23rd Annual Conference of BHIVA - Awards and Scholarships

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23rd Annual Conference of BHIVA - Awards and Scholarships

Date: 4 - 7 April 2017

Venue: Arena and Convention Centre, Liverpool

MSD International Travel Bursaries in collaboration with BHIVA

The British HIV Association made provision for 8 scholarship awards funded by MSD Ltd to be made available to assist healthcare professionals to attend the 24th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) which was held in Seattle, Washington USA on 13-16 February 2017.

The value of each scholarship was capped as a contribution towards an award winner’s registration fee, travel and accommodation expenses.

The winners of the award this year were as follows:

Dr Tristan Barber
Dr Alessia Dalla Pria
Dr Sarah Duncan
Dr Rebecca Metcalfe

Dr Katrina Pollock
Dr Rebecca Simmons
Ms Sonali Sonecha

Dr Tristan Barber

Dr Rebecca Metcalfe

Dr Rebecca Simmons

Mediscript Awards in collaboration with BHIVA

Owing to its long association with BHIVA, two prizes were awarded by Mediscript to the best oral or poster presentation for work in the field of social sciences or community-based work.

Winner:

O27: Affording formula: HIV-positive women's experiences of the financial strain of infant formula feeding in the UK

Ms Bianca Karpf, Body & Soul

Ms Bianca Karpf

Winner:

P142: Uncharted territory: a report into the first generation growing older with HIV

Ms Laura Scott, Terrence Higgins Trust

Ms Laura Scott

BHIVA Best Case Presentation Awards

3 awards available from presentations made during the case presentation lunchtime workshops held on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Overall the standard was extremely high and it was difficult to select one winner from each session.

Winner - Clinico-pathological Case Presentation Session:
Light at the end of the tunnel
Dr Owen Seddon, University Hospital of Wales
Winners - Low level viraemia Case Presentation Workshop
Thirteen, lucky for some: lessons learned from managing long-term low-level viraemia
Dr Lucy Rivett, Addenbrooke's Hospital Cambridge

The perils of boosted Hepatitis C treatment
Dr Nilani Uthayakumar, Mortimer Market Centre, London
Winner - Pregnancy and Breastfeeding Case Presentation Workshop
HIV test? No thank you
Dr Natasha Astill, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Dr Owen Seddon

Dr Lucy Rivett and Dr Nilani Uthayakumar

Dr Natasha Astill

Commended poster presentations

15 highly commended posters from 176 poster presentations displayed.

No.	Title	Name and Affiliation
P7	Clinical outcomes of patients switched to darunavir/cobicistat from boosted ritonavir-based antiretroviral therapy	Dr Sian Warren Cardiff Royal Infirmary
P21	Tenofovir alafenamide: real-life data from a large teaching hospital	Dr Stephen Megarity Royal Victoria Hospital
P23	Who is not on ART?!	Dr Paul Hine Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospital Trust
P32	InterPrEP (II): internet-based pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) with generic tenofovir DF/emtricitabine (TDF/FTC) in London: analysis of safety and outcomes	Dr Isaac Alysius 56 Dean Street, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital
P36	4M 'my health, my choice, my child, my life': developing a national network of 'Mentor Mothers' to support women living with HIV through pregnancy	Ms Angelina Namiba Salamander Trust
P37	Adherence and cost saving with the use of Pill Glide in antiretroviral therapy	Dr Caroline Foster Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
P44	Predicting future cardiovascular risk in adolescents with perinatally acquired HIV	Dr Radhini Karunaratne Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
P83	Medicalising normality? Using a simulated dataset to assess the performance of different diagnostic criteria of cognitive impairment	Dr Jonathan Underwood Imperial College London
P87	NAFLD in HIV is associated with age and metabolic factors but not HIV-specific parameters in a prospectively characterised cohort	Dr James Maurice Imperial College London
P120	HIV testing of patients with indicator CNS infections in a large teaching hospital in England	Dr S Defres University of Liverpool
P136	Experiences of stigma and discrimination among women living with HIV in the UK: findings from the People Living with HIV Stigma Survey UK 2015	Mr Alastair Hudson Public Health England
P137	Experiences of stigma and discrimination in healthcare settings for trans people living with HIV in the UK: findings from the People Living with HIV Stigma Survey UK 2015	Mr Matthew Hibbert Public Health England
P142	Uncharted territory: a report into the first generation growing older with HIV	Ms Laura Scott Terrence Higgins Trust
P152	Frequent stable attenders: is HARS missing the true complexity of stable patients?	Dr Ami Patel Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust
P176	Should healthcare practitioners discuss parenthood possibilities with HIV-positive MSM? Preliminary findings from the MAIL Study	Dr Tristan Barber University of Cambridge

BHIVA Commended Oral Presentation Awards

3 highly commended presentations:

No.	Title	Name and Affiliation
O19	TDF associated renal tubular dysfunction: non-invasive assessment of mitochondrial injury	Mr Ryan Samuels Newcastle University
O22	Clinical research cerebral MRI findings in HIV positive subjects and appropriate controls	Miss Srishti Chhabra Imperial College London
O24	Acute hepatitis C infection in lower risk MSM: an evolving picture	Dr Laura Midgley Mortimer Market Centre, London

The Ian Williams Best Poster Presentation Award

Dr Paul Hine

This prize was awarded to the presenter of the best poster research presentation during the conference. Poster research presentations were judged by a BHIVA-appointed poster research judging panel, and to be eligible for this prize the presenter had to be of junior grade (sub-consultant or equivalent).

Winner:

P23: Who is not on ART?!

Dr Paul Hine, Royal Liverpool University Hospital

The Margaret Johnson Best Oral Presentation Award

Dr Sarah Parry

This prize was awarded to the presenter of the best oral research presentation during the conference. All oral research presentations were judged by a BHIVA-appointed oral research judging panel, and to be eligible for this prize the presenter must be of junior grade (sub-consultant or equivalent).

Winner:

O8: Routine blood-borne virus testing for HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C in the emergency department: the 'new normal'?

Dr Sarah Parry, Royal London Hospital