BSPGHAN Distinguished Award
Introduced in 2022, the BSPGHAN Distinguished Service Award is an Exceptional Award to recognise a BSPGHAN member who has made a major contribution to patient care in paediatric gastroenterology, hepatology or nutrition.
The award is to recognise and celebrate an individual’s accomplishment within their career or recent achievements.
2024 Winner:
- Professor Mark Beattie
2023 Winner:
- Professor Mike Thomson
2022 Winners:
- Professor Bhu Sandhu
- Professor Ian Sanderson
- Professor Deirdre Kelly
BSPGHAN Annual Meeting 2025
| Awards | Recipient | Title of Presentation / Poster |
|---|---|---|
| Sean Devane Memorial Award Best Gastroenterology Oral Communication | Elizabeth Morrisroe Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital | Very early onset IBD: monogenic causes and prognosis in a single tertiary centre study |
| Alex Mowat Award Best Hepatology Oral Communication | Dinula Gomes University of Birmingham Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust | Tracing the timeline: is Fontan-associated liver disease a paediatric concern ? A retrospective longitudinal study |
| BSPGHAN Best Nutrition Oral Communication | Laura Shanahan University of Glasgow | Nutritional blood monitoring (NTBM) demonstrates excellent safety profile for blended diet fed children – Recommendations for practice |
| BSPGHAN Best AHP Oral Communication | Ruth Stanley Great North Children’s Hospital Newcastle upon Tyne | Dietetic service provision in paediatric intestinal failure: a national survey |
| Dr Falk Pharma Best IBD Poster Award | Priyanka Kamath Manchester University Foundation Trust | Transition services in paediatric inflammatory bowel disease: a single tertiary centre experience |
BSPGHAN Annual Meeting 2024
| Awards | Recipient | Title of Presentation / Poster |
|---|---|---|
| Sean Devane Memorial Award Best Gastroenterology Oral Communication | Neil Chanchlani – Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | Understanding anti-TNF treatment failure in Crohn’s disease: mechanisms and management of loss of response to anti-TNF therapy, three-year data from the PANTS study |
| Alex Mowat Award Best Hepatology Oral Communication | Sandra Fernandes LucasLeeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | Preservation of graft function with low rejection rates and good safety profile in paediatric liver transplant recipients on sirolimus |
| Peter Sullivan Best Nutrition Oral Communication | Alessandra MariGreat Ormond Street Hospital for Children | A national survey on the feeding practices of United Kingdom children with paediatric intestinal pseudo-obstruction (PIPO) |
| Hazel Rollins Best AHP Oral Communication | Emma WilkinsonCambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Improving the management of anaemia in children with inflammatory bowel disease |
| Dr Falk Pharma Best IBD Poster Award | Elena Gil-ZaragozanoUniversity Hospital Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust | ‘Educating Paediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinical Nurse Specialists: are we doing enough?’ – Download |
| Bristol Prize on behalf of Bhupinder Sandu and Dr Christine Spray | Zachary Green, Southampton Children’s Hospital; Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospital for Wales, Cardiff | Sustained increase in paediatric inflammatory bowel disease incidence across the South-West of the United Kingdom over the last 10 years |
BSPGHAN Annual Meeting 2023
| Awards | Recipient | Title of Presentation / Poster |
|---|---|---|
| Sean Devane Memorial Award Best Gastroenterology Oral Communication | David WandsRoyal Hospital for Children Glasgow | Real world exclusive enteral nutrition practices over time in > 500 patients: persisting use as induction for paediatric Crohn’s disease with emerging combination strategy with biologics |
| Alex Mowat Award Best Hepatology Oral Communication | Jake MannBirmingham Children’s Hospital | Transcriptomic analysis of biliary atresia finds ongoing hepatic hematopoiesis with elevated IGF2 |
| Peter Sullivan Best Nutrition Oral Communication | Rebecca PooleRoyal Hospital for Children Glasgow | The epidemiology and long-term outcomes in Gastrointestinal Dystonia (GID): longitudinal single centre data from a tertiary gastroenterology unit over 8 years utilising the BSPGHAN criteria for GID |
| Hazel Rollins Best AHP Oral Communication | Lucy JackmanGreat Ormond Street Hospital for Children | National survey of exclusive enteral nutrition protocol used in paediatric tertiary inflammatory bowel disease centres in the UK |
| Dr Falk Pharma Best IBD Poster Award | Gregor ScottRoyal Hospital for Children Glasgow | Real-world Scottish experience of anti-TNF therapy in paediatric Crohn’s disease 2016-2020 against the ECCO-ESPGHAN recommendations – Download |
BSPGHAN Annual Meeting 2022
| Awards | Recipient | Title of Presentation / Poster |
|---|---|---|
| Sean Devane Memorial Award Best Gastroenterology Oral Communication | Noha Heikal | Pneumatosis intestinalis in children: Risk factors and prognosis |
| Alex Mowat Award Best Hepatology Oral Communication | Maxine Brown | Treating children with HCV close to home through a virtual national multidisciplinary network |
| Dr Falk Pharma Best IBD Poster Award | Rebecca Little | Defining the unique histologic phenotype of Paediatric PSC-IBD |
| BSPGHAN Best Poster Prize | Carly Bingham | Dyssynergia and chronic constipation |