Society Meetings

0900 Council Meeting
0915 Registration

0930 - 1045 First Session

Diagnosis of laryngotracheal stenosis during routine spirometry using the “Expiratory Disproportion Index”
SAR Nouraei, K Murphy, SM Nouraei, A Patel, AR Cummin, DJ Howard, GS Sandhu (Iran & London)

Contamination of post-operative Head and Neck wounds with Urogenital microbes
M Anwar, Z Awad, K Ghufoor ( Gloucester & London )

Proteomic Analysis of Metastatic Laryngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma
PWA Goodyear , MT Boyd, R Jenkins, N Kitteringham , TM Jones (Liverpool)

Raised EGFR In Combination With Low Cyclin D1 Is Associated With Radioresistance In Laryngeal Carcinoma Cells
Matthew C. Banfield, Arvind K Arya, Anna Behrendt, Ashraf El-Fert, Timothy Devlin, Carlos Rubbi, Nazia Munir, Mark T Boyd, Terry M Jones (Liverpool)

Transimmunization for immunotherapy of Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma (HNSCC)
S Prasad , V Cody, D Hanlon, S Roberts, R Filler, R L Edelson, W Dobrucki, A Sinusas, M Girardi and M A Birchall (Yale & Bristol)

1045 – 1100 COFFEE
1100 – 1200 Second Session

Accuracy of Diffusion-weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the diagnosis of cholesteatoma
S Khan, R G Rowlands, E Benjamin and S Abramovich ( London )

Vestibular Migraine: Fact or Fiction?
Stapleton E, Mills R ( North Trent & Edinburgh)

Effect of conductive hearing loss on the activation pattern of the primary auditory cortex as assessed by functional MRI
DC Wild, JR Foster & DA Hall (Nottingham)

A systematic review of the role of mutant p53 in predicting outcome or response to treatment in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC)
S. Tandon, C. Tudur-Smith, S. Ghosh, M. Boyd, T.M. Jones ( Liverpool )

1200-1300 Lunch
1300 – 1400 Third Session

The use of Nutlin-3 as a radiosensitiser in laryngeal carcinoma cells harbouring wild-type p53
Arya AK , Devlin T, El-Fert A, Banfield M, Rubbi C, Lloyd B, Fenwick J, Jones TM, Boyd MT (Liverpool)

Altered expressions of Trefoil peptides genes in squamous cell carcinoma of the larynx
Fabian Sipaul, Anthony Corfield, Stephen Wood, Tao Upile, Edward Sheffield, Martin A. Birchall ( Bristol , London , Slough )

Inter and intra-rater reliability of the reflux finding score (RFS) in the paediatric larynx
David D Pothier, Shiraz Ahmed, Michael W Saunders ( Bristol )

In vivo real time histology examination of the upper airway mucosa using confocal endomicroscopy
OR Hughes, SM Ayling , MA Birchall ( Bristol )

1400 – 1430 Coffee
1430 – 1530 Fourth Session

Exposure to environmental pollutants is related to sore throats and increased expression of HLA-DQ in the upper airway mucosa of man
Louisa EN Rees, Philip Jones, Kent Pinkerton, Tristan Cogan, SM Ayling, Peter Belafsky, Martin A Birchall ( Bristol , Cardiff , California )

Towards peptide-based 2D and 3D scaffolds for tissue engineering in Otolaryngology
E Abelardo , E Banwell , M Birchall and D Woolfson (Bristol)

The effect of macrolides on allergic rhinitis versus chronic rhinosinusitis- An in-vitro study.
R. Kuchai1, W. Wedzicha , G. Alusi (London)

Closure of nasal septal perforation: Vertical mattress sutures to approximate bilateral advancement flaps
S Wong, U Raghavan ( Doncaster )

 

1530 - 1600 ORS Annual General Meeting

Award of the 2008 Angell James Prize and Junior Presentation Prize

Election of new council members

 

END OF MEETING