ENT Agenda

Head and Neck Surgery track

Session 1: Multi-disciplinary approaches to H&N Oncology

Moderator: Dr Alain Sabri, Chairperson & Residency Program Director, Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Medical Director for Physician Recruitment, Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City -Mayo Clinic, Adjunct Professor of Surgery, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE

13:00 Lecture Panel – Multi-disciplinary approaches to H&N Oncology
Moderator: Dr Alain Sabri, Chairperson & Residency Program Director, Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Medical Director for Physician Recruitment, Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City -Mayo Clinic, Adjunct Professor of Surgery, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Special topics in Thyroid tumour surgery

Dr Alain Sabri, Chairperson & Residency Program Director, Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Medical Director for Physician Recruitment, Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City -Mayo Clinic, Adjunct Professor of Surgery, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Radiation therapy

Dr Fady Geara, Chairman, Department of Radiation Oncology; Oncology Institute, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Head and Neck Cancer therapies including chemotherapy and immunotherapy

Dr Ashish Vittalrao Chintakuntlawar, Consultant Physician, Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City, Abu Dhabi, UAE

14:30 Digital Break

Session 2: Keynote address

15:30 Keynote: Multidisciplinary Precision Medicine Tumor Board for Head and Neck Cancer
Dr Carol Bradford, Dean, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Vice President for Health Sciences, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, President, American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Columbus, Ohio, USA

16:00 Digital Break

17:00 Latest techniques in surgical facial reanimation
Dr Kofi Boahene, Chief, Division of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Director, FPRS Fellowship, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

17:30 | End of Head and Neck Surgery Track & End of conference

Language and Speech Language Pathology track

Session 1: Keynote lectures

13:00 Keynote: Peri-operative voice therapy: good vibrations for healing

Moderators: Adamantia Prachali, SLP, MSc, Supervisor Speech Language Pathology, Inpatient Therapies & Rehabilitation, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Dr Anastasios G Hantzakos, Consultant Otolaryngologist, Surgical Subspecialties Institute, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Deborah Phyland, Director of Clinical for Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Department, Monash Health, Adjunct Research Fellow, Department of Surgery, School of Clinical Sciences, Melbourne University, Melbourne, Australia

13:30 Keynote: Unilateral vocal fold paralysis

Prof Dr Michael Benninger, Professor and Chair of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Immediate Past-Chair, Head & Neck Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

14:00 Keynote: Office-based interventions in unilateral vocal fold paralysis

Prof Dr Markus Hess, Head and Chair; Director, Medical Voice Center, Executive Board Member, German Society of Phonosurgeons, Hamburg, Germany

Session 2: Vocal Fold Scars

14:45 Panel discussion: Vocal fold scars

Moderator: Prof Dr Shigeru Hirano, Chair, Department of Otolaryngology-Head Neck Surgery, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan 

Panelists:

•Dr Anastasios G Hantzakos, Consultant Otolaryngologist, Surgical Subspecialties Institute, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE

• Dr Ramon Franco, Associate Professor of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Medical Director, Voice and Speech Laboratory, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

•Dr Peak Woo, Clinical Professor of Otolaryngology, Department of Otolaryngology, The Mount Sinai Medical Center, The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York. USA

•Prof Dr Elisabeth Sjögren, Secretary General-Elect., CEORL-HNS, General Secretary, European Laryngological Society, Otolaryngologist, Department of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands 

16:15 Q&A – Morning sessions

Moderator: Dr Anastasios G Hantzakos,

Speakers: Prof Dr Shigeru Hirano, Dr Ramon Franco, Dr Elisabeth Sjögren

Session 3: Chronic Cough Management

16:30 Panel discussion: Chronic cough

Moderator: Dr Claudio Milstein, Director, The Voice Center, Head and Neck Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Professor of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Lerner and Case Western Reserve University Schools of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Panelists:

• Dr Paul Bryson, Section Head, Laryngology, Cleveland Clinic Voice Center, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

• Dr Sarah Schneider, Co-Director, Voice and Swallowing Center, University of California, California, San Francisco, USA

• Dr Rachel Taliercio, Director of Pulmonary Medicine, Internal Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

18:00 Q&A

Moderator: Dr Claudio Milstein

Speakers: Dr Paul Bryson, Dr Sarah Schneider, Dr Rachel Taliercio

18:15 | End of Laryngology and Speech Pathology Track