General Info
BY TRAIN Nearest railway station is Birmingham New Street. Birmingham
Snow Hill and Birmingham Moor Street are also nearby.
BY BUS
The easiest routes are buses to Broad Street or Cambridge
Street, where you can then follow the walking directions to
IET Birmingham: Austin Court from above through the ICC on
Broad Street.
BY CAR
There is limited parking outside the venue. Parking nearby
includes the National Indoor Arena (pay-and-display), limited
street parking (meters) in side streets opposite the NIA and on
the south side of Broad St (A456) and Birmingham Newhall
Street car park 0.6 miles away.
BY FOOT
The venue is located a 10-15 minute walk from Birminham New
Street Station.
We are looking for abstracts for poster presentations relating to all areas of
medical imaging and radiotherapy including educational, case reports, audits
and research.
Please note, we will only accept one poster submission per presenting author,
per event. If you wish to submit any further abstracts, these will only be
considered if you are a co-author and the presenting author is registered for
the event.
Registration Details
Registration Fees
One Day
BIR Consultant member £145
BIR Non-Consultant member £110
BIR Trainee member £65
BIR Retired/Student member £55
Non-member £250
Two Days
Also attend The future of radiology in
the NHS: top topics for interviews on
the 21 November for the following
2-day rates:
BIR Consultant member - £200
BIR Non-Consultant member - £160
BIR Trainee member - £110
BIR Retired/Student member - £100
Non-member - £300
Programme Details
08:45 Registration and refreshments
09:10 Welcome and introduction Anne Gasnier, Clinical Scientist Trainee in
Radiotherapy at The Royal Marsden Hospital
09:15 Starting reseach Dr Andrew Reilly, Clinical Physicist, The Clatterbridge
Cancer Centre
09:50 Writing a scientific paper and
getting it accepted Dr David Eaton, Lead Clinical Scientist, NCRI
Radiotherapy Trials QA Group, Mount Vernon
Hospital
10:25 From conference presentation
to paper Dr Najib Rahman, Clinical Director, Oxford
Respiratory Trials Unit, University of Oxford
11:00 Refreshments
11:30 Academic research
opportunities for clinicians
and clinical scientists Dr Mark Little, Academic Clinical Fellow,
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust
Dr James Scuffham, Clinical Scientist and Research
Fellow, Royal Surrey County Hospital and University
of Surrey
12:10 How to develop a research
proposal Speaker to be confirmed
12:40 Lunch
13:40 How to review a manuscript Dr Simon Jackson, Consultant Radiologist,
Derriford Hospital
14:20 Critiquing papers Dr Sarah Peel, MR Clinical Scientist,
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
15:20 Refreshments
15:50 Hot topics in publishing Sophia Anderton, Head of Publishing and
Laura Harvey, Editorial Development Manager,
The British Institute of Radiology
16:30 Paper writing summary Professor Alan Jackson, Professor of Radiology,
Director of the Wolfson Molecular Imaging Centre,
University of Manchester
17:00 Questions
17:15 Close of event
19:00 Networking and social event (open to all delegates)
