The full programme for the BAP Summer Meeting 2025 is available here.
Photographs of the BAP Summer Meeting 2025 are available here. This year BAP has not shared any photographs of the GALA Dinner or other recreational/celebratory activities. However the photographs do reveal that BAP remains successful in gaining attendance of ‘early career researchers’ and young psychiatrists. In previous years BAP has termed this group its “Rising stars”.
Last year, when I shared my hole ousia post on the BAP Summer Meeting 2024, I found that a senior UK psychiatrist and former Dean of the Royal College of Psychiatrists stated falsehoods about me on social media. He quoted me as saying that ‘paid opinion leaders‘ were “corrupt”. I have never said this and never would. I simply argue that education should not be conflated with marketing. I am concerned about the uncritical acceptance of education provided by industry-funded professionals. Industry is well aware of how to promote prescribing for the benefit of its shareholders: it only takes a few respected individuals to influence the behaviour of the large group which routinely defers to its seniors.
Here are a few of the presentations at this year’s BAP Summer Meeting:
Yet again, Professor David Nutt gave a talk for which he was paid by the Pharmaceutical industry.
One of this year’s BAP Guest Lectures was by Professor Oliver Howes, a career-long paid opinion leader and current Chair of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Psychopharmacology Committee
[‘Biomarmer’, I presume, should read as biomarker]
Dr Sameer Jauhar has become a leading authority in UK Psychiatry and argues, as we all should do, that rigorous method is fundamental in science. However, to my knowledge, Dr Jauhar has never acknowledged concern about the well-documented influence of the pharmaceutical industry in scientific research, publication bias, and the way science is presented to the general public [such as through the Science Media Centre]. At this year’s BAP Summer Meeting, Dr Jauhar was presenting:
Dr Sameer Jauhar presenting at BAP 2025.
The 2025 BAP ‘Career Development Workshop‘ involved several career-long paid opinion leaders, including Professor Carmine Pariante and Professor Allan Young [Past President of BAP; former Chair of the Psychopharmacology Committee of the Royal College of Psychiatrists; and this year’s recipient of the ‘BAP Lifetime Achievement Award’]:
