2026 Prizes

The Ronnie MacKeith Prize 2026
was awarded to Dr Thiloka Ratnaike (Bristol Royal Hospital for Children) for presentation entitled 'Structured Phenotyping in Rare Diseases: from Manual Curation to Clinical Impact’.

Click here to see the list of previous Ronnie MacKeith Prize Lecturers.

Best Oral Presentation by a Trainee Prize 2026
was awarded to Dr Evangelia Ioannidou (GOS UCL Institute Of Child Health) for the presentation entitled ‘Clinical and cytokine profiles in a multicentre UK Febrile Infection-Related Epilepsy Syndrome (FIRES) and New-Onset Refractory Status Epilepticus (NORSE) cohort: Real-world insights from 2018 - 2025'.

Best Oral Poster Presentation by a Trainee Prize 2026
was awarded to Dr Hannah Vennard (Royal Hospital for Children Glasgow) for the presentation entitled ‘A diagnostic feasibility study of a novel accelerometer-based chest sensor in children at risk of sudden death in epilepsy'.

Best Online Poster Presentation by a Trainee Prize 2026
was awarded to Dr Abinaya Seenivasan (Royal Manchester Children's Hospital)
for the presentation entitled ‘'A cord under pressure'' Diagnostic Insights into Spinal Involvement in NF1'

Best Presentation by an Allied Health Professional 2026
was awarded to Ms Anya Charman Jones (University of Bristol)
for the presentation entitled ‘Investigating the potential of Drosophila melanogaster to model clinical symptoms of the rare neurodevelopmental CASK disorder'

Best Presentation by a Medical Student 2026
was awarded to Miss Anindita Chatterjee (University College London)
for the presentation entitled ‘Emergency healthcare utilisation by paediatric patients who underwent epilepsy surgery: data from a single UK epilepsy surgery program'

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology (DMCN) Best Article by a BPNA early career Member Prize 2026
was awarded to Dr Thiloka Ratnaike (Bristol Royal Hospital for Children) for the paper 'Genetic Investigations in Cerebral Palsy'