ASOHNS ASM 2025

8:00 am - 10:00 am - 28 March 2025

PLENARY 1

Scientific Session - Default - Pyrmont Theatre

8:00 am

Welcome to Country

8:10 am

President’s Welcome

Julie Agnew (QLD)

8:20 am

Convener’s Welcome

Julia Crawford (NSW), Megan Hobson (NSW)

8:30 am

Paediatric airway surgery

Shazia Peer (South Africa)

9:00 am

Gene therapy for hearing loss and lessons from our genetic hearing loss clinic

Manohar Bance (United Kingdom (Great Britain))

9:30 am

Evolution in the surgical salvage of recurrent nasopharyngeal cancer

Velda Chow (Hong Kong)

10:00 am - 10:30 am - 28 March 2025

MORNING TEA WITH INDUSTRY

Catering - Default - The Gallery

10:30 am - 12:30 pm - 28 March 2025

PLENARY 2

Scientific Session - Default - Pyrmont Theatre

10:30 am

Paediatric sleep surgery beyond adenotonsillectomy

Derek Lam (United States of America)

11:00 am

Journeys and innovations in otolaryngology and rhinology part 1

Darlene Lubbe (South Africa)

11:30 am

Preventing burnout

Kirsten McKenna (NSW)

11:50 am

Brave New World: AI in Ophthalmology, Oculomics and Beyond...

Dov Hersh (NSW)

12:00 pm

Keynote Panel: The Ethics of AI in Surgery

Payal Mukherjee, Paul Paddle (VIC), Yoav Fisher (VIC), Isabelle Bigio (VIC), Georgie Haysom (NSW), Dov Hersh (NSW), Nirmal Patel, Nicola Slee

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm - 28 March 2025

LUNCH WITH INDUSTRY

Catering - Default - The Gallery

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm - 28 March 2025

CONCURRENT SESSION 1B: MYTH BUSTERS: EIGHT 10-MINUTE TALKS THAT WILL CHANGE YOUR PRACTICE

Scientific Session - Default - Pyrmont Theatre

1:30 pm

The Empty Nose Syndrome: A Surgery or Selection Problem

Richard Harvey (NSW)

1:40 pm

The Septoplasty: How I Do My Septoplasty

Benjamin Bleier (United States of America)

1:50 pm

Vasomotor Rhinitis – A Stepwise Algorithmic Approach

Alkis Psaltis (SA)

2:00 pm

The Nasal Valve - When to Open

Sim Choroomi (NSW)

2:10 pm

2B or Not 2B - How I do my frontals

Brad Woodworth (United States of America)

2:20 pm

Steroids in the Nose (Steroids and Stents – What you need to know)

Do Yeon Cho (United States of America)

2:30 pm

Myth Buster – Biologics

Raewyn Campbell (NSW)

2:40 pm

Postoperative Care – the stabilised cavity

Agnieszka Strzembosz (Switzerland)

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm - 28 March 2025

CONCURRENT SESSION 1C: HEAD AND NECK AND RECONSTRUCTION

Scientific Session - Default - Meeting Room C2.5 - Meeting Room C2.6

1:30 pm

Contemporary management of salivary stone and sialadenitis

Katie Fedder (United States of America)

1:42 pm

Rapid Access Clinic a Model to Improve Access to Care in Head and Neck Cancer

Madison Boot (New South Wales)

1:50 pm

An update on TORs vs ChemoRad in the management of p16 Oropharyngeal ca

Ben Dixon (VIC)

2:02 pm

Impact of Extracapsular Spread in patients with Head and Neck Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma and nodal metastasis

Rachel Braude (NSW)

2:10 pm

Immunotherapy in cSCC – where are we now

Jenny Lee (NSW)

2:22 pm

Elective Neck Dissection in Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma in the Head and Neck: Systematic Review

Seraphina Key (Victoria)

2:30 pm

Cutaneous SCC Discussion Panel

Jessica Prasad, Jenny Lee (NSW), Chris Milross (NSW), Louise van Camp (NSW), Kevin Nguyen (VIC), Ben Panizza (QLD)

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm - 28 March 2025

CONCURRENT SESSION 1D: BUSINESS OF ENT

Scientific Session - Default - Meeting Room C2.2 - Meeting Room C2.3

1:30 pm

Introduction to The Business Session, and 3 numbers all ENT's should know

Catherine Meller (NSW)

1:40 pm

Contemporary Investing; an Introduction for Surgeons

Daniel Robinson (QLD)

1:50 pm

The Business of Problems

Gillian Dunlop (NSW)

2:05 pm

Transitioning to Retirement

Raymond Sacks (NSW)

2:20 pm

What do you need to retire, and how do we get there?

Daniel Robinson (QLD)

2:35 pm

Managing your SEO and online presence; How and Why it matters

Jason Roth (NSW)

2:45 pm

2025 MBS Coding Update

Richard Harvey (NSW)

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm - 28 March 2025

CONCURRENT SESSION 1E: ENT PHYSICIANS

Scientific Session - Default - Meeting Room C2.4

1:30 pm

Medico-legal Controversies, Pre-existing Hearing Losses, Non-work-related Hearing Losses, Assessment of severe work-related tinnitus, Assessment of Loss of the sense of Smell

Bob Payten (NSW), Brian Williams (NSW)

2:00 pm

Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) update

Rowena Mobbs (NSW)

2:15 pm

Intralabyrinthine Schwannoma, Clinical findings of 5 cases, Investigations, Management including novel multimodal therapy

Brian Williams (NSW), Sean Flanagan (NSW)

2:45 pm

Trigeminal 3 Syndrome (V3 Syndrome)

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm - 28 March 2025

CONCURRENT SESSION 1F: FREE PAPERS

Scientific Session - Default - Meeting Room C3.4

1:30 pm

Addressing the Burden of Otogenic Meningitis: a 10 Year Review of Risk Factors, Management, and Opportunities for Improved Care.

Renya Golestani (Western Australia)

1:38 pm

The Intersection of MRI and Vestibular Testing in Ménière’s Disease Diagnosis

Harry Wu (New Zealand)

1:46 pm

MRI-DWI detection of residual cholesteatoma: moving toward an optimum follow-up scheme

Maura Eggink (Victoria)

1:54 pm

Re-classification of historic cases of Sinonasal Undifferentiated Carcinoma using contemporary diagnostic understanding

Blake Lindsay (NSW)

2:02 pm

Cochlear Implant Outcomes in Adults Using WHO International Classification of Function.

Dayse Tavora-Vieira (Western Australia)

2:10 pm

Cortical Auditory Evoked Potentials and speech outcomes: the influence of daily CI usage, time since implantation and total CI use

Dayse Tavora-Vieira (Western Australia)

2:18 pm

Using cortical auditory evoked potentials in middle ear and bone conduction implant users: An objective method to optimise the fitting

Dayse Tavora-Vieira (Western Australia)

2:26 pm

Auditory Listening Effort and Reaction Time in Single Sided Deaf Cochlear Implant Users: a comparison with Normal Hearing Controls

Aanand Acharya (Western Australia)

2:34 pm

Serial electromyography to prognosticate recovery in patients with severe peripheral facial nerve palsy

George Petrides (NSW)

2:42 pm

Surgical Outcomes Of Marsupialisation in Patients With Rathke's Cleft Cysts

Darby Thompson (New South Wales)

2:50 pm

The Role of a Surgical Trainee Research Collaborative in Understanding the Failures and Factors of Cochlear Implant Referral in the UK

Chloe Swords (QLD)

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm - 28 March 2025

AFTERNOON TEA WITH INDUSTRY

Catering - Default - The Gallery

3:30 pm - 5:30 pm - 28 March 2025

CONCURRENT SESSION 2A: OTOLOGY AND HEARING IMPLANTS

Scientific Session - Default - Meeting Room C2.2 - Meeting Room C2.3

3:30 pm

Ear Science Institute Australia Gene Therapy - hearing loss treatment is changing

Marcus Atlas (WA)

3:45 pm

Cochlea gene therapy provision via electroporation and adenovirus vector transmission

Catherine Birman (NSW)

4:00 pm

Does Frequency matching and electrode position matter in hearing outcomes?

Jean-Marc Gerard (VIC)

4:15 pm

Drug Eluting cochlear implants – a new generation of prosthesis

Stephen O'Leary (VIC)

4:30 pm

At-home cochlear monitoring for the patient, the clinician, and our understanding

Christo Bester (VIC)

4:45 pm

Paediatric cochlear implant surgical considerations in cases of inner ear malformation

Catherine Birman (NSW)

4:53 pm

Predicting and Optimising Ossiculoplasty Outcomes: Lessons from a Multi-Institutional Study of 1679 Cases

Chaithanya Jeganathan (WA)

5:01 pm

Paediatric Cholesteatoma: A 10-year Analysis of Presentation, Recurrence Rates, and Hearing Outcomes

Amy Hannigan (WA)

5:09 pm

Round Table (Questions)

3:30 pm - 5:30 pm - 28 March 2025

CONCURRENT SESSION 2B: SLEEP

Scientific Session - Default - Meeting Room C3.2

3:30 pm

Paediatric Sleep Surgery Panel

Derek Lam (United States of America), Stuart Mackay (NSW), Hannah Burns (QLD), Shyan Vijayasekaran (WA)

4:20 pm

Hypoglossal Nerve Stimulation

Ryan Soose (Pennsylvania)

4:40 pm

Adult Sleep Surgery Panel

Derek Lam (United States of America), Richard Lewis (WA), Rachelle Love (Aotearoa New Zealand), Vikram Padhye (SA), Ryan Soose (Pennsylvania)

3:30 pm - 5:30 pm - 28 March 2025

CONCURRENT SESSION 2C: CLINICAL PEARLS: HOT TOPICS FOR BEST PRACTICE

Scientific Session - Default - Pyrmont Theatre

3:30 pm

Assessment, management and latest principles of extra-oesophageal reflux

Greg Falk (NSW)

3:46 pm

When to refer for sialendoscopy

Megan Hobson (NSW)

3:54 pm

Tonsil mass/cystic neck node initial assessment and management

Julia Crawford (NSW)

4:02 pm

Top tips for Muscle Tension Dysphonia

Georgina Harris (NSW)

4:10 pm

Paediatric sinusitis - diagnosis and treatment

Larry Kalish (NSW)

4:18 pm

Management of patients with Hereditary Haemorrhagic Telangiectasia at a quaternary care specialist clinic

Niridu Peiris (NSW)

4:26 pm

Menieres disease - diagnosis and management

Sean Flanagan (NSW)

4:34 pm

Pulsatile tinnitus- red flags assessment and imaging

Nadine de Alwis (VIC)

4:42 pm

Assessment of Croup

Claire Frauenfelder (QLD)

3:30 pm - 5:30 pm - 28 March 2025

CONCURRENT SESSION 2D: HEAD AND NECK AND RECONSTRUCTION

Scientific Session - Default - Meeting Room C2.5 - Meeting Room C2.6

3:30 pm

Current guidelines for Nasopharyngeal Screening and the role of EBV DNA

Velda Chow (Hong Kong)

3:42 pm

The changing landscape of thyroid nodule management

Ron Bova (NSW)

3:54 pm

Common local flaps in head and neck surgery

Roger Grigg (QLD)

4:06 pm

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma: clinicoepidemiology and treatment outcomes at a major Australian tertiary referral hospital

Leon Chen (New South Wales)

4:14 pm

Update on Head and Neck Radiology

Louise van Camp (NSW)

4:26 pm

Total Laryngectomy vs Chemoradiation for Transglottic Laryngeal Cancer: Survival Analysis and Pathological Study in an Australian Cohort

Kimiyasu Kondo (NSW)

4:34 pm

Role of Free Flap reconstruction in Head and Neck Surgery

Andrew Foreman (Australia)

4:46 pm

Ischemic Time does not increase complications in Microvascular Free Tissue Transfer. Is Heparin the key to attenuating Ischemia Reperfusion Injury?

Connor O'Meara (NSW)

4:54 pm

Salivary gland malignancy panel discussion

Leba Sarkis (NSW), Jenny Lee (NSW), Chris Milross (NSW), Louise van Camp (NSW), Scott Coman (QLD), Suren Krishnan (SA), Carsten Palme (NSW)

3:30 pm - 5:30 pm - 28 March 2025

CONCURRENT SESSION 2E: ENT PHYSICIANS

Scientific Session - Default - Meeting Room C2.4

3:30 pm

State of the Art: Medical Management of non-pulsatile tinnitus

Brian Williams (NSW)

4:00 pm

Vestibular Migraine: A summary of oral therapy in 520 consecutive patients

Ross Harrington (QLD)

4:15 pm

Cochlear Migraine

Brian Williams (NSW)

4:30 pm

Cochleo - Vestibular Migraine

Brian Williams (NSW)

4:45 pm

The man with the Golden Nose and Shakespeare’s Hamlet

Brian Williams (NSW)

3:30 pm - 5:38 pm - 28 March 2025

CONCURRENT SESSION 2F: FREE PAPERS

Scientific Session - Default - Meeting Room C3.4

3:30 pm

Acute Infectious Cervical Lymphadenitis - Can We Predict The Need For Surgical Drainage?

Aryan Kalra (Western Australia)

3:38 pm

Clinical Utility of Rigid Airway Endoscopy in diagnosing paediatric airway pathology

Alan Cheng (NSW)

3:46 pm

Towards precision in paediatric tracheomalacia assessment on rigid airway endoscopy: a three year retrospective analysis and literature review

Laura Lamprell (Queensland)

3:54 pm

Shining a Light on Paediatric Orbital Abscesses: A 20-Year Review of Surgical Management in a Tertiary Paediatric Hospital by ENT and Ophthalmology

Jacqueline Ho (NSW)

4:02 pm

Development of a convolutional neural network to classify laryngomalacia from endoscopic images in infants

Benjamin Worrall (NSW)

4:10 pm

Multidisciplinary Follow up for Oesophageal Atresia with Tracheoesophageal Fistula Patients

Annabel Noakes (Auckland)

4:18 pm

Too hot to handle – one-stage excision of infected pre-auricular sinuses in children

Olivia Nicholson (VIC)

4:26 pm

Expanding water-absorbing beads: a growing problem for the ENT Surgeon.

Samiha Arulshankar (VIC)

4:34 pm

Intracapsular tonsillectomy versus extracapsular tonsillectomy in children – a single surgeon’s 12-year experience.

Pei Yinn Toh (WA)

4:42 pm

Increased Prevalence of CFTR Mutations and Susceptibility to CRS: A Study in Chinese Children

Jinhao Zhao (Beijing)

4:50 pm

Improving Outcomes in FESS and Nasal Airway Surgery: A Scientific Approach

Narinder Singh (NSW)

4:58 pm

Tissue-Specific Spatial Profiling Between Respiratory Epithelial Adenomatoid Hamartoma and Inflammatory Polyps

Emma Zou (NSW), Hangxi Zou (NSW)

5:06 pm

Re-designing the saline rinse squeeze bottle and technique to optimise sinus lavage and topical medication distribution

Narinder Singh (NSW)

5:14 pm

Defining Microbial Dysbiosis in Chronic Rhinosinusitis

Isabella Burdon (South Australia)

5:22 pm

Factors affecting the success of Sphenopalatine Artery Ligation in the management of intractable epistaxis - a single centred retrospective analysis

Joseph Latif (NSW)

5:30 pm

Fungal Sensing by Airway Progenitor Cells Promotes Secretory Cell Differentiation at the Expense of Ciliated Cells

Anita Kral (SA)

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