Skip to Main Content

Conference Program

Download Events Subscribe to Calendar »
webcal://anzrs.consec.com.au/calendar.ics

CPD Points

This educational activity has been approved in the RACS CPD Program. By attending the 2019 Australia and New Zealand Rhinologic Society Conference you will qualify for one point per hour in Maintenance of Knowledge and Skills. To a maximum of 17 CPD points.

Day 1  Day 2  Day 3  Full Program

Friday 20th September, 2019

7:00am - 5:00pm

Registration

8:30am - 8:45am

Presidents Welcome

Richard Douglas
Welcome to Country

8:45am - 10:30am

Plenary and Panel Session 1

Room: Conference Hall
Chair: Alkis Psaltis

​Current approaches to CRS
Claire Hopkins
​ ​
Frontal sinus surgery in an era of precision medicine
Zara Patel

​Prevention and management of surgical complications in advanced endoscopic sinus and skull base surgery.
Ricardo Carrau

Panel Discussion
Moderator: Joanne Rimmer
Post-operative management of sinus patients - immediate, first post-op and beyond

Panellists
Claire Hopkins
Anders Cervin
Zara Patel
Rakesh Chandra

10:30am - 11:00am

Morning Tea + Exhibition

11:00am - 12:30pm

Plenary Session 2

Room: Conference Hall
Chair: Raewyn Campbell

Pain and opiate use in sinus surgery
Rakesh Chandra ​ ​

​Contemporary management of HHT
Jo Rimmer

Free Paper: ​Kappa-carrageenan sinus rinses reduce inflammation and intracellular Staphylococcus aureus infection in airway epithelial cells
Bennett C, Ramezanpour M, Cooksley C, Vreugde S, Psaltis AJ

Free Paper: Neutral Electrolysed Water - A NEW alternative to post-operative antibiotic treatment in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis
Lux C,​ Johnston J, Biswas K, Douglas

​Frontal sinus anatomy
Claudio Callejas

A novel 3D model of dissectable frontal sinus anatomy
PJ Wormald

12:30pm - 1:30pm

Lunch + Exhibition

1:30pm - 3:00pm

Plenary Session 3

Room: Conference Hall
Chair: Jo Rimmer

Angiofibromas – The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Ricardo Carrau

Ergonomics in ESS/Skull Base surgery
Raewyn Campbell

Management of Headache
Larry Kalish

Free paper: Sinus disease in cystic fibrosis patients: a microbiology study
Biswas K​​, Wagner Mackensie​, Hoggard M​​, Kim R​, Waldvogel-Thurlow, Dassi C​​, Vivekanandan A​​, Taylor​, Douglas R​

Free paper: Sinonasal microbiome transplant for chronic rhinosinusitis without nasal polyps. Patient reported outcomes and effect on nasal cytokines
Anders Mårtensson​, Malin Lindstedt, Charlotte Cervin-Hoberg, Lennart Greiff, Anders Cervin

GPRWMF and Rhinology
Bill Coman

3:00pm - 3:30pm

Afternoon Tea + Exhibition

3:30pm - 5:00pm

Plenary and Panel Session 4

Room: Conference Hall
Chair: Naveen Bandarkar

Management of Recalcitrant CRS
Claire Hopkins

Free paper: ​Systemic medication use in post-surgical patients with eosinophilic chronic rhinosinusitis (eCRS)
Jacqueline Ho, William Li​​, Jessica W Grayson, Raquel Alvarado, Janet Rimmer, William A Sewell, Richard J Harvey

Free paper: Barrier disruptive effects of mucus isolated from chronic rhinosinusitis patients
Kao S​,Ramezanpour M, Bassiouni A, Finnie J, Womald P, Vreugde S, Psaltis A

Panel Discussion
Moderator: Richard Harvey
My most instructive case

Panellists:
Raymond Sacks
Ricardo Carrau
Rakesh Chandra
PJ Wormald

5:00pm - 6:30pm

Welcome Reception

Location: Crown Promenade Hotel, Melbourne

Saturday 21st September, 2019

7:00am - 5:00pm

Registration

7:15am - 8:15am

Breakfast Session 1 - Medtronic

Room: Conference Hall

Ergonomics of drills & drill choice in endoscopic sinus & skull base surgery
Raewyn Campbell

Carolyn's window and other extended sinus techniques
Richard Harvey

8:30am - 10:30am

Plenary and Panel Session 5

Room: Conference Hall
Chair: Arj Ananda

CSF Leak Management and Reconstruction of Skull Base Defects After EEA
Ricardo Carrau

Functional outcomes after endoscopic skull base surgery
Zara Patel

Sinus and skull base neuroradiology
Shalini Amukotuwa

Free paper: Is there a role for up-to-date imaging in patients awaiting sinus surgery?
Huang L, ​Pun A​, Abbas J, Soumya S, Woods C, Rimmer J, Ooi E

Free paper: A Cadaveric Endoscopic Orbital Surgery Training Model. Validation of use as a training instrument.
C Banks​, Q Husian, N Wolkow, S Freitag, B Bleier

Panel Discussion
Moderator: Narinder Singh
The most significant publications in the last 24 months

Panellists
Yuresh Naidoo
Simon Carney
Nick Stow
Campbell Baguley

10:30am - 11:00am

Morning Tea + Exhibition

11:00am - 12:30pm

Plenary and Panel Session 6

Room: Conference Hall 1
Chair: Scott Graham

Aspirin exacerbated respiratory disease
Rakesh Chandra

Aspirin desensitization from an immunologist's perspective
Kymble Spriggs

Panel Discussion
Moderator: Richard Douglas
A series of intractable problems

Panellists:
Brent Uren
Steve Floreani
Ray Sacks
Harshita Pant
Scott Graham

12:30pm - 1:30pm

Lunch + Exhibition

1:30pm - 3:00pm

Plenary and Panel Session 7

Room: Conference Hall
Chair: Nick Stow

​LPR - what every rhinologist needs to know
Amanda Richards

Using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Virtual Surgery to Improve Outcomes in Sinonasal Surgery
Narinder Singh

Training and RACS
Ray Sacks

Panel Discussion
Moderator: Alkis Psaltis
Management of minimal sinus disease

Panellists:
Salil Nair
Yvonne Chan
Yi Zhao
Eng Ooi
Richard Harvey

3:00pm - 3:30pm

Afternoon Tea + Exhibition

3:30pm - 4:30pm

Plenary and Panel Session 8

Room: Conference Hall
Chair: Steve Floreani

Open nasal tip rhinoplasty
Tim Woolford

An alternative approach to lateral nasal valve collapse
Kien Ha

Panel Discussion
Moderator: Steve Floreani
Facial plastics panel - anterior septal deviations

Panellists:
Sim Choroomi
Dan Robinson
Tim Woolford
Kien Ha

Free paper session

Room: Conference Hall 3
Chair: Anders Cervin

Free paper: Mapping the mucosal surface coverage from nasal irrigation
Inthavong​, Shang​, Wong E, Barbalatt, Singh N​

Free paper: Cadaveric assessment of the efficacy of sinus irrigation after staged clearance of the medial maxillary wall
Wong E​, Sansoni E, Alvarado R, Kalish L, Marcells G, Sacks R, Harvey R

Free paper: Systematic review of clinical outcomes of middle turbinate management in endoscopic surgical procedures.
Dr Jo-Lyn McKenzie,
​Mr Jordan Macdonald, Professor Anders Cervin

Free paper: Turbinate loss from non-inflammatory sinonasal surgery does not correlate with poor sinonasal function
Wong E, ​Orgain C, Sansoni E, Alvarado R, Grayson J, Kalish L,Sacks R, Harvey R

Free paper: Role of immunotherapy in Chronic Rhinosinusitis: A Systematic Review
Iqbal I Kao S2, Ooi

​Free paper: Using 3D reconstruction to analyse normal growth patterns of the maxillary sinus in children
Lee S, Mahadevan M, Mirjalili A.

4:30pm - 5:30pm

Annual General Meeting

7:00pm - 11:00pm

Conference Dinner

Location: ZINC at Federation Square, Melbourne

Sunday 22nd September, 2019

7:00am - 2:00pm

Registration

9:00am - 10:00am

Plenary and Panel Session 9

Room: Conference Hall
Chair: Chris Dephnorrarat

Treatment of olfactory loss: what works and what doesn't
Zara Patel

Panel Discussion
Moderator: Raewyn Campbell
Paediatric sinus disease – how much surgery and when?

Panellists:
Larry Kalish
Joanne Rimmer
Sam Greig
David Morrissey
Naveen Bhandarkar

10:00am - 10:30am

Morning Tea + Exhibition

10:30am - 11:30am

Plenary Session 10

Room: Conference Hall
Chair: Yi Zhao

X-ray your leadership: reactive tendencies and Proactive Capabilities
Sleiman Abou-Hamden

Allergic Fungal Sinusitis
Rakesh Chandra

​Future management of CRS
Claire Hopkins

Announcement of best free paper prize

12:00pm

Conference Close

12:00pm - 1:00am

Lunch + Exhibition

Partners

Principal Sponsor

Medtronic

Major Sponsor

Karl Storz

Welcome Reception Sponsor

Smith and Nephew

Skip to Top of Page