For the public
If you have arrived on this website as a member of the public we regret to advise that we are unable to respond to any individual medical questions. If you have any specific questions we suggest contacting your doctor or visiting the British Thyroid Foundation website.
Please be careful when searching the internet for information about thyroid disease as there are unfortunately many innaccurate and unhelpful sources. For this reason we have created a page of links for you to browse or click on the Association logos below.
Don't miss!
2025 British Thyroid Annual Meeting Friday 9th May
Our next Annual Meeting will take place on Friday 9th May 2025 at the Royal College of Pathologists in London.
This is a face to face meeting and we will have an exciting programme. We are very much looking forward to welcoming you to the meeting.
If you are not a member of the BTA and wish to become a member please go to this page
Call for Abstracts
The deadline date for this will be advised in due course
All accepted abstracts will be published in Thyroid Research
Programme:
Programme details will be uploaded to this website in due course
Registration:
Registration fees: BTA members £120, Non-members £200, Nurses, trainees and retired BTA members £50
Please click here to register.
The deadline for registration will be shared in due course,
2025 British Thyroid Association Trainee Educational Meeting
Our 2025 Trainee Meeting will take place virtually via Zoom on Wednesday 2nd April
Our last BTA trainees’ educational meeting took place on Friday 8th March 2024 . Recordings of selected lectures are available for a limited time via the Vimeo links below - so please make time to view! Simply click on the title.
Prof Mark Gurnell - University of Cambridge - How to approach discordant thyroid function tests?
Dr Jackie Gilbert - Kings College Hospital - The management of hyperthyroidism in pregnancy
Mr Neil Sharma - University Hospitals, Birmingham - Follow-up of low-risk thyroid cancer https://vimeo.com/933256646?share=copy
Other 2024/2025 events
Thyroid related events in 2024 /2025 will be added here as information becomes available
European Thyroid Association
The 46th Annual Meeting of the European Thyroid Association will be held in Athens from September 7th to 10th 2024 Details can be found here
The BTA is funding 2 travel grants (each £750) for trainee or nurse members to present at this meeting of the European Thyroid Association.
To apply, please email to: [email protected] (deadline for application: 31st May 2024). Please attached your accepted abstracts with your application. If there are more than 2 applications, the BTA Ex-Com will select the two best abstracts.
The American Thyroid Association
The 93rd Annual Meeting of the American Thyroid Association (ATA) will take place in Chicago from 30th October to 3rd November 2024. Details can be found here
Access to 2024 events that have already taken place
European Congress of Endocrinology
ECE 2024 took place in Stockholm, Sweden from 11-14 May 2024. Please click here to watch video highlights, read blog posts from Speakers or catch up with content on demand
Events in 2025
The World Congress on Thyroid Cancer will take place in Boston from July 9-12 2025 Further information can be found here
ENDO 2025 will take place from July 12-15, in San Francisco, California
GP Training Webinar 1st May 2024
Our most recent GP Training Webinar - Jointly organised by the BTA and BTF - took place on1 May 2024
This was on the subject of the diagnosis and management of hyperthyroidism with Speakers Prof Onyebuchi Okosieme, consultant endocrinologist, Cardiff and Dr Fraser Gibb, consultant endocrinologist, Edinburgh
A video on the subject will be added to this website shortly.
The previous GP Training Webinar took place on September 20th from 19.00 to 20.00.
You can watch the webinar video on You Tube here
British Thyroid Foundation Award
Since 1997 the British Thyroid Foundation (BTF) has offered an annual award to support a research project into thyroid function or thyroid disorders. This is currently £35,000 for a three year project.
Details of previous winners can be found here
The closing date for applications each year is normally at the beginning of July
The link to access the application form for this Award will be added when available
The award can be used to supplement existing projects or to help get research ideas started. The funds are available for consumables, running costs and equipment but not personal computers. Any equipment purchased will belong to your institution after the project is completed. Support for staff costs/salaries will only be considered if they can be justified.
The BTF is a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) non-commercial Partner. This means the studies that we fund may be eligible to access the NIHR Study Support Service which is provided by the NIHR Clinical Research Network.
Who can apply?
Researchers working on projects in the UK. The project must be based in the UK (i.e. the majority of the work must be carried out in the UK), supervised in the UK and publications arising from the research must be in an English language journal from a UK centre. The BTF must be acknowledged in any publication. The applicant must ensure that appropriate ethical approval is in place wherever research is carried out.
