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.
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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 Oral presentations. The deadline for Abstracts is Monday 28 July 2025.
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Certificates of Attendance available following the meeting upon request.
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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.
The Abstract Submission process is now open!
We are now accepting abstracts to present at the Northern and Yorkshire Rheumatology Meeting (NYRM). Oral presentations should be a maximum of 10 minutes and can summarise basic, translational and clinical science in the rheumatology field, as well as clinical cases and audit findings.
You are welcome to submit abstracts that you may have already submitted to or presented at other national/ international meetings.
We particularly encourage submissions from Allied Health Professionals, students and Fellows. Rheumatology trainees from around the region are invited to submit abstracts of notable clinical cases (in general rheumatology as well as vasculitis management conundrums) for presentation and discussion.
Abstracts must be contained within 1 A4 page of text. You may include one table or figure on a separate page of the same document. Submissions not following this format may be rejected or asked to re-submit.
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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.
This page will be updated with more information about the Poster Submission process.
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.
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
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