09.00– 09.20 Registration & Coffee
09.20-09.45 Welcome: Mr Divya Prakash
Formal Launch: Dr Shashank Vikram, Consul General of India
Opening address Dr Ramesh Mehta
Setting the scene Mr Marimouttou Coumarassamy
09.45-10.00 Keynote Address: Mr Duncan Burton, Deputy CNO, England
10.00–11.00 British Indian Nurses Association(BINA) Session 1
Leading excellence in
Associate Director of Nursing & Chair (CNO BAMESAG)
Executive Director of People &Culture, BSMHFT
Senior Lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan University
Panel Discussion
Chairs: Ms Roisin Fallon-Williams CEO BSHMHT and Mr Suresh Packiam
11.00-11.15 Coffee Break
11.30-12.45 British Indian Nurses Association(BINA) Session 2
Breaking Barriers in
Panel discussion
Chairs: Ms Asha Day and Prof Mahendra Patel
12.45 – 13.00 Closing remarks
13.00-13.45 Lunch
13.45-14.45 Session3 Bridging Gaps: Celebrating Global Learners’ Programme
13.45-1400 Keynote Address: Prof Ged Byrne, “GLOBAL LEARNING: TIME TO GET SERIOUS?”
14.00-14-45 International Fellowship Programme: The Journey
5 speakers, 5 minute each:
Dr Pooja Narwani & Dr Aparijitah Singh (Joint) (TBC) Clinical Radiology,
Ugilesh Thenginthottathil -Diagnostic Radiographer
Dr Reham Koondhar (TBC) Emergency Medicine
Vidya Kaleeswaran -GLP Nurse,
BAPIO Training Academy
Chair: Dr Robin Procter
14.45-15.00 Coffee break
15.00-17.15 Session4 BAPIO Fora
15.00-15.45 BAPIO Women’s Forum session
15.45-16.30 BAPIO GP Forum session
Chairs: Dr Kalindi Krishna Tumurugoti and Dr Sapna Agrawal
16.30-17.15 BAPIO Patient and Staff Safety and Wellbeing Forum session
Dr Raghuram Ananthakrishnan
Q & A Session: Tackling Bullying and Harassment at work
Chairs: Dr Sanjay Arya and Dr Bhavana Chawda
17.15 Concluding Remarks and Vote of Thanks-Dr Cherian George
Day2 Saturday 23rdOctober
07.00-08.30 Wellbeing Session– Yoga at the Hotel Park Regis (virtual attendance possible)
Organisers :Dr Saraswati Hosdurga and Mr Rajeev Metri
08.30-09.30 Registration, Coffee and Networking
09.30-09.35 Welcome and introduction- Dr Achuthan Sajayan, Chair of Organising committee
09.35-10.00 President’s address Dr Ramesh Mehta, BAPIO President
Launch of documentary and BAPIO Theme Song
10.00-10.50 Plenary session-1 Breaking Barriers Part 1 Equity and Fairness
Dr Abrar Hussain (Consultant Psychiatrist), Ms Anushka Shukla (Medical Student) and Dr Hina Shahid (GP)
Panel Discussion: Dame Jane Dacre / Dr Anton Emmanuel / Dr David Nicholl / Dr Chaand Nagpaul/ Prof Andrew Goddard / Dr Michael Mulholland
Chairs: Dr JS Bamrah and Dr Renu Jainer
10.50-11.10 Coffee break
Chairs: Dr Ramesh Mehta and Dr Uma Gordon
11.40-12.30 Plenary session-2 Bridging Gaps Part 1 Training-BTA session
Dr Swati Goray (LED),Dr Aakash Sharma (Trainee)
Panel Discussion: Mr David Wilkinson, Prof Nihal Fernando, Prof Steve Davies, Prof Andrew Elder, Prof Simon Gregory, Prof Geeta Menon
Chairs: Prof Parag Singhal and Prof Dame Parveen Kumar
12.30-13.00 Guest Speaker: Mr Charlie Massey, CEO GMC
Chairs: Dr Arvind Shah & Prof Geeta Menon
13.00-13.45 Lunch break
13.45-14.15 Keynote Speech: Ms Prerana Issar, Chief Peoples Officer, NHS
Chairs : Dr Selvasekar &Dr Ibrahim Bolaji
Dr Thangamma Katimada (Locum Consultant),Dr K. Gajanan(SAS)
Panel Discussion: Prof Neena Modi / Prof Mala Rao / Dr Habib Naqvi /
Prof Helen-Stokes Lampard / Ms Alison Johns / Dr Camilla Kingdon
Chairs: Prof Indranil Chakravorty and Prof Subodh Dave
15.00-15.15 Coffee break
Chairs: Dr Achuthan Sajayan and Dr Viju Varadarajan
15.45-16.30 Plenarysession-4 Bridging Gaps Part2 Supporting Doctors-MDS session
Dr Anjay Pillai/ Dr Sanjaya Kalkur / Mr Krishna Lava
Chairs: Dr Satheesh Mathew and Dr Biju Simon
16.30-17.15 Plenary session-5 Chairmen’s session
Horizon scanning–The Past, The Present and The Future for BAPIO
Dr Amit Gupta / Dr Sonali Kinra/ Dr Nandini Sadasivam
Panel discussion: Dr Ramesh Mehta/ Prof Romesh Gupta/ Prof Raman Bedi /
Prof Rajan Madhok/ Dr JS Bamrah
Chairs: Mr Kalidasan & Dr Manaswi Dwaraknath
17.15 Concluding remarks and vote of thanks-Dr Subrahmanyan Radhakrishna
18.30 Drinks Reception / Dinner, Awards and Entertainment
Compére : Ms Anushka Arora, Sunrise Radio
Guests of honour: Farokh Engineer, Shekhar Kapur and Miss England 2019
Dr Bhasha Mukherjee
Entertainment by Navin Kundra
Day 3 Sunday 24thOctober
07.30-08.30 Morning Walk Organisers: Dr Ravi Baikady & Dr Kinnari Mehta(Complimentary BAPIO Tee shirts to walkers)
09.00–09.25 Registration and Coffee
09.25-09.30 Welcome- Dr Neeraj Bhala
09.30-10.30 BIHR session: Research competition- Finals
Panel Discussion
Dr Amit Kochhar, Associate specialist, Past Chair BMA SASC UK.
Dr Waleed Arshad Chair SAS AoMRC. 7min
Panel discussion: Beryl De Souza, Amit Kochhar, Waleed Arshad.
Chair Dr K Gajanan and Beryl De Souza .
11.00-11-15 Coffee break
11.15-12:00 BAPIO Faculty of Leadership (BFL)session
Dr Navina Evans and Prof Vijay Nayar
Panel Discussion
Chairs: Prof Geeta Menon and Dr Hemadri
12.00-12.30 BAPIO Health and Wellbeing Forum session
Chairs: Dr Payal Mehta and Dr Ravi Baikady
12.30-13.00 BAPIO Paediatric Forum
biggest NHS trust in UK.- Dr Anjum Gandhi
– Dr Satish Rao
Chairs: Dr Neha Sharma and Dr Subramaniam Mahadevan -Bava
13.00 Vote of thanks: Dr C R Chandrasekar
13.05 Lunch
Discounted rate-
Thursday 21 October-Bed & Breakfast Sole occupancy- £105
Friday 22 October- Bed & Breakfast Sole occupancy- £105
Saturday 23 October- Bed & Breakfast Sole occupancy- £139
£13 extra for double occupancy on any day.
Booking code- HEL211021
To book with above code please call on below phone number or email reservations@parkregis-
Park Regis Birmingham
160 Broad Street, Five Ways,
Birmingham B15 1DT
T: +44 121 369 5555
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