Event Location
St David’s Hotel & Conference Centre, Cardiff, United Kingdom
Event Dates
10 May 2023 - 12 May 2023
Event Website
https://openingdoors.eventsair.com/bmla2023
Event Cost
The world moved on with cautious determination in 2022 and embraced the face-to-face experiences and opportunities to network that we all missed, and with that our 39th Annual Conference, delivered in the historic city of Edinburgh, was a great success.
I am now delighted to extend to you all an invitation to join us for the BMLA 2023 Annual Conference with Educational Courses, our 40th annual event of this kind, which will be held at the voco® St David’s Hotel & Conference Centre, Cardiff, between the 10th and the 12th of May 2023.
We are shaping the event as yet another occasion for all medics, surgeons, nurses, technicians, aestheticians, scientists, students and therapists involved in the field, to gather, share knowledge and disseminate the latest advances in the laser and light-based devices arena, for the continual improvement of patients’ and clients’ health and wellbeing.
In a continued endeavour to cater for such a diverse group of candidates, the BMLA seeks to challenge the norms and develop a high quality, evidence based, scientific programme to stimulate the minds of medical and aesthetic laser enthusiasts.
Wednesday 10th of May will be our courses day, starting with the Core of Knowledge followed by an additional five specialised courses delivered by an expert faculty team. These courses are usually highly subscribed, the demand for spaces has grown year on year, with feedback being consistently very high, so make sure you book your place.
Two conference days follow on 11 and 12 May. We will continue to deliver two dedicated ‘nursing and therapist’ sessions as part of the main conference programme, with plenty of opportunities for debate. Not only do we continue to include dedicated conference sessions for skin laser treatments, paediatrics, photodynamic therapy, photobiomodulation and laser safety, but we will also present lasers in dentistry as a separate session, which proved to be another very popular topic amongst our dental colleagues.
Lasers in veterinary medicine is a new topic in our conference programme, which we are delighted to promote and are certain will prove of interest to our attendees.
We are overjoyed that the ‘Vasant Oswal Oration’, a traditional focal point of the programme, will be delivered this year by none other than Hywel C. Williams OBE, DSc, NIHR Senior Investigator Emeritus, FMedSci, Professor of Dermato- Epidemiology and Co-Director of the Centre of Evidence-Based Dermatology, University of Nottingham. Winner of the British Association of Dermatology’s highest accolade for outstanding services to British dermatology, the Sir Archibald Gray Medal, and awarded an OBE for his services to medical research and higher education as part of the 2021 Queen’s Birthday Honours, Professor Williams will deliver a 50-minute plenary on Thursday 11 May that should not be missed!
This year’s ‘Great Debate’ proposes a new “judge and jury” format, with arguments around the controversial statement “Aesthetics is easy with no qualifications required”. Although still in the planning stages, it promises to provoke a very interesting debate not to be missed.
Prizes presentations will precede the final conference session, aimed at recognising the best oral presentations from 2022 and 2023. The conference will end with the traditional ‘Problem Page’ session, where delegates are encouraged to submit and share particularly challenging cases for discussion.
Last but certainly not least, we are very pleased to confirm that the 2023 programme will feature two sponsored Masterclasses as parallel sessions on Thursday 11 May – stay tuned for more details on content! On that note, I, and my fellow Executive Board colleagues, look forward to seeing you in May and give you a very Welsh welcome to a great venue on Cardiff Bay! See you then…