Course Directors
Clinical Associate Professor Alex Saxby
Clinical Associate Professor Jonathan Kong
Invited International Faculty
Prof. Brian Westerberg (Vancouver, Canada)
Prof. Manohar Bance (Cambridge, UK)
Local Faculty
Clinical Associate Professor Nicholas Jufas
Clinical Professor Nirmal Patel
Clinical Associate Dr. David Pohl
Clinical Associate Professor Catherine Birman
Clinical Associate Dr. Nathan Creber
Programme
Day 1 Wednesday 26th March 2025
LECTURE ROOM | 7:30 – 8:00 | Coffee/Registration | |
8:00 – 8:30 | WELCOME | ||
Welcome and Introductions | 10mins | ||
IWGEES Approach to Otology: “Endoscope and microscope in partnership” | 15mins | ||
8:30 – 8:45 | LECTURE: Endoscopic Anatomy Lecture | 15mins | |
Walk to lab/cross over 15mins | |||
DISSECTION LAB | 9:00 – 9:15 | ENDOSCOPIC DEMONSTRATION | 15mins |
Holding the scope, raising a TM flap | |||
Anatomy of the middle ear | |||
9:15 – 11:45 | DISSECTION Session ONE | 2hr 30mins | |
STEP 1: Ear preparation, TM Flap & Prussak’s space | |||
STEP 2: Protympanum, Eustachian Tube, Tensor Fold | |||
STEP 3: Epitympanum and Lateral Attic | |||
STEP 4: Retrotympanum & Hypotympanum | |||
Morning tea will be served ar the cross over (10:15) | |||
LECTURE ROOM | 12:00 – 12:30 | Pre-lunch LECTURES | |
LECTURE: Advantages of Endoscope in cholesteatoma surgery | 10mins | ||
PANAL: Tips and pearls for endoscopic ear surgery: | 20mins Whole faculty | ||
Endoscopic instruments, Equipement, Control of bleeding, First Steps, Mistakes | |||
LUNCH | |||
12:30 – 3:15 | Luch LECTURES | ||
Cochlear implant Industry Updates (10min per company) | 30mins | ||
LECTURE: Mastoid Anatomy | 10mins | ||
Walk to lab/cross over 15mins | |||
DISSECTION LAB | 13:30 – 13:45 | MICROSCOPIC DEMONSTRATION | Brian Westerberg |
Mastoidectomy & Facial Recess | 15mins | ||
Cochlear implantation | |||
13:45 – 16:15 | DISSECTION Session TWO | 2hr 30mins | |
Microscopic Cortical mastoidectomy | |||
Microscopic Facial Recess approach | |||
Microscopic Cochlear implantation | |||
Endoscopic Atticomomy, incus removal | |||
Endoscopic OCR (PORP) | |||
Compare view from endoscope and microscope | |||
Art Gallery NSW | 17:30 – 18:15 | ART after HOURS tour | |
Wollomoloo | 18:30 Late | Course dinner with plenary lecture | Brian Westerberg |
“Surgery and Elite Sport: parralels and lessons learnt” |
Day 2 Thursday 27th March 2025
LECTURE ROOM | 7:30 – 8:00 | Coffee | |
8:00 – 8:30 | Morning lectures | ||
PANAL: Atticotomy vs mastoidectomy | |||
LECTURE: Canal wall down mastoidectomy: Indications & technique | Whole Faculty | ||
LECTURE: Balloon tuboplasty and Patulous ET | |||
DISSECTION LAB | 8:45 – 9:00 | BALLOON DILATATION DEMONSTRATION 3 | 15MINS |
Balloon dilatation of Eustachian Tube | |||
9:00 – 9:30 | DISSECTION Session THREE | 30mins | |
Balloon dilatation of the ET | |||
9:30 – 9:45 | CWD DEMONSTRATION 4 | 15mins | |
CWD Mastoidectomy & Meatoplasty | |||
9:45 – 12:15 | DISSECTION Session FOUR | 2hr 30mins | |
CWD Mastoidectomy & Meatoplasty | |||
Superior semicircular canal plugging | |||
Endolymphatic sac identification | |||
Labyrinthectomy | |||
LECTURE ROOM | 12:30 – 13:30 | LUNCH | |
Lunch LECTURES | 1hr | ||
PANAL: Advantages and disadvantages of the Endoscope and the microscope | 15mins Whole Faculty | ||
PANAL: Stapedotomy (Tips and Pearls) | 15mins Whole Faculty | ||
LECTURE: The future of otology; Exoscopes, robots and more! | 15mins | ||
LECTURE: Lateral Skull Base Surgery: The three main approaches | 15mins | ||
DISSECTION LAB | 13:30 – 14:00 | INNER EAR ANATOMY DEMONSTRATION 5 | 15mins |
Transpromontory IAC approach | |||
Retrosigmoid approach showing brainstem anatomy | |||
14:00 – 17:00 | DISSECTION Session FOUR | 3hrs | |
Inner ear anatomy dissection (Transpromontory IAC approach) | |||
Then various options: | |||
*Complete any unfinished tasks | |||
*Translabyrinthine approach | |||
*Retrosigmoid approach | |||
*Middle Fossa Approach | |||
*VII transposition/Fisch A Approach | |||
*Fisch B or C Approach |
Art Gallery NSW | 17:30 – 18:15 | ART after HOURS tour | |
Wollomoloo | 18:30 Late | Course dinner with plenary lecture | Brian Westerberg |
“Surgery and Elite Sport: parralels and lessons learnt” |
- Understand and practice the fundamentals of endoscopic and microscopic approaches.
- Technical tips and pearls from world experts.
- Panel discussions on key management decisions.
- Demonstrations of all key steps (Endoscopic, mastoidectomy, Eustachian tube dilatation).
- Lectures on key anatomy and techniques.
- Allow participants to tailor their dissections to best suit their learning objectives on the second day, depending on their level of expertise (e.g. Concentrate on middle ear and mastoid or if more advanced, use the specimen to explore more complex approaches).
Wednesday 26th March 2025 – Thursday 27th March 2025
(ASOHNS ASM begins the following day (Friday 28th March 2025)
Glen Croxson Otology and Temporal Bone Laboratory, Level 9, Main hospital
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, Sydney, Australia
- Dissector 18 positions – Early bird until Dec 31st – $3150
- Observer 5 positions – $1000