2026 BASO Annual Conference-WEBCASTS

Day 1 – 5th October 2026

Session: State of the Art Lectures – How AI and data science are engineering a more efficient surgical future

Professor Mark Halling-Brown, Head of Scientific Computing, Royal Surrey County Hospital

Professor Mark Halling-Brown AI and Detection of Breast Disease

Professor Alberto Arezzo, Distinguished Full Professor of Surgery, University of Torino, Italy

Professor Alberto Arezzo Engineering Precision in Surgical Oncology: Digital Surgery, AI and Human Expertise (webcast unavailable due to sensitive information)

Session: Precision before Incision: 3D Modelling, AI and Personalised Surgical Planning

Mr Jordan Fletcher, Colorectal General Surgery Specialist Trainee, Yorkshire and Humber

Mr Jordan Fletcher Anatomical Modelling for Precision Surgery

Mr Marcel den Dulk, Assistant Professor HPB Surgery, Maastricht University Medical Center+, The Netherlands

Mr Marcel den Dulk Precision in Surgical Oncology: From Scan to Scalpel

Professor Anastasios Kanatas, Professor in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Leeds Teaching Hospitals

Professor Anastasios Kanatas Precision before Incision: 3D Modelling, Surgical Planning and Reconstruction

Session: Rare Cancers Act

Dr Scott Arthur, MP for Edinburgh South West

Dr Scott Arthur MP Partnership and the Rare Cancers Act

Session: Results of the TARGIT-B Randomised Trial of Intraoperative Radiotherapy in Young or High-Risk Breast Cancer

Professor Jayant Vaidya, Professor of Surgery and Oncology, UCL

Professor Jayant Vaidya Results of the TARGIT-B Randomised Trial of Intraoperative Radiotherapy in Young or High-Risk Breast Cancer

Session: BASO~ACS Plenary Awards and Orations

BASO Raven Lifetime Achievement Award

Professor John Primrose, Professor of Surgery, Southampton General Hospital | BASO~ACS Honorary Member

Professor John Primrose The Integrity of Evidence: Shaping the Future of Surgical Oncology through Randomised Trials

Geoff Oates Achievement Award

Miss Nicola Fearnhead, Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, Cambridge University Hospitals | Past President, ACPGBI

Miss Nicola Fearnhead Pelvic Exenteration: Evolving Indications, Teamworking and Compassionate Care

Uccio Querci della Rovere Award

Professor Michael Baum, Professor Emeritus of Surgery & Visiting Professor of Medical Humanities, University College London | BASO~ACS Honorary Member

Professor Michael Baum Black Swans, Paradigm Shifts, Chaos Theory and Screening for Breast Cancer

Session: Cancer Clinicians with Cancer

Miss Leena Chagla, Consultant Surgeon and Head of Breast Services, MWL | Immediate Past President, ABS | Council Member, RCSEd

Miss Leena Chagla Cancer Clinicians with Cancer

Session: Scalpel Meets Machine: Data-Enhanced Performance in Surgical Training

Mr Nicholas Raison, Clinical Senior Lecturer | Consultant Urological Surgeon, King’s College Hospital

Mr Nicholas Raison Automated Skill Metrics in Robotic Surgery: How AI is Changing the Way We Train

Mr Aidan Bannon, Robotics Lead, ASiT | General Surgery Registrar, Manchester

Mr Aidan Bannon Credentialling the Future Surgeon: What UK Trainees Need from Robotics Training Pathways

Professor Niki Rashidian, Professor of Innovative Computer-Assisted Surgery, Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgeon, Ghent University Hospital, Belgium

Professor Niki Rashidian Precision Surgery and Automated Skills Assessment: The Next Frontier in Surgical Training

Day 2 – 6th October 2026

Session: Seeing Trouble Early: Trustworthy Machine Learning for Surgical Risk and Complications

Dr Ganesh Vigneswaran MBBS BSc PhD FRCR (IR), Associate Professor of Interventional Radiology and Medical Artificial Intelligence, and Consultant Interventional Radiologist | AI Lead, Innovation for Translation Research Group | Research Lead for Radiology, University Hospitals Dorset

Dr Ganesh Vigneswaran From Prediction to Prioritisation: What Shadow-Mode Evaluation Taught Us about Machine Learning in the Oesophageal Cancer MDT

Session: The New Diagnostic Alliance: Radiomics, Digital Pathology and AI Integration in Surgical Oncology

Mr Hassan Malik, Consultant Hepatobiliary and Sarcoma Surgeon, Royal Liverpool University Hospital | Past President, BASO~ACS | Incoming President, ESSO

Mr Hassan Malik The Role of the Surgical Oncologist in the Era of AI

Professor Fiona Gilbert, Professor of Radiology and Head of Department of Radiology, University of Cambridge

Professor Fiona Gilbert AI for Early Breast Cancer Detection: Lessons from Validation in the NHS

BASO Keynote Lecture – Transforming Oncological Care through Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Professor Tony Young OBE, National Clinical Director for Innovation | Consultant Urological Surgeon

Professor Tony Young OBE Transforming Oncological Care through Innovation and Entrepreneurship (webcast unavailable due to sensitive information)

Session: EJSO–BASO Session: “EJSO in the AI Era: Guiding the Evolution of Surgical Oncology Publishing”

Dr Isacco Montroni, Deputy Editor, and Miss Dawn Aggett, EJSO Manager

EJSO logo EJSO and AI

Session: BASO Rosetrees Grants – Reports and 2026 Awards

Report – 2024 Grant Award

Miss Mhairi Mactier, Clinical Research Fellow, University of Glasgow

Miss Mhairi Mactier REPORT: Exploring the Association between Post-operative Complications and Oncological Outcomes in Breast Cancer Surgery

Report – 2022 Grant Award

Miss Bhamini Vadhwana, Post-CCT Fellow in Upper GI Surgery, Imperial College London

Miss Bhamini Vadhwana REPORT: Assessment of the Fungal Mycobiome and its Volatile Organic Signature for Earlier Detection of Oesophagogastric Cancer

2026 BASO Rosetrees Award 1

Mr Nikhil Lal, NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow, Imperial College London

Mr Nikhil Lal STUDY: Tumour Immune Contexture in MRI-Defined High-Risk Rectal Cancer: A MERCURY 3 Substudy

2026 BASO Rosetrees Award 2

Mr George Adigbli, NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer, University of Oxford

Mr George Adigbli STUDY: Lymph Liquid Biopsy for Early Melanoma Risk Stratification: A Proof-of-Concept Study

Session: Personalised Surgery in the Digital Era: From Selection to Recovery

Mr Shazad Ashraf, Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, University of Birmingham

Mr Shazad Ashraf AI and Cancer MDTs

Mr Saladin Sawan, Consultant Surgeon, Gynaecological Oncology and Robotics, Ysbyty Gwynedd, North Wales | Outgoing Vice-Chair, Scientific Advisory Committee, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

Mr Saladin Sawan Anatomy to Autonomy: Cytoreductive Surgery in Ovarian Cancer – Resolving the Conundrum