BTS Winter Meeting Prizewinners and New Leadership Appointments 2023

BTS is delighted to celebrate the following prizewinners who received awards at the 2023 Winter Meeting:

BTS Medal Winner - Professor Wisia Wedzicha and Professor Peter Calverley

BTS President's Award: Professor Wei Shen Lim

BTS Meritorious Service Award - Dr Mike Davies 

BTS Medical Student Award - Winner: Jafar Cain       Highly Commended: Jai Praveen

BTS/BALR/A+LUK Early Career Investigator Awards - 

A+LUK winner: Maisha Jabeen     Highly commended: Ollie Pitts

BALR Winner: Michael McKelvey      Highly commended: Anthony Martinelli

BTS Winner: Harriet Owles      Highly commended: Lavanya Raman

BTS/A+LUK award: Dr Hannah Durrington

BTS/BALR award: Dr Marko Nikolic

BTS/NIHR Awards:

Category A

Principal Investigator (PI) or Chief Investigator (CI) making an outstanding contribution in design, conduct and dissemination of NIHR portfolio studies, and building research capacity

Sophie Fletcher, Respiratory Consultant, University Hospital Southampton 

Category B

Early Career Researcher and those new to research* showing a significant contribution to recruitment into NIHR portfolio studies

David Arnold, Respiratory Registrar, North Bristol NHS Trust

Category C

Early Career Researcher and those new to research*  from all non-medical professional groups showing a significant contribution to recruitment into NIHR portfolio studies

Joseph Lanario, Research Fellow, Exeter                             

Category D

Research Team making an outstanding contribution to the NIHR portfolio studies in 2022-2023

University Hospitals Southampton NHS Trust Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) Clinical Research Team.

BTS welcomes the following members taking up new positions in the Society post the 2023 Winter Meeting:

Officers:

• Professor Nick Maskell, President Elect
• Dr Alanna Hare, Honorary Treasurer

Trustees

• Dr Daniel Smith, Chair, Workforce and Service Development Committee

Council members

• Dr Charlotte Addy
• Dr Chloe Bloom
• Dr Wadah Ibrahim
• Dr Anna Murphy
• Dr Richard Russell
• Under 35 member: Dr Aqeem Azam

Chairs of SAGs

• Acute and Complex Pulmonary Infections SAG – Dr Kay Roy
• ARTP/BTS Joint Strategy Board – Spring 2024 recruitment
• Bronchiectasis SAG - Professor Anthony De Soyza
• COPD SAG – Dr Neil Greening
• IRLD SAG – Dr Sophie Fletcher
• Pharmacist SAG – Mrs Gráinne d’Ancona     
• Pleural Disease SAG – Dr Avinash Aujayeb
• Tobacco Dependency SAG - Mrs Jacqueline Pollington