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.

Program

Sept 19, 2008

• 08:00 - 08:45 Key note lecture: Vibroplasty
• 08:45 - 10:00 T-bone exercises
• 10:00 - 13:00 Live Surgery
• 14:00 - 16:00 Research and New Approaches
  with Tillein (Frankfurt), Soli (LA), Colletti (Verona), Zahnert (Dresden)
• 16:40 -18:00 Atresia and Paediatric Cases
  with Wollenberg (Lübeck), Kiefer (München), Claros (Barcelona)
• from 8.00 pm on Cruising Berlin cruise by boat

Sept 20, 2008

• 10:00 -11:20 Vibroplasty in Middle Ear Surgery
  with Todt (Berlin), Linder (Luzern), Hüttenbrink (Köln)
• 11:50 – 13:00 Vibroplasty in Sensorineural Hearing Loss
  with Snik (Nijmegen), Böheim (St. Pölten), Ball (Innsbruck)

Topics

• Early Identification, and Referral Criteria of Hearing Loss in Children
• Hearing Loss and HA
• Cochlear Implants in Difficult Cases
• Bilateral Cochlear Implants
• Totally Implanted Cochlear Implants
• Speech, Language and Comunication Assessment
• Imaging of Auditory Pathways
• Middle Ear Implants
• Otitis Media Managment in Children
• Retraction Pocket Managment

Dear Colleagues,

it is a great privilege for us to have been selected for hosting the XI International Facial Nerve Symposium in Rome, Italy, on April 2009. This topic has always been very close to our scientific and clinical interests and we are much keen to profuse our best for building up an outstanding scientific programme: in order to achieve this task we do need the help of all experts in the field. For this reason, other disciplines than otology or neurotology will be involved: plastic surgeon, ophtalmologists, neurologists, neurosurgeons as well as professional rehabilitative profiles will also contribute to realize a complete and exhaustive programme. The Eternal City, with its historical beauties, will surely contribute to make the Symposium as much pleasant as possible. We welcome all of you for a successful and valuable International Facial Nerve Symposium in April 2009.

Roberto Filipo and Maurizio Barbara
Presidents

Faculty