Saturday 31 March - Tuesday 3 April 2012 | Adelaide Convention Centre

Satellite Meeting Speakers

Professor Eric M Genden M.D., F.A.C.S.

Chairman of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery and Director, Head and Neck Cancer Center, The Mount Sinai Hospital, New York.

Dr. Genden is an Professor of Otolaryngology- Head and Neck Surgery and Immunobiology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Dr. Genden is one of the pioneers of trans oral robotic surgery and trans oral robotic reconstruction of the head and neck. He has published a variety of sentinel articles on robotic reconstruction, functional outcomes following robotic surgery, and the use of lasers in robotic surgery. He recently participated on the steering committee for the United States National Cancer Institute's Trans Oral Surgical Trial for the management of oropharyngeal cancer. This represents the first head and neck surgical trial in the history of the National Cancer Institute. Dr. Genden has expanded the application of the robot by demonstrating its applicability for trans oral pedicled and free flap reconstruction. More recently, his group has demonstrated the role of robotic surgery for high risk disease.

Professor Gerard O'Donoghue

Professor of Otology and Neurotology, University of Nottingham and Honorary Consultant, Queens Medical Centre NHS Trust, Nottingham, UK.

Professor Gerard O’Donoghue graduated from University College, Cork in Ireland and undertook his training in Otolaryngology in London and Oxford. He was a Clinical Fellow at University Hospital, Boston, USA and was a TWJ post-doctoral research Fellow at the Auditory Research laboratories of the University of California, San Francisco.

He is currently Professor of Otology and Neurotology at the University of Nottingham and an honorary consultant at Queen's Medical Centre NHS Trust in Nottingham. He has a particular interest in the treatment of inner ear disorders, especially cochlear implantation and skull-base surgery.

He established the Nottingham Cochlear Implant programme, one of the largest research-active services of its kind in Europe. He works closely with the MRC’s Institute of Hearing Research and is Co-Director of the National Biomedical Research Unit in Hearing. He is the founder and Vice-President of the Ear Foundation, a major educational charity in the UK concerned with childhood deafness.

Associate Professor David R White

Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Director of Pediatric Otolaryngology at the Medical University of South Carolina, USA.

He joined the department in 2005 after completing a fellowship in Pediatric Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. Dr White is a native of Charleston, SC and graduated from Davidson College in 1994. He then received his MD from the Medical University of South Carolina and completed his residency in Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery at the University of North Carolina.

Dr White's practice focuses entirely on the care of children with ear, nose and throat problems. He has authored over 50 articles and chapters in medical journals and textbooks and has won several research awards at national otolaryngology meetings. While he practices the entire breadth of pediatric otolaryngology-head and neck surgery, Dr White has particular expertise in the treatment of children with ear/hearing problems, speech and swallowing disorders and airway problems. He is a member of the Airway and Aspiration Center for Children, Craniofacial Anomalies and Cleft Palate Center, the Velopharyngeal Insufficiency and Speech Team and the Cochlear Imnplant Center at the Medical University of South Carolina.

Dr Ray Weiss

Dr Weiss is Board certified by the American Board of Otolaryngology, is a Fellow of the Americian Academy of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery and a member of the American Rhinology Society

Dr Weiss is a graduate of the University of Texas Medical School at San Antonio. He completed his otolaryngology residency at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston. He then completed a 2 year Head and Neck Fellowship, training under Dr Byron Bailey. Following this, Dr Weiss joined the faculty at UTMB and then went on to serve as the Chief of Otolaryngology at Keesler Air Force Base. The primary focus of his practice is to reach and help patients suffering from sinus and nasal problems. His clincial research interests include minimally invasive endoscopic sinus surgery, advanced image guidance sinus surgery and nuances of sinus outflow tracts. He has been intrigued with the potential of improved outcomes utilising computer algorithms, as well as how advanced digital capture and display can expand patient and physical education.

Dr Weiss was intimately involved in the CLEAR study - the initial clinical study evaluating balloon sinuplasty and has completed several hundred ESS cases utilising balloon sinuplasty devices. In 2005, he founded the original Sinuplasty Center of Excellence and remains the medical director.

Professor Barbara Wollenberg

Chair and Director, Clinic for Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck surgery, University of Lübeck

Dr Wollenberg was trained at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich where she spent her time as a resident and consultant from 1988-2001. Scientifically Dr Wollenberg is focused on molecular, immunologic and translational studies in head and neck cancer. Her scientific work got awarded several times: among those multifold awards was a Heisenberg Scholarship by the German Research Foundation (DFG) 2001 and her appointment to be a member in the National German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2005. Beyond the head and neck cancer area Dr Wollenberg has multifold interests, especially in the field of biomedical research, e.g molecular imaging by stem cells or developing new techniques implanting hearing devices.
Her current clinical focus covers skull base surgery, especially of the lateral skull base but also in particular introducing four handed surgery for the anterior skull base in a combined approach with collegues from the neurosurgery.
Dr. Wollenberg is active in many committees, especially as research associate of the DFG and has been invited to several international visiting professorships. She is member of several societies and has published more than 150 peer reviewed articles and books.

Professor Shakeel Saeed

Professor of Otology / Neuro-otology University College of London, Ear Institute
Consultant ENT and Skullbase Surgeon, Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital,Royal Free Hospital and National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery

Professor Saeed graduated from King’s College, London and has been a consultant ENT and skullbase surgeon in Manchester Royal Infirmary and Hope Hospital until his present Professorial appointment in London. He also holds honorary appointments at University College Hospital, King’s College Hospital, Guy’s Hospital as well as St George’s Hospital in London.

He has extensive experience in lateral skullbase surgery as well as implantation otology and has published prolifically on these topics. He undertakes peer review as well as serves on the editorial board for numerous international journals. He is enthusiastically active in otological research and currently holds £1.5 Million in research grants.

He was a council representative of the British Association of Otolaryngologists – Head and Neck Surgeons between 2003 and 2008. He is the treasurer of the British Skullbase Society and the Vice-President of the British Cochlear Implant Group. He is also the current Vice President of the Royal Society of Medicine, Section of Otology, and the President elect designate 2014.

Mr Iqbal Khan

Consultant Otorhinolaryngologist, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK

Iqbal Khan is a consultant ENT surgeon at Bradford Royal Infirmary and an implant surgeon for the Yorkshire Cochlear Implant Services, UK. He graduated from King Edward Medical University in Lahore and was trained in the Northwest deanery, UK as a ENT specialist registrar.

Prior to his appointment as a consultant he completed a fellowship in neuro-otology, skull base surgery and cochlear implantation under the guidance of Professor Richard Ramsden in Manchester.

Mr Khan has extensive experience in middle ear surgery and cochlear implantation. He is a honorary visiting consultant surgeon of the Agah Khan University Hospital, Karachi and has been involved in setting up and supporting the Pakistan Cochlear Implant programme since 2000.

Suren Krishnan

Robotics in Head and Neck Surgery

A/Professor Suren Krishnan is a graduate of the University of Adelaide MedicalSchool and an Otolaryngologist, Head and Neck Surgeon trained in the AdelaideTraining Program. He received his fellowship from the Royal AustralasianCollege of Surgeons in 1993 and was a Fellow at the Radcliffe Infirmary,Oxford , United Kingdom in 1994. On his return from Oxford he was appointedConsultant Surgeon at The Royal Adelaide Hospital in Adelaide, South Australiaand in private practice. He is currently Chairman of the Department ofOtolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery at the Royal Adelaide Hospital.He has an interest in Head and Neck surgery and specifically in partiallaryngeal surgery and trans oral laser resection of oral, oro-pharyngeal andlaryngeal cancer. He is developing the techniques of trans oral roboticresection of head and neck cancers at the Royal Adelaide Hospital.

Dr JC Hodge

JC Hodge, ENT consultant, Royal Adelaide Hospital, South Australia

JC has a specialist interest in Head & Neck and Obstructive Sleep Apnoea Surgery. Following accreditation in Trans Oral Robotic (TOR) Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania he has been practicing minimally invasive TOR resections for both benign and malignant pathology of the Head & Neck since January 2010.

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