
2025 Annual Scientific Meeting
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME
MONDAY
MONDAY 13th October
08:55 - 09:00 Welcome
Dr Ian Russell, Manchester
09:00 - 11:00
SESSION ONE: EPILEPSY
CHAIRS: Dr Owen Thomas, Manchester & Dr Shubhabrata Biswas, Liverpool
09:00 DBS surgery
Mr Jon Ellenbogen, Manchester
09:30 Up-to-date Radiology in Epilepsy
Dr Felice D'Arco, London
10:00 7T clinical imaging
Dr Jon Cleary, London
10:30 FREE PAPER 1: Multimodal Correlates of Epilepsy: A Pilot Study of Routinely Collected Data in a Point-of-Care Epilepsy Cohort
S M Saiful Bari, Cardiff
10:40 FREE PAPER 2: MR Neuroimaging Findings in Short-Lasting and Sustained Hemiplegic Migraine Explained by Cortical Spreading Depression Related Perfusion Depth and Duration
Linda Meiners, Groningen, Netherlands
10:50 FREE PAPER 3: Impact of Expert Neuroradiology Second Opinions: A Retrospective Study of Diagnostic Discrepancies and Error Typology in a UK Neuro Centre
Nasr Abdelsalam, Liverpool
11:00 - 11:30
Refreshments, Exhibition, Posters
11:30 - 13:00
SESSION TWO: NETWORKING
CHAIRS: Prof Stavros Stivaros, Manchester & Dr Samantha Mills, Liverpool.
11:30 EMAG National Group
Dr Rob Dineen, Nottingham
11:50 Proton Services
Dr Nicki Thorp, Manchester
12:10 Networking in Scotland
Dr Gerry Thompson, Edinburgh
12:30 RCR Strategy for Networking
Dr Stephen Harden, Southampton
12:45 Isherwood Grant update
Dr Sam Mills, Liverpool & Dr James Ruffle, London​
13:00 - 14:00
Lunch, Exhibition, Posters​​
14:00 - 15:00
SESSION THREE: James Bull Lecture:
Inherited Predisposition to CNS Tumours: 35 Years at the Coalface
Prof Gareth Evans
Consultant at Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester
Introduced by Professor Stavros Stivaros, Manchester
15:00 - 15:30
Free Paper Presentations
CHAIRS: Prof Stavros Stivaros, Manchester & Dr Ian Russell, Manchester​
15:00 FREE PAPER 4: Meningioma Segmentation Using Deep Learning for Clinical Practice
Harpreet Hyare, London
15:10 FREE PAPER 5: Analysis of MRI Changes Following Pre-Operative Radiotherapy in Glioblastoma
Alina Sovetkina, Manchester
15:20 FREE PAPER 6: Leveraging Adult Brain Tumour AI Models to Predict Paediatric Neurooncology Survival
Harpreet Hyare, London
15:30 - 16:00
Refreshment, Exhibition, Posters
16:00 - 17:10
SESSION FOUR: NEUROGENETICS
CHAIRS: Dr Ian Russell, Manchester & Dr Helen Cliffe, Leeds
16:00 Surgical Delivery of Genetic Therapies
Prof Ian Kamaly, Manchester
16:20 Clinical Gene Therapy
Prof Simon Jones, Manchester
16:40 Seeing the Cure: Neuroradiology at the Frontiers of Gene Therapy
Prof Stavros Stivaros, Manchester
17:10
Annual General Meeting
18:00
CLOSE DAY 1
19:00
BSNR Black Tie Gala Dinner
Manchester Museum