Presidential addresses and maintaining clinical excellence

Join us in the first ENT event of the academic year for a day full of academic lectures on the latest, most relevant topics and the annual Presidential address, organised by both the Otology and the Laryngology & Rhinology Sections. These meetings offer the perfect opportunity for networking with colleagues and renowned speakers. Lunch is included when booking the morning and afternoon meetings.

Morning meeting

Patrick Axon will deliver the Section of Otology Presidential address – “Developing and maintaining clinical excellence - the impact of mentors, learned experience and team diversity”.  Patrick will describe his personal experiences that have led to his current position in Cambridge. The incredible benefits that working within a diverse team has brought to him personally and to the patients under his care. He will describe the unexpected twists and turns that have led to a practice full of niche services and collaborations that increasingly centre on managing rare and complex multisystem pathology.

Professor Ronald Penning, Director of ENT at Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen will deliver the Edith Whetnall Lecture. Ronald is regarded as one of the pre-eminent otologists in Europe, becoming Director of the World’s most renowned otology units early in his distinguished career. He will describe the major advances in chronic middle ear disease and sensorineural hearing loss management that have maintained Nijmegen at the forefront of European Otology for over 40 years. He will give a unique perspective on the importance of maintaining clinical excellence working within a group of like-minded otologists. 

After the break, a panel discussion will follow, asking leading otologists what tips and tricks they use to prevent common post-operative middle ear complications. Neil Donnelly will moderate the session, pulling on his extensive experience of manging the follow-up of 1000s of patients undergoing complex middle ear surgery. The discussion hopes to tease out why patients describe persistent difficulty despite having what a surgeon would regard as successful surgery and what we can do to further improve patient related outcome  

Finally, there will be time for something completely different. Professor Peter Hutchinson is Professor of neurosurgery, NIHR senior investigator and Head of the Division of Academic Neurosurgery, University of Cambridge. He is also director of clinical research at the Royal College of Surgeons of England and President of the Society of British Neurological Surgeons. He has co-authored over 750 publications and has been the lead applicant on over £25m of grants mainly focused on acute brain injury. His experience, however, as Chief Medical Officer for Formula One is the reason for his invitation to speak to us.  He will describe the incredible risks F1 drivers took in the early days of the sport and the realisation that accepting numerous deaths each year because of devastating brain injury was unacceptable. He will describe the types of injury high impact trauma causes and the key advances in the sport that have led to a remarkable improvement in driver safety.  

Afternoon meeting

Michelle Wyatt will deliver the Section of Laryngology and Rhinology Presidential address – “All Change in Paediatric ENT”. Paediatrics was not considered a subspecialty in its own right until relatively recently in the history of the Royal Society of Medicine. Michelle will look back on how it has evolved and developed over her career. She will take the opportunity to present some of the latest treatments and hope to demonstrate the very unique aspects and privileges there are present in delivering healthcare to children.

Joe Manjaly Consultant Otologist, Auditory Implant and ENT surgeon at University College Hospital will follow on with a talk on ‘Intergenerational Learning in Surgery’. It is well recognised that our trainees are at times unhappy with the world they work in as recent industrial action has shown. Seniors may find it hard to understand their situation as so many historical issues (working hours, lack of diversity) have improved. This session will hopefully allow both sides to appreciate the other a little better and look at possible actions for the future to maintain a contented and thriving workforce across all ages and maintain clinical excellence. 

After coffee there will be the first of a series of ‘Update’ sessions. Our section covers a huge swathe of ENT practice – Head and Neck surgery, Laryngology, Rhinology and Paediatrics. There will be dedicated time in each meeting this year for experts in their field to update the audience with some of the latest advances in their sub - specialty. The programme will start with Head and Neck surgery.

The session will finish with the long established and esteemed Semon Lecture delivered by Prof Jarrod Homer from Manchester University and Manchester Royal Infirmary speaking on how to improve head and neck cancer surgery outcomes.

By attending this event, you will learn:

• The key surgical advances that have shaped European otology 
• The key middle-ear surgical techniques that sustain good long-term outcomes  
• The benefits of teamwork and having a plan 
• How to achieve and maintain ‘excellence’ in otology 
• How paediatric ENT has evolved over time 
• How to engage with surgeons of all ages to improve the care we provide 
• The latest updates in Head and Neck Surgery 

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The Laryngology, Rhinology and Otology Sections would like to thank our Annual Sponsors B.Braun Medical Ltd, DP Medical Systems LTD, Medtronic and Soluvos Medical for their valued support of the 2024 to 2025 Academic Programme. We would also like to thank our sponsors Guymark UK Ltd, KARL STORZ Endoscopy (UK) Ltd, Minim Healthcare Ltd and NSK United Kingdom Ltd for supporting this meeting.
Please note that none of the companies listed has had any influence or involvement over the agenda, content or organisation of this meeting.