08:30

Welcome Tea & Coffees in Foyer

09:00

Welcome Introduction to the day

Chris Turnbull

09:05

R&D, metrics and legislations updates

Shahista Hussain

Session 1: Cutting Edge Science - Respiratory Pl’s

Chairpersons: Najib Rahman & Jeremy Cobbold

09:35

Obstructive sleep apnoea: from diagnosis to treatment

Chris Turnbull

09:50

New targets in Pulmonary Fibrosis

Peter Saunders

10:05

Moving from wait and react to predict and

prevent in obstructive airways disease

Ian Pavord

10:20

Pneumothorax and COPD – optimising management

Rob Hallifax

10:35

Pleural infection - trials to translation

Eihab Bedawi

10:50

 Interstitial Lung Abnormalities - do they matter?

Emily Fraser

 11:05

Tea & Coffee Break in Foyer

Session 2: Cutting Edge Science – Gastroenterology & Hepatology PI’s

Chairpersons: Jack Satsangi & Peter Saunders

11.30

Inflammatory Bowel Disease – New Perspectives in Management

Oliver Brain

11:45

New Frontiers – The Challenges of Celiac Disease &

Microscopic Colitis

Michael FitzPatrick

12:00

The TrueColours Programme – Patient Reported Outcomes in

Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Lawrence Matini

12:15

Bowel cancer screening in 2026 –

finding the test your patients will do

James East

12:30

IgG4 disease - from mechanisms to treatment

Emma Culver

12:45

Abbreviated Magnetic Resonance Imaging vs ultrasound surveillance                                   for liver cancer detection:  The AMULET study

Michael Pavlides

13:00

Lunch in Foyer

Session 3: Looking to the future

Chairpersons: Melissa Dobson & Denise O’Donnell

14:00

National RDN Research Vision

Kelly Adams

Strategic Development Director 

South Central Regional

Research Delivery Network

14:20

Regional RDN Research Vision

Rob Hallifax &

Waleed Fateen

 RRDN Leads

14:40

New Research Delivery Group structure

Chris Turnbull &

Emma Culver

RDG Leads

15:00

                                   Concluding Remarks

Jack Satsangi &

Najib Rahman