British Myology Society

The British Myology Society is a multidisciplinary professional body of experts that aims to promote clinical practice, education and clinical trials in relation to muscle disease, myasthenia gravis and spinal muscular atrophy. It is intended to be a forum of consultant level experts to consider these issues.

Please click here to view the rules of the BMS.

If you are interested in becoming a member of the BMS, please email Zoe Scott on z.scott@ion.ucl.ac.uk for futher details.

http://www.myology.org.uk/

BMS Second Annual Meeting

The second annual meeting of the BMS will take place on 2-3rd September 2010 at St Anne's College, Oxford. Provisional programme will be published, and registration open shortly.

BMS First Annual Meeting
The first annual meeting of the BMS took place on 2nd - 3rd July 2009 at St Anne's College, Oxford.

Please click here to view the programme.

We were delighted that Professor Robert C Griggs, President of the American Academy of Neurology appeared as our guest speaker, and provided insights into his long experience of running the North American Muscle Study Group which has similar aims to the BMS.

Key themes covered in the interactive sessions included:

• Commissioning neuromuscular services in Great Britain and Ireland
• Planning muscle pathology services for the UK and Ireland
• Update on current neuromuscular NCG services including NCG support to diagnose difficult cases
• Update from UK neuromuscular workshops (including IBM, MG) 2008
• Developing clinical networks/clinical trials