Welcome to the October edition of our online international newsletter!
EDITORS: Emma Stapleton, Consultant Otolaryngologist, Manchester Royal Infirmary, UK.
Neil Summerfield, Highly Specialist ENT Practitioner, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, UK.
Incoming RSM Presidents share their plans for a year like no other!
The new RSM Otology section President, Philip Robinson, and Laryngology and Rhinology section President, Guri Sandhu, give a glimpse of what to look forward to in the academic programme at the upcoming Royal Society of Medicine meetings, beginning 6 November. Read more...
Global CI Collaborative Webinar Series
In July 2020, the Global CI Collaborative launched a series of webinars to highlight the challenges and learnings COVID has brought to the cochlear implant world. This series was coordinated by Professor Gerry O’Donoghue, Nottingham University, and featured presentations from leading experts. Read more...
Calling all young paediatric ENTs
Young ESPO welcomes all junior otolaryngologists with a special interest in paediatrics to become part of a community of training doctors, and share clinical and research knowledge on paediatric ENT! Read more...
COVID masks & hearing loss: communication tips & advice
As COVID continues and face masks are deemed mandatory in many places, hearing loss experts Clear Living have launched two new visual graphics with an accompanying article featuring tips and advice to help aid communication with those affected by hearing loss and deafness. Read more...
Scottish Head and Neck Conference goes virtual for 2020
This event was one of the largest virtual conferences, focusing on head and neck surgery complications and management. The meeting was a multidisciplinary conference involving head and neck surgeons, oral and maxillofacial surgeons, oncologists and radiologists, and was attended by 650 delegates from 83 different countries. Read more...
World Report on Hearing webinar series
World Health Organization presented a webinar focusing on ‘Task sharing for ear and hearing care (EHC) in times of COVID and beyond’ as part of the ongoing World Report on Hearing webinar series. The webinar was conducted in two sessions on 22 and 24 September to be accessible to different time zones. Read more...
In conversation with Professor Michal Luntz
Professor Michal Luntz is an Otologist and Cochlear Implant Surgeon, and Director of the Ear and Hearing Center in A.R.M, Assuta Tel Aviv, Israel. We caught up with her to hear about her life, her background, and her unique insight to life with a hearing loss. Read more...
History of ENT
Allergy – what’s in a name?
Combining his observations on the paediatric wards, where infectious diseases, vaccinations and diphtheria serum sickness were commonplace, and his knowledge of immune reactions in the laboratory, von Pirquet devised the term ‘allergy’, roughly translating as ‘different reaction’ in Greek. Read more...
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