Monday October 15  MBNA Conference Center, InterContinental Hotel

Note: Before we were otologists, we were otolaryngologists. This morning meet one of our specialty’s most significant and unique achievements: the world’s first and only successful larynx transplant patient.

8:00 - 8:20     Marshall Strome, MD: “Laryngeal Transplantation”
8:20 - 8:40     Douglas Hicks, PhD: “Serial Videostroboscopy of the Transplanted Larynx”
8:40 - 9:00     Guest of Honor Timothy Heidler: World’s first successful larynx transplant
9:00 - 9:10     Discussion
 

9:10 - 9:20     Introduction of Guest Speaker by Bruce J. Gantz, MD
9:20 - 10:00   Guest Speaker Jeffrey P. Harris, MD, PhD: “Otoimmunology”
10:00 - 10:10 Discusssion
 

10:10 - 10:30 Coffee Break
Politzer Prize Session chaired by President Jacques Magnan, MD
 

100 CHEMICAL GENETICS APPROACH YIELDS A NOVEL CLASS OF COMPOUNDS THAT PROTECT MAMMALIAN HAIR CELLS
Felipe Santos, Anna Knisely, Julian Simon, David Raible, Edwin Rubel
Department of Otolaryngology-HNS, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA; Virginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA; Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA; Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

101 ROBUST POSTMORTEM SURVIVAL OF MURINE VESTIBULAR AND COCHLEAR STEM CELLS
Pascal Senn1, Kazuo Oshima2, Dawn Teo2, Christian Grimm2, Stefan Heller2
1Dept. of Otorhinolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery, Berne, Switzerland/2Dept. of Otolaryngology, HNS and Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA

102 ISCHEMIC TOLERANCE IN THE COCHLEA
Shoichiro Takeda, Tadashi Yoshida, Nobuhiro Hakuba, Jyun Hyodo, Kensuke Fujita, Ryuji Hata, Kiyofumi Gyo
Department of Otolaryngology, Ehime University School of Medicine, Shitukawa Toon-shi Ehime, Japan; Department of Otolaryngology, Osaka Red Cross Hospital, Fudegasaki-cho5-30 Tennohji-ku Osaka-shi Osaka, Japan; Department of Functional Histology, Ehime University School of Medicine, Shitukawa Toon-shi Ehime, Japan

103 TIME DEPENDENT ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL AND HISTOPATHOLOGICAL CHANGES IN TRAUMATIC FACIAL NERVE INJURY OF A NERVE-CUT AND NERVE-CRUSH MODEL IN RATS
Sertac Yetiser1, Erkan Kahraman2, Bulent Satar3, Serdar Karahatay4, Hakan Birkent5, Abdullah Durmaz6
1Professor, Ankara, Turkey/2ENT Resident, Ankara, Turkey/3Associate Professor, Ankara, Turkey/4Assistant Professor, Ankara, Turkey/5Assistant Professor, Ankara, Turkey/6Assistant Professor, Ankara, Turkey

104 REGIONAL DISTRIBUTION OF MANGANESE SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE 2 (MN SOD2) IN THE SPIRAL GANGLION CELLS OF MICE, RATS, MONKEYS AND HUMANS
Yu-Lan Mary Ying, Carey Balaban
Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

106 EFFECTS OF INTRA-ENDOLYMPHATIC SAC APPLICATION OF LARGE DOSES OF STEROIDS FOR INTRACTABLE MENIERE'S DISEASE: A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL
Tadashi Kitahara1, Shin-ichi Okumura2, Takeshi Kubo1, Masaaki Kitahara3
1Department of Otolaryngology, Osaka University, Suita-city, Japan/2Department of Otolaryngology, Osaka Rosai Hospital, Sakai-city, Japan/3Sosei Neurotologic Medical Center, Kyoto-city, Japan

107 ALTERNATIVE SURGICAL ACCESS FOR COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION
Valeriy Sitnikov, Margarita Levinina, Anatoliy Lopotko
Military-Medical Academy,St.Petersburg,Russia / Institute of Ear,Throat, Nose and Speech, St.Petersburg, Russia / Laboratory of the physiology of hearing and speech in First Medical Institute, St.Petersburg, Russia.

13:30 - 15:00   Panels/Focused Discussion
Hall A
Glomus tumors
Moderator: Mario Sanna, MD
Panelists:
Ugo Fisch, MD, Rick Friedman, MD, PhD, Robert Jackler, MD, Cliff Megerian, MD, Richard Ramsden, MD,

Hall B
Cochlear implants
Moderator: Chong Kim, MD
Panelists:
Robert Briggs, MD, Alec Fitzgerald O’Connor, MD, Bruce Gantz, MD, Joachim Mueller, MD, F. Erwin Offeciers, MD, Peter Weber, MD

Six Continents Room
Chronic otitis media
Moderator: O. Nuri Özgirgin, MD
Panelists:
Klaus Jahnke, MD, Hiroshi Moriyama, MD, Aristides Sismanis, MD, Mirko Tos, MD, Richard Wiet, MD,
 

15:00 - 15:30   Coffee Break
15:30 - 17:00   Panels/Focused Discussion
Hall A
Meniere’s disease
Moderator: Jens Thomsen, MD
Panelists:
Roberto Filipo, MD, William P.R. Gibson, MD, Mohamed Hamid, MD, PhD, Olivier Sterkers, MD, John House, MD, Naoki Yanagihara, MD

Hall B
Hearing preservation in vestibular schwannoma
Jacques Magnan, MD
Panelists:
Derald Brackmann, MD, Jeffrey Harris, MD, PhD, Joung Lee, MD, David Moffat, MD, Samuel Selesnick, MD,
 

Six Continents Room
Stapes surgery
Moderator: Per Møller, MD
Panelists:
F. Antoli-Candela, MD, C. Brahe-Pedersen, MD, Bernard Fraysse, MD, E. Garcia-Ibanez, MD, Rudolph Häusler, MD, Mansfield Smith, MD

17:00  Adjournment