Improving outcomes for patients with chronic rhinosinusitis and management of head and neck emergencies

Simon Carney is Professor of OHNS at Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia. He has written over 100 peer-reviewed papers, 11 book chapters and a surgical dissection guide for Endoscopic Sinus Surgery. He is the immediate Past-President of the ANZ Rhinologic Society and former Chair of the Education and Training Sub-committee of ISIAN. He is a founding director and current Vice-President of APOST, a not-for-profit set up to provide free OHNS-training and dissection courses for those in need in the Asia-Pacific Region. He is Associate Editor of the American Journal of Rhinology and Allergy and on the editorial boards of Rhinology & Clinical Otolaryngology. He sits on the Notifications Committee of the Medical Board of Australia and the full Medical Board of South Australia. He represents OHNS on the Commonwealth Government of Australia’s Panel of Clinical Experts.

He has an extensive clinical and research track record in Chronic Rhinosinusitis and his talk today includes evidence-based research, personal opinions on how to interpret guidelines and evidence as well as tips on pearls on surgical techniques and how to be a good ENT doctor as well as a good endoscopic sinus surgeon.

Professor Jarrod Homer is a Consultant Surgeon at the Manchester Head and Neck Centre, Manchester University Foundation NHS Trust and also has a chair in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Manchester.  

Professor Homer leads the Manchester Head and Neck Cancer Service. He has published >100 research papers and has supervised several MD/PhD’s in head and neck cancer. He introduced surgeon performed neck ultrasound scanning in 2003 and runs an international course in neck ultrasound. His clinical practice encompasses all of head and neck/thyroid cancer, with a particular interest in conservation laryngeal surgery, sinonasal and antero-lateral skull base cancers.