At the Frontier 2008
Another interesting and highly informative Frontiers in
Otolaryngology meeting will be held next year in Queensland at the
Sheraton Noosa.Beginning with registration and a welcoming cocktail
party on Wednesday evening, July 30, the conference will be held from
Thursday, July 31 until Friday, August 1.
All speakers are by invitation only and their topics for presentation
have been chosen with the aim of surveying present knowledge and
exploring still developing technologies and research that are likely to
influence clinical practice in Otolaryngology.
Overseas speakers will include Marshall Strome, professor and chairman
of the Cleveland Head and Neck Institute, Daniel Bodmer, group leader
of the Inner Ear Laboratory at the University Hospital, Zurich and
Claus Bachert from the University of Ghent, Belgium. Their
presentations will explore the future and science of laryngeal surgery
including laryngeal transplantation, life and death in the Inner Ear
including the future of stem cell therapy for hearing disorders, wound
healing after sinus surgery and future approaches in treating nasal
polyp disease. Exciting stuff!
In addition, eminent Australian scientists will be surveying the areas
of Nanotechnology (Professor Gordon Wallace, Director of the
Intelligent Polymer Research Institute at the University of
Wollongong), Tissue Engineering (Professor Melissa Little from the
Institute of Molecular Bioscience at the University of Queensland) and
Imaging as a means of assessing Biomedical function (Associate
Professor Gary Egan from the Howard Florey Institute). All will be
covering their fields in general terms but also looking towards the
application of these fields to advancing Otolaryngology.
Presentations from all these speakers will be balanced by additional
talks by Australian and New Zealand otolaryngologists and scientists,
most of whom have received funding from the The Garnett Passe and
Rodney Williams Memorial Foundation and who have been heavily involved
in outstanding otolaryngological research and new technological
developments. Topics such as hi-tech surgery and Imaging, Virtual
Reality, Tinnitus and Electrocochleography research, Auditory Brain
Stem implants, Cochlear nerve and Otic capsule morphology,
Biofilms and Haemostasis in relation to sinus disease and surgery,
together with advanced concepts for repair of the Tympanic membrane
will all be covered. This should be fascinating. The work of these
speakers represents a new and exciting era emerging in Otolaryngology
in our part of the world.
The meeting has been designed to be highly innovative, moderately
intense and informative but understandable - yet will also provide some
free time for shopping or swimming. It will undoubtedly leave you
stimulated and filled with amazement at what is happening at the
Frontier of Otolaryngology.
Don’t miss it.
DEAN BEAUMONT
Chairman of the Board
The Garnett Passe and Rodney Williams
Memorial Foundation
