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