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Dates for your diary 2010
5th June: Last date for reduced registration fee for Vancouver
meeting.
6th June: Last date for guaranteed accommodation.
7th July: Start date for Vancouver meeting.
31st July: Last date for submitting a modified Meeting Abstract for
the 2009 proceedings.
Annual Scientific Meeting, July 7-10th 2010, University
of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
The 54th Annual Meeting of the Society for Research into
Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida will be held at the University of
British Columbia from July 7-10, 2010 at the invitation of the
Department of Pediatrics, UBC. The organising committee headed by
Dr. W.J.D Arnold (Paediatrician) is accompanied by Dr. Doug
Cochrane (Paediatric Neurosurgeon), Dr. Paul Thiessen
(Paediatrician and Medical Director of the Spinal Cord Program),
Judi Haddy (secretary, Dr. Bill Arnold), Nicola Valentine
(Occupational Therapist), Bev Irwin (Nurse Clinician) and Carol
King (Physiotherapist). All of them work in the Spinal Cord/Spina
Bifida Program at British Columbia Children's Hospital.
Prizes! This year five prizes of £100 each are
being offered; two for best oral presentation, two for best poster
presentation and one President's prize. Please see website for
details.
Registration: An online registration form is
available through a link on the website from. The early
registration fee (by June 6th) for members will be C$500, for
non-members C$605 and for accompanying persons C$360.
Guest lecturers: We are delighted to announce
that the following are to be guest lecturers:
Dr. Benjamin Warfe, Boston, on 'Endoscopic Management of Children
with Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida East Africa.
Dr. Rima Rozen, McGill University, on 'Biochemistry and
Genetics of Folate Metabolism'.
Dr. Margot Van Allen, Vancouver, on 'Prenatal Diagnosis and Folic
Acid in the Detection and Prevention of Neural Tube
Defects'.
The latter two lectures will be followed by a panel discussion on
folate and neural tube defects.
Accommodation: A variety of accommodation types
for delegates will be available in the Gage Towers, Gage Towers
Apartments and West Coast Suites, situated on the University
Campus, very close to the Ike Barber Center. All the academic and
social venues are within walking distance. Breakfast is included in
the accommodation price and bookings can be made online through the
University of British Columbia by following the link on the SRHSB
website.
Social events: These will include a welcome
reception at the Museum of Anthropology, which was designed by the
world - famous architect Arthur Erickson. The Society outing on
Thursday includes a traditional First Nations salmon barbeque
luncheon (vegetarian option available) in the Long House at UBC,
followed by a dinner cruise through beautiful mountain fiords in
spectacular Howe Sound, just a short distance from downtown
Vancouver. The accompanying persons' programme includes a gondola
trip and luncheon at the top of Grouse Mountain in North Vancouver,
a tour of the Japanese (Natobi) gardens at UBC and tour of the city
of Vancouver. The gala dinner will be held at the Cecil Green
House, a heritage mansion situated overlooking Howe Sound. Cecil
Green house is situated on the UBC Campus.
Contact Doug Cochrane dcochrane@cw.bc.ca or Bill
Arnold and Bev Irwin at birwin@cw.bc.ca for further
information.
Travel Information to Vancouver:
All of the major airlines and especially charter airlines fly into
Vancouver. The airlines with direct or with a connecting flight are
Air Canada, American Airlines, Air France, British Airways, BMI,
Continental Airlines, Delta, KLM, Lufthansa, Northwest, Air
Transat, United Airlines and Virgin Airlines; all fly direct from
the UK or Europe. Air Transat has many charter flights to Vancouver
from many cities in the UK and Europe during the spring/summer and
fall. Air Transat is associated with Thomas Cook Travel.
An excellent website for information about Vancouver and
environs is through Tourism Vancouver:
http://www.tourismvancouver.com
.There are many day tours to Victoria, on Vancouver Island,
Whistler, and tours from Vancouver to the Rocky Mountains by coach
or train. For information on travel to UBC from the airport please
consult the SRHSB website.
Experimental Hydrocephalus Informal Meeting: In
response to popular request, an animal hydrocephalus meeting will
be held this year in the Ike Barber Center on Weds 7th July at
8.00am (time to be confirmed). The aim of this meeting is to
give researchers involved with experimental hydrocephalus an
opportunity to present their research in greater detail than time
allows at the main meeting. The objective is to promote discussion
and collaboration among researchers. Anyone who is attending the
main meeting is welcome to come and participate in the
discussions.
Subscriptions:
A message from the Treasurer, Roger Strachan: rogerstrachan@hotmail.com
There are still many unpaid subscriptions for 2010. Please will all
members take a moment to check their records to ensure they are up
to date with their dues. The payment form is available on the
website. Please note that you will not be able to register as a
member for the Vancouver meeting unless your dues are paid. A few
bursaries are available to help with expenses for young presenters
in Vancouver who have no other source of funding. Please apply to
Hon Treasurer as soon as possible.
Executive Committee:
The secretary-elect, Rosemary Batchelor will take over as secretary
at the Annual General Meeting. Following the change-over, the
society will retain the same email address. The Society's Official
mailing address will change to: Mrs. Rosemary Batchelor, Northside
Cottage, Side Street, Allington, Lincs NG32 2DZ, United Kingdom,
Tel: +44 (0)1400 281523 (work, direct line), +44 (0)1400 282601
(home).
Two new ordinary committee members are being sought for 2010.
Ordinary members serve for three years. Nominations from the
membership are welcome. Please send nominations to Hon Secretary
prior to the Annual General Meeting.
Casey Holter Essay Prize: There were three
entries for the Essay prize this year. The committee decided
that none of the entries quite reached the desired standard and
with great regret, decided that no award would be made this
year. The committee would like to express thanks to those who
submitted essays and recognize that the work involved is
considerable.
Member's news: The death is announced of
Professor Eduard Pekarovik, Neurosurgeon, Slovakia in November
2009. Mr. Ewen MacKinnon (Sheffield, UK) has recently suffered a
heart attack followed by a cardiac bypass operation. He is
recovering well, but will be unable to travel to Vancouver. We wish
him well and expect to see him next year in Nottingham.
Although not a member of SRHSB, the committee was greatly saddened
by the death of Dr. Anthony Marmarou in November 2009. He was a
pioneer in hydrocephalus research and a great loss to the
hydrocephalus community.
Publication of 2009 Proceedings: The
proceedings for the 2009 Belfast meeting were published online
November 27th 2009 as a supplement in Cerebrospinal Fluid Research
(www.cerebrospinalfluidresearch.com)
similar to last year. Access to the journal is free to anyone with
Internet access. The complete pdf file can be downloaded at: http://www.cerebrospinalfluidresearch.com/supplements/6/S2
Publication of reviews and research papers: Research papers can
be submitted to Cerebrospinal Fluid Research (www.cerebrospinalfluidresearch.com/manuscript)
or any other BioMed Central journal (www.biomedcentral.com) for
peer review and rapid online publishing. The article processing
charges (£995/US$1520/€1145for CSFR) will be waived for members
provided they obtain the SRHSB code from the Hon Secretary for use
when they submit papers. If members are already exempt from payment
charges through their home institution, then the SRHSB code will
not be needed.
Nottingham 2011: 22nd -25th June: The
55th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society will be held in
Nottingham at the invitation of Roger Bayston and colleagues. The
venues and accommodation have been booked. The welcome reception
will be in the Town Hall. There will be a historic pub trail. The
Society outing will be a boat trip on the river Trent followed by
dinner. An accompanying person's programme will be arranged. A
presentation will be made to the membership by Roger Bayston in
Vancouver.
Future meetings of interest to Society members:
5th International Hydrocephalus Workshop: 20-23rd May
2010, Creta Maris Hotel, Crete, Greece.
Meeting associated with the International Society for Hydrocephalus
and CSF Related Disorders.
Gordon Research Conference: Barriers of the CNS: 20-25th
June 2010, Colby Sawyer College, New London, NH, USA http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2010&program=cns
Spina Bifida Association of America (SBA)
The SBA will hold its 37th National Conference June 27 - June 30,
2010, Hyatt Regency Cincinnati (Cincinnati, Ohio) from. Further
information is at www.spinabifidaassociation.org
.
13th International Symposium of the Blood-Brain
Barrier: Signaling at the Blood-Brain and Blood-Tumour
Barriers 2-4th September 2010, University Hospital, Zurich,
Switzerland. http://www.physiol.uzh.ch/BBBSymposium.html
14th International Conference on Intracranial Pressure
and Brain Monitoring: 12-16th September, 2010 Tubingen,
Germany. http://www.icp2010.eu/index.php
Cerebrovascular Biology International Conference:
The 9th Cerebral Vascular Biology Conference will be held 21-25th
June, 2011 Leiden, The Netherlands http://www.ibbsoc.org/CVB.htm
Future Meetings of SRHSB:
2010: July 7 -10th: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, at the
invitation of Dr. William Arnold and colleagues.
2011: June 22nd -25th: Nottingham, UK, at the invitation of Dr.
Roger Bayston.
2012: June 27-30th Utrecht, The Netherlands at the invitation of
Dr. Pieter Dik.
I look forward to meeting you all in Vancouver, Canada.
Hazel Jones
Hon Secretary.
