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25 – 27 October 2022

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Day 1
10 October 2021
Day 2
11 October 2021
Day 3
12 October 2021

Session 1: Cholesteatoma, Mastoidectomy, Tympanoplasty
Lecture 1: Avoiding Surgical Complications in Otological Surgeries

Ashkan Monfared | Professor of Surgery and Neurosurgery

Ashkan
Ashkan Monfared
Professor of Surgery and Neurosurgery | USA

Ashkan Monfared, MD is professor of Surgery and Neurosurgery at the George Washington School of Medicine & Health Sciences. He was recruited from Stanford University over ten years ago to serve as the Director of Otology, Neurotology, and Skullbase Surgery. Dr. Monfared completed his medical training, residency and fellowship at Stanford University Medical Center. He has had the distinct honor of serving at the Veteran Administration Hospital and the Walter Reed National Medical Center. As a researcher in the areas of acoustic neuromas, he has authored several peer-reviewed scientific papers and book chapters. He is the principal investigator of a multi-center prospective study on large acoustic neuromas (vestibular schwannomas) known as Acoustic Neuroma Subtotal Resection Study (ANSRS). His current research interests beside acoustic neuromas include otologic simulators, hearing loss due to sickle cell anemia, intracranial hypertension, and resident education. Dr. Monfared established the GW Comprehensive Hearing Center, which is one of the only adult cochlear implant programs in the Metro DC area. Since 2004 Dr. Monfared has been active in international humanitarian medical missions. He is on the board of directors of Global ENT Outreach, a non-profit humanitarian organization providing assistance and education with otologic surgeries in many developing countries. He has served in Ethiopia, El Salvador, Belize, Peru, and the American Samoa. Dr. Monfared is a trained classical pianist and fluent in Persian.

Sessions by this speaker
Saturday, 2021-10-09
Temporal Bone Direction Course

  08:00 - 18:00

Lectures by this speaker
Sunday, 2021-10-10
Lecture 1: Avoiding Surgical Complications in Otological Surgeries

  08:30 - 09:00

Tuesday, 2021-10-12
Lecture 3: Latest Development in Surgical Education and Simulation

  09:30 - 10:00

Tuesday, 2021-10-12
Lecture 1: Temporal bone radiology - basic

  16:45 - 17:15

Tuesday, 2021-10-12
Lecture 2: Temporal bone radiology - Advance

  17:15 - 18:15

  08:30 - 09:00

Lecture 2: Management Of Petrous Bone Cholesteatoma

Khassan Diab | Professor of the Department of Otolaryngology, Faculty of Postgraduate education, Pirogov Russian

Khassan
Khassan Diab
Professor of the Department of Otolaryngology, Faculty of Postgraduate education, Pirogov Russian | Russia

Diab Khassan Mohamad Ali was born in 1973. In 1990 he graduated the school college Notre Dame de Paris in Lebanon. In 1999 he graduated from the medical care faculty of Rostov State Medical University. From 1999 till 2003 he studied as a resident on the ENT department of the same university and in St. Petersburg research Institute of Ear, Nose, Throat and Speech. After finishing the residency in 2003 Khassan Diab was admitted to the 2-year fellowship from which he graduated having passed a PhD thesis defense on the topic «Unsatisfactory results of stapedoplasty and ways of their correction».

Lectures by this speaker
Sunday, 2021-10-10
Lecture 2: Management Of Petrous Bone Cholesteatoma

  09:00 - 09:30

Monday, 2021-10-11
Lecture 1: Results Of Facial Nerve Reconstruction

  16:15 - 16:45

Tuesday, 2021-10-12
Lecture 5: Cochlear Implantation in Cases of Cochleovestibular Pathology

  12:00 - 12:15

Tuesday, 2021-10-12
Panel Discussion: Challenges In CI Surgeries

  16:00 - 16:30

  09:00 - 09:30

Lecture 3: My Journey in Cholesteatoma Surgery

Ahmad Alamadi | Consultant Otologist and Neurotologist & Medical Director

Ahmad
Ahmad Alamadi
Consultant Otologist and Neurotologist & Medical Director | United Arab Emirates

Dr Ahmad Alamadi graduated from Glasgow medical school in United Kingdom in 1993 he completed his training in Scotland by obtaining his Fellowship of royal college of surgeons of Glasgow in 1998. He followed his higher surgical training by doing a clinical neurotology fellowship program in Toronto University in Canada. Dr Alamadi is currently a consultant Otologist and Neurotologist and medical director at Al Baraha hospital in Dubai he is also a clinical Associate Professor at Sharjah University. His expertise lies in Otological surgeries and management of dizzy patients.

Sessions by this speaker
Saturday, 2021-10-09
Temporal Bone Direction Course

  08:00 - 18:00

Friday, 2021-10-08
FUNCTIONAL ENDOSCOPIC SINUS SURGERY (FESS)

  08:00 - 13:30

Friday, 2021-10-08
RHINOPLASTY

  13:30 - 18:30

Lectures by this speaker
Sunday, 2021-10-10
Lecture 3: My Journey in Cholesteatoma Surgery

  09:30 - 09:45

Sunday, 2021-10-10
Lecture 4: What Lessons I Have Learned Over the Years with My Stapes Surgeries

  16:45 - 17:00

Monday, 2021-10-11
Lecture 2: Management Of Hyperacusis

  14:45 - 15:15

  09:30 - 09:45

Lecture 4: Step By Step Inside Out Mastoidectomy

Anjum Naveed | Senior consultant

Anjum
Anjum Naveed
Senior consultant | Pakistan

Dr Anjum Naveed MBBS(Dow) DLO, MCPS, FRCS(Ed) Senior consultant ENT department The Indus Hospital Karachi Pakistan

Lectures by this speaker
Sunday, 2021-10-10
Lecture 4: Step By Step Inside Out Mastoidectomy

  09:45 - 10:00

  09:45 - 10:00

Lecture 5: Mastoid Obliteration in The Surgery Of Cholesteatoma

Hadjer ROUABHIA-SAIDIA | Doctor of ORL

Hadjer
Hadjer ROUABHIA-SAIDIA
Doctor of ORL | Algeria

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Lectures by this speaker
Sunday, 2021-10-10
Lecture 5: Mastoid Obliteration in The Surgery Of Cholesteatoma

  10:00 - 10:15

Sunday, 2021-10-10
Lecture 10: Lateral Semicircular Duct Fistula Secondary to Cholesteatoma

  12:30 - 12:45

Sunday, 2021-10-10
Lecture 11: Detection Of Residual Cholesteatoma by Diffusion MRI

  12:45 - 13:00

  10:00 - 10:15

Lecture 6: Canal Wall Up Vs Canal Wall Down Vs Endoscopic Ear Surgery

Asad Qayyum | Consultant Ear, Nose, Throat & Head and Neck Surgeon.

Asad
Asad Qayyum
Consultant Ear, Nose, Throat & Head and Neck Surgeon. | United Kingdom

Dr Asad Qayyum is working as a consultant ENT Surgeon practicing in the Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom. He has a specialist interest in Otology, Balance and Paediatric ENT problems. Mr Asad is Clinical Director for the Head and Neck Services and also the Training Program Director for the ENT Trainees in the Cambridgeshire region. Asad has been the International Otology Fellow at the Royal Darwin Hospital in Australia and completed a second fellowship in Otology and Ear Implant Unit at the Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge. Asad has been involved with the research of Genetics of Early onset hearing loss at the Sanger Genome Institute at Cambridge. His current research interest involves managing prevention of retraction pockets of tympanic membrane using a combination of endoscopic approach and Eustachian tuboplasty. Asad is also a course director for cadaveric ENT, Head and Neck courses, that he has set up in collaboration with the Anglia Ruskin University in the United Kingdom. Asad has extensive Otological experience in Endoscopic Ear Surgery, Cholesteatoma Surgery, Stapes Surgery and managing patients with vertigo and balance problems both in adult and paediatric population. Asad has more than 70 publications including text book chapters to his name. He has presented his work in South Africa, Switzerland, China, USA and the UK. Outside of work he is passionate about photography and restoring classic cars.

Lectures by this speaker
Sunday, 2021-10-10
Lecture 6: Canal Wall Up Vs Canal Wall Down Vs Endoscopic Ear Surgery

  10:15 - 10:45

Sunday, 2021-10-10
Lecture 3: How To Avoid Complication in Stapes Surgery

  16:30 - 16:45

Sunday, 2021-10-10
Panel Discussion: Stapes Surgery

  17:00 - 17:45

  10:15 - 10:45

Lecture 7: Comparison Between Circumferential Subannular Technique (CST) And Conventional Underlay Technique: Which One Is Better?

Malihe Yavari | Otorhinolaryngologist in ENT Department

Malihe
Malihe Yavari
Otorhinolaryngologist in ENT Department | Jordan

Otologist, Head & Faculty Member of Otolaryngology Department in Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak ,Iran

Lectures by this speaker
Sunday, 2021-10-10
Lecture 7: Comparison Between Circumferential Subannular Technique (CST) And Conventional Underlay Technique: Which One Is Better?

  10:45 - 11:00

  10:45 - 11:00

Lecture 8: Mastoidectomy In Children: A Review of Indications, Pathology, Imaging and Needed Close Follow-Up Based On A Case Series

Mohamad El Bitar | Consultant

Mohamad
Mohamad El Bitar
Consultant | United Arab Emirates

Mohamad A. Bitar, MD, FACS is a Consultant ENT Surgeon and Chief of Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery at Al Jalila Children’s Specialty Hospital, Dubai, UAE. Dr Bitar did his training at both the American University of Beirut and the George Washington University and its Children's National Medical Center in Washington, DC. He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the Royal Society of Medicine and a member of several international specialty societies, including ASPO, AAP and SENTAC. Dr Bitar established the Section of Pediatric Otolaryngology at the American University of Beirut, which he leaded between 2002 and 2015. He then joined the staff of the Department of ENT Surgery at the Children Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, Australia (2013 & 2014). Dr Bitar has been involved in teaching and research in the field of Pediatric Otolaryngology (currently Adjunct Professor with MBRU, Dubai) and has published many articles pertinent to his field. He has also participated in several national, regional and international meetings and workshops.

Lectures by this speaker
Sunday, 2021-10-10
Lecture 8: Mastoidectomy In Children: A Review of Indications, Pathology, Imaging and Needed Close Follow-Up Based On A Case Series

  12:00 - 12:15

  12:00 - 12:15

Lecture 9: A Tertiary Care Center’s Experience in Endoscopic Tympanic Membrane Reconstruction

Bassam Alghamdi | Surgical Resident

Bassam
Bassam Alghamdi
Surgical Resident | Saudi Arabia

A otolaryngology - head and neck surgery resident at King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Aiming to complete my education in Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, gain more experience and competence in the field, and be more involved in clinical research.

Lectures by this speaker
Sunday, 2021-10-10
Lecture 9: A Tertiary Care Center’s Experience in Endoscopic Tympanic Membrane Reconstruction

  12:15 - 12:30

  12:15 - 12:30

Lecture 10: Lateral Semicircular Duct Fistula Secondary to Cholesteatoma

Hadjer ROUABHIA-SAIDIA | Doctor of ORL

Hadjer
Hadjer ROUABHIA-SAIDIA
Doctor of ORL | Algeria

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Lectures by this speaker
Sunday, 2021-10-10
Lecture 5: Mastoid Obliteration in The Surgery Of Cholesteatoma

  10:00 - 10:15

Sunday, 2021-10-10
Lecture 10: Lateral Semicircular Duct Fistula Secondary to Cholesteatoma

  12:30 - 12:45

Sunday, 2021-10-10
Lecture 11: Detection Of Residual Cholesteatoma by Diffusion MRI

  12:45 - 13:00

  12:30 - 12:45

Lecture 11: Detection Of Residual Cholesteatoma by Diffusion MRI

Hadjer ROUABHIA-SAIDIA | Doctor of ORL

Hadjer
Hadjer ROUABHIA-SAIDIA
Doctor of ORL | Algeria

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Lectures by this speaker
Sunday, 2021-10-10
Lecture 5: Mastoid Obliteration in The Surgery Of Cholesteatoma

  10:00 - 10:15

Sunday, 2021-10-10
Lecture 10: Lateral Semicircular Duct Fistula Secondary to Cholesteatoma

  12:30 - 12:45

Sunday, 2021-10-10
Lecture 11: Detection Of Residual Cholesteatoma by Diffusion MRI

  12:45 - 13:00

  12:45 - 13:00

Lecture 12: Tympanoplasty

Ahmad Alshamsi | Consultant Physician ENT

Ahmad
Ahmad Alshamsi
Consultant Physician ENT | United Arab Emirates

Dr. Ahmed Alshamsi completed his MBBS (MB., BCh., BAO. (NUI), LRCP & SI), at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, end of 2007. Dr. Ahmed Alshamsi completed his Otolaryngology Residency program form propane university hospital in Toulouse, France from 11/2011 until 11/2015. From 2016 until 2017, he achieved his Fellowship in Otology, Neuro-Otology and pediatric ENT from Purpan university hospital, Toulouse, France. Dr. Ahmed Alshamsi started his career at the Tawam hospital, Al-AIN, UAE in the end of 2017 as specialist in Oto Laryngology. Dr. Ahmed Alshamsi well versed in all Ear, Nose and throat procedures with specialized skills in Otology and cochlear implant surgeries. He has more than 12 years of experience and has been active in teaching and training medical students, as well as being a mentor to junior clinicians. He has also been a part of a number of medical conferences. Dr Ahmed Alshamsi head of department of Otolaryngology at Tawam hospital, Al-Ain, UAE.

Lectures by this speaker
Sunday, 2021-10-10
Lecture 12: Tympanoplasty

  13:00 - 13:15

  13:00 - 13:15

Opening Ceremony & Exhibition Visit

  11:00 - 12:00

Lunch Break

  13:15 - 14:00

Session 2: EBM in Otology
Lecture 1: UK Guideline for Physiotherapists Working with Balance and Dizziness

Tristram Lesser | Consultant ENT Surgeon

Tristram
Tristram Lesser
Consultant ENT Surgeon | United Kingdom

Consultant ENT Surgeon specialising Otology, Neurotology and Skull Base Surgery. Qualified in Kings College London; Trained in Southampton University, Royal Marsden London, Cardiff, Washington University St Louis USA and University Hospital Zurich. Visiting Professor in Otology, Toronto University, Hon Fellow Hong Kong College of Otorhinolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery. Worked in Liverpool, Nepal, India, Myanmar and Hong Kong. Over 100 peer reviewed papers and 200 scientific presentations produced.

Sessions by this speaker
Saturday, 2021-10-09
Temporal Bone Direction Course

  08:00 - 18:00

Lectures by this speaker
Sunday, 2021-10-10
Lecture 1: UK Guideline for Physiotherapists Working with Balance and Dizziness

  14:00 - 14:30

Monday, 2021-10-11
Lecture 7: Necrotising Otitis Externa; How to Diagnose Manage and Treat This Increasingly Common Disease

  18:00 - 18:15

  14:00 - 14:30

Lecture 2: Validation of the Arabic version of the Glasgow Benefit Inventory in Adult Cochlear Implant-patients

Majed Assiri | Otology Neurotology Fellow

Majed
Majed Assiri
Otology Neurotology Fellow | Saudi Arabia

Otology Neurotology and Lateral Skull base Fellow , king abdullah ear specialist center

Lectures by this speaker
Sunday, 2021-10-10
Lecture 2: Validation of the Arabic version of the Glasgow Benefit Inventory in Adult Cochlear Implant-patients

  14:30 - 14:45

Tuesday, 2021-10-12
Lecture 3: CI in Otosclerosis Patients

  11:30 - 11:45

  14:30 - 14:45

Lecture 3: Otitis Media with Effusion: Evidence-Based Treatment.

Annelyse Ballin | Doctor

Annelyse
Annelyse Ballin
Doctor | United Arab Emirates

Doctor of Medicine and Otolaryngologist by the Federal University of Parana, Brazil. At the University of Miami, USA, concluded a fellow at the Otolaryngology Department. Worked as a Research Associate at the University of Miami, USA. Since 2012, work as an Otolaryngologist in Curitiba, Brazil. From 2014 to 2015 worked in the ENT Department of the Federal University of Parana, Brazil. At the Faculty of Medicine of Santa Casa of São Paulo, Brazil, performed a Master degree in Surgery (2015-2017). Since 2017, work as an Otolaryngologist in HealthBay Clinic and Al Zahra Hospital Dubai, UAE.

Lectures by this speaker
Sunday, 2021-10-10
Lecture 3: Otitis Media with Effusion: Evidence-Based Treatment.

  14:45 - 15:00

Monday, 2021-10-11
Lecture 4: Role Of The Zinc In The Treatment Of Tinnitus

  15:30 - 15:45

  14:45 - 15:00

Lecture 4: CPG in Meniere’s Disease

Mohammed Al Hammadi | ENT Consultant

Mohammed
Mohammed Al Hammadi
ENT Consultant | United Arab Emirates

Mohammed Ahmad Abdulla Al Hammadi, MD. UAE National. Swedish Board in Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery from the Sahlgrenska University Hospital, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, August 2008. Diploma in Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery (DOHNS) granted by The Royal College of Surgeons of England, October 2007. ENT Consultant, Al Abraha Hospital, Ministry of Health, Dubai, UAE. ENT Consultant, Part time, Advance Hearing and Balance Centre, Dubai, UAE. Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor at Faculty of Medicine, University of Sharjah. Program director of ENT Arab Board Residency Program, ministry of health, UAE, since 2019.

Sessions by this speaker
Friday, 2021-10-08
FUNCTIONAL ENDOSCOPIC SINUS SURGERY (FESS)

  08:00 - 13:30

Friday, 2021-10-08
RHINOPLASTY

  13:30 - 18:30

Saturday, 2021-10-09
Temporal Bone Direction Course

  08:00 - 18:00

Lectures by this speaker
Sunday, 2021-10-10
Lecture 4: CPG in Meniere’s Disease

  15:00 - 15:30

  15:00 - 15:30

Lecture 5: Management Protocol of Meniere’s disease in the Middle East

Asma Al Lawi | Family Medicine Resident

Asma
Asma Al Lawi
Family Medicine Resident | United Arab Emirates

Dr. Asma Al Alawi received her bachelor degree in Medicine and Surgery from United Arab Emirates university in 2017. She completed her internship in Tawam hospital 2018 in Al Ain, UAE and is currently a family medicine resident with a special interest in otolaryngology.

Lectures by this speaker
Sunday, 2021-10-10
Lecture 5: Management Protocol of Meniere’s disease in the Middle East

  15:30 - 15:45

  15:30 - 15:45

Session 3: Ossiculoplasty; Stapes Surgery
Lecture 1: Autograft Ossicular Reconstruction a Clinical Review:

Rayann Hussaini | Consultant Otology & Neurotology Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery

Rayann
Rayann Hussaini
Consultant Otology & Neurotology Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery | Saudi Arabia

Consultant of otolaryngology head and neck surgery Consultant of otology and neurotology and lateral skull base surgery Working at prince mohamad bin abdulaziz hospital Madina under the national gaurd health affairs Intersted in chronic ear disease and implantable hearing solutions with many publications in stapes surgery and chronic ear surgeries Madina saudi arabia

Lectures by this speaker
Sunday, 2021-10-10
Lecture 1: Autograft Ossicular Reconstruction a Clinical Review:

  16:00 - 16:15

  16:00 - 16:15

Lecture 2: Middle Ear Implant – Indication And Outcome

Hassan Ali Alshehri | ENT Consultant, Otology, Neurotology and Lateral Skull Base Surgery

Hassan
Hassan Ali Alshehri
ENT Consultant, Otology, Neurotology and Lateral Skull Base Surgery | Saudi Arabia

ENT CONSULTANT OTOLOGY AND NEUROTOLOGY AND LATERAL SKULL SURGERY COCHLEAR IMPALNT SURGERY AND OTHER IMPLANTABLE HEARING DEVICES VESTIBULAR MEDICINE . WORKING IN RIYAH FIRST HEALTH CLUSTER , MOH

Lectures by this speaker
Sunday, 2021-10-10
Lecture 2: Middle Ear Implant – Indication And Outcome

  16:15 - 16:30

Sunday, 2021-10-10
Panel Discussion: Stapes Surgery

  17:00 - 17:45

  16:15 - 16:30

Lecture 3: How To Avoid Complication in Stapes Surgery

Asad Qayyum | Consultant Ear, Nose, Throat & Head and Neck Surgeon.

Asad
Asad Qayyum
Consultant Ear, Nose, Throat & Head and Neck Surgeon. | United Kingdom

Dr Asad Qayyum is working as a consultant ENT Surgeon practicing in the Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom. He has a specialist interest in Otology, Balance and Paediatric ENT problems. Mr Asad is Clinical Director for the Head and Neck Services and also the Training Program Director for the ENT Trainees in the Cambridgeshire region. Asad has been the International Otology Fellow at the Royal Darwin Hospital in Australia and completed a second fellowship in Otology and Ear Implant Unit at the Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge. Asad has been involved with the research of Genetics of Early onset hearing loss at the Sanger Genome Institute at Cambridge. His current research interest involves managing prevention of retraction pockets of tympanic membrane using a combination of endoscopic approach and Eustachian tuboplasty. Asad is also a course director for cadaveric ENT, Head and Neck courses, that he has set up in collaboration with the Anglia Ruskin University in the United Kingdom. Asad has extensive Otological experience in Endoscopic Ear Surgery, Cholesteatoma Surgery, Stapes Surgery and managing patients with vertigo and balance problems both in adult and paediatric population. Asad has more than 70 publications including text book chapters to his name. He has presented his work in South Africa, Switzerland, China, USA and the UK. Outside of work he is passionate about photography and restoring classic cars.

Lectures by this speaker
Sunday, 2021-10-10
Lecture 6: Canal Wall Up Vs Canal Wall Down Vs Endoscopic Ear Surgery

  10:15 - 10:45

Sunday, 2021-10-10
Lecture 3: How To Avoid Complication in Stapes Surgery

  16:30 - 16:45

Sunday, 2021-10-10
Panel Discussion: Stapes Surgery

  17:00 - 17:45

  16:30 - 16:45

Lecture 4: What Lessons I Have Learned Over the Years with My Stapes Surgeries

Ahmad Alamadi | Consultant Otologist and Neurotologist & Medical Director

Ahmad
Ahmad Alamadi
Consultant Otologist and Neurotologist & Medical Director | United Arab Emirates

Dr Ahmad Alamadi graduated from Glasgow medical school in United Kingdom in 1993 he completed his training in Scotland by obtaining his Fellowship of royal college of surgeons of Glasgow in 1998. He followed his higher surgical training by doing a clinical neurotology fellowship program in Toronto University in Canada. Dr Alamadi is currently a consultant Otologist and Neurotologist and medical director at Al Baraha hospital in Dubai he is also a clinical Associate Professor at Sharjah University. His expertise lies in Otological surgeries and management of dizzy patients.

Sessions by this speaker
Saturday, 2021-10-09
Temporal Bone Direction Course

  08:00 - 18:00

Friday, 2021-10-08
FUNCTIONAL ENDOSCOPIC SINUS SURGERY (FESS)

  08:00 - 13:30

Friday, 2021-10-08
RHINOPLASTY

  13:30 - 18:30

Lectures by this speaker
Sunday, 2021-10-10
Lecture 3: My Journey in Cholesteatoma Surgery

  09:30 - 09:45

Sunday, 2021-10-10
Lecture 4: What Lessons I Have Learned Over the Years with My Stapes Surgeries

  16:45 - 17:00

Monday, 2021-10-11
Lecture 2: Management Of Hyperacusis

  14:45 - 15:15

  16:45 - 17:00

Panel Discussion: Stapes Surgery

Asad Qayyum | Consultant Ear, Nose, Throat & Head and Neck Surgeon.

Asad
Asad Qayyum
Consultant Ear, Nose, Throat & Head and Neck Surgeon. | United Kingdom

Dr Asad Qayyum is working as a consultant ENT Surgeon practicing in the Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom. He has a specialist interest in Otology, Balance and Paediatric ENT problems. Mr Asad is Clinical Director for the Head and Neck Services and also the Training Program Director for the ENT Trainees in the Cambridgeshire region. Asad has been the International Otology Fellow at the Royal Darwin Hospital in Australia and completed a second fellowship in Otology and Ear Implant Unit at the Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge. Asad has been involved with the research of Genetics of Early onset hearing loss at the Sanger Genome Institute at Cambridge. His current research interest involves managing prevention of retraction pockets of tympanic membrane using a combination of endoscopic approach and Eustachian tuboplasty. Asad is also a course director for cadaveric ENT, Head and Neck courses, that he has set up in collaboration with the Anglia Ruskin University in the United Kingdom. Asad has extensive Otological experience in Endoscopic Ear Surgery, Cholesteatoma Surgery, Stapes Surgery and managing patients with vertigo and balance problems both in adult and paediatric population. Asad has more than 70 publications including text book chapters to his name. He has presented his work in South Africa, Switzerland, China, USA and the UK. Outside of work he is passionate about photography and restoring classic cars.

Lectures by this speaker
Sunday, 2021-10-10
Lecture 6: Canal Wall Up Vs Canal Wall Down Vs Endoscopic Ear Surgery

  10:15 - 10:45

Sunday, 2021-10-10
Lecture 3: How To Avoid Complication in Stapes Surgery

  16:30 - 16:45

Sunday, 2021-10-10
Panel Discussion: Stapes Surgery

  17:00 - 17:45

Hassan Ali Alshehri | ENT Consultant, Otology, Neurotology and Lateral Skull Base Surgery

Hassan
Hassan Ali Alshehri
ENT Consultant, Otology, Neurotology and Lateral Skull Base Surgery | Saudi Arabia

ENT CONSULTANT OTOLOGY AND NEUROTOLOGY AND LATERAL SKULL SURGERY COCHLEAR IMPALNT SURGERY AND OTHER IMPLANTABLE HEARING DEVICES VESTIBULAR MEDICINE . WORKING IN RIYAH FIRST HEALTH CLUSTER , MOH

Lectures by this speaker
Sunday, 2021-10-10
Lecture 2: Middle Ear Implant – Indication And Outcome

  16:15 - 16:30

Sunday, 2021-10-10
Panel Discussion: Stapes Surgery

  17:00 - 17:45

  17:00 - 17:45

Break & Exhibition Visit

  16:00 - 16:15


Session 4: Comprehensive Vestibular Rehabilitation
Lecture 1: Vestibular Rehabilitation-Exercises

Faisal M. Al Mubarak | Vestibular Rehabilitation Therapist

Faisal
Faisal M. Al Mubarak
Vestibular Rehabilitation Therapist | Saudi Arabia

Dr. Faisal Al Mubarak, Consultant Physical Therapy specialized in the field of vestibular rehabilitation. Dr.Al Mubarak received his doctorate of science degree in Physical Therapy from Loma Linda University. Dr. Al Mubarak is a certified orthopedic manual therapist and also certified in the management of cervicogenic dizziness. Dr. Al Mubarak is interested in the following fields: 1. Dizziness 2. Vestibular Disorders 3. Balance Disorders 4. Fall Risk 5. Neck & Low back pain

Lectures by this speaker
Monday, 2021-10-11
Lecture 1: Vestibular Rehabilitation-Exercises

  08:30 - 09:30

  08:30 - 09:30

Lecture 2: Vestibular Rehabilitation-TRV chair

Leigh Martin | Global Manager

Leigh
Leigh Martin
Global Manager | United Kingdom

Mr. Leigh Martin is a British Audiologist, Global Manager of the Interacoustics Academy as well as Adjunct Lecturer at the University Cork Ireland. Clinically, he has worked in the National Health Service and in the private sector in the UK specializing in both pediatric audiology and vestibular audiology. He has also sat on the board of directors for the British Academy of Audiology. He has presented at over 20 scientific conferences and meetings across a diverse range of audiological topics as well as having published papers in both video head impulse testing (vHIT) and wideband tympanometry.

Lectures by this speaker
Monday, 2021-10-11
Lecture 2: Vestibular Rehabilitation-TRV chair

  09:30 - 10:30

Monday, 2021-10-11
Lecture 3: Vestibular Rehabilitation-Platform

  10:30 - 11:30

  09:30 - 10:30

Lecture 3: Vestibular Rehabilitation-Platform

Leigh Martin | Global Manager

Leigh
Leigh Martin
Global Manager | United Kingdom

Mr. Leigh Martin is a British Audiologist, Global Manager of the Interacoustics Academy as well as Adjunct Lecturer at the University Cork Ireland. Clinically, he has worked in the National Health Service and in the private sector in the UK specializing in both pediatric audiology and vestibular audiology. He has also sat on the board of directors for the British Academy of Audiology. He has presented at over 20 scientific conferences and meetings across a diverse range of audiological topics as well as having published papers in both video head impulse testing (vHIT) and wideband tympanometry.

Lectures by this speaker
Monday, 2021-10-11
Lecture 2: Vestibular Rehabilitation-TRV chair

  09:30 - 10:30

Monday, 2021-10-11
Lecture 3: Vestibular Rehabilitation-Platform

  10:30 - 11:30

  10:30 - 11:30

Lecture 4: Low-dose Fixed Combination of Cinnarizine and Dimenhydrinate in The Treatment of Vertigo of Various Origins

Ayman Fraihat | Adjunct Professor, ENT Consultant

Ayman
Ayman Fraihat
Adjunct Professor, ENT Consultant | United Arab Emirates

-Medical Director, Consultant ENT Head & Neck Surgeon. -General Secretary of ENT Society -UAE -Member of Research Committee - Dubai Health Care City -FRCS Otolaryngology Edinburgh - UK -Pediatric Otolaryngology Glasgow - UAE -Member of American Academy of ORL

Lectures by this speaker
Monday, 2021-10-11
Lecture 4: Low-dose Fixed Combination of Cinnarizine and Dimenhydrinate in The Treatment of Vertigo of Various Origins

  11:45 - 12:00

  11:45 - 12:00

Lecture 5: Management Of Vertigo in Emergency Department

Pierre Bertholon | ENT

Pierre
Pierre Bertholon
ENT | France

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Lectures by this speaker
Monday, 2021-10-11
Lecture 5: Management Of Vertigo in Emergency Department

  12:00 - 12:30

  12:00 - 12:30

Lecture 6: An Experimental Study to Analyze the Effect of Sequence Training Using Dynamic Balance Manager System Along with Conventional Physiotherapy in Improving Balance Function in Elderly Patients With BPPV.

Bijesh Balachandran | Physiotherapist

Bijesh
Bijesh Balachandran
Physiotherapist | United Arab Emirates

Experience and work history encompasses about 12years in the field as a Physiotherapist, where I had good exposure to latest biomedical physiotherapeutic equipment, latest manual therapy concepts with special interest in musculoskeletal and neurology.

Lectures by this speaker
Monday, 2021-10-11
Lecture 6: An Experimental Study to Analyze the Effect of Sequence Training Using Dynamic Balance Manager System Along with Conventional Physiotherapy in Improving Balance Function in Elderly Patients With BPPV.

  12:30 - 12:45

  12:30 - 12:45

Lecture 7: Motorist’s Vestibular Disorientation Syndrome – A Case Series

Vishal Pawar | Specialist Neurologist

Vishal
Vishal Pawar
Specialist Neurologist | United Arab Emirates

Dr Vishal Pawar is a Specialist Neurologist with more than eight years combined experience in Neurology and Neurotology. He did his MBBS, DNB Medicine and DNB Neurology from India. After 4 years initial practice in India, he is currently working with Aster Clinic, Dubai from the last 5 years. His areas of interest in Neurology are Neurotology and Headache. He runs a dedicated Vertigo clinic equipped at Aster speciality clinic, Discovery Gardens, Dubai. He is actively involved in care, academics and research in the field of neurotology. He has presented abstracts and posters in various national and international conferences.

Lectures by this speaker
Monday, 2021-10-11
Lecture 7: Motorist’s Vestibular Disorientation Syndrome – A Case Series

  12:45 - 13:00

  12:45 - 13:00

Lecture 8: Covid 19 And Audiology Practice

Maha Zaitoun | Assistant professor

Maha
Maha Zaitoun
Assistant professor | Jordan

Dr. Maha is an Assistant Professor of Audiology at Jordan University of Sciences and Technology. Dr. Maha hold a PhD degree in Audiology from The University of Sydney, Masters degree in Clinical audiology from Macquarie University/ Australia and B.Sc. in Audiology and speech Pathology from Jordan university of science and Technology. Dr. Maha has particular interest in scientific research on hearing loss in Jordan and developing countries, which ultimately would improve the practice of Audiology and increase the awareness of hearing health among the public and physicians.

Lectures by this speaker
Monday, 2021-10-11
Lecture 8: Covid 19 And Audiology Practice

  13:00 - 13:15

  13:00 - 13:15

Break & Exhibition Visit

  11:30 - 11:45

Lunch Break

  13:30 - 14:15

Session 5: Tinnitus and Hyperacusis
Lecture 1: Tinnitus Rehabilitation Therapy

Mahmoud Mahrous | Consultant of Audio-Vestibular Medicine

Mahmoud
Mahmoud Mahrous
Consultant of Audio-Vestibular Medicine | Saudi Arabia

Consultant of audio-vestibular medicine at KFHU, Imam Abdelrahman Bin Faisal university, Khobar, KSA Lecturer of audio-vestibular medicine, Ain-shams University, Cairo, Egypt

Lectures by this speaker
Monday, 2021-10-11
Lecture 1: Tinnitus Rehabilitation Therapy

  14:15 - 14:45

  14:15 - 14:45

Lecture 2: Management Of Hyperacusis

Ahmad Alamadi | Consultant Otologist and Neurotologist & Medical Director

Ahmad
Ahmad Alamadi
Consultant Otologist and Neurotologist & Medical Director | United Arab Emirates

Dr Ahmad Alamadi graduated from Glasgow medical school in United Kingdom in 1993 he completed his training in Scotland by obtaining his Fellowship of royal college of surgeons of Glasgow in 1998. He followed his higher surgical training by doing a clinical neurotology fellowship program in Toronto University in Canada. Dr Alamadi is currently a consultant Otologist and Neurotologist and medical director at Al Baraha hospital in Dubai he is also a clinical Associate Professor at Sharjah University. His expertise lies in Otological surgeries and management of dizzy patients.

Sessions by this speaker
Saturday, 2021-10-09
Temporal Bone Direction Course

  08:00 - 18:00

Friday, 2021-10-08
FUNCTIONAL ENDOSCOPIC SINUS SURGERY (FESS)

  08:00 - 13:30

Friday, 2021-10-08
RHINOPLASTY

  13:30 - 18:30

Lectures by this speaker
Sunday, 2021-10-10
Lecture 3: My Journey in Cholesteatoma Surgery

  09:30 - 09:45

Sunday, 2021-10-10
Lecture 4: What Lessons I Have Learned Over the Years with My Stapes Surgeries

  16:45 - 17:00

Monday, 2021-10-11
Lecture 2: Management Of Hyperacusis

  14:45 - 15:15

  14:45 - 15:15

Lecture 3: Counseling, Sound Therapy, And Positive Promotion Using social media Could Alleviate Tinnitus Distress In 23 Chronic Tinnitus Sufferers

Samer Mohsen | M.D., ENT, Ph.D. of Audiology.

Samer
Samer Mohsen
M.D., ENT, Ph.D. of Audiology. | Syria

Being an ENT doctor with the Ph.D. degree in Audiology has helped me much in clinical practice and research especially in tinnitus and vestibular disorders. I have more than 9 published papers with more than 15 article reviews and I participated as a speaker in many important meetings. Now I am the teacher of Audiology at Damascus University and also I am teaching ENT at the faculty of Medicine.

Lectures by this speaker
Monday, 2021-10-11
Lecture 3: Counseling, Sound Therapy, And Positive Promotion Using social media Could Alleviate Tinnitus Distress In 23 Chronic Tinnitus Sufferers

  15:15 - 15:30

Tuesday, 2021-10-12
Lecture 12: Aural Habilitation Service Delivery during the Covid-19 Quarantine, for Cochlear Implanted Children at Syrian Organization for Persons with Disabilities-Aamal

  14:45 - 15:00

  15:15 - 15:30

Lecture 4: Role Of The Zinc In The Treatment Of Tinnitus

Annelyse Ballin | Doctor

Annelyse
Annelyse Ballin
Doctor | United Arab Emirates

Doctor of Medicine and Otolaryngologist by the Federal University of Parana, Brazil. At the University of Miami, USA, concluded a fellow at the Otolaryngology Department. Worked as a Research Associate at the University of Miami, USA. Since 2012, work as an Otolaryngologist in Curitiba, Brazil. From 2014 to 2015 worked in the ENT Department of the Federal University of Parana, Brazil. At the Faculty of Medicine of Santa Casa of São Paulo, Brazil, performed a Master degree in Surgery (2015-2017). Since 2017, work as an Otolaryngologist in HealthBay Clinic and Al Zahra Hospital Dubai, UAE.

Lectures by this speaker
Sunday, 2021-10-10
Lecture 3: Otitis Media with Effusion: Evidence-Based Treatment.

  14:45 - 15:00

Monday, 2021-10-11
Lecture 4: Role Of The Zinc In The Treatment Of Tinnitus

  15:30 - 15:45

  15:30 - 15:45

Hansaton Symposium: STRATOS

Waheeb Al Otaibi | Regional Sales Manager

Waheeb
Waheeb Al Otaibi
Regional Sales Manager | Jordan

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Lectures by this speaker
Monday, 2021-10-11
Hansaton Symposium: STRATOS

  15:45 - 16:00

Obada Obada J. AlQasem | Clinical Audiologist

Obada
Obada Obada J. AlQasem
Clinical Audiologist | United Arab Emirates

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Lectures by this speaker
Monday, 2021-10-11
Hansaton Symposium: STRATOS

  15:45 - 16:00

  15:45 - 16:00

Break & Exhibition Visit

  16:00 - 16:15

Session 6: Skull Base & Facial Nerve Surgery
Lecture 1: Results Of Facial Nerve Reconstruction

Khassan Diab | Professor of the Department of Otolaryngology, Faculty of Postgraduate education, Pirogov Russian

Khassan
Khassan Diab
Professor of the Department of Otolaryngology, Faculty of Postgraduate education, Pirogov Russian | Russia

Diab Khassan Mohamad Ali was born in 1973. In 1990 he graduated the school college Notre Dame de Paris in Lebanon. In 1999 he graduated from the medical care faculty of Rostov State Medical University. From 1999 till 2003 he studied as a resident on the ENT department of the same university and in St. Petersburg research Institute of Ear, Nose, Throat and Speech. After finishing the residency in 2003 Khassan Diab was admitted to the 2-year fellowship from which he graduated having passed a PhD thesis defense on the topic «Unsatisfactory results of stapedoplasty and ways of their correction».

Lectures by this speaker
Sunday, 2021-10-10
Lecture 2: Management Of Petrous Bone Cholesteatoma

  09:00 - 09:30

Monday, 2021-10-11
Lecture 1: Results Of Facial Nerve Reconstruction

  16:15 - 16:45

Tuesday, 2021-10-12
Lecture 5: Cochlear Implantation in Cases of Cochleovestibular Pathology

  12:00 - 12:15

Tuesday, 2021-10-12
Panel Discussion: Challenges In CI Surgeries

  16:00 - 16:30

  16:15 - 16:45

Lecture 2: Vestibular Schwannoma Treatment

Farid Boudjenah | Head of the ENT Department

Farid
Farid Boudjenah
Head of the ENT Department | Algeria

18 years experience in the field of ENT, professor of ENT at Bejaia University and since 2020.. Head of ENT department of Bejaia university hospital since 2015 then at Beni Messous University Hospital of Algiers since December 2021.

Lectures by this speaker
Monday, 2021-10-11
Lecture 2: Vestibular Schwannoma Treatment

  16:45 - 17:00

  16:45 - 17:00

Lecture 3: A Novel In-Vivo Animal Model for Posterior Fossa Surgery in Oto-Neurosurgery: A Preliminary Experience

Mohamed Ahmed Magdieldin Elsayed | Lecturer

Mohamed
Mohamed Ahmed Magdieldin Elsayed
Lecturer | Egypt

- M.D/PhD degree Otorhinolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine Sorbonne université, Paris, France. - Lecturer ORL- Head and Neck Surgery Department, , Alexandria Faculty of Medicine - Clinical fellow GH Pitié Salpêtrière Unité d’Otologie, implants auditifs et chirurgie de la base du crane Paris, France.

Lectures by this speaker
Monday, 2021-10-11
Lecture 3: A Novel In-Vivo Animal Model for Posterior Fossa Surgery in Oto-Neurosurgery: A Preliminary Experience

  17:00 - 17:15

Monday, 2021-10-11
Lecture 6: Prognostic Markers of Facial Nerve Function Outcome Following Vestibular Schwannoma Surgery.

  17:45 - 18:00

  17:00 - 17:15

Lecture 4: Exclusive Endoscopic Management of Glomus Tympanicum Tumors

Tamer Ebaied | ENT consultant

Tamer
Tamer Ebaied
ENT consultant | United Arab Emirates

ENT consultant Otology subspecilaty and lateral skull base Endoscopic ear interventions Fellow at UNIMORE university modena Italy Assistant lecturer ENT department Alexandria university Egypt MD combined Italian and Egyptian work

Lectures by this speaker
Monday, 2021-10-11
Lecture 4: Exclusive Endoscopic Management of Glomus Tympanicum Tumors

  17:15 - 17:30

  17:15 - 17:30

Lecture 5: Facial Nerve Neuroma

Jamal Kassouma | Consultant ENT surgeon, Dubai Hospital

Jamal
Jamal Kassouma
Consultant ENT surgeon, Dubai Hospital | United Arab Emirates

Dr Jamal Kassouma MD, FRCS Ed, FRCS orl-hns Consultant ENT surgeon Director of Cochlear Implant Unit, Dubai H, UAE Ass Professor, Damascus University, SYRIA

Sessions by this speaker
Saturday, 2021-10-09
Temporal Bone Direction Course

  08:00 - 18:00

Lectures by this speaker
Monday, 2021-10-11
Lecture 5: Facial Nerve Neuroma

  17:30 - 17:45

  17:30 - 17:45

Lecture 6: Prognostic Markers of Facial Nerve Function Outcome Following Vestibular Schwannoma Surgery.

Mohamed Ahmed Magdieldin Elsayed | Lecturer

Mohamed
Mohamed Ahmed Magdieldin Elsayed
Lecturer | Egypt

- M.D/PhD degree Otorhinolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine Sorbonne université, Paris, France. - Lecturer ORL- Head and Neck Surgery Department, , Alexandria Faculty of Medicine - Clinical fellow GH Pitié Salpêtrière Unité d’Otologie, implants auditifs et chirurgie de la base du crane Paris, France.

Lectures by this speaker
Monday, 2021-10-11
Lecture 3: A Novel In-Vivo Animal Model for Posterior Fossa Surgery in Oto-Neurosurgery: A Preliminary Experience

  17:00 - 17:15

Monday, 2021-10-11
Lecture 6: Prognostic Markers of Facial Nerve Function Outcome Following Vestibular Schwannoma Surgery.

  17:45 - 18:00

  17:45 - 18:00

Lecture 7: Necrotising Otitis Externa; How to Diagnose Manage and Treat This Increasingly Common Disease

Tristram Lesser | Consultant ENT Surgeon

Tristram
Tristram Lesser
Consultant ENT Surgeon | United Kingdom

Consultant ENT Surgeon specialising Otology, Neurotology and Skull Base Surgery. Qualified in Kings College London; Trained in Southampton University, Royal Marsden London, Cardiff, Washington University St Louis USA and University Hospital Zurich. Visiting Professor in Otology, Toronto University, Hon Fellow Hong Kong College of Otorhinolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery. Worked in Liverpool, Nepal, India, Myanmar and Hong Kong. Over 100 peer reviewed papers and 200 scientific presentations produced.

Sessions by this speaker
Saturday, 2021-10-09
Temporal Bone Direction Course

  08:00 - 18:00

Lectures by this speaker
Sunday, 2021-10-10
Lecture 1: UK Guideline for Physiotherapists Working with Balance and Dizziness

  14:00 - 14:30

Monday, 2021-10-11
Lecture 7: Necrotising Otitis Externa; How to Diagnose Manage and Treat This Increasingly Common Disease

  18:00 - 18:15

  18:00 - 18:15


Session 7: Surgical Education in Otology
Lecture 1: More Teaching Less Complications

Abdulrahman Hagr | Director of King Abdullah Ear Specialist Center, at King Abdulaziz University Hospital

Abdulrahman
Abdulrahman Hagr
Director of King Abdullah Ear Specialist Center, at King Abdulaziz University Hospital | Saudi Arabia

Professor Abdulrahman Abdullah Hagr received his bachelor degree in Medicine and Surgery at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in 1996. Completed his postgraduate studies in Otolaryngology from McGill University, Canada, in 2004 and Otology and Neurotology from Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, in 2005. He holds the following certificates: MBBS, Saudi Council Examination, Internship, MCCEE, King Medal for Merit, Principles of Surgery, Royal College of Canada, and Dalhousie University Otology Fellowship. A professor and consultant at King Saud University, consultant at the Ministry of Health for National Neonatal Screening Program, consultant at Al Habib Medical Center- otology-neurotology and a skull base surgeon. Professor Hagr is the founder and advisor of the Cochlear Implant Programs in Saudi Arabia. He is also the founder of the Otology Neurotology Fellowship Program at king Saud University, founder of the largest cochlear implant program in Middle East, the founder of the first Bone Anchored Hearing Aid (BAHA), Hybrid CI, ABI, ABCI, Vistafix, Vibroplasty and Bonebridge programs in Saudi Arabia. He is currently the director of the following: King Abdullah Ear Specialist Center, at King Abdulaziz University Hospital, King Saud University, Director of the National Saudi Neonatal Screening Program, Prince Sultan Research Chair for Hearing Disabilities (RCHD). President of the Saudi ORL Society and a member of King Saud University Counseling Board for Scientific Studies. Professor Hagr is the Goodwill Ambassador of American Academy of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery. He is the Chairman of International Arab Cochlear Conference (ACIC). He has made numerous conference presentations worldwide and an author of eight books and more than thirty-five scientific articles.

Lectures by this speaker
Tuesday, 2021-10-12
Lecture 1: More Teaching Less Complications

  08:30 - 09:00

Tuesday, 2021-10-12
Panel Discussion: Challenges In CI Surgeries

  16:00 - 16:30

  08:30 - 09:00

Lecture 2: Teaching Otology to Residence

Rashid Al Abri | Senior Consultant and Associate Professor

Rashid
Rashid Al Abri
Senior Consultant and Associate Professor | Oman

Rashid Al-Abri MD, FRCS Professor & Senior Consultant ORL ENT Division, Department of Surgery Head Medical Education & Informatics Department College of Medicine & Health Sciences Sultan Qaboos University, Oman Director, WHO Collaborating Center for Quality and Patient Safety Training, MoH President, Oman ENT Society Vice-President, Oman Medical Association General Secretary, GCC ENT Society

Lectures by this speaker
Tuesday, 2021-10-12
Lecture 2: Teaching Otology to Residence

  09:00 - 09:30

  09:00 - 09:30

Lecture 3: Latest Development in Surgical Education and Simulation

Ashkan Monfared | Professor of Surgery and Neurosurgery

Ashkan
Ashkan Monfared
Professor of Surgery and Neurosurgery | USA

Ashkan Monfared, MD is professor of Surgery and Neurosurgery at the George Washington School of Medicine & Health Sciences. He was recruited from Stanford University over ten years ago to serve as the Director of Otology, Neurotology, and Skullbase Surgery. Dr. Monfared completed his medical training, residency and fellowship at Stanford University Medical Center. He has had the distinct honor of serving at the Veteran Administration Hospital and the Walter Reed National Medical Center. As a researcher in the areas of acoustic neuromas, he has authored several peer-reviewed scientific papers and book chapters. He is the principal investigator of a multi-center prospective study on large acoustic neuromas (vestibular schwannomas) known as Acoustic Neuroma Subtotal Resection Study (ANSRS). His current research interests beside acoustic neuromas include otologic simulators, hearing loss due to sickle cell anemia, intracranial hypertension, and resident education. Dr. Monfared established the GW Comprehensive Hearing Center, which is one of the only adult cochlear implant programs in the Metro DC area. Since 2004 Dr. Monfared has been active in international humanitarian medical missions. He is on the board of directors of Global ENT Outreach, a non-profit humanitarian organization providing assistance and education with otologic surgeries in many developing countries. He has served in Ethiopia, El Salvador, Belize, Peru, and the American Samoa. Dr. Monfared is a trained classical pianist and fluent in Persian.

Sessions by this speaker
Saturday, 2021-10-09
Temporal Bone Direction Course

  08:00 - 18:00

Lectures by this speaker
Sunday, 2021-10-10
Lecture 1: Avoiding Surgical Complications in Otological Surgeries

  08:30 - 09:00

Tuesday, 2021-10-12
Lecture 3: Latest Development in Surgical Education and Simulation

  09:30 - 10:00

Tuesday, 2021-10-12
Lecture 1: Temporal bone radiology - basic

  16:45 - 17:15

Tuesday, 2021-10-12
Lecture 2: Temporal bone radiology - Advance

  17:15 - 18:15

  09:30 - 10:00

Lecture 4: Meniere's Disease: A Medical vs Surgical Approach, What's Best

Charbel Rameh | Assistant Professor, Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Otology and Neurotology

Charbel
Charbel Rameh
Assistant Professor, Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Otology and Neurotology | Lebanon

Dr Charbel Rameh is an otolaryngology-head and neck surgery specialist. He completed his medical school at the American University of Beirut, and he continued his training in ENT at the AUB Medical Center. He then pursued training in Marseille- France where he did a fellowship in Otology and Neurotology, focusing on problems of the ear, such as vertigo, dizziness, and hearing, with practical hands-on training in cochlear implants, hemifacial spasms, and CPA brain tumor surgeries He is now an assistant professor working at Mount Lebanon Hospital and Abou Jaoude Hospital. Dr Rameh has more than 30 publications in the field of Otolaryngology. He is a member in many ENT societies, and an active speaker and moderator in several national and international ENT meetings.

Lectures by this speaker
Tuesday, 2021-10-12
Lecture 4: Meniere's Disease: A Medical vs Surgical Approach, What's Best

  10:00 - 10:15

  10:00 - 10:15

Advanced Bionics Symposium - Marvel : Connect with the moments you love.

Ahmad Baghdadi | Regional clinical specialist

Ahmad
Ahmad Baghdadi
Regional clinical specialist | Jordan

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Lectures by this speaker
Tuesday, 2021-10-12
Advanced Bionics Symposium - Marvel : Connect with the moments you love.

  10:15 - 10:30

  10:15 - 10:30

Break & Exhibition Visit

  10:45 - 11:00

Session 8: Cochlear Implant
Lecture 1: Quality Of Life (Qol) Of Parents of Pediatric Cochlear Implantations in United Arab Emirates

Mohammad Sabir | Clinical Audiologist

Mohammad
Mohammad Sabir
Clinical Audiologist | United Arab Emirates

I am mohammad sabir working in SEHA ,TAWAM HOSPITAL,Al ain.As a Clinical audiologist. Experience in Diagnostic audiology and vestibular Disorders

Lectures by this speaker
Tuesday, 2021-10-12
Lecture 1: Quality Of Life (Qol) Of Parents of Pediatric Cochlear Implantations in United Arab Emirates

  11:00 - 11:15

  11:00 - 11:15

Lecture 2: Surgical Considerations: Cochlear Implantation in Children

Mohamed Alshehabi | Surgeon - Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery

Mohamed
Mohamed Alshehabi
Surgeon - Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery | Bahrain

Dr. Shehabi is a surgeon of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery ( ORL HNS) in the Royal Medical Services- Military Hospital, Kingdom of Bahrain he received his B.S and M.D from the Arabian Gulf University ‏‏in Bahrain. Then He obtained his Saudi Board in ORL HNS , and King Saud fellowship in ORL HNS in Riyadh, After which he had his fellowship in Neurotology from The RCSI ( Dublin, Ireland) He currently hold the position of chairman of the ENT department in the Royal medical Services and a member in the Board of management in the Crown Prince Training and Research Centre in the Kingdom of Bahrain and a lecturer in the Royal College of Surgeon of Ireland ( Bahrain )

Lectures by this speaker
Tuesday, 2021-10-12
Lecture 2: Surgical Considerations: Cochlear Implantation in Children

  11:15 - 11:30

Tuesday, 2021-10-12
Lecture 10: Sequential Bilateral Implantation in Older Children: Inter-Implant Map Differences and Their Effects in Functional Outcomes

  14:15 - 14:30

Tuesday, 2021-10-12
Panel Discussion: Challenges In CI Surgeries

  16:00 - 16:30

  11:15 - 11:30

Lecture 3: CI in Otosclerosis Patients

Majed Assiri | Otology Neurotology Fellow

Majed
Majed Assiri
Otology Neurotology Fellow | Saudi Arabia

Otology Neurotology and Lateral Skull base Fellow , king abdullah ear specialist center

Lectures by this speaker
Sunday, 2021-10-10
Lecture 2: Validation of the Arabic version of the Glasgow Benefit Inventory in Adult Cochlear Implant-patients

  14:30 - 14:45

Tuesday, 2021-10-12
Lecture 3: CI in Otosclerosis Patients

  11:30 - 11:45

  11:30 - 11:45

Lecture 4: The Use of The Littlears Auditory Questionnaire in Assessing Children Before and After Cochlear Implantation

Ahmed Abdelgoad | Consultant of Phoniatrics

Ahmed
Ahmed Abdelgoad
Consultant of Phoniatrics | Saudi Arabia

Dr. Ahmed Abdelhamid received his doctorate degree in Phoniatrics from Ain-Shams University, Cairo, Egypt in 2011. his Master’s degree in Phoniatrics from the University of Ain-Shams, Cairo, Egypt in 2005. Dr. Ahmed is currently an associate professor in the Phoniatric unit in the ENT Department at Ain-Shams University in Cairo, Egypt since 2016 and assistant professor in Speech and language pathology unit, ENT department at King Fahad Hospital of the University (Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (IAU) previously University Of Dammam (UOD)) in Saudi Arabia since 2015.

Lectures by this speaker
Tuesday, 2021-10-12
Lecture 4: The Use of The Littlears Auditory Questionnaire in Assessing Children Before and After Cochlear Implantation

  11:45 - 12:00

  11:45 - 12:00

Lecture 5: Cochlear Implantation in Cases of Cochleovestibular Pathology

Khassan Diab | Professor of the Department of Otolaryngology, Faculty of Postgraduate education, Pirogov Russian

Khassan
Khassan Diab
Professor of the Department of Otolaryngology, Faculty of Postgraduate education, Pirogov Russian | Russia

Diab Khassan Mohamad Ali was born in 1973. In 1990 he graduated the school college Notre Dame de Paris in Lebanon. In 1999 he graduated from the medical care faculty of Rostov State Medical University. From 1999 till 2003 he studied as a resident on the ENT department of the same university and in St. Petersburg research Institute of Ear, Nose, Throat and Speech. After finishing the residency in 2003 Khassan Diab was admitted to the 2-year fellowship from which he graduated having passed a PhD thesis defense on the topic «Unsatisfactory results of stapedoplasty and ways of their correction».

Lectures by this speaker
Sunday, 2021-10-10
Lecture 2: Management Of Petrous Bone Cholesteatoma

  09:00 - 09:30

Monday, 2021-10-11
Lecture 1: Results Of Facial Nerve Reconstruction

  16:15 - 16:45

Tuesday, 2021-10-12
Lecture 5: Cochlear Implantation in Cases of Cochleovestibular Pathology

  12:00 - 12:15

Tuesday, 2021-10-12
Panel Discussion: Challenges In CI Surgeries

  16:00 - 16:30

  12:00 - 12:15

Lecture 6: Cochlear Implant Electrode Design; The Future Trends

Firas Alzoubi | Senior Consultant and Professor of Otolaryngology

Firas
Firas Alzoubi
Senior Consultant and Professor of Otolaryngology | Jordan

Firas Alzoubi, MD, FRCS, is a Senior Consultant and Professor of Otolaryngology, School of Medicine of Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST) and the director of the Cochlear Implant and Hearing Solutions Centre of King Abdullah University Hospital and member of the steering committee of his royal highness the crown prince initiative “Hearing without Borders”. He was graduated from the school of medicine at JUST in 1993 and get his Otolaryngology training in Jordan and then in Manchester, UK where he was awarded the fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1999. He was appointed as the head of ENT division, the Head of Special surgery department at the school of Medicine for more than 10 years followed by being the vice dean for the clinical specialties. Prof. Alzoubi is a leading otologist and CI surgeon who is heavily involved with training, research and establishing state of the art CI centers all over the region. He published more than 43 articles in well-respected international journals with 1014 citations.

Lectures by this speaker
Tuesday, 2021-10-12
Lecture 6: Cochlear Implant Electrode Design; The Future Trends

  12:15 - 12:30

Tuesday, 2021-10-12
Panel Discussion: Challenges In CI Surgeries

  16:00 - 16:30

  12:15 - 12:30

Medel Symposium - MED-EL Updates

Jürgen Danzer | Manager of Clinical Audiology and Education

Jürgen
Jürgen Danzer
Manager of Clinical Audiology and Education | Austria

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Lectures by this speaker
Tuesday, 2021-10-12
Medel Symposium - MED-EL Updates

  12:30 - 12:45

  12:30 - 12:45

Lecture 8: Incomplete Partition Type III, Computed Tomography Features And Cochlear Implantation Complications

Ammar Al Lawati | Senior Consultant Otorhinolaryngology

Ammar
Ammar Al Lawati
Senior Consultant Otorhinolaryngology | Oman

Dr. Ammar is a Senior Consultant Otorhinolaryngology at Al Nahdha Hospital, Oman Educational Certificate: Doctor in Medicine and Surgery, Collage of medicine & Surgery University of the Studies of Rome “La Sapienza in 1995. Specialty Facharzt in Otorhinolaryngology, from Germany, Bochum University, by prof. H. Hildmann in 2005. Fellowship in Italy by Gruppo Otologico, Piacenza, by Prof. Mario Sanna, 2008 Awards from italiane State in 2002: (Cavaliere al merito della Repoblica Italiana) Main interest in Otology, in particular cochlear implantation and Lateral Skull Base. Have multiple published papers in different journals.

Lectures by this speaker
Tuesday, 2021-10-12
Lecture 8: Incomplete Partition Type III, Computed Tomography Features And Cochlear Implantation Complications

  13:30 - 14:00

Tuesday, 2021-10-12
Panel Discussion: Challenges In CI Surgeries

  16:00 - 16:30

  13:30 - 14:00

Lecture 9: Dose Neural Response Thresholds Change Over Time in Round Window Approach Vs Cochleostomy

Ensieh Ghanbarpour | MD

Ensieh
Ensieh Ghanbarpour
MD | Saudi Arabia

Otology and neurotology Fellowship from tehran university of medical science

Lectures by this speaker
Tuesday, 2021-10-12
Lecture 9: Dose Neural Response Thresholds Change Over Time in Round Window Approach Vs Cochleostomy

  14:00 - 14:15

  14:00 - 14:15

Lecture 10: Sequential Bilateral Implantation in Older Children: Inter-Implant Map Differences and Their Effects in Functional Outcomes

Mohamed Alshehabi | Surgeon - Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery

Mohamed
Mohamed Alshehabi
Surgeon - Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery | Bahrain

Dr. Shehabi is a surgeon of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery ( ORL HNS) in the Royal Medical Services- Military Hospital, Kingdom of Bahrain he received his B.S and M.D from the Arabian Gulf University ‏‏in Bahrain. Then He obtained his Saudi Board in ORL HNS , and King Saud fellowship in ORL HNS in Riyadh, After which he had his fellowship in Neurotology from The RCSI ( Dublin, Ireland) He currently hold the position of chairman of the ENT department in the Royal medical Services and a member in the Board of management in the Crown Prince Training and Research Centre in the Kingdom of Bahrain and a lecturer in the Royal College of Surgeon of Ireland ( Bahrain )

Lectures by this speaker
Tuesday, 2021-10-12
Lecture 2: Surgical Considerations: Cochlear Implantation in Children

  11:15 - 11:30

Tuesday, 2021-10-12
Lecture 10: Sequential Bilateral Implantation in Older Children: Inter-Implant Map Differences and Their Effects in Functional Outcomes

  14:15 - 14:30

Tuesday, 2021-10-12
Panel Discussion: Challenges In CI Surgeries

  16:00 - 16:30

  14:15 - 14:30

Lecture 11: Perception And Knowledge of Cochlear Implant Among Ahsaa Population In Saudi Arabia

Njood Alaboud | Resident

Njood
Njood Alaboud
Resident | Saudi Arabia

ENT resident in King Fahad Specialist Hospital

Lectures by this speaker
Tuesday, 2021-10-12
Lecture 11: Perception And Knowledge of Cochlear Implant Among Ahsaa Population In Saudi Arabia

  14:30 - 14:45

  14:30 - 14:45

Lecture 12: Aural Habilitation Service Delivery during the Covid-19 Quarantine, for Cochlear Implanted Children at Syrian Organization for Persons with Disabilities-Aamal

Samer Mohsen | M.D., ENT, Ph.D. of Audiology.

Samer
Samer Mohsen
M.D., ENT, Ph.D. of Audiology. | Syria

Being an ENT doctor with the Ph.D. degree in Audiology has helped me much in clinical practice and research especially in tinnitus and vestibular disorders. I have more than 9 published papers with more than 15 article reviews and I participated as a speaker in many important meetings. Now I am the teacher of Audiology at Damascus University and also I am teaching ENT at the faculty of Medicine.

Lectures by this speaker
Monday, 2021-10-11
Lecture 3: Counseling, Sound Therapy, And Positive Promotion Using social media Could Alleviate Tinnitus Distress In 23 Chronic Tinnitus Sufferers

  15:15 - 15:30

Tuesday, 2021-10-12
Lecture 12: Aural Habilitation Service Delivery during the Covid-19 Quarantine, for Cochlear Implanted Children at Syrian Organization for Persons with Disabilities-Aamal

  14:45 - 15:00

  14:45 - 15:00

Lecture 13: Cochlear Implants 2021 Update

Hesham Elmashad | Ent consultant

Hesham
Hesham Elmashad
Ent consultant | Saudi Arabia

ENT CONSULTANT & MEDICAL DIRECTOR OF MAKKAH INSITITUTE FOR SPEECH AND HEARING 2010. MD IN 2001 SPEAKER IN MANY NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

Lectures by this speaker
Tuesday, 2021-10-12
Lecture 13: Cochlear Implants 2021 Update

  15:30 - 15:45

  15:30 - 15:45

Lecture 14: Cochlear implants in Saudi Arabia: Is there a need for CPG?

Musaed AlZahrani | ORL Program Director

Musaed
Musaed AlZahrani
ORL Program Director | Saudi Arabia

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Lectures by this speaker
Tuesday, 2021-10-12
Lecture 14: Cochlear implants in Saudi Arabia: Is there a need for CPG?

  15:45 - 16:00

  15:45 - 16:00

Panel Discussion: Challenges In CI Surgeries

Abdulrahman Hagr | Director of King Abdullah Ear Specialist Center, at King Abdulaziz University Hospital

Abdulrahman
Abdulrahman Hagr
Director of King Abdullah Ear Specialist Center, at King Abdulaziz University Hospital | Saudi Arabia

Professor Abdulrahman Abdullah Hagr received his bachelor degree in Medicine and Surgery at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in 1996. Completed his postgraduate studies in Otolaryngology from McGill University, Canada, in 2004 and Otology and Neurotology from Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, in 2005. He holds the following certificates: MBBS, Saudi Council Examination, Internship, MCCEE, King Medal for Merit, Principles of Surgery, Royal College of Canada, and Dalhousie University Otology Fellowship. A professor and consultant at King Saud University, consultant at the Ministry of Health for National Neonatal Screening Program, consultant at Al Habib Medical Center- otology-neurotology and a skull base surgeon. Professor Hagr is the founder and advisor of the Cochlear Implant Programs in Saudi Arabia. He is also the founder of the Otology Neurotology Fellowship Program at king Saud University, founder of the largest cochlear implant program in Middle East, the founder of the first Bone Anchored Hearing Aid (BAHA), Hybrid CI, ABI, ABCI, Vistafix, Vibroplasty and Bonebridge programs in Saudi Arabia. He is currently the director of the following: King Abdullah Ear Specialist Center, at King Abdulaziz University Hospital, King Saud University, Director of the National Saudi Neonatal Screening Program, Prince Sultan Research Chair for Hearing Disabilities (RCHD). President of the Saudi ORL Society and a member of King Saud University Counseling Board for Scientific Studies. Professor Hagr is the Goodwill Ambassador of American Academy of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery. He is the Chairman of International Arab Cochlear Conference (ACIC). He has made numerous conference presentations worldwide and an author of eight books and more than thirty-five scientific articles.

Lectures by this speaker
Tuesday, 2021-10-12
Lecture 1: More Teaching Less Complications

  08:30 - 09:00

Tuesday, 2021-10-12
Panel Discussion: Challenges In CI Surgeries

  16:00 - 16:30

Khassan Diab | Professor of the Department of Otolaryngology, Faculty of Postgraduate education, Pirogov Russian

Khassan
Khassan Diab
Professor of the Department of Otolaryngology, Faculty of Postgraduate education, Pirogov Russian | Russia

Diab Khassan Mohamad Ali was born in 1973. In 1990 he graduated the school college Notre Dame de Paris in Lebanon. In 1999 he graduated from the medical care faculty of Rostov State Medical University. From 1999 till 2003 he studied as a resident on the ENT department of the same university and in St. Petersburg research Institute of Ear, Nose, Throat and Speech. After finishing the residency in 2003 Khassan Diab was admitted to the 2-year fellowship from which he graduated having passed a PhD thesis defense on the topic «Unsatisfactory results of stapedoplasty and ways of their correction».

Lectures by this speaker
Sunday, 2021-10-10
Lecture 2: Management Of Petrous Bone Cholesteatoma

  09:00 - 09:30

Monday, 2021-10-11
Lecture 1: Results Of Facial Nerve Reconstruction

  16:15 - 16:45

Tuesday, 2021-10-12
Lecture 5: Cochlear Implantation in Cases of Cochleovestibular Pathology

  12:00 - 12:15

Tuesday, 2021-10-12
Panel Discussion: Challenges In CI Surgeries

  16:00 - 16:30

Firas Alzoubi | Senior Consultant and Professor of Otolaryngology

Firas
Firas Alzoubi
Senior Consultant and Professor of Otolaryngology | Jordan

Firas Alzoubi, MD, FRCS, is a Senior Consultant and Professor of Otolaryngology, School of Medicine of Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST) and the director of the Cochlear Implant and Hearing Solutions Centre of King Abdullah University Hospital and member of the steering committee of his royal highness the crown prince initiative “Hearing without Borders”. He was graduated from the school of medicine at JUST in 1993 and get his Otolaryngology training in Jordan and then in Manchester, UK where he was awarded the fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1999. He was appointed as the head of ENT division, the Head of Special surgery department at the school of Medicine for more than 10 years followed by being the vice dean for the clinical specialties. Prof. Alzoubi is a leading otologist and CI surgeon who is heavily involved with training, research and establishing state of the art CI centers all over the region. He published more than 43 articles in well-respected international journals with 1014 citations.

Lectures by this speaker
Tuesday, 2021-10-12
Lecture 6: Cochlear Implant Electrode Design; The Future Trends

  12:15 - 12:30

Tuesday, 2021-10-12
Panel Discussion: Challenges In CI Surgeries

  16:00 - 16:30

Ammar Al Lawati | Senior Consultant Otorhinolaryngology

Ammar
Ammar Al Lawati
Senior Consultant Otorhinolaryngology | Oman

Dr. Ammar is a Senior Consultant Otorhinolaryngology at Al Nahdha Hospital, Oman Educational Certificate: Doctor in Medicine and Surgery, Collage of medicine & Surgery University of the Studies of Rome “La Sapienza in 1995. Specialty Facharzt in Otorhinolaryngology, from Germany, Bochum University, by prof. H. Hildmann in 2005. Fellowship in Italy by Gruppo Otologico, Piacenza, by Prof. Mario Sanna, 2008 Awards from italiane State in 2002: (Cavaliere al merito della Repoblica Italiana) Main interest in Otology, in particular cochlear implantation and Lateral Skull Base. Have multiple published papers in different journals.

Lectures by this speaker
Tuesday, 2021-10-12
Lecture 8: Incomplete Partition Type III, Computed Tomography Features And Cochlear Implantation Complications

  13:30 - 14:00

Tuesday, 2021-10-12
Panel Discussion: Challenges In CI Surgeries

  16:00 - 16:30

Mohamed Alshehabi | Surgeon - Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery

Mohamed
Mohamed Alshehabi
Surgeon - Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery | Bahrain

Dr. Shehabi is a surgeon of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery ( ORL HNS) in the Royal Medical Services- Military Hospital, Kingdom of Bahrain he received his B.S and M.D from the Arabian Gulf University ‏‏in Bahrain. Then He obtained his Saudi Board in ORL HNS , and King Saud fellowship in ORL HNS in Riyadh, After which he had his fellowship in Neurotology from The RCSI ( Dublin, Ireland) He currently hold the position of chairman of the ENT department in the Royal medical Services and a member in the Board of management in the Crown Prince Training and Research Centre in the Kingdom of Bahrain and a lecturer in the Royal College of Surgeon of Ireland ( Bahrain )

Lectures by this speaker
Tuesday, 2021-10-12
Lecture 2: Surgical Considerations: Cochlear Implantation in Children

  11:15 - 11:30

Tuesday, 2021-10-12
Lecture 10: Sequential Bilateral Implantation in Older Children: Inter-Implant Map Differences and Their Effects in Functional Outcomes

  14:15 - 14:30

Tuesday, 2021-10-12
Panel Discussion: Challenges In CI Surgeries

  16:00 - 16:30

  16:00 - 16:30

Cochlear Symposium: Smart Has Never Been so Simple and Discreet

Deepthi Poovayya | Training Manager

Deepthi
Deepthi Poovayya
Training Manager | United Arab Emirates

Deepthi has a master’s degree in Audiology and extensive experience working in various roles with Cochlear in India, the Middle East and Africa. She has been focused on coaching and training professionals as well as working with recipients to improve outcomes. Almost 2 years ago, she took on the role of training manager and is working with the Cochlear Academy team to deliver the training needs of professionals throughout the Middle East and Africa.

Lectures by this speaker
Tuesday, 2021-10-12
Cochlear Symposium: Smart Has Never Been so Simple and Discreet

  16:30 - 16:45

  16:30 - 16:45

Lunch Break

  12:45 - 13:30

Break & Exhibition Visit

  15:00 - 15:30

Session 9: Temporal Bone - Radiology Master Class
Lecture 1: Temporal bone radiology - basic

Ashkan Monfared | Professor of Surgery and Neurosurgery

Ashkan
Ashkan Monfared
Professor of Surgery and Neurosurgery | USA

Ashkan Monfared, MD is professor of Surgery and Neurosurgery at the George Washington School of Medicine & Health Sciences. He was recruited from Stanford University over ten years ago to serve as the Director of Otology, Neurotology, and Skullbase Surgery. Dr. Monfared completed his medical training, residency and fellowship at Stanford University Medical Center. He has had the distinct honor of serving at the Veteran Administration Hospital and the Walter Reed National Medical Center. As a researcher in the areas of acoustic neuromas, he has authored several peer-reviewed scientific papers and book chapters. He is the principal investigator of a multi-center prospective study on large acoustic neuromas (vestibular schwannomas) known as Acoustic Neuroma Subtotal Resection Study (ANSRS). His current research interests beside acoustic neuromas include otologic simulators, hearing loss due to sickle cell anemia, intracranial hypertension, and resident education. Dr. Monfared established the GW Comprehensive Hearing Center, which is one of the only adult cochlear implant programs in the Metro DC area. Since 2004 Dr. Monfared has been active in international humanitarian medical missions. He is on the board of directors of Global ENT Outreach, a non-profit humanitarian organization providing assistance and education with otologic surgeries in many developing countries. He has served in Ethiopia, El Salvador, Belize, Peru, and the American Samoa. Dr. Monfared is a trained classical pianist and fluent in Persian.

Sessions by this speaker
Saturday, 2021-10-09
Temporal Bone Direction Course

  08:00 - 18:00

Lectures by this speaker
Sunday, 2021-10-10
Lecture 1: Avoiding Surgical Complications in Otological Surgeries

  08:30 - 09:00

Tuesday, 2021-10-12
Lecture 3: Latest Development in Surgical Education and Simulation

  09:30 - 10:00

Tuesday, 2021-10-12
Lecture 1: Temporal bone radiology - basic

  16:45 - 17:15

Tuesday, 2021-10-12
Lecture 2: Temporal bone radiology - Advance

  17:15 - 18:15

  16:45 - 17:15

Lecture 2: Temporal bone radiology - Advance

Ashkan Monfared | Professor of Surgery and Neurosurgery

Ashkan
Ashkan Monfared
Professor of Surgery and Neurosurgery | USA

Ashkan Monfared, MD is professor of Surgery and Neurosurgery at the George Washington School of Medicine & Health Sciences. He was recruited from Stanford University over ten years ago to serve as the Director of Otology, Neurotology, and Skullbase Surgery. Dr. Monfared completed his medical training, residency and fellowship at Stanford University Medical Center. He has had the distinct honor of serving at the Veteran Administration Hospital and the Walter Reed National Medical Center. As a researcher in the areas of acoustic neuromas, he has authored several peer-reviewed scientific papers and book chapters. He is the principal investigator of a multi-center prospective study on large acoustic neuromas (vestibular schwannomas) known as Acoustic Neuroma Subtotal Resection Study (ANSRS). His current research interests beside acoustic neuromas include otologic simulators, hearing loss due to sickle cell anemia, intracranial hypertension, and resident education. Dr. Monfared established the GW Comprehensive Hearing Center, which is one of the only adult cochlear implant programs in the Metro DC area. Since 2004 Dr. Monfared has been active in international humanitarian medical missions. He is on the board of directors of Global ENT Outreach, a non-profit humanitarian organization providing assistance and education with otologic surgeries in many developing countries. He has served in Ethiopia, El Salvador, Belize, Peru, and the American Samoa. Dr. Monfared is a trained classical pianist and fluent in Persian.

Sessions by this speaker
Saturday, 2021-10-09
Temporal Bone Direction Course

  08:00 - 18:00

Lectures by this speaker
Sunday, 2021-10-10
Lecture 1: Avoiding Surgical Complications in Otological Surgeries

  08:30 - 09:00

Tuesday, 2021-10-12
Lecture 3: Latest Development in Surgical Education and Simulation

  09:30 - 10:00

Tuesday, 2021-10-12
Lecture 1: Temporal bone radiology - basic

  16:45 - 17:15

Tuesday, 2021-10-12
Lecture 2: Temporal bone radiology - Advance

  17:15 - 18:15

  17:15 - 18:15


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