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2024 29 Feb
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2023 31 Aug
We are delighted to announce that Sally Edgington has been appointed as the new Director of Education at the BIR. As Director of Education, Sally will lead on the development, management, delivery and promotion of the BIR’s face-to-face and digital educational activities for the UK and worldwide radiology community. Sally will replace Dr Sarah...Read more
2021 22 Mar
Researchers from the University of Liverpool and the Leeds Teaching Hospitals presented results from a study on “Patient and Staff Acceptability of Prophylactic Skin Care: A qualitative service evaluation regarding patient and staff acceptance of prophylactic skin care for breast cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy” at the Annual Radiotherapy and...Read more
2020 15 Jun
BJR, the international research journal of the British Institute of Radiology, has published a collection of articles on proton therapy, guest edited by leading experts Dr Kathryn Held, Professor Tony Lomax and Professor Esther Troost. The BIR have also recorded an accompanying podcast with the Guest Editors, who share their thoughts on this rapidly...Read more
2019 28 Feb
To promote best practice and excellence in Radiation Safety, a series of short advice sheets are being published by the British Institute of Radiology (BIR) that give information on key aspects of radiation safety, why they are important and where to find some further information. The advice sheets give practical tips and guidance on five aspects...Read more
2018 05 Apr
Professor Perry J. Pickhardt will be delivering the BIR/Canon Memorial Lecture at UKRC O on Monday 2 July 2018. His lecture will be titled “The Natural History of Colorectal Neoplasia". Professor Pickhardt has a worldwide reputation as a clinician, academic, and educator in GI imaging. He is currently Chief of Gastrointestinal Imaging at the...Read more
2018 27 Mar
The BIR has launched the BIR World Partner Network, a community of international societies with the shared goal of advancing the knowledge and understanding of imaging and radiation oncology amongst radiologists, radiographers and physicists across the world. Participating societies are the Sociedad Argentina de Radiología, Federacion Argentina de...Read more
2018 07 Feb
The British Institute of Radiology (BIR), the multidisciplinary membership society and publisher, is delighted to announce the launch of a new international, fully open access, online journal to be published alongside their growing collection of titles. BJR|Open will join BJR and BJR|case reports , publishing papers across...Read more