Update from BSG | United Kingdom

Summer 2024 update

The British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) Annual Conference 2024 was held at ICC Birmingham Conference Center between Monday 17th June 2024 and Thursday 20th June 2024. This year’s neurogastroenterology and motility (NGM) session, held on Thursday, was titled Cyclical Vomiting: How to Stop Going Round in Circles. Sessions on the diagnosis and management of CVS were delivered by Drs. Maura Corsetti and Mohsin Butt (UK perspective) and Dr. Thangam Venkatesan (USA perspective) – an invited speaker from Ohio State University, USA. The session was followed by a series of NGM oral presentations – the prize for the best oral presentation was awarded to Dr. Mohsin Butt for the paper titled CVS: opioids out, tricyclic antidepressants in. This paper demonstrated the efficacy of low-dose tricyclic antidepressants in the prophylactic management of CVS provided opioids or illicit drugs were not consumed.

The CVS theme continued at the University of Nottingham on Saturday 22nd June 2024 during an event held for patients and carers, coordinated by Cyclical Vomiting Syndrome Association UK (UK Charity number: 1045723). Talks were delivered by Drs. Maura Corsetti, Mohsin Butt and Thangam Venkatesan, and patients/carers were provided the opportunity to have one-to-one sessions with speakers. Recordings are available here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjN-hHQBDUPjnnLSryhq8NYB3l7FDg2a_

The future

The British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) Annual Conference 2025 will be held in Glasgow, Scotland between Monday 23rdJune 2025 – Thursday 26th June 2025. An abstract call has yet to be announced but, historically, takes place at the end of November. The theme for the NGM session for 2025 has yet to be finalized.

BSG Campus – a program of activities delivered via a digital format – will take place between Monday 2nd December 2024 to Thursday 5th December 2024. The NGM session, due to be held on Monday, will orientate around diarrhea and abdominal pain, with an emphasis on pain in inflammatory bowel disease.

From L-R: Dr. Thangam Venkatesan (Ohio State University, Ohio USA), Dr. Mohsin Butt (University of Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, UK), Dr. Maura Corsetti (University of Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, UK). Photograph captured at the Cyclical Vomiting Syndrome Association Summer Meeting 2024.