Awards and lectures

This prize (currently £450) commemorates Lord Amulree, a founder member and President of the British Geriatrics Society (1948-1973). It is awarded to medical students for an essay on a subject pertinent to ageing or old age written from a medical, biological or sociological point of view.

2021

• First Prize: Khalil Saadeh, University of Cambridge -What are the mechanisms underlying arrhythmic risk in the ageing population? Do these mechanisms offer novel anti-arrhythmic pharmacological targets?
• Second Prize: Lubna Latif, University of Birmingham-Investigating and Evaluating Physical Exercise as Management of Frailty in Older Adults

2020

• First prize: Katherine Bowden-Brown, Newcastle University- Healthy Ageing, Physical Activity and Sarcopenia

• Second Prize: Melina Li How Cheong,University of Buckingham-Depression in the Elderly Population;A Public Health Crisis that Needs Addressing

• Third prize: Roxanna Abhari,oxford University- Living with faecal incontinence:patients’ experiences and behaviour, impact on health, and duty of the healthcare profession.

2019

• First Prize: Ruari Floyd ,University of Limerick-Non-pharmacological interventions for cognitive impairment post chemotherapy in patients with breast cancer
• Second Prize: Rose Bell, University of Birmingham medical school-Could Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment save the NHS?
• Third prize: Fezan Mughal,St Andrews University, Scotland-On the importance of taste and smell in ageing 

2018

• First Prize: Robyn Barker, University of Newcastle Medical School – Feasibility of using an application based tool to screen for dementia in the Hai district of Tanzania
• Second Prize: Gautham Kumar, University of Cambridge – Does the maturation of optogenetics enable new approaches to the treatment of Parkinson's Disease?
• Third Prize: Dane Wanniarachige, Trinity College Dublin - Understanding and combatting ageism in healthcare

2017

• First Prize: Keiron Jankowski, University of Sheffield: What factors affect survival in critically ill older people?
• Second Prize: Avinash Harinarayanan, Manchester University - Vascular Parkinsonism and the ageing brain
• Third Prize: Joint winners Sarah Alexis Gritis, University of St Andrews Medical School - The pain of Parkinson's Disease; and Natasha Povey, Lancaster Medical School - Immunosenescence - can it be reversed? 

2016

• First Prize:  G Di Paolo, Keele University School of Medicine - Researching the health of our ageing population
• Joint Second Prize Winners: Tom Fitzgerald, University of Southampton - The Usual Medical Care of Older People in Primary Care
• and Joseph O'Keeffe, University of Leicester - Towards a Geriatric General Practice

2015

• First Prize: Charlotte Boreham - Dietary restriction and its impact on the neuropathology of Alzheimer's Disease
• Second Prize: Adam Dyer - Cognitive impairment and dementia in older adults with Type II Diabetes Mellitus
• Third Prize: Mary-Elizabeth Conn - Could incorporating geriatric assessment methods into secondary care specialities eradicate age discrimination in the NHS?

2014

• First Prize: Clare Langan, Edinburgh University - Does Immunotherapy hold the cure for Alzheimer's Disease?
• Second Prize: Rachel McNulty, St George's University of London - Safeguarding older adults and the role of doctors
• Third Prize: Daniel J. Fitzgerald, Magdalen College, University of Oxford Medical School - The impact of chronic illness: observations of a patient-caregiver relationship in PD

2013

• First Prize: Annie Ritson
• Second Prize: Kathryn Price
• Third Prize: Vanda Ho

2012

• First Prize: R Visagan
• Second Prize: Charles D Timms
• Third Prize: Alpa Kanji

2011

• First Prize: Nathan Gauge;
• Second Prize: Brinta Rabindra;
• Third Prize (Joint Winners): Rachel Varughese; and Bernard Maybury

2010

• First prize: Mary Ní Lochlainn
• Second prize: Biren Patel
• Third prize: Christopher Jones

2008 K Belfield and M Khan

2007 S S Gill

2006 A Moolla

2005 L Quinn

2001 J Tan & A Liew

2000 P Acharya

1999 L Landon

1998 E Dale 

1997 C Geppert

1996 G A Paul 

1995 M Edwards

1994 S Dias & H Houlden

1993 P Han Ng, W W M Saweirs

1992 J Potter

1991 A Hayter, J in der Schmitten and I tomlinson

1990 D M I C Wawman

1989 R M Chalmers & S Chopra

1988 S M Wilde

1987 S Lowrey

1986 S J Dove

1985 L Hughes-Davies

1984 A Nemeth

1976 H Peach

1983 M A Carling

1982 H S Smith & D McCormack 

1981 J Rees 

1979 P J M Davis

1978 J S Kroll & I Tomlinson 

1977 S Maybin & W B Taylor

The Cardiovascular Section of the BGS awards two prizes of £400 every year.

2021 Alex Mankoo

2018 Alisha Chauhan

2017  Jemma Mickleburgh

This award is made to individuals who are not members of the BGS, for their outstanding contribution to the welfare and alleviation of suffering of the aged.

The Rising Star Award was inaugurated in 2015 to recognise doctors, nurses and AHPs who have made exceptional contributions to the field of older people's health care, early in their career. Two awards are available each year; one for research contributions that have translated into, or are in the process of being translated into, improvements to the care of older people, and the other for a clinical quality project which improves the care of older people with frailty in the award holder's locality.

Inaugurated in 2015, the BGS Special Medal recognises non-BGS members who make a contribution to improving the quality of life of older people throughout society.

Click here to find out about how to nominate someone for this award.

2021: Leon and Janet Warmley
2020 Bex Townley
2019 Marie Mitchell
2018 Gary Fitzgerald

The Dhole-Eddlestone Memorial Prize is funded by a legacy from Dr Manindra Kumar Dhole, a BGS member who died in 1977. The prize is so named to commemorate the anniversary of his marriage with Dr Eddlestone. 

From 2018 onwards, one cash prize of £1,000 is made each year and announced on the following 14 January, the anniversary of the date of their marriage. 

Applications are not accepted. The prize goes to ‘the most deserving published work of medical research appertaining to the needs of aged people’, in practice, the paper published in Age and Ageing each calendar year which most impressed the judging panel.

Up until 2014, the prize was awarded to outgoing Editor-in-Chief of Age and Ageing. The winners were as follows:  

1980 Prof A N Davison
1982 Prof F I Caird 
1984 Dr A N G Clarke 
1986 Prof A N Exton-Smith 
1988 Prof H M Hodkinson 
1990 Prof J C Brocklehurst 
1992 Prof M S J Pathy 
1994 Prof Sir John Grimley Evans 
1996 Prof T H D Arie 
1998 Prof W J MacLennan 
2000 Prof T B L Kirkwood
2002 Prof R Tallis 
2004 Prof G Mulley 
2006 Prof G Wilcock
2008 Prof Christopher Bulpitt
2014 Prof Roger Francis

Eli Lilly inaugurated an annual £300 bursary in 1992 to assist a Specialist Registrar or Registrar training in geriatric medicine to present a research paper at a meeting outside the UK. This bursary is no longer available.

1992 G A Ford
1993 T Masud and D G Smithard
1994 P H Gompertz and T Solanki
1995 G E Mead and P G O'Mahony
1996 M Davis and G E Ashcroft
1997 G E Mead and G M Batty
1998 No award made
1999 M Rizeq
2000 No award made
2001 M Uddin and S Ragab

This award (currently £200) was established by the late Professor E Woodford Williams in memory of Elizabeth Brown, and is presented each year for the best paper read at the Spring Meeting by a member of the Society who is not a consultant.

1978 J A Dalziel
1979 N Sterling
1980 P J W Scott
1981 G A Campbell
1983 D Clinch & P W Goldstraw
1984 M Horan
1985 I Huggett & R K T Williams
1986 G Wright
1987 Kevin Somerville
1988 D O'Neill 
1989 E MacDonald 
1990 M J Connolly 
1991 K A McLean 
1992 G Parker 
1993 P Langhorne 
1994 P R Woodhouse
1995 P G O'Mahoney
1996 K M Debrah
1997 J Newton
1998 C N Lee 
1999 L Kyne
2000 R M Doyle 
2001 A M Qureshi
2002 V Tut
2003 R M Doyle
2004 M Mirkhur
2005 G Ellis
2006 J A McManus 
2007 L Daniels 
2008 I A Lang (a double prize for two presentations deemed of excellent quality)
2010 R Romero-Ortuno
2011 S Hope and F Werret
2013 G W Duncan
2014 Carmel Darcy
2015 J Whitney
2016 L Oates - Promoting oral fluid intake in hospital: the Northumbria Assessment of Hydration
2018 L Brown - The impact of pain in older people with frailty: results form the CARE 75+ cohort study
2018 A Wahab - Did you mean to make me bleed? Treating frail older people with NSTEMI carries a high risk of bleeding
2019 G Lewis - Is your patient more confused than normal? A complete audit cycle on the diagnosis and management of delirium at Watford General Hospital

2020 Sarah Combe

2021 M Ashraf

2022 Linda Birt

This prize, inaugurated in 2007, celebrates Miss Eva Huggins, Matron of the West Middlesex County Hospital in 1936, at the time Dr Marjory Warren took charge of the workhouse and began to re-organise the care of older people, and to formulate her early ideas on the special needs of this group in society. The prize is awarded for the best poster presented in the nurse and AHP category at the BGS Scientific meetings.

This prize (currently £200) was established in 1985 in memory of Professor E Woodford-Williams, one of the founder members of the BGS. It was made possible by donations from members upon her death. It is presented each year for the best paper read at the Autumn Meeting by a member of the Society who is not a consultant.

This prize (currently £200) was established in 1989 to honour Professor Sir Ferguson Anderson, past President of the Society, and is awarded each year for the best poster presented at the Spring Meeting by a member of the Society who is not a consultant.

The Founders' Medal was established in 1987 in honour of the Society's 40th anniversary and is presented for distinguished service. It is the highest award bestowed by the Society and the first recipient was Dr Trevor Howell for his role in establishing the Society.

1987 Trevor H Howell
1989 A N Exton -Smith
1990 John  C Brocklehurst
1991 J Williamson
1993 Sir William Ferguson Anderson
1994 Peter Horrocks
1996 J Leeming
1997 H M Hodkinson
1998 Francis I Caird
1999 Sir John Grimley Evans
2001 M S J Pathy
2002 Marion  Hildick-Smith
2004 Tom Arie
2005 Bim Bhowmick
2006 Ray Tallis
2008 George  Adams
2011 Cameron Swift

This prize (currently £200) was established in 2004 to honour Professor John Brocklehurst, past President of the Society, and is awarded at each BGS Scientific Meeting for the best poster presented in the Clinical Quality Section, by a delegate who is not a consultant.

An award for BGS members who have made exceptional contributions to the welfare of older people over the course of their careers:

2017: Dawn Skelton
2018: John Hindle
2019: Chandi Vellodi
2020: Gwyn Grout
2021: John Starr
2022: Peter Langhorne

This prize (currently £200) was established in 1989 to honour Professor Norman Exton-Smith, past President of the Society, and is awarded each year for the best poster presented at the Autumn Meeting by a member of the Society who is not a consultant.

Inaugurated in 1992 by Dr J L C Dall, this award is to be granted at the discretion of the serving president to members of the Society who have been unable to hold high office in the Society but have rendered outstanding service to the Society.

Dhole Bequest

Dr M K Dhole, a member of the Society, provided funds in his will for establishing a lectureship, fellowship or a bursary for research in the field of geriatric medicine. The award (currently £180,000 disbursed over three years), is jointly funded and managed with Research into Ageing.

1981 Maria Cox and C M Cheshire
1983 A J Bayer
1985 D S Fairweather
1987 A J Thomas and S W Parry
1989 K O'Malley
1991 Carolyn Greig and P A O'Neill
1993 E J Dickinson
1995 J E Cox and L Kalra
1997 R Elliot
1999 L T McGrath and S W Parry
2004 S Conroy
2009 R Hall

Bernard Isaacs Clinical Research Fellowship

Named for Sir Bernard Isaacs, a luminary of geriatric medicine, this fellowship was offered once in 2008 to B Rosario.

Marjory Kuck Clinical Research Fellowship

Names for Dr Marjory Kuck who left a bequest to the British Geriatrics Society, this fellowship was offered once in 2008 to E Fletcher.

Marjory Warren Research Fellowship

Named for Dr Marjory Warren, the founder of our specialty, this fellowship was jointly funded and was administered by Research into Ageing. It was awarded once in 2007 to R Holt.