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

Speakers

Keynote 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

Professor Eric M. Genden, M.D., F.A.C.S. Dr. Genden is an Professor of Otolaryngology- Head and Neck Surgery and Immunobiology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He graduated from Mount Sinai School of Medicine and completed residency training in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Washington University, Barnes Hospital. Dr. Genden then completed fellowship training in Head and Neck Oncology and Microvascular Surgery at The Mount Sinai Medical Center.

Dr Genden is nationally recognized as one of the country’s top head and neck cancer surgeons and is listed as one of America’s Top Head and Neck Surgeons. His expertise in management of oral cancer and reconstruction of the head and neck has contributed to the national reputation for excellence at Mount Sinai Hospital.

Additionally, Dr Genden is an NIH funded researcher whose laboratory focuses on transplantation of the trachea and larynx. He has gained a national reputation for reconstruction of the airway after recently publishing his experience with tracheal allograft transplantation for long segment airway defects.

He has published nearly one hundred manuscripts and chapters and is the author and editor of a new book, Head and Neck Cancer- A Multidisciplinary Approach.

Professor Antony Narula, MA FRCS FRCS Ed

Consultant, St Marys Hospital, London W2

Professor Antony Narula, MA FRCS FRCS Ed Tony Narula is a consultant at St Marys Hospital, London W2 (part of Imperial healthcare). He was first appointed as a consultant with an interest in ear disorders in 1989 at Leicester Royal Infirmary, moving to London in 2001.

He is a Founder Member of the BSO and was elected President by the membership to serve from 2010-12.

He is also an elected Council member of the Royal College of Surgeons since 2004, and was re-elected to that role in 2011.

Tony qualified from Cambridge University in 1979 and trained as an ENT specialist in London and Nottingham.

Consultant in Leicester 1989-2001 and St Mary's Hospital, Has been NHS Modernisation lead for ENT 2002-4. Tony is Hon Treasurer of RCS 2008-date and also Revalidation lead 2009-date.

His research interests include airway surgery and Quality of Life measures in ENT surgery he is Visiting Professor, Middlesex University 2003-date.

Professor Gerard O'Donoghue

Professor of Otology and Neurotology, University of Nottingham and Honorary Consultant, Queen's Medical Centre NHS Trust, Nottingham.

Professor Gerard O'Donoghue 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.

Professor O’Donoghue is a Council member of the British Society for Otology. He is also a founding member and Head of Education and Training for the European Academy of Otology and Neurotology. He serves on the editorial board of several international journals. He has lectured and published extensively on inner ear disease and has had visiting Professorships at a number of institutions worldwide.

Professor Rodney J Schlosser, MD

Professor and Director of Rhinology, Medical University of South Carolina.

Professor Rodney J Schlosser, MD Rodney J. Schlosser is Professor and Director of Rhinology at the Medical University of South Carolina. He has authored over 100 publications and has given over 200 presentations at rhinology conferences around the world.

He has been an investigator on 28 grants resulting in over $2 million in rhinology research.

Associate Professor Edward M. Weaver, MD, MPH

Professor of Otolaryngology, Chief of Sleep Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.

Associate Professor Edward M. Weaver, MD, MPH Dr. Ed Weaver is an Associate Professor of Otolaryngology and the Chief of Sleep Surgery at the University of Washington, in Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. He obtained his medical degree and completed his Otolaryngology Residency at Yale University.

He obtained his Masters degree in Public Health (Health Services Research) and completed a Clinical Research Fellowship at the University of Washington. He is U.S. board certified in otolaryngology/head & neck surgery and in sleep medicine, and he practices the full range of sleep apnea surgery.

He has an active clinical research program studying sleep apnea, and he is involved internationally in policy, research, and clinical activities in sleep surgery.