BRITISH SOCIETY OF
PAEDIATRIC GASTROENTEROLOGY AND NUTRITION
Newsletter 1996
CHANGES TO COUNCIL
Bhu Sandhu, Martin Brueton and Sean Devane finished their term of office at the AGM in York. I am most grateful to all of them for the hard work undertaken on behalf of the Society during their term of office, which in Martin’s case was a protracted one! They have replaced by Peter Sullivan (Secretary) Victor Miller (Treasurer) and Georgina Mieli-Vergani.
We congratulate Paul Tan on his appointment to the Chair of Paediatric Surgery in Hong Kong and thank him for his contribution to Council. Council is currently in discussion with the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons to find a surgical member of Council.
ASSOCIATE MEMBERSHIP
Associate membership is now open to colleagues working in disciplines related to paediatric gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition, such as clinical nurse specialists and dietitians. A reduced membership fee of £10 is payable, which does not confer voting rights. Do please encourage your colleagues to join.
ALEX MOWAT PRIZE
It was a great pleasure to all of us that Ann Mowat was able to be present at our meeting in York and to make the first presentation of this important prize. The prize is awarded for the best paper given during the meeting of the Society in York. The first winner was Vivien Rolfe from the Institute of Child Health in London - a most worthy winner.
TRAVEL AWARDS
Thanks to Martin Brueton’s good housekeeping and notable efforts by other members of the Society who have run meetings at a profit, the Society is in a sound financial state. We were
therefore able to give some young researchers assisted passages to the meeting in Dublin, Dr S Protheroe, Dr A Cade, Dr P Cuckow, Dr WG Manson, Dr A Elbadri and Dr S Hicks were the first winners of this award.
MEETING FOR TRAINEES IN PAEDIATRIC GASTOENTEROLOGY AND HEPATOLOGY,
USK 21st and 22nd October 1996
Further details from:
Huw Jenkins
Department of Child Health
Cardiff Royal Infirmary
Newport Road
Cardiff
CF2 1SZ
Tel: 01222 744670
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
The BSG is moving to a single meeting in the Spring, which will clash with our meeting in York. The BSPGN currently receives enough abstracts to fill our meeting in York and to make a substantial contribution to the BSG meeting. In consultation with the BPA and the BSG, Council is currently exploring the possibility of a single, streamlined abstract submission process to ensure maximal acceptance and representation in each meeting.
This document has been approved by BPA Council and will soon be published. Unfortunately the BSG wanted to make so many changes that our recommendations would have been substantially diluted. This was resisted and the document will be published in the form previously agreed.
FORTHCOMING MEETINGS
Joint Italian-British meeting Naples 12th-14th September 1996.
Further details from Bhu Sandhu or myself.
British Society of Gastroenterology - Autumn Meeting 18th-20th September 1996, University of Manchester, Institute of Science and Technology.
This meeting begins on 18th September with an important postgraduate course entitled "Bugs and the gut". There is much in the programme to interest paediatric gastroenterologists. Stuart Knutton and Alan Phillips for example, are addressing the pathophysiology of E coli and viral diarrhoea respectively.
Paediatric Posters will be presented between 12 and 2.30 on Wednesday, and on Thursday there is a BSG Nutrition and Paediatrics/BAPEN symposium entitled "Clinical Nutritional Support". This is followed by free papers on paediatric nutrition.
Further details about this meeting can be obtained from:
Di Tolfree
BSG Secretariat
3 St Andrew’s Place
Regent’s Park
London NW1 4LB
Tel 0171 387 3534
British Association of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition
The next BAPEN meeting is 3rd-5th December in Blackpool.
Further details may be obtained from:
Sovereign Conference
Gunnebo House
Woolaston Road
Park Farm North, Redditch
B98 7SG
Tel 01527 518777
UEGW Meeting: Paris
This meeting will take place between 3rd and 6th November. Please contact Georgina Mille-Vergani for further details. Paediatrics is well represented.
4th Commonwealth Meeting on Diarrhoea and Malnutrition
The next meeting will take place in Karachi between 21st and 23rd November 1997. Please contact Peter Sullivan for further details.
BSPGN WINTER MEETING (10TH ANNIVERSARY )
Mike Bisset is organising our next winter meeting in Aberdeen and will be held on 23rd and 24th January 1997
Sessions on the 23rd January will be devoted to hepatology. Further details will be circulated shortly.
INTERNET NEWS BSPGN Home Page
Mike Bisset has organised a home page on the World Wide Web. Our address is http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~chl074/bsindex.htm
(NB It is lower case L in l074) Do visit it and let me have your suggestions for what else should be included.
International Paediatric Gastroenterology & Hepatology Bulletin Board
Contact: Richard Colletti at colletti@salus.med.uvm.edu for details. It looks good.
BPA Bulletin Board
All paediatric netheads contact Jon Pollock at bpa@mailbox.ulcc.ac.uk for more information.
Ian Booth
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