New events and webinars for your diary
WEBINAR: Liver Highlights from BSG LIVE'24
Join us on Tuesday 17th September from 6pm - 7pm as we take a look back at the Liver highlights from this year's BSG LIVE'24 which took place in Birmingham this June.
This webinar will be chaired by BSG Secretary, Dr Safa Al-Shamma who will be joined by Prof Stuart McPherson.
IN PERSON: BAPEN / BSG Basic Nutrition Training Day
Save the date for this 1-day basic nutrition training day for trainees taking place at the IET Austin Court, Birmingham on Monday 7th October 2024.
Key learning objectives:
- Understanding of core concepts of nutrition including identifying malnutrition and managing refeeding syndrome
- Troubleshooting of enteral tubes – both a theoretical and practical approach
- Managing emergency nutrition in patients with eating disorders
- Dealing with nutritional problems as the oncall registrar
WEBINAR: IBD Highlights from BSG LIVE'24
Join us on Tuesday 22nd October from 6pm - 7pm as we take a look back at the IBD highlights from this year's BSG LIVE'24 which took place in Birmingham this June.
This webinar will be chaired by BSG Secretary, Dr Safa Al-Shamma who will be joined by Dr Shahida Din and Dr Gareth Parkes as they explore the following highlights from BSG LIVE:
- Optimizing the monitoring strategies in IBD: why, who and how
- Chronic Pouchitis what you need to know
- Framework for Professional Practice for Nurses
- Working in IBD in Adult and Paediatric Care
- IBD research highlights and top scoring IBD orals
- IBD and Liver Disease
- Scoping the Patient with IBD
- IBD Therapeutic Choices in Special Situations
- IBD Inflammation Outside the Gut
- High Quality IBD Care in 2024
IN PERSON: Transforming Medicine through the Gut/Microbiota Interface: Towards Microbial Therapeutics for Human Diseases
Save the date for this 1.5 day conference focusing on the Gut/Microbiota taking place at the Surgeons Quarter, Edinburgh on 6th - 7th March 2025.
Dates/times:
- Thursday 6th March: 13:30 - 17:00
- Friday 7th March: 09:00 - 16:00
Key learning objectives:
- Understand the tools available to describe the gut microbiome in 2024
- Understand progress from faecal microbiota transplant towards targeted microbial engraftment.
- Understand the role of diet in microbial manipulation and how diet is becoming a core Crohn’s disease therapy across all ages.
BSG LIVE 2025 Abstracts
Submit your abstract between 2nd December 2024 and 24th January 2025 for your chance to present your research as a poster or oral at BSG LIVE'25 in Glasgow taking place from 23rd - 26th June 2025.
Vacancy: Member of the ESE Gastroenterology & Hepatology European Specialty Examining Board
There are 2 vacancies for the examination board for the European Specialist Examination in Gastroenterology and Hepatology (ESEGH) (SCE examination as it was previously). Consultants in gastroenterology and hepatology are invited to apply to join the board.
Congratulations to our new Alcohol Lead, Prof Ewan Forrest
We are pleased to extend our congratulations to Prof Ewan Forrest who is the new BSG Alcohol Lead.