2024 British Thyroid Annual Meeting 14th June
Our next Annual Meeting will take place on Friday 14th June 2024 at the Royal College of Pathologists in London.
This is a face to face meeting and we have an exciting programme (see below) We are very much looking forward to welcoming you to the meeting.
If you are not a member of the BTA and wish to become a member please go to this page
Call for Abstracts:
Abstract submission is now open! The deadline for this is Monday 1st April 2024. Please submit your abstract by emailing: [email protected]
Accepted abstracts will be presented as Oral Communication or poster presentation. The abstract must be a maximum of 300 words and should be structured with subheadings Background and Aims, Methods, Results, and Conclusions.
There are prizes for the best oral and poster presentations.
All accepted abstracts will be published in Thyroid Research
Programme:
You can find details of our Programme here
Travel grants:
There are 6 travel grants (£200 each) available for trainees and nurses with accepted abstracts presenting at the meeting. If you are a trainee or a nurse, and would wish you to be considered for a travel grant, please indicate at the time of abstract submission or email separately to: [email protected] (Deadline for travel grants application: Friday 26th April 2024)
Registration:
Registration fees: BTA members £120, Non-members £200, Nurses, trainees and retired BTA members £50
Please click here to register.
The Deadline registration is on Friday 31th May 2024
2024 British Thyroid Association Trainee Educational Meeting
Our last BTA trainees’ educational meeting took place on Friday 8th March 2024
Recordings of selected lectures are available below for a limited time via the Vimeo links below - so please make time to view! Simply click on the title.
Prof Mark Gurnell - University of Cambridge - How to approach discordant thyroid function tests?
Dr Jackie Gilbert - Kings College Hospital - The management of hyperthyroidism in pregnancy
Mr Neil Sharma - University Hospitals, Birmingham - Follow-up of low-risk thyroid cancer https://vimeo.com/933256646?share=copy
Other 2024/2025 events
Thyroid related events in 2024 will be added here as information becomes available
European Congress of Endocrinology
ECE 2024 will be held in Stockholm, Sweden from 11-14 May 2024.. Attendees can join in person in Sweden or remotely with ECE@Home. Details can be found here
Endocrine Society
ENDO 2024 will take place in Boston MA from June 1st to 4th 2024. Details can be found here
European Thyroid Association
The 46th Annual Meeting of the European Thyroid Association will be held in Athens from September 7th to 10th 2024 Details can be found here
The BTA is funding 2 travel grants (each £750) for trainee or nurse members to present at this meeting of the European Thyroid Association.
To apply, please email to: [email protected] (deadline for application: 31st May 2024). Please attached your accepted abstracts with your application. If there are more than 2 applications, the BTA Ex-Com will select the two best abstracts.
The American Thyroid Association
The 93rd Annual Meeting of the American Thyroid Association (ATA) will take place in Chicago from 30th October to 3rd November 2024. Details can be found here
Events in 2025
The World Congress on Thyroid Cancer will take place in Boston from July 9-12 2025 Further information can be found here
Recordings from thyroid related events which took place in 2023
ENDO 2023 took place on June 15-18, 2023, in Chicago, Illinois. Session recording are available to purchase until December 2025 via this link
GP Training Webinar 1st May 2024
Our next GP Training Webinar will take place on Wednesday 1 May 2024 via Zoom between the hours of 19.00 and 20.00
Jointly organised by the BTA and BTF, this is on the subject of diagnosis and management of hyperthyroidism
The Speakers are Prof Onyebuchi Okosieme, consultant endocrinologist, Cardiff and Dr Fraser Gibb, consultant endocrinologist, Edinburgh
This FREE webinar is aimed at healthcare professionals, particularly primary care doctors . Participants who complete the module will receive 1 CPD hour. For more info and registration visit this link
The previous GP Training Webinar took place on September 20th from 19.00 to 20.00.
You can watch the webinar video on You Tube here
British Thyroid Foundation Award
Since 1997 the British Thyroid Foundation (BTF) has offered an annual award to support a research project into thyroid function or thyroid disorders. This is currently £35,000 for a three year project.
Details of previous winners can be found here
The closing date for applications each year is normally at the beginning of July
The link to access the application form for this Award will be added when available
The award can be used to supplement existing projects or to help get research ideas started. The funds are available for consumables, running costs and equipment but not personal computers. Any equipment purchased will belong to your institution after the project is completed. Support for staff costs/salaries will only be considered if they can be justified.
The BTF is a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) non-commercial Partner. This means the studies that we fund may be eligible to access the NIHR Study Support Service which is provided by the NIHR Clinical Research Network.
Who can apply?
Researchers working on projects in the UK. The project must be based in the UK (i.e. the majority of the work must be carried out in the UK), supervised in the UK and publications arising from the research must be in an English language journal from a UK centre. The BTF must be acknowledged in any publication. The applicant must ensure that appropriate ethical approval is in place wherever research is carried out.
