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Having gone virtual in January 2021, 15-17 February 2023 saw the first face-to-face BACO since 2018! Taking place at Birmingham’s International Conference Centre, the conference highlighted the vast experience of academic event planning inherent to the BACO brand. 

With eighteen successful conferences under its belt (going all the way back to 1963, in Oxford), the British Academic Conference of Otolaryngology has long been the event that, more than any other, showcases the best of British and Irish Otolaryngology. With an increasingly global outlook, BACO today is a major international meeting, with worldwide participation and a world-class programme of academic content, covering the full breadth of our specialty. 

 

Executive Committee for BACO 2023

 

Professor Claire Hopkins

Academic Chair

Professor of Rhinology at Guy's and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and immediate past president of the British Rhinological Society.​

 

Miss Helen Cocks

BACO 2023 Chair

President-elect of ENT UK, Consultant Head and Neck and Endocrine surgeon at NHS

 

 

Mr Andrew Swift

BACO Former Chair

President of ENT UK, past president of the British Rhinological Society, and local organiser for BACO 2015 in Liverpool.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Professor Chris Raine

BACO Project Lead

MBE. Consultant ENT surgeon at Bradford Royal Infirmary and clinical director and lead for the regional Yorkshire Auditory Implant Services.

 

Mr Declan Costello

Industry Partnership Lead

Consultant ENT surgeon at Wexham Park and Heatherwood Hospitals (Slough and Ascot), editor of ENT & Audiology News and Honorary Secretary of the British Laryngological Association.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scientific Programme committee

Deputy Chair: Prof Peter Rea

Secretary: Mischa Verkerk

Subspecialty leads: Raj Bhalla, Anil Joshi, Yakubu Karagama, Michael Saunders, Kay Seymour and Sanjai Sood

 

 

Societies

BACO brings together a number of sub-specialty and interest groups within the ENT:

 

 

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