Certificate of attendance
A certificate of attendance is issued following the Annual Congress on completion of the evaluation form which is sent via email to each delegate. Delegates may request a certificate of attendance up to six months following an Annual Congress, after this time a certificate will not be issued, it is the responsibility of the delegate to make sure they receive their certificate of attendance within the stated time.
Information regarding CPDs can be found here.
Awards
Award/Certificate | Winner |
Presidential Merit Award | Stephen Mannion |
Honorary Fellowship Scrolls | Andrew Amis, Clare Marx, John Stanley, Angus Wallace |
President’s Guest Lecture | Jan Willem K Louwerens |
Robert Jones Essay Prize and Medal | Nick Smith |
Howard Steel Lecture | Phil Hammond |
BOA Young Investigator Award | Anthony Howard |
Clinical Leaders Programme Poster Prize | Anwar Jafri |
Innovation in Simulation Prize | Patrick Garfjeld-Roberts |
Simulation Free Papers Prize | Maulik Gandhi |
Best of the Best Award | Ewan Goudie |
UKITE Trainee | Sanjit Singh |
Medical Students’ Essay Prize | Sudeep Biswas |
Medical Students’ Podium Prize | Robert Westcott |
Exhibitors Cup for Best Large Stand | Smith and Nephew |
Exhibitors Prize for Best Compact Stand | Arthrex |
For the full list of abstracts from the 2017 Congress please download these here.
BOA President 2017
Mr Ian Winson

Congress Photos
The photographs from the BOA Annual Congress 2017 at the ACC Liverpool are now available.
Please contact Simon Callaghan (BOA Congress 2017 official photographer) if you would like more information on purchasing any of the photographs.
If you missed the NatWest session on cyber security and awareness and would like to find out more about what you can do to prevent yourself being a victim of fraud, please watch the video below. You can download the NatWest Congress presentation here.