68th BAPS Congress Prizes

BAPS in Birmingham was a tremendous event with a surfeit of high-quality presentations throughout.  In addition to the Peter Paul Rickham prize (£1,000) for a scientific subject which went to Laura Privitera from the Institute of Child Health, London and the Presidents’ Prize (£750) for a clinical subject which went to Naomi Wright from Kings College, London there were 5 prizes for immaculate poster presentations (details below).

Peter Paul Rickham Prize

Laura Privitera

NEAR-INFRARED ANTI-GD2 TARGETED PROBES FOR FLUORESCENCE-GUIDED SURGERY IN NEUROBLASTOMA

Cancer Section, Developmental Biology and Cancer Programme, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom

President’s Prize

Naomi Wright

REDUCING MORTALITY FROM GASTROSCHISIS IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: A MULTICENTRE, MULTINATIONAL PRE-POST CLINICAL INTERVENTIONAL STUDY

King’s Centre for Global Health and Health Partnerships, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

Richard Steward Poster Prize

Grace Poole

ADHERENCE TO ATLS SECONDARY AND TERITARY SURVEY COMPLETION FOR PAEDIATRIC TRAUMA IN A MAJOR TRAUMA CENTRE

Kings College Hospital, London, United Kingdom

Mark Davenport Poster Prizes

Clara Chong

NEONATAL OUTCOMES OF INTESTINAL ATRESIA – IMPACT OF PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS

Southampton Children’s Hospital, Southampton, United Kingdom

Sara Faily

ULTRASOUND-GUIDED DYNAMIC NEEDLE TIP POSITIONING PRODUCES HIGH LEVELS OF SAFETY AND EFFICIENCY IN PAEDIATRIC VASCULAR ACCESS

Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, Manchester, United Kingdom

Munther Haddad Prize: best trainee presentation

Soham Bandyopadhyay

A 12-month international, observational study of childhood cancer patients in low, middle, and high-income countries during the COVID-19 pandemic

The Global Health Research Group on Children’s Non-Communicable Diseases (Global Children’s NCDs), Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

David Lloyd Prize: best global health paper

Godfrey Sama

Effectiveness of pre-operative bathing practice using soap in prevention of surgical site infection among paediatric surgical patients at Muhimbili National Hospital, Tanzania: A randomised controlled trial

Muhimbili National Hospital,, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania