BNTA Awards

The BNTA has secured funding to support the below travel awards. These are through our generous sponsors: Codman, Globus, and BBraun.

The BNTA Extended Travel Award - FOUR awards of £1600 each

The BNTA Short Travel Award - FOUR awards of £1000 each

Please read this information before applying:

-       You can apply for any travel (fellowship or observership) within the UK or abroad, that is relevant to your clinical or academic progression.

-       If you are travelling for less than one month, you must apply to the “Short travel” award.

-       You can only apply to ONE award.

-       Only travel that is ongoing by the application deadline or that is due to occur in the future is eligible.

-       The applications are anonymised and scored impartially by a panel of consultants from across the UK. Applications will be judged on their educational merit.

-       Applying for the first-time and any evidence of financial hardship is taken into consideration.

-       A condition of the award is that successful applicants write a short summary of their travel for publication on the BNTA website.

-       Traditionally, the BNTA awards have only been for trainees with an NTN. For the first time this year, the BNTA will offer one of the Short travel awards to a non-trainee doctor working in neurosurgery in the UK.

Documents required for each application will be:

1)     The attached application form

2)     A short letter of support from the hosting unit

Please email both documents combined into a single PDF file to the treasurer of the BNTA at a.ali20@nhs.net by 5pm on Sunday 29th September 2024.

If you have any queries about either award, please don’t hesitate to email me.

All documents are to be sent via email to Ahmad Ali, BNTA Treasurer 

BNTA Travel Awards - Previous Winners

Over the last few years, the BNTA has arranged several travel awards with generous support from several sponsors. The BNTA awards are arranged annually and are scored anonymously by a consultant panel. Below are the details of some of our past awards and the winners.

BNTA Travel Awards 2024

Sponsors: Codman/Integra, B.Braun, and Globus 

Winners of the Extended Travel Awards for senior fellowships

Saam Youshani - Complex Epilepsy Fellowship, London Health Sciences Centre, Ontario, Canada

Euan Strachan -  International Academy of Neurosurgical Anatomy (IANA) Research Fellowship looking at microvascular anatomy of the fornix. Tours, France

Stuart Stokes - Paediatric Neurosurgery Fellowship, Alder Hey Hospital, Liverpool, UK

Sebastian Toescu -  SBNS Caribbean Training Fellowship, Kingston Jamaica

Winners of the Short Travel Award for observerships or other short fellowships

Jason Yuen -  Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery observership, Freiburg, Germany

David Rowland -  Observership on the management of CSF leak, Freiburg, Germany

Adam Nunn - Skullbase observership, Semmes Murphey Clinic, Memphis, USA

 Aimee Goel - Paediatric neurosurgery observership, The Hospital for Sick Kids, Toronto, Canada

BNTA Travel Awards 2023

Sponsors: Integra/Codman, Barrow UK

Winners of the Extended Travel Award for senior fellowships

Giannis Sokratous - Skull base fellowship, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK

Gareth Dobson - Complex Spine fellowship, NeuroSpine Institute, Perth Australia

Menaka Paranathala - Functional and Epilepsy fellowship, Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, USA

Yasir Chowdhury - Oncology and Spine Fellowship, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, Australia

Amad Khan - Stereotactic and Functional fellowship, Montreal Neurological Institute, Montreal, Canada

Winners of the Short Travel Award for observerships or other short fellowships

James Robins - Endoscopic and skull base observership, Wexner Medical Center, Ohio, USA

Francois Okoroafor - Paediatric neurosurgery observserhip, Tenwek Hospital, Kenya

Taofiq Desmond Sanusi - Endoscopic spinal surgery observership, Seoul Segyero Hospital, Seoul, South Korea

BNTA Travel Awards 2022

Sponsors: Codman/Integra, Barrow

Winners of the Extended Travel Award for senior fellowships

Adrian Zammit - Skull base fellowship, The Walton Centre, Liverpool, UK

Damiano Barone - Functional and Epilepsy fellowship, The Walton Centre, Liverpool, UK

Nisaharan Srikandarajah - Complex Spine fellowship, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, Canada

Oliver Richards - Paediatric Neurosurgery fellowship, The Hospital for Sick Kids, Toronto, Canada

Rebecca Chave-Cox - Paediatric Neurosurgery with complex paediatric epilepsy fellowship, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

Winners of the Short Travel Award for observerships or other short fellowships

Cathal Hannan - Skull base observership, University of South Florida, Florida, USA

Ahmad Ali - Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation observership, Charite Hospital, Berlin, Germany