31st Scientific Meeting of the Caribbean Association Of Otolaryngologists (CAO)
in Association with the University of the West Indies
and American Academy of Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery,

April 29 – May 1, 2024

“Global ENT: the new and the practical”

PROGRAMMES

Sunday 28th April 2024
Arrival and Registration
8:00am – Golf Tournament
5:00pm – Meet @ the Beach



Day 1

Monday 29th April 2024

7:45am – 8:10am
Opening
Dr. Lysandra Berenos-Riley
Vice President of the Caribbean Association of Otolaryngologists
Chairman of Local Organizing Committee

Dr. Barbara Salmon-Grandison
President of the Caribbean Association of Otolaryngologists

8:10am – 8:30am
Invited Speaker
Prof. Ingemar Merkies
Neurologist and Chief Medical Officer of the Curaçao Medical Center

Moderator: Myrton Smith

SESSION 1
LARYNGOLOGY

8:30am – 9:00 am
Evaluation of Dysphagia
Greg Postma (USA)

9:00am – 9:30am
Recurrent Respiratory Papillomatosis – A paradigm shift?
Rico Rinkel (Netherlands)

9:30am – 10:00am
Management of Paradoxical motion of the larynx
Neil Chheda (USA)

10:00am – 10:15am
Coffee Break

SESSION 2
SNORING AND OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA/OTOLOGY

10:15am –  10:45am
Demystifying the sleep study
Amy Blanchard (USA)

10:45am – 11:15am
Medical therapy for sleep apnea: You’ll be blown away
Amy Blanchard (USA)

11:15am – 11:45am
The Inspire approach and some novel advances
Jimmy Brown (USA)

11:45am – 12:15pm
AirLift: Are we overlooking a worthwhile technique?
Jimmy Brown (USA)

12:15pm – 1:00pm
Managing chronic ear disease
Rex Haberman (USA)

1:00pm – 2:00pm
Lunch Break

Moderator: St. Clair Thomas

SESSION 3
OTOLOGY

2:00pm – 2:30pm
The dizzy patient
Fermin Stuart (USA)

2:30pm – 3:00pm
Pulsatile tinnitus: look and you will find. The Curaçao series
Nadjah Buitenweg (Curaçao)

3:00pm – 3:30pm
How to set up a CI program in a resource poor setting
Solly Juman (Trinidad & Tobago)

3:30pm – 4:00pm
Medical and surgical aspects of malignant external otitis
Lenny Surage (St Lucia)

4:00pm – 4:15pm
Coffee Break

SESSION 4
OTOLOGY AND CASE REPORTS

4:15pm – 4:45pm
Sudden sensorineural hearing loss during the pandemic in a local centre
Guyan Channer (Jamaica)

4:45pm – 5:15pm
Complications of rhinosinusitis, a case report
Lysandra Riley (Curacao)

6:30pm – 8:30pm
Social activity



Day 2
Tuesday 30th April 2024

Moderator: James Fortson

SESSION 1
HEAD AND NECK SURGERY

8:00am – 8:30am
Indeterminate thyroid nodules in 2024: options and expectations
David Terris (USA)

8:30am – 9:00am
Advanced laryngeal cancer
Simone Eerenstein (Netherlands)

9:00am – 9:30am
Facial Deformity Clinic
Jerome Philip (Trinidad & Tobago)

9:30am – 10:00am
Nuances in Parathyroid surgery: lessons learned after 2500 operations
David Terris (USA)

10:00am – 10:15am
Coffee Break

SESSION 2
HEAD AND NECK SURGERY/PEDIATRIC OTOLARYNGOLOGY

10:15am – 10:45am
Upper Cervical Spine Tumors: individualized approaches for radical resection and arthrodesis
Daniel Refai (USA)

10:45am – 11:15am
Acute airway in children
Haytham Kubba (Scotland)

11:15am – 11:45am
Pediatric intracapsular tonsillectomy, evolution of change in surgical practice
Earl Harley (USA)

11:45am – 12:15pm
An otolaryngologic overview of PANDAS and PANS in children
Earl Harley (USA)

12:15pm – 1:00pm
Panel Discussion
Misleading Commercials

1:00pm – 2:00pm
Lunch Break

Moderator: Lenny Surage

2:00pm – 2:30pm
Balloon sinus dilation in the office: pearls and pitfalls
David Dillard (USA)

2:30pm – 3:00pm
Updates on the Management of Recalcitrant Chronic Sinusitis
Warren Mullings (Jamaica)

3:00pm – 3:30pm
Dacryocystorhinostomy
Warren Mullings (Jamaica)

3:30pm – 4.00pm
Endoscopic skull base surgery – The UHWI experience
Myrton Smith (Jamaica)

4:00pm – 4:30pm
The management of frontal sinus fractures
Gregory Antoine (USA)

4:45pm
Social Activity



Day 3
Wednesday 1st May 2024

Moderator: Solly Juman

SESSION 1
LARYNGOLOGY/HEAD & NECK SURGERY

8:00am – 8:30am
Contemporary Management of globus pharyngeus
Greg Postma (UAS)

8:30am – 9:00am
When Good Injections go Bad: Management of Suboptimal Vocal Fold Augmentations
Neil Chheda (USA)

9:00am – 9:30am
Laryngeal abnormalities: to cut or not to cut!
Rico Rinkel (Netherlands)

9:30am – 10:00am
Sialendoscopy
Eugene Myers (USA)

10:00am – 10:15am
Coffee Break

SESSION 2
HEAD & NECK SURGERY/OTOLOGY

10:15am – 10:45am
Cystic lesions in the neck; diagnostic dilemmas in adults and treatment options
Simone Eerenstein (Netherlands)

10:45am – 11:15am
Complications of otitis media: a dangerous chameleon
Mick Metselaar (Netherlands)

11:15am – 11:45am
Mastoid cavity obliteration: the pros and cons
Mick Metselaar (Netherlands)

11:45am – 12:15pm
Dive Medicine for the Practicing Otolaryngologist: A Review of Common Otologic Conditions and Current Treatment Recommendations
Rex Haberman (USA)

12:15pm – 12:30pm
Questions

12:30pm – 2:00pm
Lunch

Moderator: Barbara Grandison

SESSION 3
GENERAL ENT

2:00pm – 2:30pm
The Otorhinogologic Dysfunction of Respiratory Tract Infections, including Covid
Halda Shaw (Jamaica)

2:30 – 3:00pm
Establishing Simulated Training for ENT
Thushitha Kunanandam (Scotland)

3:00pm – 3:30pm
Experiences with Utilization Review-How to be approved every time
Harold Pilsbury (USA)

3:30pm – 5:00pm
AGM

7:00pm – 11:00pm
Banquet