Final Agenda for the 2020 SPOEG
January 17-19, 2020 (MLK Weekend)
Friday
January 17
Arrive and settle in. Meet at the lobby bar for late night social hour.
Saturday
January 18
7:00-8:00 am
Breakfast and AV Setup
8:00-8:45 am
Update on the activities of our societies that impact our practices:
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ASPO: Jeff Simons
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AAO-HNS: Jeff_Simons
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SENTAC: David Darrow
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ESPO: George Zalzal
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AAP: Steve Sobol
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ACS: Craig Derkay
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AMA: Craig Derkay
8:45-10:00 am
Business Issues: Moderated by Craig Derkay
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Patient/Provider communications: Getting it right / Using technology for appointment scheduling: improving patient satisfaction (Emily Boss/ Karin Hotchkiss)
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Managing/preventing Burnout—Does counseling help? (Ron Eavey/Evelyn Kluka)
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Taking care of family members/friends with ENT issues (Mike Biavati/ Earl Harley)
10:00-10:20 am
Break with exhibitors
10:20-10:40 am
Physicians talking with their wives/husbands about patients: Where is the HIPPA line between personal and professional? (Craig/Mark Boston)
10:40-11:15 am
Office challenges (Steve Sobol/Pam Mudd)
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Chronic tardiness from parents/patients (or even how to handle the late-arriving patient)
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Dismissing patients from your practice
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Parents who are rude to staff (and then often very nice to the physician)
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Easing the anxiety & frustration of long wait times in clinic
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Handling parents who “demand” a surgery that is marginally indicated (or not indicated at all).
11:15-12:15 pm
Pediatric Otolaryngology Journal Club (Presentations of one or two key articles from the past year in each field with critique)
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What’s new in Otitis Media (Andrew Simonsen)
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What’s new in OSA/Recurrent tonsillitis: PACU extubation safety and efficacy (Jim Thomsen)
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What’s new in Pediatric Otology (Ken Kazahaya)
12:15-1:15 pm
Lunch with Exhibitors
1:15-1:40 pm
Managing Dysphonia among Pediatric professional singers (Scott Rickert)
1:40-2:00 pm
Point/Counterpoint: Laryngeal reinnervation vs thyroplasty vs posterior grafts for vocal cord paralysis in children (Pam Mudd/Karen Zur)
2:00-2:20 pm
Break with Exhibitors
2:20-3:00 pm
In-office tympanostomy tubes: Are we ready for this? Pros and cons for you and your families, hospitals and surgi-centers. (Jim Kosko / John McClay / Frank Rimell)
3:00 - 5:30 pm
Free Time
5:30-7:00 pm
Cocktail Party sponsored by Palm Allergy
Hotel lobby bar
7 pm
Course Dinner
8:00-8:15 am
Discussion of future venues/formats/funding
Sunday
January 19
7:30-8:00 am
Breakfast with AV Setup
8:15-9:30 am
Difficult /interesting cases:
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Airway (Jeff Simons)
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Head and neck (Lindhe Guarisco/Stuart Morganstein)
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Otology (Brian Reilly)
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Facial Plastics/Craniofacial (Mark Armeni)
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Tonsils/adenoids: (Lindhe Guarisco)
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Foreign body: (John Carter)
9:30-10:00 am
Break with exhibitors
10:00 - 10:30am
Point/Counterpoint: Role of DISE—At initial T&A or for failures/kids with CP etc. How best to code and get paid? (Cristina Baldassari / Stacey Ishman)
10.30-11:00am
Update on management of Airway Hemangiomas (David Darrow)
11:00 - 11:30am
What’s new in hearing amplification? BAHA, Cochlear implants for single sided deafness, OTC hearing aids (Anita Jeyakumar)
11:30-12 pm
Running two rooms: Ethics vs Efficiency of synchronous surgery (Bill Collins)
12 noon
Adjourn until 2021