Congratulations to the prize winners of the BTS Summer Meeting for 2024

Clinical Grand Round 2024

The Clinical Grand Round is one of the most awaited and well attended occasions on the Summer Meeting programme, year after year.

The Clinical Grand Round welcomes applications from all members of the respiratory team, specialist trainee or AHP, wherever they are based (however they are not open to post-CCT doctors). Entrants to the competition must present a clinical case that can provide the audience with key learning points.

It is with great pleasure that we can announce Molly Hardwick from Wirral University Teaching Hospitals, Liverpool as the Winner of the Clinical Grand Round for 2024. Molly’s case was titled: Hidden Under Covid Waves, and discussed differentials to consider in acute respiratory distress with imaging suggestive of atypical pneumonia (including COVID-19) or interstitial lung disease (ILD). It proposed investigations to consider, and that steroids given for Covid-19 pneumonitis may mask alternate underlying inflammatory pathology.

Our congratulations go to the highly commended finalists: 

• Alguili Elsheikh (Oxford Respiratory Trials Unit and Oxford Centre for Respiratory Medicine, Oxford)
• Gabriel Wisenfeld Paine (University Hospital Lewisham, London)

Abstract Prizes

The 2024 Abstract Prizes, presented at the BTS Summer Meeting, required applicants to present their work in one of two categories: Improvements in Respiratory Education & Training and Improving Quality and Excellence in Patient Care.

BTS is delighted to announce the following applicants as Winners and Highly Commended presentations for the prizes this year.

Winner of the Abstract Prize 2024 for Improving quality and excellence in patient care: 

Rasleen Kahai (Royal Brompton Hospital, London)

Highly commended: 

• Shyun (Dennis) Ping Tiong (Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, Portsmouth)
• Avneet Bahra (Sheffield Teaching Hospital, Sheffield, South Yorkshire)
• Thomas Macdonald (Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, Portsmouth)
• Jessica Mandizha (Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Exeter)
• Beenish Iqbal (Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, Oxford)

Winner of the Abstract Prize 2024 for Improvements in Respiratory Education and Training: 

Molly Hunt (Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge)

Highly commended: 

• Sharon Stothard (South Tyenside and Sunderland Foundation Trust, Sunderland)
• Lynn Elsey (Manchester University NHS Foundation, Manchester)
• Sabrina Grant (Calderdale Royal Hospital, Halifax, West Yorkshire)
• Sophie Masterson (Barts Health NHS Foundation Trust, London)
• Imogen Mechie (Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford)