ASOHNS ASM 2025

7:00 am - 8:30 am - 29 March 2025

BREAKFAST SESSION: THE ROLE OF EMERGING TECHNOLOGY IN HEAD AND NECK SURGERY

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

7:00 am

Point of care 3D printing in head and neck reconstructive surgery

Masako Dunn (NSW)

7:10 am

Advances in Virtual Surgical Planning for Jaw Reconstruction

Jonathan Clark (NSW)

7:30 am

Advancing technologies and prosthodontic rehabilitation in a head and neck team

Dale Howes (NSW)

7:50 am

Subperiosteal implant in prosthetic reconstruction

Tsu-Hui (Hubert) Low (NSW)

8:00 am

The role of 3D scanning in Virtual Surgical and Prosthetic Planning for Facial Prosthetic Reconstruction

Sophie Fleming (NSW)

8:20 am

Applications of virtual reality in head and neck surgery

Tim Manzie (NSW)

7:15 am - 8:30 am - 29 March 2025

BREAKFAST SESSION: PEARLS AND OTHER GEMS OF LARYNGOLOGY

Breakfast Session - Default - Meeting Room C3.4

7:15 am

Red flags in laryngology

Sarah Emmett (QLD)

7:30 am

Inducible Laryngeal Obstruction and its management

Theo Athanasiadis (SA)

7:45 am

An ENT approach to dysphagia

Anthony Rotman (VIC)

8:00 am

Retrograde cricopharyngeal dysfunction

Daniel Novakovic (NSW)

8:15 am

Gold laser for endoscopic cricopharyngeal myotomy

Brian Yeom (Auckland)

8:22 am

Improving Dysphagia Detection: Routine Swallowing Screening for Older Adults on Admission to hospital

Bena Law (Auckland)

7:30 am - 8:30 am - 29 March 2025

BREAKFAST SESSION: NASAL VALVE DYSFUNCTION; SIMPLE SOLUTIONS TO THE COMPLEX

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

7:30 am

Introduction

Sim Choroomi (NSW)

7:35 am

Nasal Obstruction - Beyond the Septum and Turbinates

Catherine Meller (Nsw)

7:47 am

Investigation and management of nasal valve dysfunction

Richard Harvey (NSW)

7:59 am

Nasal Valve Tensioning versus Crural Strut Grafts in the Management of Nasal Valve Dysfunction

Kaitong Liang (NSW)

8:07 am

My Experience with the Latera Device

Yuresh Naidoo (NSW)

8:19 am

Questions

8:30 am - 10:00 am - 29 March 2025

PLENARY 3

Scientific Session - Default - Pyrmont Theatre

8:30 am

Innovations in otolaryngology and rhinology future directions and transorbital work

Darlene Lubbe (South Africa)

9:00 am

“Invisible” barriers to selection and a diverse workplace

Ian Incoll (NSW)

9:30 am

Why don’t cochlear implants work better and is there anything we can do about it?

Manohar Bance (United Kingdom (Great Britain))

10:00 am - 10:30 am - 29 March 2025

MORNING TEA WITH INDUSTRY

Catering - Default - The Gallery

10:30 am - 12:30 pm - 29 March 2025

PLENARY 4

Scientific Session - Default - Pyrmont Theatre

10:30 am

Contemporary Facial Reanimation

Babak Azizzadeh (United States of America)

11:00 am

Shifting paradigm in the management of pharyngo-esophageal tumours

Velda Chow (Hong Kong)

11:30 am

ASOHNS President’s lecture: GO Foundation

Charlene Davison (NSW)

12:00 pm

Diversity, equity and inclusion in ENT update

Alethea Grobler (South Australia)

12:15 pm

Board Chair update

Andrew Foreman (SA)

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm - 29 March 2025

LUNCH WITH INDUSTRY

Catering - Default - The Gallery

12:45 pm - 1:15 pm - 29 March 2025

SMITH +NEPHEW LUNCH SYMPOSIUM: THE IMPACT OF COBLATION INTRACAPSULAR TECHNIQUE ON NEW ZEALAND PUBLIC HEALTH

Scientific Session - Default - Pyrmont Theatre

12:45 pm

The Impact of Coblation Intracapsular Technique on New Zealand Public Health – Insights from a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Edward Toll (Aotearoa New Zealand)

12:55 pm

Discussion

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm - 29 March 2025

CONCURRENT SESSION 3A: LARYNGOLOGY

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

1:30 pm

Contemporary Management of Laryngeal Trauma and penetrating neck injuries

Amanda Richards (VIC)

1:45 pm

Airway Reconstruction

Elizabeth Hodge (QLD)

2:00 pm

Nanofat – a new take on an old trick

Paul Paddle (VIC)

2:15 pm

Supraglottic laryngeal injections – whats new?

Thomas Stewart (NSW)

2:30 pm

Superior laryngeal nerve block for neurogenic cough: a two-year, single-center experience

Richard Tjahjono (NSW)

2:38 pm

Serial Adjuvant In-office Steroid Injection for Subglottic Stenosis: Effect on surgery-free interval in 80 patients

Jennifer Anderson (Ontario)

2:46 pm

Laryngeal cryptococcosis: a case series and literature review of this rare cause of hoarseness

Benjamin Worrall (NSW)

2:54 pm

Discussion

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm - 29 March 2025

CONCURRENT SESSION 3B: FACIAL PLASTICS AND RHINOPLASTY

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

1:30 pm

Contemporary management of the nasal tip

George Marcells (NSW)

1:45 pm

Straightening the crooked nose

Sim Choroomi (NSW)

1:55 pm

Managing the Underprojected nose

Kien Ha (SA)

2:05 pm

Optimising outcomes in Nasal Reconstruction

Stephen Park (United States of America)

2:20 pm

From good to great rhinoplasty results; tips for surgeons

Babak Azizzadeh (United States of America)

2:35 pm

Panel; Ask the experts - Post operative management in nasal surgery

George Marcells (NSW), Stephen Park (United States of America), Babak Azizzadeh (United States of America), Catherine Meller (Nsw)

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm - 29 March 2025

CONCURRENT SESSION 3C: OTOLOGY AND SKULL BASE

Scientific Session - Default - Pyrmont Theatre

1:30 pm

Cochlear MRI Signal and Hearing Outcomes in Vestibular Schwannoma Patients

Timothy Matthews (NSW)

1:45 pm

Cochlear Implant Outcomes Associated with the Treatment of Vestibular Schwannoma

Amshuman Rao (NSW)

1:53 pm

Stylojugular syndrome, intracranial hypertension and CSF leaks

Michael Elliot (NSW)

2:08 pm

Insights in the immune response and genetic underpinnings of Meniere disease

Jose Antonio Lopez-Escamez (NSW)

2:23 pm

Outreach Otology Services in Northern Canada

Brian Westerberg (Canada)

2:38 pm

Round Table Questions

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm - 29 March 2025

CONCURRENT SESSION 3D: RURAL ENT

Scientific Session - Default - Meeting Room C3.4

1:30 pm

Rural surgery: What it is, why we need it and lessons from General Surgery

Hugh Lukins (NSW)

1:40 pm

Accessing care on country: Why it matters

Kelvin Kong (NSW)

1:50 pm

The economic impact of a rural surgeon

Bridget Clancy (VIC)

2:00 pm

Rural workforce challenges: The current picture and the path forward

Fiona Davies (NSW)

2:10 pm

Improving access to care for Rural patients with head and neck Cancer

Rebecca Venchiarutti (NSW)

2:20 pm

Development of a rural training post and its implications for workforce development

Natalie Rainger (NSW)

2:30 pm

Expanding the model for regional outpatient surgical management of keratinocyte cancers of the head and neck; costs and outcomes.

Zachary Wilson (QLD)

2:38 pm

Presentation and Management of Acute Otitis Externa in a Rural Emergency Department: A Retrospective Cohort Study

Nicholas Schnitzler (New South Wales)

2:46 pm

Panel Discussion

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm - 29 March 2025

CONCURRENT SESSION 3E: FREE PAPERS

Scientific Session - Default - Meeting Room C2.4

1:30 pm

Simultaneous Bilateral Cochlear Implantation for Children: An Effective and Cost-saving Intervention in an Australian State-wide Service

Claire Iseli (Victoria)

1:38 pm

Technique and Efficacy of Sialendoscopy in the Management of Recurrent Sialadenitis: the Melbourne Experience

Seraphina Tze Manne KEY (VIC)

1:46 pm

Do paediatric patients need ENT follow up after grommets? An alternative cost effective model of care

Sophie Dunmall (SA)

1:54 pm

Are AI-Generated ENT Outpatient Letters Any Good? Using a Large Language Model and Validated Tool to Assess Letter Quality

Jared Panario (VIC)

2:02 pm

Microbiology of mastoiditis: a review

Jia Hui Lim (Hamilton)

2:10 pm

A Review of Submandibular Gland Extirpation in an Australian Quaternary Referral Centre: Aetiologies and Trends over 35 years

Aki Flame (NSW)

2:18 pm

Risk of malignancy in incidental oropharyngeal lesions exhibiting fluorodeoxyglucose uptake which proceed to tissue biopsy

Seraphina Tze Manne KEY (VIC)

2:26 pm

Identification of the lingual artery in neck dissection and transoral surgery for oropharyngeal tumours

Samuel Sharp (VIC)

2:34 pm

Is TORS useful as a salvage technique in head and neck cancers: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Sahil Goel (SA)

2:42 pm

Down Under BRP: Friedman 3 No Longer a Barrier for Surgical Success.

Mylestone Monna (VIC)

2:50 pm

How we do it – Trans-Palatal Advancement for Severe Obstructive Sleep Apnoea: From patient selection, surgical planning and step by step instructions

Adil Lathif (NSW)

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm - 29 March 2025

AFTERNOON TEA WITH INDUSTRY

Catering - Default - The Gallery

3:30 pm - 5:30 pm - 29 March 2025

CONCURRENT SESSION 4A: PAEDIATRICS

Scientific Session - Default - Meeting Room C3.4

3:30 pm

Current Research in Paediatric Sleep Surgery - Implications for Practice

Derek Lam (United States of America)

4:00 pm

Management of Tracheomalacia

Alan Cheng (NSW)

4:30 pm

Training for CICO in the Paediatric Airway: A Novel Training Model

Cliff Reid (NSW)

4:45 pm

Paediatric Academic Bowl - Game Show Host

Eric Levi (Victoria)

3:30 pm - 5:30 pm - 29 March 2025

CONCURRENT SESSION 4B: RHINOLOGY AND ANTERIOR SKULL BASE

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

3:30 pm

Panel 1 Inflammatory and Nasal Airway Cases – Everyday decisions

Olivia Ruskin (VIC), Harshita Pant (SA), Dakshika Gunaratne (NSW), Lauren Cooper, Narinder Singh (NSW), Larry Kalish (NSW)

4:10 pm

A study of the association between the carrying of mutations in the PCD gene and the development of CRSwNP in children

Xiaoxu Chen (China)

4:18 pm

Relationship Between Sleep and Nasal Airway Resistance in Patients Presenting to a Tertiary Rhinology Clinic

Liam Grouse (NSW)

4:26 pm

The effect of systemic bevacizumab on epistaxis-related outcomes in hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Anna Symons (VIC)

4:34 pm

A phase 1 research trial to evaluate the effectiveness of intranasal Botulinum Toxin Type A Spray for patients with Rhinitis

James Bates (Oxfordshire)

4:42 pm

Panel 2 Skull Base Cases and Controversy

Rahuram Sivasubramaniam (NSW), Eng Ooi (SA), Raewyn Campbell (NSW), Raymond Kim (Aotearoa New Zealand), Claudio Callejas (Chile), Lauren Cooper

3:30 pm - 5:30 pm - 29 March 2025

CONCURRENT SESSION 4C: FACIAL PLASTICS AND FACIAL NERVE REANIMATION

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

3:30 pm

The Deep Plane in Facial Surgery

George Marcells (NSW)

3:40 pm

Safety in Facial surgery

Babak Azizzadeh (United States of America)

3:50 pm

Recognising and Managing Synkinesis

Babak Azizzadeh (United States of America)

4:10 pm

Managing facial complications after surgery of the head and neck

Ryan Winters (NSW)

4:18 pm

Evidence based management of scarring in the head and neck

Emma Ho (NSW)

4:26 pm

A new understanding in marginal mandibular nerve palsy (the books have it wrong!)

Catherine Meller (Nsw)

4:34 pm

Approaches to managing the ptotic brow

Zenia Chow (VIC)

4:42 pm

Algorithms for Managing Acute Iatrogenic and Traumatic facial palsy

Hannah North (NSW)

4:50 pm

Otoplasty-The Legendary Tony Bull's technique.

Gillian Dunlop (NSW)

3:30 pm - 5:30 pm - 29 March 2025

CONCURRENT SESSION 4D: MASTERCLASS: NAVIGATING FAULTS AND ACHIEVING EXCELLENCE IN SURGERY

Scientific Session - Default - Pyrmont Theatre

3:30 pm

Leading a team to perform effectively

Pecky De Silva (NSW)

3:47 pm

Making your practice/clinic a culturally safe space

Allen Stanley (NSW)

3:59 pm

Training Surgeons from Neophyte to Expert – The Impact of Allostatic Load

Guy Rees (South Australia)

4:11 pm

Carbon Emission and Plastic Waste Audit in Adenotonsillectomy and Grommet Surgery

Madison Boot (New South Wales)

4:21 pm

Treading lightly- reducing your carbon footprint at work

4:38 pm

What I would tell my younger self

Raymond Sacks (NSW)

3:30 pm - 5:38 pm - 29 March 2025

CONCURRENT SESSION 4E: FREE PAPERS

Scientific Session - Default - Meeting Room C2.4

3:30 pm

Changes in airflow during DISE in OSA patients undergoing a novel ultrasound-guided neurostimulation of ansa cervicalis and hypoglossal

Eng Ooi (SA)

3:38 pm

Contralateral Neck Recurrence in Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma: Identifying Indications for Bilateral Neck Treatment in cN0 Contralateral Neck

Jacinta Lin (NSW)

3:46 pm

Local Anaesthetic Head and Neck Cancer Diagnostics; Is Panendoscopy Obsolete?

Dan Leopard (United Kingdom (Great Britain))

3:54 pm

Diagnostic value of FNA in evaluating parotid masses and factors influencing it - a single centre experience

Jia Hui Lim (Hamilton)

4:02 pm

Worst Pattern of Invasion as a predictor of patient outcomes for early-stage oral cavity SCC in Queensland

Sahil Chopra (QLD)

4:10 pm

A systematic review and meta-analysis on the distribution of nodal metastasis based on levels of neck dissections and T stage of maxillary sinus cancers

Gabriel Osie (NSW)

4:18 pm

Value of Bronchoscopy in Diagnosis of Second Primary Lung Cancer in Head and Neck Cancer Patients; A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Jennifer Chen (QLD)

4:26 pm

Transoral Robotic Surgery Protocols and associated outcomes for oropharyngeal carcinoma in the elderly

Alexandra Murray (NSW)

4:34 pm

Unlocking eosinophils to modulate anti-tumour immunity in head and neck cancer

Carly Whyte (SA)

4:42 pm

Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) protocols in Head and Neck Reconstructive Surgery: A four year analysis

Jonathan Daniel (SA)

4:50 pm

Cochlear implant outcomes in the elderly

Catherine Birman OAM (NSW)

4:58 pm

A novel technique for human perilymph sampling, and characterising the human cochlea microRNA transcriptome

William Shute (VIC)

5:06 pm

Beyond AHI Reduction: Exploring the Relationship Between Mean Disease Alleviation and Symptom Improvement in OSA

Blake Lindsay (NSW)

5:14 pm

Vocal fold paresis: Which clinical signs are important?

Rhea Darbari Kaul (NSW)

5:22 pm

Enhancing Efficiency in Clinical Documentation: A Study on the Adoption and Clinician Experience of AI-Scribes

Ayden Tchernegovski (VIC)

5:30 pm

Review of the Novel Use of Endotracheal Tubes as Stents in Laryngotracheal Reconstruction: A Case Series

Mark Laidlaw (Vic)

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