British Spinal Intervention Course
The British Spinal Intervention Course
The British Spinal Intervention Course (BSIC) is a two-day hands-on course designed for trainees, fellows, and consultants in Radiology, Surgery, or Pain Management. The course provides essential theoretical knowledge and expert, personalised instruction from consultants who regularly perform these procedures in their own clinical practice.
Delegates will receive hands-on training in spinal injections (nerve root, facet joint, sacroiliac, pars interarticularis), spinal biopsy (intervertebral disc and transpedicular), vertebroplasty and radiofrequency ablation (RFA) as well as an introduction to advanced techniques including cryotherapy and electrochemotherapy (ECT).
Programme
Day 1
Day 1 provides the essential foundational knowledge needed to undertake spinal intervention through a series of short lectures given by experts in Interventional Spine Radiology/Oncology.
Day 2
Day 2 offers delegates the unique opportunity of hands-on experience in a cadaveric lab. Delegates will be taught the practical aspects of these procedures on cadavers by experts and have the opportunity to practice themselves with supervision and direct feedback.
We will also utilise the latest available equipment for image-guided simulations and augmented reality for real-time/haptic feedback.
The inaugural BSIC course was held in Leeds 2024, where we welcomed our first 30 delegates attending from across the UK, Middle East and Far East.
Feedback from faculty and delegates was extremely positive, praising both the personalised approach taken by our expert faculty and the opportunities for hands-on training/feedback.
We were delighted to find the course more than 50% over-subscribed, with such demand that a waiting list system was required.
This successful formula has been renewed and expanded for BSIC Bristol 27th-28th March 2025, with world expert Dr Douglas Beall joining the team to give his invaluable insights into interventional spine practice.
LOCATION
Day 1 - The Bristol Hotel - The Bristol, Prince Street, Bristol, BS1 4QF
Day 2 - The Vesalius Clinical Lab, Vesalius Clinical Training Centre, University of Bristol, 32 Southwell Street, Bristol, BS2 8EJ and The Bristol.
DATE & TIME
Thursday 27th March 2025, 8.15am
Friday 28th March 2025, 4pm
REGISTRATION FEES
Priority rate £895
Standard rate £995.
Priority registration opens on 1st November and closes on Friday 15th November at 11:59 pm, reverting to the standard registration rate.
Meet the Team
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Dr Richard Fawcett
Dr Richard Fawcett is a Consultant Musculoskeletal Radiologist at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
His areas of specialist interests are spinal radiology and interventional musculoskeletal radiology with an active research interest in these fields. He lectures nationally and internationally on the field of MSK radiology.
As an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Leeds, Dr Fawcett is actively involved with undergraduate medical student teaching, postgraduate teaching for trainee radiologists in The Leeds and West Yorkshire Radiology Academy and orthopaedic surgeons at Leeds Teaching Hospitals.
Dr Fawcett is the director for the Leeds MSK Radiology Fellowship programme.
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Dr Richard James
Dr Richard James is a Consultant Spine and Diagnostic Radiologist at the Royal United Hospital (RUH) in Bath. Having completed his radiology training in the Severn Deanery, he undertook a 1-year Neuroradiology Clinical fellow post in Southmead Hospital with a focus on spine intervention and diagnostic neuroradiology. He completed the European Diploma in Neuroradiology (EDiNR) in 2018.
Richard works between the Royal United Hospital in Bath and also at Southmead Hospital. Alongside Dr Morgan he provides the regional spine tumour ablation and vertebral augmentation service. As part of his interventional role Richard contributes to the Southmead Spine multidisciplinary team (MDT) and also works with the spinal, palliative care, orthogeriatric and oncology teams in Bath-Bristol.
Richard is a keen educator and teacher. He is also involved in the organisation and delivery of practical training courses for vertebral augmentation procedures.
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Dr David McKean
Dr David McKean is a Consultant Musculoskeletal Radiologist at Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust.
David studied medicine at St John's College, Oxford, completed his training at the Oxford School of Radiology and sub-specialised in Musculoskeletal Radiology at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre.
He is currently the Clinical Lead and Radiology Research Lead for Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, Director of the Stoke Mandeville Musculoskeletal & Spinal Radiology Fellowship, Radiology Lead for the National Spinal Injuries Centre (NSIC) MDT and has previously acted as Associate Medical Director for Research and Innovation.
David is dedicated to teaching and is currently Secretary of the British Society of Skeletal Radiologists (BSSR). He is also a member of the European Society of Musculoskeletal Radiology (ESSR) Intervention Subcommittee and the International Skeletal Society (ISS) Social Media Subcommittee.
Dr McKean is active in research and teaching regarding musculoskeletal injury, complex spinal cord injury and image guided musculoskeletal intervention. He has published in high impact journals such as JAMA, Neurology, Skeletal Radiology, Bone and Joint, and Nature Spinal Cord.
He has the professional qualifications/ memberships including Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists, European Society of Skeletal Radiology (ESSR) , International Skeletal Society (ISS) and British Society of Skeletal Radiology (BSSR).
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Dr Steve Morgan
Steve is a Consultant Interventional Spinal Radiologist at Southmead Hospital in Bristol.
Southmead is a designated Major Trauma Centre and tertiary referral centre for Orthopaedic Spinal Surgery, and Neurosurgery.
Steve is an integral member of the Spine MDT, Complex palliative pain meeting, and regional spine MDT.
Steve leads the Spinal Intervention service, this comprises both complex work: including spine tumour treatments and vertebral augmentation, in addition to pain intervention and diagnostics.
The Complex service continues to grow, Southmead is one of the busiest Interventional Spine services in the UK, and a reference centre within Europe.
Steve regularly has external visitors and runs Spine RFA and vertebroplasty courses in Bristol.
Most recently, Steve participated as invited faculty at the ESNR hands-on course (Sicily, April 2024), and the inaugural British Spinal Intervention Course (BSIC) Interventional Spine (Leeds, May 2024).
Prior to this, Steve has taught at the ASSR hands-on Spinal Intervention Course (Charleston, Feb 2023), European Soc. Neuroradiology (ESNR) hands-on Spinal course (Sicily, April 2021), and the Society of Interventional Oncology (SIO) Masterclass (New Orleans, Jan 2020).
Steve has also functioned as an invited Expert for the NICE review of RFA and augmentation for painful spinal metastases (April 2023).
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