About the Conference
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Having gone virtual in January 2021, 15-17 February 2023 will see the first face-to-face BACO since 2018! Taking place at Birmingham’s International Conference Centre, it will bring together elements of the virtual approaches learned in recent times with the long experience of academic event planning inherent to the BACO brand. We hope you can join us for the biggest and best BACO yet.
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
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:
BACO Galleries
BACO 2018
BACO 2015