In Conjunction with Cholesteatoma 2012

Program

Keynote Lectute

Moderator
Prof.Ken Kitamura

Prof.Won-Sang Lee Korea Revised Surgical Strategy on Schwannomas in Otolaryngology

Symposium

Implantable Devices

Moderators
Prof.Michael Tong
Prof.Tatsuya Yamasoba

Prof.Wong-Kein Low Singapore Post Cochlear Implant Infections
Prof.Chuan Jen Hsu Taiwan Experiences of implantable devices in Taiwan
Prof.Lokman Saim Malaysia Management of Canal Atresia:BAHA or Canal Plasty?
Prof.Shin-ichi Usami Japan New Trends in Cochlear Implantation
- Atraumatic Surgery and Hearing Preservation -
Prof.Pu Dai China Sub-facial approach is an effect way in round window vibroplasty for some cases with severe atresia
Prof.Sang-Heun Lee Korea Vibration Transducer Design for Round Window Stimulation Implantable Hearing Device
Prof.Charlotte Chiong The Philippines Cochlear and Implantable Hearing Device Implantation: PNEI Experience

Current Issues of Middle Ear Disease

Moderators
Prof.Kwang-Sun Lee
Prof.Masafumi Sakagami

Prof.An-Suey Shiao Taiwan Stapes surgery in patient with Otosclerosis-Hearing outcome & multivariate analysis of prognostic factors
Prof.Yeo Seng Beng Singapore Canal wall up or canal wall down: is it still controversial?
Prof.Yongbeom Cho Korea Mastoid obliteration using costal cartilage
Prof.Tetsuya Tono Japan Staging of middle ear cholesteatoma proposed by Japan Otological Society
Prof.Huynh Ba Tan Vietnam Chronic Otitis Media with Cholesteatoma: Clinical characteristics and CT findings in 128 patients

Current Issues of Facial Nerve Disorders

Moderators
Prof.Chuan Jen Hsu
Prof.Sho Hashimoto

Prof.Hao Wu China Facial nerve management in lateral skull base surgery
Prof.Shingo Murakami Japan History and Current Topics of Facial Nerve Research in Japan
Prof.Yang-Sun Cho Korea Management of the facial nerve tumors

Idiopathic Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss

Moderators
Prof.Dong-Yi Han
Prof.Kaoru Ogawa

Prof.Hung-Ching Lin Taiwan Transtympanic steroid injection for salvage treatment of ISSHL
Prof.Sang-Won Yeo Korea Efficacy of intratympanic steroid injection for sudden sensorineural hearing loss; comparison with systemic steroid therapy and combined therapy
Prof.Hajime Sano Japan Social impact of idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss in Japan.

Basic Science

Moderators
Prof. Tsutomu Nakashima
Prof. Chong Sun Kim

Dr. Masato Fujioka Japan Generating mouse models of early stages of degenerative diseases using Cre/lox-mediated in vivo mosaic cell ablation.
Dr. Yoshiyuki Kawashima Japan Mechanotransduction in inner ear hair cells requires transmembrane channel-like genes 1 or 2
Dr. Jae Y. Choi Korea Genotype and phenotype correlation in patients with pendrin mutation
Dr. Zhaoyan Wang China The phosphorylation status of merlin in sporadic vestibular schwannomas
Dr. Chen-Chi Wu Taiwan Making genetic diagnosis in multiplex families with hereditary hearing impairment using next generation sequencing