The Annual Northern and Yorkshire Rheumatology Meeting (NYRM) will return to York this September!

Wednesday 17 September 2025

The meeting is a joint NIHR (National Institute for Health and Care Research) Newcastle and Leeds BRC (Biomedical Research Centre) Training Event, bringing together researchers in Rheumatology.

This event is free to delegates from the Northern and Yorkshire Deaneries and their related universities, but registration is essential.

Registration is now closed.

This annual meeting serves as the only combined regional meeting across the Northern and Yorkshire regions and is very well supported by all.

It is always a popular occasion including educational content from the latest clinical and translational research, as well as quality improvement projects. In addition to supporting healthcare professionals from our region to achieve their learning objectives it provides a welcome opportunity for discussion and networking

We welcome rheumatology trainees, consultants, research staff, students and Allied Health Professionals working within Rheumatology across both regions.

There will be three prizes awarded to the ‘Jewels in the Crown’ for the best Translational Science, Clinical and Clinical Case abstracts.

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The main meeting agenda can be found here and the agenda for the Allied Health Professionals and Nurses Agenda can be found here. 

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Speakers

We are delighted to welcome Professor Yanick Crow, Professor of Genomics, University of Edinburgh and University Paris Cité, as this year’s keynote speaker who will speak on the topic of Type I Interferonopathies. Yanick Crow is a clinician scientist (MD-PhD), fellow of Royal Society and the Academy of Medical Sciences, a Clinical Geneticist by training, working at the MRC Human Genetics Unit, Edinburgh, UK, and the Imagine Institute, Paris, France.

We are pleased to announce Dr Simon Meggitt and Professor Ed Vital who will speak at the ‘Celebrating Local Expertise’ sessions on the day with an overarching theme around Connective Tissue Disease and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.

Posters

Presenters of accepted oral abstracts will also be offered the opportunity to present their work as a poster during the lunch but this is optional.

Delegates whose abstracts cannot be accommodated as an oral presentation will be offered the opportunity to present their work as a poster too.

Poster Guidance

It is recommended posters should be A1 in size, in portrait format, and no smaller than A2 in size. Some elements to consider:

• Consider text size and spacing
• Ensure sufficient contrast between the text and background
• Include a heading with title, authors and affiliations
• Include descriptive captions for images

Information on accessibility for posters is available online e.g. Yale

Sponsors

The Northern and Yorkshire Rheumatology Meeting (NYRM) could not run as a free event without the generous sponsorship from a number of pharmaceutical companies.

Sponsors do not have any input towards or contribute to the educational content of the meeting.

Organising Committee

The Organising Committee is responsible for key decisions of the Northern and Yorkshire Rheumatology Meeting (NYRM). The consortium includes colleagues from both the Northern and Yorkshire Deaneries:

Dr Mike Green

Dr Jonathan Heaney

Professor Heidi Siddle

Dr Arthur Pratt

Professor Ed Vital

Contact

If you have any questions about the meeting, please email Please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Certificates of Attendance available following the meeting upon request.