Date

Place

Speaker

Title of Talk

1978 

Liverpool

Joest Martinius

Accident proneness in children, cerebral trauma and late neuropsychological findings

1979

Dorchester

Kit Ounsted

The developmental medicine of temporal lobe seizures

1980

Canterbury

David Clark

Neuropathology and the training of paediatric neurologists

1981

Manchester

Bengt Hagberg

The epidemiology and etiology of severe and mild mental retardation

1982

Birmingham

Jean Aicardi

Benign epilepsies in childhood

1983

Oxford

Paul Polani

The genetics of sex determination: a modern synthesis

1984

Glasgow

Michael Rutter

Developmental neuropsychiatry: concepts, issues and prospects

1985

Sheffield

Colin Blakemore

Post-natal development of the visual system: basic research and clinical implications

1986

Cardiff

Susan Iverson

Neuropeptides: novel neurotransmitters

1987

Nottingham

Brian Meldrum

Common mechanisms in epileptic and hypoxic/ ischaemic brain damage

1988

Liverpool

Peter Barth

Peroxisomal disorders

1989

Leeds

David Taylor

Hysteria, belief and magic

1990

Dublin

David Marsden

Dilemma of dystonia (Prof Marsden wasn't able to reach the meeting to give his talk)

1991

Durham

Pasco Rakic

Mechanisms of cortical development: implications for paediatric neurology

1992

Bath

Victor Dubowitz

Exciting new developments in neuromuscular disorders

1993

London

JJ Volpe

Brain injury in the premature infant - a radical review

1994

Birmingham

Philippe Evrard

Environmental determinants of brain development

1995

Cambridge

Anita Harding

Mitochondrial DNA in human disease

1996

Southampton

Alan Cowie

Consciousness

1997

Oxford

John Newsom-Davis

Autoimmune and genetic disorders at the neuro-muscular junction

1998

Manchester

Charles French-Constant

Brain repair - lessons from developmental biology

1999

Belfast

Dorothy Bishop

Development of language

2000

Glasgow

Thomas Voit

Suspected neurometabolic or neurodegenerative disease: diagnostic approaches beyond the well-known

2001

London (Guy's)

Margo van der Knaap

Leucodystrophies

2002

Newcastle Upon Tyne

Jaak Jaeken

Carbohydrate-deficient glycoprotein syndromes

2003

Liverpool

P Rosenbaum

Functional Prognosis in Cerebral Palsy

2004

Sheffield

WB Dobyns

The genetic basis of neuronal migration: lissencephaly, cryptogenic infantile spasms and mental retardation with epilepsy

2005

London

Allan Colver

The social model of disability should change our practice

2006

Bristol

Greg Holmes

Developmental consequences of early seizures

2007

Edinburgh

Sir Michael Rutter

Autism and specific language impairment – a tantalizing dance

2008

Leeds

George Rousseau

Sam and Ronnie: attention and personality

2009

Birmingham

Ingrid Scheffer

Epilepsy genetics: new twists in the tale

2010

Edinburgh, hosted by Wales

Anne Berg

Classification in epilepsy: moving forward

2011

Edinburgh, hosted by Oxford

Robert Ouvrier

Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease and the doctrine of the nerves in childhood

2012

London, hosted by Nottingham & Leicester

Jeremy Schmahmann

Recent insights into the structure and function of the cerebellum

2013

Manchester

Samuel F Berkovic

Epilepsy genetics and clinical practice: impact of the $1,000 genome

2014

Winchester

Marc Tardieu

Towards new treatments in paediatric neurology: a multidisciplinary approach

2015

Newcastle

A James Barkovich

New concepts in developmental abnormalities of the brain

2016

Sheffeild

 Yanick Crow

Human type I interferonopathies

2017

Cambridge

Adam Kirton

Advancing non-invasive neuromodulation trials in children: Lesson from perinatal stroke

2018

London

Michael Johnson

Critical and sensitive windows of neuroplasticity in the developing brain (Prof Johnson wasn't able to attend the meeting to give his talk)

2019

Liverpool

Peter & Carol Camfield

The adult life of children with epilepsy

2020

Belfast

Elizabeth Thiele

Sunflower syndrome: a poorly understood epilepsy

2021

Virtual (hosted by Oxford)

Maja Steinlin

A hike through three decades of paediatric stroke

2022

Virtual (hosted by Dublin)

Tally Lerman-Sagie

Expansion of paediatric neurology into fetal life - the role of the neurologist in prenatal counselling

2023

Edinburgh

Camilla Kingdon

Sustaining our humanity in health care: the case for kindness and compassion in leadership

2024

Bristol

Florian Eichler

Leveraging Disease Biology for Precision Medicine in Child Neurology

2025

Oxford

Renzo Guerrini

Epilepsy in children, aetiology and pathophysiological processes: relevant steps towards current knowledge