The Ronnie MacKeith Guest Lecture
This lecture is given by a renowned figure in the world of paediatric neurology and is invited by the President of the Association each year. The invitation to give this lecture is the one of the highest honours the Association can bestow.
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 |