Program Rhinocon 2011

Day 1: Thursday, April 28, 2011

Venue: Auditorium, New College Building, Level
8.00 am onwards - Registration

9.00- 9.30 am - Video session.
      Chairpersons: Dr TL Parmar, Dr Jaymin Contractor

9.30 – 10.30 am – Invited Talks (Session I)
Chairpersons: Dr. Ashok Kumar Vaid (ENT), Dr. B. Narsimha Rao
* Dr. P. S Saharia, New Delhi
Topic: Septoplasty can change the shape of the nose
* Dr. Ashok Kr. Gupta, Chandigarh
Topic:  CSF rhinorrhoea – Surgical controversies
* Dr Prepageran Narayanan, Malaysia
Topic: Endoscopic transnasal surgery of the cranial fossa
* Dr. Suresh Sharma, New Delhi
Topic: Inverted papilloma – Management philosophy

10.30– 11.15 am – Udhi Devi Sood Oration
Chairpersons: Dr. L. S. Ojha; Dr. Achal Gulati
Speaker: Benjamin S. A. Campomanes Jr., Philippines
Topic: Gross and radiologic anatomy of the nose and paranasal sinuses with practical applications for endoscopic sinus surgery

11.15 am – 12.00 noon – AIRS Oration
Chairpersons: Dr. Anoop Raj, Dr. Sanjay Sood
Speaker: Dr Mohan Kameswaran, Chennai
Topic: Endoscopic Sinus Surgeon and the Skull Base


12.00 noon – 12.30 pm – Invited Talks (Session II)
Chairpersons: Dr. Neelima Gupta, Dr Amit Goyal
* Dr. Nishit Shah, Mumbai
Topic: Frontal sinus surgery
* Dr. P. S. Bhandari, New Delhi
Topic: Cartilage grafts in Rhinoplasty 

12.30- 1.15 pm – Dr. L. S. Ojha / Dr. B. K. Ojha Memorial Panel Discussion
Chairpersons: Dr SB Phukan, Dr Gautam Khaund
Topic: Nasal and Paranasal tumours and management
Moderator: Dr. Kuddush Ahmed, Guwahati
Panelists:
* Dr. Moni A. Kuriakose, Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon, Bangalore
* Dr.  B. S. Tuli, ENT Head & Neck Surgeon, Patiala
* Dr Suresh Sharma, New Delhi
* Dr TN Janakiraman, Trichy
* Dr. Alok Thakkar, New Delhi
* Dr. Pankaj Choudhuri, Radiation Oncologist, Siliguri
* Dr. Anandabrata Bose, ENT Head & Neck Surgeon, Siliguri
* Dr. Yogesh Verma, Senior Pathologist, Gangtok
* Dr Prathmesh Pai, Oncosurgeon, Mumbai

1.30 – 2 pm – Lunch

1.30 – 5 pm – Dr. Anoop Raj Poster Award Session
Chairpersons: Dr. Nishi Sharma, Dr. Alok Thakkar, Dr. Nishit Shah

2.00 – 2.45 pm – V. P. Sood Oration
Chairpersons: Dr Nishit Shah, Dr JC Passey
Speaker: Dr Milind Kirtane, Mumbai
Topic: Endoscopic DCR
2.45 – 3.15 pm – Invited Talks (Session III)
Chairpersons: Dr SK Verma, Dr Unnikrishnan K Menon
* Dr. Atul Shah, Vadodara;
      Topic: Law and Rhinoplasty
* Dr Arvind Soni, New Delhi;
      Topic: The Rhinologist and the Pituitary

3.15 – 4.00 pm – Panel Discussion
Chairpersons: Dr Ajit Man Singh, Dr Ravinder Verma
Topic: Allergic rhinitis and its management approach
Moderator: Dr. A. K. Agarwal, New Delhi
Panelists:
* Dr. Benjamin S. A. Campomanes Jr., Philippines
* Dr. Mohan Kameswaran, Chennai
* Dr. Prepageran Narayanan, Malaysia
* Dr. S. K. Khanna, Gangtok
* Dr. Y. N. Maru, Indore
* Dr. Ranjan Aiyer, Vadodara
* Dr. Sanjay Sood, New Delhi
* Dr. Achal Gulati, New Delhi

4.00- 5.00 pm – Dr. IS Gupta Senior Consultant Award Papers
Chairpersons: Dr. R. N Salhan, Dr. Janakiraman, Dr. Himani Lade

5.00 – 6.00 pm – General Body Meeting

6.00 – 7.00 pm – INAUGURATION

7.30 pm onwards – Banquet dinner (Orange Village Resort)

Day 2: Friday, April 29, 2011

Venue: New College Building, Level 6
9.00-9.30 am - Invited Talks (Session IV)
Chairpersons:  Dr Lakshmi Vaid, Dr Kalpana Sharma
* Dr Benjamin Campomanes, Philippines
      Topic: Endoscopic Surgery for Juvenile Nasopharyngeal Angiofibroma
* Dr Prepageran Narayanan, Malaysia
      Topic: "Endoscopic surgery of the Optic Nerve"
9.30 am – 1 pm – Live Surgical Workshop:
Procedures to be shown: FESS for sinusitis, Fungal Sinusitis, Nasal Polyps
* Surgeons:  Dr Mohan Kameswaran, Dr Nishit Shah, Dr TN Janakiraman
* Moderator: Dr. B.S Tuli, Patiala, Dr Surinder Singhal, Chandigarh, Dr A. B Bose, Siliguri

1.00 – 2.00 pm – Lunch

2.00-3.00 pm - Invited Talks (Session V):
Chairpersons: Dr A.K Agarwal, Dr PK Saikia
* Dr. Alok Thakar, New Delhi;
Topic: Orbital decompression for Thyroid Exophthalmos
* Dr.  Devinder Rai, New Delhi
      Topic: Coblation Surgery
* Dr. Amitabh Roy Choudhury, Kolkata
Topic: Endoscopic DCR
* Dr. PSN Murthy, Vijaywada
Topic: Changing Concepts in management of CRS

3.00 – 4.00 pm – Dr. P. Chatterjee Junior Consultant Award Paper
Chairpersons: Dr. Dalbir Singh, Dr. Nishi Sharma, Dr. Surendra Singh
4.00 – 4.45 pm - Yogdarshan Rai Quiz
Quizmaster: Dr JC Passey, New Delhi

4.45 – 6.00 pm – Resident Award Paper
Chairpersons: Dr. B. S. Tuli, Dr. Anand Acharya, Dr. Sandeep Bansal

6.30 – 8 pm – Cultural Programme

8.00 pm onwards – Dinner
Day 3: April 30, 2011
Venue: Department of Anatomy Dissection Hall, New College Building, Level 3
9.00 am – 1.00 pm – Cadaveric Demonstration
      Dr. TN Janakiram
1.00 – 2.00 pm – Lunch
2.00 – 5.00 pm – Cadaveric Demonstration
      Dr. TN Janakiram


  

Message from Website Editor

Dear Friends,


“I consider it important, indeed urgently necessary, for intellectual workers to get together, both to polish their own knowledge and, also, generally speaking, to enhance their potential by knowing others.”


It was pleasure attending the All India Rhinology Society at Udaipur. I got to know so many people who are doing great job in Rhinology. Added was a calming beautiful city away from routine OPDs and OTs.

This time, the AIRS conference is scheduled at Gangtok, which you know, is known for its pleasant weather and rich beauty. There will be ideal mix of sharing knowledge and caring yourself in a cozy atmosphere, perhaps, attending with your family members also.


The AIRS blog is gaining popularity slowly. But without your contribution, it is nothing. Please feel free to write your observation or work, post any good or bad experience, any photograph or video. Review of any new book, product or biography of leader in Rhinology is welcome.

With this, I wish all of you a happy festive season and new year ahead.


Dr. Ajay Jain

Message from the President, AIRS, 2010-2011

                                                                                                                                                       
                                                                                
                                          
Dear members,

I express my sincere thanks and sense of gratitude for electing me as president-All India Rhinology society. I will try my best to maintain & enhance prestige of All India Rhinology society laid down by founders Dr. Sood , Dr.Saharia and many more.

Last month we have enjoyed wonderful conference in Udaipur under leadership of organizing Chairman Prof. A.K.Gupta; it was an over-saturating feast of academic activities with wonderful cultural & historical tour as extra-bonanzas. I congratulate Prof. A.K.Gupta for grand success of conference and award winner of P.G. Quiz, P.G. Award, Senior consultant award.

Our AIRS has gone a long way in short span of time. We have started many orations, panel discussion, poster sessions. Our journal was started in 2008 by founder editor Prof.P.S.Saharia, but in such short span it has been accredited and indexed in many national and international forums. This credit goes to Prof. Ashok Gupta of P.G.I. Chandigarh for his overwhelming efforts.We are in process to start fellowship in Rhinology as soon as possible

In spite of all these achievements our total number of membership are less, so I will request our all E.N.T colleagues to join us becoming member of All India Rhinology society.  We are sending format of membership with the news bulletin which can be photocopied and send to our Secretary on his address along with bank draft of Rs.2500/-.

We have also decided that deciding next venue of national conference preference will be given to that state where maximum new membership has been registered in this session. So it will be the important criteria along with other considerations.

Our next venue of conference is Gangtok, a beautiful hill station of north east during peak season of hill station 28th-29th April 2011.I request all my fraternity  members to meet us in Gangtok to make it grand success .

The festival season is at its peak. Each family would be in the midst of the festivities and I extend my sincere wishes to all for a very joyous time in the festival season starting from Dussera, Deepawali, Eid and going on
to Christmas.

At last I welcome good suggestion and co-operation from all of you for uplifting A.I.R.S.

                  

Warm greeting for coming festive season. 

                                                                      

Long Live A.I.R.S.

                                                                 

Thanks

                             
Dr L.S.Ojha

                                 
President

All India Rhinology Society
                                                     
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Message from AIRS Secy 2010

Dear friends,

As the year draws to a close, we should take a moment to look back together at everything we are thankful for from the previous year and everything we hope for in the year to come. The holiday season is a time for the family. It is a time for reflection. It is a time to think gratefully of all of our blessings, and to renew our commitment to reaching out to each one of us.

We are thankful for the year gone by which was full of academic activities, achievements like the success of the journal, affiliation to the International Rhinology Society, initiation of fellowship proposals, a grand annual

conference, starting of an active and interactive blog and so on.

In the coming year we hope to achieve greater heights in academics, increase our membership, start full fledged fellowships in the specialty, get focused on the specialized areas of Rhinology and so on.

We also need to reflect on the values that unite us, the values that the AIRS was founded on and the values that aim to make AIRS a beacon of academic excellence in the time to come.

This part of the year is for most of us a time for a break from work, for family and friends, for presents, sweets and crackers. But at no point should we should lose sight of the fact that these are traditional celebrations around the time when academic meetings start peaking all over the country and abroad.

It is vitally important that we all should participate in these meetings for the sake of the specialty. We have only to look around to recognize the benefits of this positive approach in the development and progress of any specialty. And for this we need to increase our numbers so as to spread the light of rhinology far

and wide.

There is certainly much more to be done and many challenges to be overcome. With these thoughts I wish you a peaceful and joyful holiday season.

Dr. Achal Gulati

Hony. Secretary, AIRS

Director Professor, Department of ENT,

Maulana Azad medical college,

New Delhi

achalgulati@rediffmail.com

Swastha Bharat Samman

Dr V P Sood, the person behind forming the All India Rhinology Society, was selected & was honored along with other top selected Doctors of various specialties of our country. The selection was done by a Jury of nine eminent medical personalities with impeccable record and unquestioned integrity who selected one specialist in each specialty. Zee News presented ‘Swastha Bharat Samman’ in the specialty of ENT to Dr VP Sood in a Grand Felicitation Ceremony held on 15th November.