The intensive two and 1/2 day course is designed to highlight the most current techniques and instrumentation in the medical and surgical management of diseases of the mastoid and middle ear. The course is appropriate for residents, clinical fellows and practicing Otolaryngologists who are or will be performing surgery in the temporal bone. Lab dissections will highlight current step-by-step techniques in otologic and neurotologic procedures. The format will consist of didactic lectures as well as hands-on dissection and informal discussion in the laboratory.

Invited Faculty include Dr. Julian NEdzelski, University of Toronto, and Dr. Thomas Roland, NYU School of Medicine.
(Dates to be confirmed July 2007)

Objectives
By the end of the course, it is expected that the participant will:

• Be knowledgeable in the anatomy of the temporal bone, including the mastoid and middle ear,
• Be confident in performing ossicular reconstruction and tympanoplasty,
• Have enhanced their surgical skills in performing tympanomastoidectomy, including canal-wall-down and canal-wall-up approaches with facial recess dissection,
• Be better able to treat patients with ear disease confidently resulting in improved patient care.

• plenary sessions
• keynote lectures
• round tables
• discussions
• free papers
• posters
• satellite meetings

Course Co-Directors:
William M. Luxford, M.D.
Jose Fayad

The preliminary program for the 31st Annual MidWinter Meeting includes the following short course, symposia, workshops, and special events.

Short Course

• Bedside to Bench and Back, Challenging Conventional Wisdom

Symposia and Workshops

• Presidential Symposium: Translational Research in Otolaryngology
• Emerging Approaches for Inner Ear Drug Delivery
• Ear and Brain: Influences of Sex Hormones on Auditory Processing
• Noise-Induced Hearing Loss: From Molecules to Man
• Hair Cell Afferent Synaptic Transmission
• Non-Auditory Modulation of Auditory Processing in the Inferior Colliculus State Dependence of Neural Processing in Central Auditory System
• Music and Deafness
• A Memorial to the Contributions of Merle Lawrence, PhD
• Vascular Physiology and Cell Communication in the Cochlea: Pathways and Barriers
• Gene Expression and Regulation in the Auditory System

Please visit the ARO website for additional meeting details: www.aro.org
Contact : Darla M. Dobson
Email : headquarters@aro.org
Website : http://www.aro.org

Les mercredi 16 et Jeudi 17 Janvier 2008 seront consacrés à des démonstrations opératoires assurées par les Prs Ch. MARTIN, Ch. DUBREUIL, E. TRUY et S. SCHMERBER concernant la plupart des gestes de cophochirurgie (tympanoplasties simples, ossiculoplasties, chirurgie du cholestéatome...). La chirurgie de l'otospongiose sera réalisée avec des instruments classiques mais aussi à l'aide de deux types de laser, KTP et Erbium afin de montrer leur intérêt respectif.

Le cours envisagera également la mise en place des vis de BAHA et la réhabilitation des surdités neuro sensorielles par les implants d'oreille moyenne. Deux des organisateurs seront présents en permanence dans la salle de retransmission afin de répondre à l'ensemble des questions qui leur seront posées et afin d'éviter des exposés trop théoriques.

XIV Practical Course on Laryngeal Dissection and
VII Course on Microsurgical Anastomosis of Nerves and Vessels

• Anatomy and Physiology of the Parotid Gland and the Facial Nerve
• Parotid Gland Diseases and Diagnostics
• Assessment of Facial Nerve Function
• New diagnostic approaches
• Parotid Gland Surgery
• Facial Nerve Surgery
• Postoperative Care
• Conservative and Surgical Rehabilitation of the Long-Term Paralysed Face

The overall goal of the program

• To bring together surgeons, audiologists, anaplastologists and basic scientists in a multidisciplinary setting that encourages exchange of ideas and meaningful discussion.
• Present your work in an international forum
• Share training experience
• Learn current industry best practices
• Help shape future developments
• Inter-disciplinary: science, technology, surgeon, audiologist, anaplastologist
• Audience-oriented, interactive forums
• Hands-on workshops
• Patient panels
• Discount for teams registering together

• Diagnosis and mangement of cholesteatoma and chronic ear disease
• Surgical mangement of external auditory canal stenosis
• Surgical management of otosclerosis: primary and revision including intraoperative complications and difficult surgical presentations such as obliterative otosclerosis, dehiscent VII and malleus ankylosis
• Recent technical advnces in ossicular reconstruction
• Indications and innovations in implantable hearing devices
• new tools and concepts for prospective evluation and audit in otologic surgery

We have brought together many experts from all over the world in order to ask them specific questions and answers. The specific purpose of this meeting which is to define clear recommandation and update a new policy following the technologic improvements in auditory implants. This will be an opportunity to discuss the respective place of auditory implants in the deafness treatment, regarding hearing aids, middle ear. cochlear, brainsteim implants and bone ancorage devices.

The congress targets ORL, audiologists, audioprosthesists, audiometrists, phonatricians and engineers, who all together constitue the multidisciplinary team for the care of the deafness in our different clinical units.

The economic weight and the benefits on Health of this neuro-sensory rehabilitation overtakes medical sphere to have an echo on Public Health.

For a direct download of the PDF registration form, click here.

For a directl download of the PDF housing form, click here.

• EPIDEMIOLOGY
• NATURAL HISTORY
• FOLLOW-UP AND QUALITY OF LIFE
• GENETICS AND RESEARCH
• NF-2
• AUDIOVESTIBULOGY
• IMAGING
• SURGERY
• RADIOSURGERY
• NEURONAVIGATION
• MINIMALLY INVASIVE AND ENDOSCOPIC TECHNIQUES
• BONE ANCHORED HEARING AID
• CRANIAL NERVES MONITORING
• FACIAL REHABILITATION
• COCHLEAR AND BRAIN STEM IMPLANTS
• TEMPORAL BONE APEX AND PETROCLIVAL LESIONS
• VASCULAR LESIONS AND MALFORMATIONS
• OTHER CPA LESIONS

Contact : Instituto de Otología García-Ibáñez
Email : scientific.info@acousticneuroma2007.com
Website : http://www.acousticneuroma2007.com

Main topics:

• Electrophysiology of hearing
• Hair cells motility and otoacoustic emissions
• Newborn hearing screening and diagnostic evaluation
• Genetics of hearing
• Conservative and surgical treatment of patients with various forms of hearing loss
• Hearing aids
• Cochlear implants and Implantable hearing devices

For the 2007 LION Broadcast there will be 15 operations live and the surgeons are: Gregorio Babighian who will operate from Padova (Italy), Wilko Grolman and Rinze Tange who will operate from Amsterdam (Netherlands), Thomas Lenarz who will operate from Hannover (Germany), Jacques Magnan who will operate from Marseille (France), Richard Ramsden who will operate from Manchester (UK), Emilio Garcia Ibanez who will operate from Barcelona, Christian Dubreuil who will operate from Lyon, Alan Uziel who will operate from Montpellier and Robert Vincent who will operate from Béziers (France).

As you will see this year there will be more than 23 video conference rooms available worldwide to follow this event with complete realtime interactivity with the surgeons. Please visit the web site of LION (www.lion-web.org) and choose the video conference room you wish to go. You can also register on-line on this site.
Contact : Blanche Mougel
Email : blanche@mcocongres.com
Website : http://www.lion-web.org

Skull Base Surgery- Multimodality Management
This Congress is meant for all disciplines involved in skull base surgery:
Anatomy / Neuropathology, Maxillofacial Surgery, Neuroradiology, Neurosurgery, ORL, Radiooncology.

Albert Rhoton

“Anatomy of the Skull Base and the Skull Base Approaches”

A separate anatomical/surgical workshop connected to the 8th ESBS Congress
in Prague, Czech Republic

Wednesday May 2, 2007, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

The Diplomat Hotel
Evropská 15
160 00 Prague 6
Czech Republic

We would like to cordially invite you to attend our 4th Biennial International Milano Masterclass (IMM) which has undoubtedly made an international name as a top-class learning experience. Faculty and participants feedback in previous years has been nothing but remarkable. The last Masterclass in 2005 was attended by nearly 400 participants from 41 different countries. Many of the attendees commented that it was the best “full-immersion” meeting that they had ever attended.

There will be a special emphasis on videodemonstrations of original, unpublished surgical cases. These interactive sessions will allow participants to virtually enter the operating room with the experts and be guided in greater detail through techniques with “before-and-after” documentation to demonstrate the outcome of the various procedures.

A special session in each segment will be devoted to “Selected Speakers” (other than Faculty) from Europe and overseas who will demonstrate personal innovations in surgical techniques which will give rise to a stimulating interchange of ideas. We invite all our colleagues interested in these challenging fields to enjoy what will again be a memorable meeting.

Downloads

• Registration Form
• Hotel Accommodation Form
• Final Programme

• Anatomy and pathophysiology of ear disease
• Otosclerosis and tympanosclerosis
• Tympanoplasty and reconstructive techniques including allografts nd biomaterials
• Surgical reatment of ear disease by 'open' and 'closed' techniques
• Postoperative care and complications
• Neuro-otology
• Facial nerve problems
• Congenital anomalies
• Cochlear implants, implantable hearing aids and bone anchored hearing aids

• Televised surgery from two operation theatres
• with discussion on large screen television
• Temporal bone exercises

• Otoneurology
• Tympanoplasty
• Surgery for chronic otitis media

The following procedures will be practiced in the temporal bone dissection:

• Endaural approach, raising the posterior and anterior tympanomeatal flap, if necessary meatoplasty
• Stapes surgery: Laser and conventional technique
• Mastoidectomy (complete with demonstration of sigmoid, the bony plate to the middle and posterior fossa including Trautmann's triangle, endolymphatic sac, antrum with incus, three semicircular canals, epitympanum with incus body and malleus head, facial nerve in its mastoid course down to the stylomastoid foramen)
• Posterior tympanotomy and cochleostomy with insertion of cochlear implant electrodes
• Ossiculoplasty with incus via the endaural and the posterior tympanotomy approach
• Visualization of jugular bulb
• Cavity with visualization of tympanic segment of facial nerve and geniculate ganglion
• Infratemporal approach type A with exposure of carotid artery, Eustachian tube, jugular bulb, jugular foramen including lower cranial nerves
• Infratemporal fossa approach type C
• Translabyrinthine approach with exposure of internal meatus
• Facial nerve decompression and rerouting
• Transotic approach
• Middle fossa approach
• Suboccipital approach

With the Participation of:

• E. GARCIA IBANEZ
• T. LENARZ
• S. SELESNICK
• J. MAGNAN
• P. TRAN BA HUY

Acoustic Schwannoma and other Skull base tumors

Live Surgery

(Middle fossa, Tranlabyrinthine and Retrosigmoid approaches) & lectures

This three-day course is designed for practicing otolaryngologists and senior residents in training from all over Europe and provides the unique opportunity to see live-surgery by some leading skull base surgeons using various approaches to the skull base.

Lyon university organises for 10 years a training course in otology on cadavers

• C Dubreuil E Truy (Lyon )
• C Martin (St Etienne )
• S Schmerber (Brenoble)

• January 25, 2007
  Live Surgery
• January 26-27, 2007
  otosclerosis, cholesteatomas, tympanoplasties,middle eat implants, BAHA Dissection class

• Live Surgery
• Lectures
• Free Papers
• Round Tables
• Workshops

The forum will include:

• lectures
• round tables
• workshops

Members of the scientific committee:

• C.Dubreuil(Lyon)
• E.Truy (Lyon)
• C.Marti (StEtienne)
• S.Schmerber (Grenoble)

More than 30 topics will be approached by the most famous specialists in otology

Scientific Organisation: Pr C Dubreuil
Contact : Package Organisation
Email : accueil@package.fr
Website : http://www.package.fr

• Genetic and clinical diagnostic for NF2.
• Management of NF2 patients.
• Treatment of vestibular schwannoma, meningioma and others tumours
• Auditory rehabilitation: Auditory Brainstem Implant (ABI) and other methods