InciSioN UK is bringing the global surgery community together for our biggest online conference yet
💻 Venue: Online via
🏆 CPD points available
🎓 All attendees will receive a Certificate of Attendance.
🏅 Win a prize & showcase your work:
Compete for Best Abstract and Best Essay prizes.
📲 Detailed programme to be announced
Date 📅
Saturday 31st October
9 am to 3:30pm
Format 📚
Online event with keynote speakers, student abstract submissions, best essays, and more
Audience
🎓Medical students
🩺 Resident doctors
Tickets
🎓 Medical students
(+ resident doctors from low income countries) — £10
🩺 Resident doctors — £20
👉 Buy your tickets over at Eventbrite and let's Connect, Inspire, and Learn — together.
InciSion UK ESSAY COMPETITION 2026
“Decolonising global surgery: Who sets the agenda and who benefits?”
Prizes include:
🥇Winner — £50 cash prize + oral presentation at our National Conference
🥈1st Runner-Up — Oral presentation at our National Conference
🥉2nd Runner-Up — Short oral presentation at our National Conference
📢 ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS 📢
Selected abstracts will be invited to present in breakout rooms as either an oral presentation (5 min + 2 min Q&A) or short oral presentation (2 min + 2 min Q&A).
Please, remember to purchase a conference ticket if you intend to present.
Thank you for all your submissions!
Submissions are now CLOSED
📩 We will send acceptance emails by 14th October
09:00–09:10 Welcome and conference orientation
09:10–10:40 Plenary talks: Sessions 1 and 2
10:40–10:50 Morning break
10:50–12:20 Plenary talks: Sessions 3 and 4
12:20–12:35 Sponsor session
12:35–13:15 Lunch and networking
13:15–15:00 Parallel abstract presentation sessions
15:00–15:15 Judges’ discussion and prize deliberation
15:15–15:30 Best Abstract and Presentation Awards
Plenary Talks
Our morning plenary programme brings together leading surgeons from a range of specialties to share their experience, insights and perspectives on surgical care, both in the UK and around the world.
We're delighted to welcome:
Dr Anita Makins
Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist
University of Oxford & Faculdade Albert Einstein, São Paulo
Founder and Director of Oxford's MSc in Global Women's Health, with 25 years of work across Africa and South East Asia with MSF, FIGO and the WHO.
Ms Shabnam Parkar
Paediatric and Neonatal Surgeon at St George’s Hospital in London
A trustee for Health Partnership Nepal and a faculty trainer for the David Nott Foundation, where she teaches life-saving paediatric trauma surgery to clinicians in conflict zones.
Prof Nizam Mamode
Transplant & Humanitarian Surgeon
Professor of Transplant Surgery, Guy's & Great Ormond Street Hospitals
Performed the UK's first robotic kidney transplant, helped set up a transplant programme in Mauritius, and has worked as a volunteer surgeon in conflict zones from Rwanda to Gaza.
Prof Nick Maynard
Consultant Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeon & Professor at Oxford University Hospitals. He has worked in Gaza since 2010, providing surgical care and teaching medical students. His humanitarian work has been recognised with the Humanitarian Medal from King Charles III.