MEDIA GUIDELINES
94th Annual Meeting of the British Association of Dermatologists
SECC Glasgow, 1st - 3rd July 2014
Building on its reputation as a high quality internationally renowned event, the British Association of
Dermatologists (BAD) is delighted to announce the Annual Meeting for 2014, providing a blend of
new scientific presentations with updates from experts in various fields.
We warmly welcome exhibitors to what promises to be an informative and vibrant meeting. The
following information seeks to assist you with any media relations work you may wish to conduct
during the conference.
PRESS RELEASE BOILERPLATE INFORMATION:
We kindly request that all exhibitor media materials use the following boilerplate wording to
acknowledge the BAD:
The British Association of Dermatologists’ Annual Meeting takes places in Glasgow from July 1st to
3rd. For more information, visit www.bad.org.uk
EMBARGO POLICY:
All exhibitor media releases and media alerts relating to research or launches etc, presented at BAD
2014 must be embargoed to the start of the meeting, July 1st 2014.
We are unable to allow press conferences by exhibitors at any time during the course of the
meeting. On-site media interviews may be allowed with prior consent from the media team, who
can allocate an area in the Press Office for this function.
A list of attending media may be available on request from the Press Office.
ON-SITE PRESS OFFICE:
Exhibitors are welcome to leave hard copies of news releases with a member of the Media Team to
be passed on to any attending media.
MEDIA PASSES:
Media passes are available only to working journalists and are subject to an application and approval
process. The following are not eligible to apply for a media pass:
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any publication or media outlet’s advertising, marketing, public relations or sales
representatives;
publishers, editors, or reporters from manufacturers’ house organs or promotional
publications;
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public relations staff of exhibitors or educational institutions;
writers creating analyses or reports sold as a commodity to customers;
other individuals who are not actually reporting on the meeting.
Exhibitors may not register for media passes.
Further information can be viewed in our Media Guidelines, available by emailing
comms@bad.org.uk
Events:
We would like to invite you to join the BAD at our DERMATOLOGY QUESTION TIME
2nd July 2014, 11.30am-12.30pm, SECC, Glasgow
Do you have a question you would like answered about skin health or skin disease?
The British Association of Dermatologists invites the public to put their questions to a panel of
experts at a Dermatology Question Time.
Around 13 million people a year visit their GP in relation to a skin condition.
The Dermatology Question Time will be of interest to anyone interested in skin health and skin
conditions, the media, people with skin conditions and their carers, patient support groups,
occupational health workers, union representatives, employers, health workers and students with
an interest in health.
The event is free but attendees need to register in advance by emailing deborah@bad.org.uk
Further details of the event can be found at www.bad.org.uk/events
We would also like to invite you to join us to our second ever ‘Understanding Pharma’ session which
will take place on Wednesday July 2nd at the SECC in Glasgow. Speakers include:
08:45 – Dr Kim Kjoeller (Senior Vice President Global Development- Leo Pharma)
09:15 – Dr William McCullouch
09:45 – Dr Ian Hudson (Director of Licensing - Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory
Agency).
10:15 – Guest lecture - Professor Sir Ian Kennedy on ‘Professional Regulation’
If you have any queries, please contact the Media Team, who will be happy to
help:comms@bad.org.uk
UK: +44 207 391 6094 / mobile for Nina Goad, Head of Communications: 0782 5567717