 2010 Website at http://www.bsnr2010.org.uk/

Please make your hotel reservations as soon as possible as there is some pressure on hotel accommodation in Glasgow in September. An eminent person is visiting from Rome at the same time. The hotel rooms are held until the beginning of August for two of the hotels (Hilton & Malmaison) and until 16th July for the Ibis. We are striving to contain costs and hoping to reduce the registration fee from last year. The Registration form will be available on the website in the near future.

Best wishes from the Glasgow Team.

Invitation and Preliminary Scientific Information

I am writing to advise that a Memorial Service to celebrate the life of Professor George du Boulay, is to be held on Friday 27th November 2009, at 12 noon, in the Chapel at the National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London, WC1N 3BG.

A Reception in the Old Board Room will take place immediately after the Service.

If you would definitely wish to attend the Service & Reception, could you please confirm by no later than 16th November 2009.

The CPD, Case Library, Case of the Week and communication functionalities of Neuroimage.co.uk are now accessible through both the Members' Area and CPD areas on the updated BSNR website. One unified login allows access to both Neuroimage.co.uk and the Members' Area of the BSNR website - if you already have a Neuroimage.co.uk login, this will work. If not, follow the instruction on the login page to obtain a password.

This meeting will give an overview of the National Stroke Strategy, the demand and expectations it places on the Radiology departments across the country, the challenges and potential solutions. The management of stroke is discussed in detail with particular emphasis on the imaging aspects.

Nominees for BSNR Committee positions have been elected unopposed: President elect for 2010-2012 is Anil Gholkar; Treasurer (from October 2009) is James Byrne; Members at large (from October 2009) are Roger Laitt and Daniel Birchall.

Co-opted as Chair of Training and Education Subcommittee: Dr Chris Rowland Hill (Hull).

Co-opted as Chair of Academic Subcommittee: Professor Paul Griffiths. Co-opted as Chair of Standards Subcommittee: Dr Phil White.

The current 2008/2009 committee can be found on the "about us" page.

The conference programme is packed with high quality scientific and educational material consisting of a combination of research presentations and invited speakers.

Please see the BSNR Annual Meeting 2009 website for more information.