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2011 Conference hosted by Oxford

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Dear Colleagues

Welcome to the 37th Annual Meeting of the BPNA which will be held in Edinburgh and hosted by Oxford.  Wales has set the pace for ‘outreach hosting’ and we hope you will come and try out an Oxford variant of this theme (albeit with a Celtic lead organiser). There will be the warm hospitality that Edinburgh always offers and an excellent academic programme garnished with a dash of the dreaming spires.

The 2011 meeting breaks with tradition beginning earlier with an 11.00am start on the Wednesday to give us a less frenetic first day (remember to book early travel).  We will use the Thursday afternoon for plenary sessions so as to end at lunch-time on Friday. This will avoid the Friday afternoon phenomenon of playing to an emptying house, whilst leaving ample time after lunch for Special Interest Group meetings, sight-seeing or the belated deconstruction of the gnomic utterances of certain senior members.

The meeting will again be at the excellent Royal College of Physicians venue. The entertainment will all be close by and accessible on foot.

Keynote speakers/ personal practice leads from Oxford will include Professor Dorothy Bishop on autism and specific language impairment, Professor Andrew Pollard on meningitis vaccinology, Professor Angela Vincent on immune-mediated CNS disease, David Beeson and Sandeep Jayawant on congenital myasthenic syndromes, Andrea Nemeth on inherited ataxias and Zenobia Zaiwalla on sleep disorders. William Whitehouse and Rachel Kneen are kindly sharing personal practice expertise on ataxias and CNS infection respectively.

There will be a variety of excellent platform presentations, video sessions and a plenary poster presentation session. Time has been set aside on Thursday afternoon for poster viewing when we will ask authors to be available at their poster and a prize for the best will be awarded at the end of the meeting.

In a further break with tradition, instead of dinner on the Wednesday evening, we will have a drinks and canapé reception in the National Gallery of Scotland starting at 6.30pm with some music and an introduction to the collection from the curator, followed by a ‘private viewing’ for BPNA delegates. 

Dinner on the Thursday night will be at Mansfield Traquair just 15 minutes walk from the George Hotel and will end, for those with the agility, disinhibition and cardiovascular reserve required, with that old and authentic Oxford entertainment - a traditional Ceilidh.

Applications are invited for the Ronnie MacKeith Prize Lecture.  Please download further details here.  The closing date for applications is 31 August 2010.

There will be ample accommodation available in the city centre and all venues will be within walking distance. We do hope you will come and enjoy a great conference and look forward to seeing you all there in January.

Mike Pike, Tony McShane, Sandeep Jayawant
Oxford Organising Commitee

Updated 01-Nov-2010