About this event

  • Date and time Fri 5 Nov 2021 from 10:00am to 12:35pm
  • Location Online
  • Organised by Laryngology and Rhinology

The RSM is one of the oldest medical education establishments in the country, the Presidential address by Mr Michael Jeo-Ming Kuo will reflect on the history of the establishment, the 2021/2022 upcoming academic programme, and the parallel developments in laryngology and rhinology and its relevance to the 21st century ENT surgeon. 

The Semon lecture will see Kevin Harrington, Professor of biological cancer therapies, Royal Marsden Hospital and ICR, UK, explore the non-surgical biological therapies applicable to the treatment of head and neck cancer. John Hunter famously said, ” The last part of surgery, namely operations, is a reflection on the healing art; it is a tacit acknowledgement of the insufficiency of surgery.”  

Topics of the event include:

  • The history of the RSM and the programme of events for the 2021/2022 academic year
  • The range of non-surgical treatments available for head and neck cancer

We hope you can join us in person at the RSM for this event, tickets are available to purchase here 

This live stream is available for on-demand viewing. The live stream recording will be available for registered delegates up to 30 days after the session broadcast via Zoom. The link will be sent 24 hours after the event takes place. 

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The Laryngology and Rhinology Section would like to thank our Annual Sponsors KARL STORZ Endoscopy (UK) Ltd, Medtronic, NSK United Kingdom Ltd & Severn Healthcare Technologies LTD and Oticon Medical for their valued support of the 2021 to 2022 Academic Programme.

Please note that none of the companies listed has had any influence or involvement over the agenda, content or organisation of these meetings.

Key speakers

Professor Kevin Harrington

Head and Division of Radiotherapy and Imaging and Professor of Biological Cancer Therapies The Institute of Cancer Research and The Royal Marsden Hospital

Speaker's biography

Kevin Harrington is an NIHR Senior Investigator and Head of the Division of Radiotherapy and Imaging at The Institute of Cancer Research/Royal Marsden Hospital. He is the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre lead for the Targeted Physical Therapies theme, Director for the ICR/RM CRUK RadNet Centre of Excellence, Chair of the CRUK Advanced Radiotherapy Network (ART-NET) Network Accelerator and an Executive Board member for the CRUK ICR/Imperial Major Centre for Convergence Science. He is also an Honorary Consultant Clinical Oncologist at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and at St George’s Hospital, specialising in developing new treatments with a specific focus on head and neck cancer (HNC). His twin research interests are oncolytic virotherapy/immunotherapy and targeted radiation sensitisers. In the field of oncolytic virotherapy, he has led in developing DNA (HSV [talimogene laherparepvec, RP1, RP2 and RP3 viruses] and vaccinia virus) and RNA viruses (Reovirus type 3 Dearing, coxsackievirus A21, Maraba and Newcastle Disease virus). His research interests in immunotherapy include immune checkpoint inhibitors (PD-1, PD-L1, LAG-3, CTLA-4, TIGIT inhibitors) and innate immune activators (eg cyclic dinucleotide (CDN) and non-CDN STING agonists). He serves on Steering Committees and Scientific Advisory Boards that have guided the development of trials of immune checkpoint inhibitors in head and neck cancer (including Keynote-040, -048, -412, -689, CheckMate-141, -651, 714, Kestrel, Javelin-100). He has been the Principal Investigator of multiple phase I, II and III studies of novel agents in HNC. He leads a programme of pre-clinical and clinical research in targeted radiosensitisers (Chk1i, HSP90i, ATRi), including the first-in-man phase I PATRIOT study of the ATR inhibitor, AZD6738

Mr Michael Kuo

Consultant Paediatric Otolaryngologist, Birmingham Children’s Hospital

Agenda

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Welcome and introduction

Mr Michael Kuo, Consultant Paediatric Otolaryngologist, Birmingham Children’s Hospital

Semon Lecture: Will immunotherapy put head and neck surgeons out of business?

Professor Kevin Harrington, Head and Division of Radiotherapy and Imaging and Professor of Biological Cancer Therapies The Institute of Cancer Research and The Royal Marsden Hospital

Break
Presidential address

Mr Michael Kuo

End of webinar

Sponsors

Location

Online

Disclaimer:All views expressed in this webinar are of the speakers themselves and not of the RSM nor the speaker's organisations. 

Registration for this webinar will close 2 hours prior to the start time. Late registrations will not be accepted. 

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