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Final Agenda for the 2018 SPOSG

January 12-14, 2018 (MLK Weekend)

Friday

January 12

Saturday

January 13

7:30-8:00am

8:00-8:45

Arrive and settle in. Meet at the lobby bar for late night social hour.

Breakfast and AV Setup

Update on the activities of our societies that impact our practices:

  • ASPO: Bruce Maddern

  • AAO-HNS: Stacey Ishman

  • SENTAC: David Darrow

  • AAP: Steve Sobol

  • ACS: Craig Derkay

  • AMA: Craig Derkay

8:45- 10:15am

Business Issues: Moderated by Craig Derkay
Coding update 2018: Larry Simon

Use of scribes vs. templates vs Dragon in implementing your office EMR: what works best/most economical in a busy Peds OTO office: David Darrow


Clinical scenarios that prompt Attending notification when your practice is covered by residents/fellows/ PA’s or  PNPs: Evelyn Kluka and Steve Sobol

10:15 - 12 noon

Pediatric Otolaryngology Journal Club (Presentations of one or two key articles from the past year in each field with critique)

  • What’s new in Otitis Media: Scott Brietzke + interesting sleep case

  • What’s new in pain control after Tonsillectomy: Jim Thomsen

  • What’s new in Pediatric Allergy and Rhinosinusitis: Amy Coffey

  • What’s new in Head and Neck/Pediatric Airway—John Carter 

  • What’s new in hearing amplification in children: Carlos Gonzalez

12noon-100pm

1:00 - 1:30 pm

Lunch with Discussion

  • New technologies and new uses for existing technology: Industry guests

Point/Counterpoint: Surgical management of tongue tie and lip tie in infants and young children Cristina Baldassari and Jeff Simons

1:30 - 2 :00 pm

2:00 - 2:30 pm

2:30 - 3:00 pm

Eustachian Tube balloon dilation experience: tips, tricks and indications: Gopi Shah, Anthony Sheyn

Managing burnout/developing resilience throughout a Pediatric Otolaryngology career Mark Boston
and Mel Schloss

Risks of general anesthesia/repeated general anesthesias in young children: What is the evidence and how to discuss this with families:_Stacey Ishman

Free time

7:00pm

Course dinner

Sunday

January 14

7:30am-8:00am

8:00 - 9.30am

Breakfast with AV Setup

Difficult /interesting cases

  • Airway: _Sam Ostrower, Stuart Morganstern 

  • Head and neck: Lindhe Guarisco

  • Otology: Andy Simonsen and Bo Lewis (Ear cultures vs Advanced genomic sequencing)

  • Rhinology:Andy Sipp (Pneumococcal and Hib Immunity in Children with chronic sinusitis)

  • Craniofacial: Scott Reikert

  • Zika: Ramzi Younis

9:30 - 10:00 am

10:50 - 11:20am

10:00 - 10:20

Pediatric otoplasty: Mark Armeni

Update on Avastin in severe RRP: Karen Zur

Writing and reading letters of recommendations for medical students; residents; fellows and for promotion of colleagues:__Bill Collins

1145-noon:

11:20 - 11:45am

11:50 - noon

Bundled payment models--where does the Pediatric Otolaryngologist fit in: Mike Biavati

Discussion of timing/venue for SPOSG 2019:Rande Lazar

Adjourn

2:00 - 2:30 pm

3:00 - 7:00 pm

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