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There will be over nine (9) hours of educational programming each day. The full education and professionally developed program is focused on all facets of ENT surgery with the objective of providing the best possible outcomes for patients.

A typical forum program day will start with breakfast sessions followed by keynote presentations, panel sessions, free paper presentations, case studies and cutting-edge technique presentations and interactive workshops each day.

Please note: Flights from Australia and New Zealand arrive in Fiji mid/late afternoon. Accordingly you need to make travel and accommodation bookings for the day before the opening of the conference.

Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Full Program

Sunday 13th August, 2023

9:00am - 10:00am

Workshop 1

Quality and Innovation

Evolving Surgical Education: Advanced Platforms and Future Directions - Gresham Richter

Device development - from mind to market - Deepak Mehta

Recognising and overcoming racial and language healthcare inequities - Sanjay Parikh

AAFPS Symposium

Australasian Academy of Facial Plastic Surgery

South Pacific Legacy Program

Local cases for discussion

10:00am - 10:30am

Morning Tea

10:30am - 12:00pm

Workshop 2

Aerodigestive

ENT assessment of the complex paediatric airway - Niall Jefferson

Airway and swallowing in CHARGE syndrome - Catherine Hart

Management of laryngeal cleft: from medical to surgical intervention - Reza Rahbar

Surgical options in management of tracheomalacia - CJ Smithers

Oesophageal stricture - Mike Wilsey

Diagnosis and management of peristomal collapse at the tracheostomy site - Doug Sidell

Paediatric Allergy - Terri Brown Whitehorn

AAFPS Symposium

Australasian Academy of Facial Plastic Surgery

South Pacific Legacy Program

Lectures

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Lunch

1:00pm - 2:30pm

Workshop 3

TBC

AAFPS Symposium

Australasian Academy of Facial Plastic Surgery

Moderator:
Room:

South Pacific Legacy Program

Skills session

Hands on for South Pacific surgeons

2:30pm - 3:00pm

Afternoon Tea

3:00pm - 4:00pm

ANZSPO AGM

AAFPS AGM

South Pacific Legacy Program

Skills session continued

Hands on for South Pacific surgeons

5:00pm - 7:00pm

Welcome Reception

Monday 14th August, 2023

6:00am - 5:00pm

Registration

8:00am - 10:00am

Opening Session | Plenary 1

Moderator: Murali Mahadevan

Convenors Welcome
Shyan Vijayasekaran

Welcome to Country and overview of ENT in Fiji
Fane Lord

Keynote Speaker - Current adenotonsillectomy guidelines
Stacey Ishman

Keynote Speaker - Head and neck cancer management in the resource limited setting
Iain Nixon

Keynote Speaker - Biologicals, trials and experience with real life
Wytkse Fokkens

10:00am - 10:30am

Morning Tea and Exhibition

10:30am - 12:30pm

Plenary Session 2

Moderator:
Room:

Keynote Speaker - OSA and healthcare disparities
Tucker Woodson

Keynote Speaker - Swimming Upstream: The search for novel epithelial drivers of inflammation in Chronic Rhinosinusitis
Benjamin Bleier

Keynote Speaker - Vascular anomalies - begin with the end in mind
Gresham Richter

Keynote Speaker - RACS Pacific Health Strategy
Mr Kiki Maoate

12:30pm - 1:30pm

Lunch and Exhibition

1:30pm - 3:00pm

Concurrent Session 1

Adult Sleep

Moderator:
Room:

Rachelle Love - How to set up a sleep service in NZ

Concurrent Session 2

Sinonasal Tumours

Presentation
Ed Kuan

Free paper

Presentation
Sammy Khalili

Free paper

PANEL: Instructional

Concurrent Session 3

Paediatric Otology

Moderator:
Room:

Genetic testing for paediatric sensorineural hearing loss - Karen Liddle

Screening for congenital CMV infection - Valerie Sung

Pearls and pitalls for microtia reconstruction - Tania Kraai

CLiKX - A novel automated robotic handheld applicator for insertion of tympanostomy tubes - Lynne Lim

OSIA implants in syndromic children - Andrew Chang

PANEL:

3:00pm - 3:30pm

Afternoon Tea and Exhibition

3:30pm - 5:00pm

Concurrent Session 4

Workforce and Training

ENTrain

Paul Joice

Johnny Wu or Andy Wood

PJ Paumuina

Campbell Baguley

Concurrent Session 5

Non-invasive therapies/treatments for rhinitis and nasal obstruction

Presentation
Non-allergic rhinitis - Simon Carney

Free Paper

Presentation

Free Paper

Free Paper

PANEL:

Concurrent Session 6

Paediatric Rhinology

Moderator: Raymond Kim

Beyond FESS: endoscopic paediatric skull base surgery - Alessandro de Alaron

Choanal atresia - the Malaysian experience - Shamina Moses

Pediatric Septoplasty: Open versus Endoscopic approach - Tulio Valdez

Management of Complications of Acute Sinusitis in the Paediatric Population - Catherine Banks

5:00pm - 6:00pm

AGM NZSOHNS

ANZRS AGM

7:00pm

Presidents Dinner (invitation only)

Tuesday 15th August, 2023

6:00am - 5:00pm

Registration

7:00am - 8:00am

Breakfast Session 1

Otology Surgical Techniques and Round Table
Moderator:

Michel Neeff - The OSIA surgical technique and preliminary results

Melanie Souter - BAHA and Bonebridge Round Table Otology Session

Phil Bird

Steve Toynton

Rebecca Garland

Breakfast Session 2

Persistent OSA

Paediatric - Stacey Ishman

Adult - Tucker Woodson

Breakfast Session 3

MBS coding update

8:00am - 11:00am

Plenary Session 3

James Hardy Neil Memorial Lecture
Nick McIvor

Keynote Speaker - Global Vision: The international maturation of endoscopic orbital surgery
Benjamin Bleier

Keynote Speaker - Training in Otological Surgery - Jack of all Trades and Master of none
Shakeel Saeed

Keynote Speaker - Less invasive thyroid surgery
Iain Nixon

Keynote Speaker - Rhinology and the environment
Wytske Fokkens

11:00am - 11:15am

Morning Tea and Exhibition

11:30am - 5:30pm

NZSOHNS Conservation Activity

Networking Island Excursion

7:00pm

Gala Dinner

Wednesday 16th August, 2023

6:00am - 1:00pm

Registration

7:00am - 8:00am

Breakfast Session 4

Breakfast Session 5

Paediatric salivary disease

Soham Roy

(Ed Toll, Haytham Kubba)

Breakfast Session 6

Exoscope vs Endoscope vs Microscope

8:00am - 10:00am

Concurrent Session 7

Otology

Moderator: Rebecca Garland

Vestibular Update - Justine Bradley

Superior semicircular canal dehiscence syndrome - diagnosis and management from over 100 surgical cases - Shakeel Saeed

Microbiome of CSOM - Michel Neeff

Phil Bird - Topic TBA

Free paper

Free paper

Panel

Concurrent Session 8

The septum and the nasal airway

Free paper

Presentation
Management of septal perforations - Richard Harvey

Free paper

Presentation
Paediatric inferior turbinate surgery - Larry Khalish

Free paper

Presentation

Free paper

PANEL:

Concurrent Session 9

Paediatric Airway

Sustainable concepts in managing laryngomalacia - Gresham Richter

Endoscopic posterior cricoid split with rib graft - Vikash Modi

Airway experience in Singapore - Annabelle Tay Sok Yan

Bronchial reconstruction and stenting for acquired stenosis - Kathrik Balakrishnan

Paediatric Voice topic TBC - Scott Rickert

Hi-flow paediatric anaesthesia - Susan Humphries

Exercise induced laryngeal obstruction - Kaalan Johnson

Pierre Robin - Clare Richardson

Paediatric tracheostomy - Ozan Gokler

10:00am - 10:30am

Morning Tea and Exhibition

10:30am - 12:00pm

Concurrent Session 10

New therapies in head and neck

Moderator: Stuart Burrows
Room:

Iain Nixon

Nick McIvor

PANEL:

Concurrent Session 11

Topical therapies in rhinology: beyond corticosteroid irrigations

Free paper

Presentation
Phage therapy in rhinology - Alkis Psaltis

Free paper

Presentation

Free paper

PANEL:

Concurrent Session 12

Paediatric Head and Neck

Vascular and Aesthetic Lasers in Pediatric Otolargyngology - Gresham Richter

Midline neck lumps - Haytham Kubba

Head and neck tumours with free flaps in children - Steven Goudy

Paediatric thyroid/endocine - Liane Johnson

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Lunch and Exhibition

1:00pm - 3:00pm

Concurrent Session 13

Rural and Pacific General ENT

Rhinology for the generalist - Richard Douglas

Otology for the generalist - Paul Joice

Dizziness for the generalist - Juliet Meldrum

Sleep surgery for the generalist - Rachelle Love

Concurrent Session 14

Emerging therapies in rhinology: biologics, AI and others

Free paper

Presentation

Free paper

Presentation

Free paper

Presentation

PANEL: Wytske Fokkens, Dana Crosby, Ben Bleier

Concurrent Session 15

Paediatric Sleep

PATS study update - Stacey Ishman

Novel approaches to diagnosis and management of OSA in children with Down syndrome - Jasneek Chawla

Respiratory complications of adenotonsillectomy - Ed Toll

3:00pm - 3:30pm

Afternoon Tea

3:30pm - 5:00pm

Plenary Session 5

Keynote Speaker -
Tucker Woodson

How research has influenced my clinical practice
Richard Douglas

Keynote Speaker - Vestibular Schwannoma management in the 21st century
Shakeel Saeed

Paediatric ENT - Pushing the Envelope
Mike Rutter

Awards and Conference Close
Shyan Vijayasekeran

Sponsors

13-16 August 2023
The Denarau Convention Center, Fiji

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