Date

Place

Speaker

Title of Talk

1982  

 Birmingham

 Decided to award The MacKeith Prize

1983

 Oxford

1984

 Glasgow

1985

 Sheffield

1986

 Cardiff

1987

 Nottingham

1988

 Liverpool

1989

 Leeds

 Linda de Vries

An integrated approach to leukomalacia

1990

 Dublin

 Not awarded

1991

 Durham

 Janet Eyre

1992

 Bath

 Jo Poulton

Mitochondrial DNA and geentic disease: recent advances

1993

 London

 Robert Surtees & Peta Sharples

1994

 Birmingham

 Not awarded

1995

 Cambridge

 Helen Cross & Francesco Muntoni

1996

 Southampton

 Not awarded

1997

 Oxford

 Charles Newton

1998

 Manchester

 Colin Ferrie

The childhood epileptic encephalopathies: new insights from PET and other studies

1999

 Belfast

 Vijeya Ganesan

Causes and consequences of childhood stroke

2000

 Glasgow

 Sameer Zuberi & Kate Bushby

2001

 London (Guy's)

2002

 Newcastle Upon Tyne

 Richard Gilbertson & Rod   Scott

2003

 Liverpool

 Russell Dale

Streptococcus and the Basal ganglia

2004

 Sheffield

 Not awarded

2005

 London

 Finbar O'Callaghan

Tuberous sclerosis complex: past, present and future

2006

 Bristol

 Heinz Jungbluth

Expanding range of phenotypes associated with mutations in the skeletal muscle ryanodine receptor (RYR1) gene

2007

 Edinburgh

 Robert McFarland & Richard  Chin

‘Batteries not included – what causes mitochondrial disease in children? ’Epidemiology of Childhood Convulsive Status    Epilepticus

2008

 Leeds

 Andrew Lux

IS you is, or IS you ain’t (ma’ Baby)? And how should we treat infantile spasms anyway?

2009

 Birmingham

 Jeremy Parr

Identifying clinical phenotypes in the search for autism susceptibility genes

2010

 Edinburgh, hosted by Wales

 Manju Kurian

Infantile Parkinsonism-Dystonia: a novel neurotransmitter disorder and ‘Dopamine Transportopathy'

2011

 Edinburgh, hosted by Oxford

 Not awarded

2012

 London, hossted by Nottingham &  Leicester 

 James Boardman

Developing neural systems are altered by preterm birth

2013

 Manchester

 Anna Purna Basu &
 Andreas Brunklaus

“Hemiplegia – the other half of the story” & “SCN1A related epilepsies: genotypes, phenotypes and clinical utility of genetic testing”

2014

 Winchester

 Tomoki Arichi

Functional MRI of the perinatal brain

2015

 Newcastle

 Andrew Mallick & Michael  Absoud

Childhood stroke: who, why and what happens

Childhood central nervous system acquired demyelinatingdisorders: incidence, clinical features, MRI characteristics and  prognostic features

2016

 Sheffield

 Amy McTague

Elucidating disease mechanisms in epilepsy of infancy with migrating focal seizures

2017

 Cambridge

 Sukhvir Wright 

Paediatric autoimmune epileptic encephalopathies - from symptoms to synapse

2018

 London

 Yael Hacohen

Antibody biomarkers of CNS neurological disorders in children

2019

 Liverpool

 Suresh Pujar

Long-term outcomes after childhood convulsive status epilepticus: What are the determinants of adverse outcomes?

2020

 Belfast

 Richard Rosch

From fish to physics - new perspectives on abnormal brain dynamics in childhood epilepsies

2021

 Virtual (hosted by Oxford)

Francesco Saverio Tedesco

Engineering human stem cells for neuromuscular disease modelling and therapy development

2022

 Virtual (hosted by Dublin)

 Joseph Symonds

Precision epidemiology in early childhood epilepsies 

2023

 Edinburgh

 Sophie Adler

Integrating AI into the diagnosis of paediatric focal epilepsies 

2024

Bristol

Dora Steel

Diagnosis, discovery and deepening understanding of rare movement disorders with whole genome sequencing