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Neuromonitoring_UK
Quarterly Newsletter
In this Issue
•
Welcome to 2015
•
Chairman’s message
•
Future meetings
•
Minutes of recent AGM
•
Your NMUK
From the Editor
Welcome to the New Year and lets hope 2015 is a
year full of new developments and achievements for
everyone.
NMUK has had a successful year with meetings and
forums being well attended with subscribers gaining
valuable information from one another.
2015 brings with it a re-organisation of the steering
group, with a new Chairman, whom you will hear
from in her first ‘message from the chairman’
New members of the steering group have been
getting involved with the meetings and planning to
ensure the specialist interest group goes from
strength to strength and achieves all that you as
subscribers have requested….watch this space!!!
As Neuromonitoring enters its 6th Year, we as a
steering group would like to say thank all the
subscribers for making this success possible
Please remember to send all your articles, book
reviews and any questions to pose to other
subscribers to the editor, its your Newsletter so let
us know what you want to see in it.
Happy New Year
Fiona Cave, Newsletter Editor NM_UK
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Message from the Chairman
Happy New Year to all.
We have had a bit of a swap around on the steering group with Katy and Diane stepping
down from their roles as Chair and deputy chair. I am honoured to take on the role of
chairman from Katy. She has done a fantastic job to promote our association and it aims
over the last couple of years-the highlights of which have included the second NM-UK
Edinburgh meeting, the IONM course in Nottingham and the IONM study days. I am very
grateful to Katy for taking on the role as deputy chair for the time being and, of course, to all
the other members of the steering group who volunteer their time and without whom the
organisation would not be able to continue. We warmly welcome two new members of the
steering group- Dale Darbyshire who is the new Commercial liaison and Vania Pinto who will
be deputy to Lindsay Henderson, the new membership secretary.
Some of you will already know me, but many will not so, I want to take
!this opportunity to introduce myself. I have been involved in IONM for spinal surgery for
some time now and have settled in Norwich for the last 10 years after starting my career In
London. I am passionate about promoting excellence in our field, which Is the reason I joined
the NM_UK steering group when Christine Reber started NM_UK. I also set up and run the
web based SCM-UK google discussion which has proven to be a great way to chat and
swap information about IONM related topics.
I hope to be able to meet many of you at the next big event in the NM_UK calender which is
the scientific meeting 22-23rd April 2015 In Sheffield.
www.cvent.com/d/x4qcvh
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This meeting has been in planning for a while. The spinal surgeons association (British
Scoliosis Society, BSS) asked us early in 2014 if we wanted to run our 2015 meeting
alongside theirs. There will be some joint sessions and several of our speakers will be UK
surgeons, but we also have the privilege of having 2 international speakers both of whom
are major contributors to the published literature on IONM:
Dr Tod Sloan, who will be familiar to those who attended the 2009
!London NM_UK meeting. He is an anaesthetist from Colorado with over 30 years
experience in neuromonitoring
Dr Francesco Sala is a Neurosurgeon from Verona with special
!
interests
in Paediatric Neurosurgery & Intraoperative Neurophysiology, He is one of the cofounders and the current president of ISIN.
And of course we will have our own UK based neuromonitoring speakers as well with a wide
range of topics being covered. The combination really does make this the IONM event of the
year and one not to miss. If you have not already signed up then details are available on the
NM_UK website and registration is via the BSS website.
https://www.cvent.com/events/british-scoliosis-society-annual-meeting-2015/registration2dc412beff6a484894aa01a3aac392db.aspx
The BSS are keen for as many of us as possible to attend the Gala dinner on
the Wednesday evening and so they have included an option to include the
Gala dinner at a reduced rate of £30 (£160 registration including the Gala
dinner).
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NM_UK relies upon your support to continue to provide these meetings. Please do continue
your subscription – its only £15 a year so is a bargain and we cannot continue without it. The
steering group members work hard to ensure you get value for money. Most of the NM_UK
business is done by email and teleconferences which limits the administrative costs. This
years meeting administration is being done by BSS who have generously offered us the
opportunity at minimal cost for our delegates, but NM_UK will not earn any income from the
meeting so we need your subscriptions for the ongoing costs of the website, event insurance
and accountancy fees.
As I mentioned above we have a new membership secretary in Lindsay Henderson email.
Please contact Lindsay if you wish to join. If you are a subscribers please do encourage your
colleagues to join as well. We are a small group so we need as many of you as possible to
support our work.
We are always open to suggestions so please contact me if you have suggestions for future
events. If you have a suitable venue for one of the IONM study days then please let me
know. We aim to offer these events at minimal cost or free to our subscribers and to do this
we need offers of suitable venues for 30-40 people in locations with good transport links. I
can be contacted via NeuromonitoringUK@gmail.com
Helen
Helen Grover CSci
NM_UK Chairman
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Save the Date!
22-23rd
April 2015
Neuromonitoring_UK Scientific meeting in conjunction with British Scoliosis https://www.cvent.com/events/british-­‐scoliosis-­‐society-­‐annual-­‐meeting-­‐
2015/registration-­‐2dc412beff6a484894aa01a3aac392db.aspx
21-22nd
February
2014
November
2015
Autumn
2015
2015 winter symposium ASNM
Chaparral Suites Scottsdale
5001 North Scottsdale Road
Scottsdale, Arizona 85250
United States
5th Congress ISIN
Rio de Janeiro Brazil
8th annual CANM IOM Symposium
Montreal Autumn 2015
Details coming soon.
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Message from the Deputy Chairman
Dear Subscribers,
Following the NM_UK AGM in Stanmore I am delighted to hand over the reigns of NM_UK
to Helen Grover who kindly stepped forward and offered to take on the role of Chair person
of our organisation, I have no doubt that under Helen’s guide NM_UK will continue to
develop and evolve into the future.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of those people who have supported me in
my role over the last three years, paying particular attention to the NM_UK steering group
who voluntarily put in a lot of work to ensure the work we do is of benefit to our subscribers.
Thank you to everyone, who has been a part of our journey.
Happy New Year
Katy Danby
Deputy Chair NM_UK
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Journal Reviews
NM_UK Needs You !
Have you read an interesting journal, paper or book or had an
interesting case?
Do you think what you’ve read/done would be good for others
to read, then write a short review and have it placed in the
Newsletter.
Writing reviews helps with achieving CPD as well as sharing
knowledge with peers.
NM_UK AGM 18th November 2014
Minutes of the Annual General Meeting
RNOH, Stanmore
The published agenda:
1. Apologies for absence
2. Minutes of Previous AGM
3. Matters Arising
Reports:
i) Chairperson’s Annual Report
ii) Treasurer’s Report
iii) Membership Secretary’s Report
4. Elections for the Committee
5. Motions to be Discussed
6. Any Other Business
7. Date of next meeting
1. Apologies
Steering Group Members Present: Katy Danby, Karen Plumb, Diane Boothman, Christine Harrison,
Rosie Steele (5).
Apologies have been received from: Peter Walsh, Helen Grover, Fiona Cave, Julia Loughran,
Alexander Woodhams, Debra Beer, Victoria Keighley, Lindsay Henderson (8).
25 subscribers were present for the AGM.
2. Minutes of Previous Meeting
The previous AGM minutes had been emailed to subscribers and paper copies were available on
the day. No objections or comments were received prior to the meeting.
The minutes of the previous meeting was approved by 18 subscribers using a show of hands.
3. Matters Arising
NM_UK has appointed an accountant to address the tax status of the group and is in the process
of applying for Unincorporated charity status. No questions were raised.
NM_UK was involved in a meeting at Oswestry and will be involved in next year’s British Scoliosis
Society meeting.
The Chairperson’s Annual Report, and Membership Secretary’s Reports had been emailed to
subscribers and paper copies were available on the day. The Treasurer’s Report was available on
the day. No objections or comments were received prior to the meeting or at the meeting.
The reports were approved by 17 subscribers using a show of hands.
4. Elections for the Committee
Christine Harrison (Membership Secretary) and Victoria Keighley (Commercial Liaison Officer)
stepped down from their roles on the committee. Katy announced that Dale Darbyshire and Vania
Pinto had been successfully unopposed for a place on the steering group. Katy Danby (nee
Young), Chair Person, and Diane Boothman, Vice Chair, stepped down from their positions to take
on other roles in the steering group.
5. Motions to be Discussed
• Steering group members can remain in their roles for an undefined length of time.
Prior to each AGM, the steering group members will be asked to consider whether
they would like to remain in position or step down.
No objections or comments were received prior to the meeting or at the meeting.
This change was approved by 17 subscribers using a show of hands.
• The steering group will contain no more than 13 members. Subscribers will be
encouraged to take on supporting roles.
No objections or comments were received prior to the meeting or at the meeting.
This change was approved by 17 subscribers using a show of hands.
• Applications for a place on the steering group will take place when a current member
of the steering group steps down, however the current steering group will decide
which role the new steering group member takes on (along with any other steering
group role re-shuffle) in order to reflect the changing needs and skills of the group.
No objections or comments were received prior to the meeting or at the meeting.
This change was approved by 17 subscribers using a show of hands.
6. Any Other Business
No other business.
7. Date of Next meeting
The date of the next Annual General Meeting was not set.
Next Issue Spring 2015
Journal reviews
Meeting reviews
Book Reviews
Case Studies
SCM-UK Update
Ask the experts
Something Different
We still need our subscribers to submit questions; answers and journal/book reviews so
make sure you send your contributions to the newsletter editor.
Email: Nmukeditor@gmail.com