The joint meeting of the Belgian Association of Pediatric Surgery (BELAPS) and the Groupe d'Etude en Coeliochirurgie Infantile (GECI) that will be held in Brussels this October.

Organised by Professor Paul Losty, the PPR Symposium will be held at Alder Hey Children's Hospital and will mark the 100 year anniversary of the hospital.

This meeting will be held in London for the first time at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.

Abstracts are now welcome to be submitted for this meeting which will be held in Toronto, Canada. Chair of the organising committee is Professor Agostino Pierro.

Both of these topics still offer challenges tot he paediatric surgical community due to large variations in presentations. Experts from Europe and overseas have been invited to deliver State-of-the-Art lectures and share their experiences in the diagnosis, management and outcomes in these areas.

The South African Paediatric Association & South African Association of Paediatric Surgeons Biennial Congress will be held between 10-14 September 2014.

This conference includes workshops on advanced mechanical ventilation, hemodynamic monitoring, and bedside ultrasonography/ECHO.

The 10th PAPSA Congress will be held between 10-14 November 2014 in Cairo. The congress will include a Hugh Greenwood Skills Course run by BAPS.

This study day which will be held at the Birmingham Children's Hospital, will mark the 25th anniversary of the Liver Unit and the 21st anniversary of the small bowel transplant programme

This is a webinar run at 15.00 South African time, but will be run from London under the auspices of Paolo De Coppi