New Year Newsletter 2012
A very happy New Year to all members! May 2012 be peaceful,
prosperous and productive for you all.
Annual Scientific Meeting 2012
25-28 July 2012
Carole Sobkowiak is leading members of the Executive Committee who
have formed the Local Organising Committee.
York is a beautiful, ancient University City in Northern England;
the meeting will be held at the university, where the staff and are
delighted at the prospect of having our meeting there.
Accommodation in single and some double en-suite rooms is available
on the campus and is within a few minutes' walk of the modern
conference facilities and the refectory. For people who prefer to
stay in a hotel, there are plenty available in York at varying
prices, and information about these can be provided.
The Wednesday Welcome Reception will be in St William's
College.
We will concentrate on showcasing the City for the Accompanying
Persons programme; the delegates will have the opportunity to walk
round the famous Shambles mediaeval street after the Reception, as
well as seeing York from a boat on the River Ouse after the Society
Outing to Castle Howard which is a short distance away.
The Scientific Programmes will start on the Wednesday morning with
the Experimental Hydrocephalus meeting run by Dr Hazel Jones, and
the Case Studies meeting run by Dr Mark Luciano. We are grateful to
both Hazel and Mark for agreeing to run these Pre-meetings which
are always instructive and enjoyable, and urge everyone to attend
one of them. We are also looking for educational cases for
presentation in the Case reports session, so please send ideas or
case summaries to Mark <lucianm@ccf.org>
The main scientific programme will begin on Thursday morning at
0830 until lunchtime, then all day on Friday and on Saturday
morning.
Details of special sessions and special lectures will be on the
website.
Again, there will be prizes for clinical and non-clinical posters
and oral presentations, and a President's Prize.
At this meeting, Dr Margareta Dahl will take over as Society
President from Professor Roger Bayston.
Please encourage your colleagues, friends and juniors to attend the
meeting and to submit abstracts for consideration for the
programme. The abstract form is on the website.
Closing date for abstracts is 9 March
2012.
Changes in Membership
We have said goodbye to 4 longstanding members of the Society.
Stephen Brown, Mary White, Nan Hill and Lissa Higgins [Wright] have
all retired and changed direction. We wish them all a long and
healthy retirement.
Please encourage colleagues to join the Society. If everyone
recruited one new member - a challenge set by the President
to the Executive Committee last year! - the Society would be in a
very healthy position.
Executive Committee changes
Roger Bayston's term of office as President finishes this year and
we are delighted to welcome Margareta Dahl from Uppsala as the new
President. She will take office at the Society Dinner on 27
July.
David Nash is the new Membership Secretary and will be working to
keep the Membership List up to date and to encourage new
members.
Roger Strachan has served 2 terms as Honorary Treasurer during
which time he has worked tirelessly to get the Society finances
into good order - including getting people to pay their Annual
Subscriptions. He stands down in July 2012.
Hugh Richards stands down as one of the Publication Secretaries in
July, and Marcus Pauly will fill his post.
We are looking for a Publications Secretary Elect for 2012, to
replace Deborah Sival in 2013.
Rosemary Batchelor is due to stand down as Honorary Secretary in
2013 and a Hon Secretary Elect is now needed.
If you feel that you would like to take on any of these posts, or
have suggestions for people to stand for any of them, please
contact the Hon Secretary.
Subscription changes
The annual fee for Ordinary Members is
£75 from 1 January 2012. This is the first increase
in subscriptions for 15 years and is still one of the lowest
subscriptions for a research society.
Senior Members pay £30
A Student rate of £25 has been
introduced.
Please look at the website if you feel that you qualify
for Senior or Student rate.
We look forward to seeing you all in York. Please
watch for more details on the website and remember
that the closing date for abstracts is 24
February.
Rosemary Batchelor
Hon Secretary
