Fergus Walsh to host our 25 Year Silver Jubilee celebration

The BBC’s Medical Editor Fergus Walsh is set to return to the next EDGE Conference, taking place on the 4th and 5th June of this year at the Hilton London Heathrow T5. Fergus is returning as host to the EDGE Conference for the 4th time after proving to be a very popular choice amongst our community of users.

Fergus will be hosting our Silver Jubilee event ‘TOGETHER 25’ which marks 25 years of EDGE and will celebrate 25 years of sharing, learning, and innovating amongst the EDGE user community. This very special event also aims to kickstart shaping the next 25 years of research excellence and will showcase EDGE expert users working within the field of research, who will share their best practice, knowledge, and practical ways in utilising EDGE and will demonstrate the strength of working together.

Fergus will steer the direction of the keynote speakers, including impactful presentations from real-life patients sharing their ‘Real Research Stories’, as well as informative talks from across the healthcare and research industry.

About Fergus Walsh:

Fergus Walsh is the BBC's Medical Editor and one of its longest serving journalists. He has played a key role in covering the Covid pandemic which included reporting from intensive care units in several hospitals, as well as following the development and deployment of vaccines. Fergus is based at New Broadcasting House in London and appears mainly on the Six and Ten O’Clock TV News on BBC1. His reports are seen globally via BBC World News. Fergus also reports for Panorama, the world’s longest-running investigative TV programme. He can be heard on BBC radio, on the Today programme, BBC Radio 5 Live, and on the Newscast podcast. He also writes for the BBC news website.

Fergus went to the Royal Grammar School in High Wycombe (1974-1980), Leeds University (BA Hons English Lit 1983), and Falmouth Technical College (post-graduate dip radio journalism 1984). He began reporting for the BBC in May 1984 and within weeks had his first voice piece on national radio. At the age of 26 Fergus became one of the BBC's youngest specialist correspondents, reporting for radio on Home and Legal Affairs. In 1990 he moved to television and worked briefly as political, diplomatic, and education correspondents before moving to health and science. He was appointed medical correspondent in 2004 and medical editor in 2020.

Fergus has reported from more than two dozen countries on topics such as malaria, TB, HIV, obesity, genetics, antibiotic resistance, healthy ageing, and medical ethics. He has volunteered for several medical trials, including testing a vaccine against H5N1 avian flu. He has had his brain, heart, and other organs scanned for television reports. In 2009 he appeared as himself in an Emmy award-winning TV drama with Dame Julie Walters about assisted dying.

To learn more about the EDGE Conference 2025, see here.