Day 1: Wednesday, 2nd April 2008

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Plenary Session

08.30

Welcome and Programme Notes
Muaaz Tarabichi
&
Hussein Abdulrahman

08.35

Instructional Courses Overview
Mohammed El Najjar

08.40

Submitted Papers Overview Abdulla Ibrahim

08.45

Presentation of Awards:

Karl Storz Award for Excellence in Teaching

Ingenborg and Erwin Hochmair Award for the Service to the Deaf

Arab Health Personal and Professional Achievement Award

09.00

State of the Art: Rhinology
Moderator: Hussein Abdulrahman
Contemporary Endoscopic Management of Inverted Papilloma
P Batra
Endonasal Approaches to the Cranial Base
C Snyderman
Principles and Practice of Sinuplasty
H Levine

Why Do We Need a Middle East Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery?
N Fuleihan

10.30

Coffee Break

11.00

State of the Art: Rhinology
Moderator: Abdul Ghani Siddique
Updates on the Pathogenesis of CRS with Nasal Polyps
S Fakhri
What the Otolaryngologist Must Know About Sinus Headache
H Levine
Endoscopic Management of Severe Epistaxis
C Snyderman
Prevention and Management of Complications in ESS
P Batra

Why Do We Need a Middle East Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery?
Muaaz Tarabichi

12.30

“From Silence to Life” Video Presentation on Identification and Management of Hearing Loss

12.30

Lunch

Parallel Sessions

Crystal Ball Room
A

14.00

Rhinology
Moderator: Adil Al Mansoury
The Nose and Sleep Apnea
H Levine
Image Guided Surgery: Concepts and Applications
P Batra
Endoscopic Treatment of Angiofibromas
C Snyderman

15.30

Coffee Break

16.00

Rhinology
Moderator: Mohammed El Najjar
Endoscopic Pituitary Surgery: Otolaryngological Perspective
C Snyderman
Decision Making in Frontal Sinus Surgery
P Batra
Considerations in Revision ESS
S Fakhri
Minimally Invasive Approaches to the Sinuses: The Role of Balloon Sinuplasty
H Levine
Reconstruction of Skull Base Defects with the Septal Mucosal Flap
C Snyderman

Emerald Room
B

14.00

Cochlear Corporation Mini Seminar: Bilateral Cochlear Implants
Moderator: Muaaz Tarabichi
Bilateral Cochlear Implant Outcomes
T Hullar
Bilateral Cochlear Implants Audiological Perspective
T Adams
Counseling Families and Patients on Bilateral Cochlear Implants
Muaaz Tarabichi
Quality of life of families with patient on bilateral cochlear implant in Algeria
Dr. Amina Bousebta

15.30

Coffee Break

16.00

Medel Medical Electronics: Cochlear Implants in the Middle East
Moderator: Ahmed Handoussa
CI of Common Cavity Deformities: Auditory Performance and Speech Recognition
J Kassouma
Atraumatic Cochlear Implantation Ahmed Handoussa Balance Function Following Cochlear Implant Surgery
T Hullar
Innovation in Cochlear Implant Surgery
K Taibah
Habilitation of the Cochlear Implant Child
R Batterjee & N Ewanchyshyn
Cochlear implantation in deaf- blind patient
Prof. Ahmed Daneshi

Diamond Room
C

14.00

Mini Seminar: Rhinoplasty of the Middle Eastern and Ethnic Nose
Moderator: M Bussieres
Participitants: Nabeel Fuleihan, Amar Singh, Shan Baker & Ira Papel

15.30

Submitted Papers Session:
Head and Neck
Moderator: Saleh Al Daheri
Adenoid Hypertrophy
Dr Mehdi Askari
The Stable Tip Position in Rhinoplasty
Dr Mohsen Naraghi
Spreader Graft - Endonasal vs Open Approach in Repair of Incompetent Nasal Valve
Dr Amar Singh
Retropharyngeal Lipoma
Dr Mehdi Askari
Human Immunodeficieny Virus in ENT Practice - Its Presentation and Diagnosis
Dr M Vishnu Vardhan
IL -13 Gene Polymorphisms at - 1044 C/T and +2044 G/A Positions in Patients with SCC of Head and Neck
Dr S B Hashemi
Epithelioid Hemangioendothelioma (EHE) of the Auricle Metastasizing in the Parotid Gland
Dr Fadi Kanaan