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April 2009
An interesting meeting taking a new format with two invited talks from James Tysome, winner of this year's Xomed-Treace prize, and Prof Martin Birchall who talked on UK Research Networks.
Emma Stapeleton was the winner of the Philip Stell prize for her fascintating talk on Otoacoustic Emissions at Altitude, and the junior prize was awarded to Tom Groot Kormelink for his report on the role of Free Light Chains in mediating allergic and non-allergic rhinitis.
There was a also a brainstorming session held at this meeting to provoke thoughts on how the Society can best serve its membersand what format future meetings should take. The main threads coming from this session were a motion to combine the Autumn meeting with the annual ENT-UK meeting and to oversee the free-paper session from ENT-UK, and a motion to invite further guest speakers to talk at future meetings to enhance the eductional content of meetings.
September 2008
Congratulation to Reza Nouraei for winning the Angel-James prize.
It was all change with the Council this meeting:
Professor Birchall stepped down as president of the Society and we thank him for his time served and for his contribution to the Society, Mr Iain Swan has now taken up the role of president and Mr Martin Birchall was elected in as vice-president.
The meeting also saw Mr Haytham Kubba pass on the mantle of Society secretary to Mr Hisham Mehanna, and Mr Vin Paleri took up the position of Honerary Treasurer. We wish to thank Haytham for all of his involvement in the Society both as Treasurer and more laterally as Honerary Secretary. You have run a good ship and the success of all the recent meetings is in no small way due to your organisational skills.
There was also a new appointment to coucil with the election.of Mr Dave Pothier from Bristol. Welcome Dave.
April 2008
A very successful meeting in Coventry this Spring, with a great number of high quality presentations. Plenty of discussion was stimulated, from nanoparticles to toilet seats and in the end it was Mr J. Tysome (London) who was awarded the Philip Stell Prize for his presentation entitled "Oncolytic vaccinia virus armed with endostatin-angiostatin fusion protein; a novel therapy for head & neck cancer".
The Junior presenters prize went to Miss K Birchenall, a medical student from Bristol, for her presentation on laryngopharyngeal reflux disease and changes in laryngeal mucosal flora.
A special mention goes go to Mr C. Hobbs who won this year's much coveted Xomed-Treace prize, and so will be flown to Chicago by Medtronic to attend and present at the American Academy meeting.
September 2007
Congratulations go to Mr E. Chisholm (London) on winning this year's Angell-James prize for his worthy presentation on "Gene therapy for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma - imaging a cancer-selective, systemically-administered agent".
Congratulations also to Mr K Patel on winnning the Junior Presenter's prize.
There were four council members voted in at the AGM - Mr Justin Wier (re-elected), Mr Henry Pau (ex-trainee representative), Mr Vin Paleri (Newcastle) and Mr Russell Cathcart (trainee representative).
Mr Graeme Weiner has stepped down from his post in council and the Society thank him greatly for his support and input over the past four years.
April 2007
Congratulations to Ms S.De - winner of this year's Philip Stell Prize for her presentation entitled "Matrix metalloproteinase-9 in nasal secretions of children exposed to passive smoking".
Congratulations to T. Kunanandam for winning the first Junior Presentors prize offered by the society.
Congratulations to Mr Malcolm Buchanon for winning the presitgious Xomed-Treace Prize for 2006. Malcolm will now be flown to the American Academy meeting to present his work there, courtesy of Medtronic.
Finally, congratulations (again) to Mr Kim Dae for being awarded the first ORS research grant. We look forward to hearing the results of his important work.
September 2006
Congratulations to Reza Nouraei, winner of the 2006 Angell-James prize at this years Autumn meeting in London.
Mr Iain Swan (Glasgow) was voted in as President-Elect at this years Autumn meeting
April 2006
Congratulations to Mr Dae Kim - winner of this year's Xomed-Treace prize.
Congratulations also to Mr Shomeshwar Singh, from London - winner of this year's Philip Stell prize for his presentation entitled "Event related potentials - are they useful in paediatric cochlear implant patients?".
Feb 2006
The ORS now offers a small research support grant of up to £2000 to it's members. Closing date for the next round of applications will be 1st December 2006. For more information on applying for this grant, click here. |
