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.

Message from AIRS, Secy 2010

After a particular age and time one strives to reach the higher planes of the nuances in a specialty. And the All India Rhinology Society has been in the age and time for a fairly long time to strive and achieve higher planes.

Change is the only constant thing. Teaching and learning are a dynamic process, the principles and practice of which change each day. As a professional in the field of ENT and Head and Neck Surgery and further narrowing it down to Rhinology and its allied branches, it is essential to keep abreast with the latest developments in the field.

One feels the need to be exposed to the peers in the specialty. This would be possible when the information and knowledge we all have is exchanged, one’s doubts cleared and principles strengthened. One wants to share experiences with others, who may add their comments to the contributions to make them more authentic.

Many of us forget just how much technological advancement there has been in the past 15 years or so. Back then, most of us were barely aware of the existence of email or the internet, and the need or of having a website devoted to Rhinology was only for casual conversation rather than serious discussion. Most of us in fact, were content with utilising the post, telephone and fax in our day to day professional life, and anything as efficient and as useful as a website was purely a fantasy - nice if it existed, but it probably never would.
Of course, as they say, the rest is history, as the fantasy did indeed become a reality in an incredibly short period of time.. The technology now exists for us to promote ourselves to a worldwide audience. There has never been a better time to take advantage of this 'new frontier'.
And so to achieve this, where did one start? 

Dr Ajay Jain, our young and enthusiastic member took it upon himself to change the history and convert the fantasy of a website for AIRS to a reality. And as you can see, he has done a great job with the construction and launch of this website. 

A website draws together the varied needs of a specialty and centralizes it in one location. A website can be seen in the first instance as the place where the myriad strands of a specialty take visual shape and form, guiding and informing the members of the vast of information available between our pool. A website is in many ways a clarification and distillation of the knowledge and information, and is very useful for that reason alone. However, of course that is just the beginning of the journey, as a website can do so much more than this.

We intend to enlarge our network of members, to establish our presence in the field, heighten the academic interest, make information available to a large group, allow feed backs and critical appraisals, to make available interesting clinical materials and photographs and to update our membership information and to above all, establish a presence in the world in a true a professional manner.

The future holds great promise for continued technical innovation, acquisition of new knowledge, and advances in the science of rhinology....But that would be possible with only your support and contributions and active participation.

Dr Achal Gulati,

Hony. Secretary, AIRS

Professor of ENT and Head and Neck Surgery,

Maulana Azad Medical College,

New Delhi

List of Achievers at Rhinocon 2010, Udaipur

AIRS Oration: Prof. Hans Behrbohm, Germany

Smt. Udhi Devi Sood Oration: Dr Krishna Reddy, United Kingdom

Dr. VP Sood Oration: Dr Ashok Gupta, Chandigarh, India

Dr IS Gupta Senior Consultant paper Award: Dr Surinder Singhal, Chandigarh

Dr P Chatterjee Junior Consultant paper award: Dr Sandeep Bansal, Chandigarh

Dr Anoop Raj Poster Award: Drs. Vineet Narula, Aditi Chopra, Ravi Meher, Delhi

Dr SL Ojha- LS Ojha Panel discussion:  Moderated by Dr Janakiram, Trichy

Yag Darshan Rai Quiz: PGI, Chandigarh (Drs. Rishi Mani Srivastav, Ravi Shanker, PGIMER, Chandigarh)

Resident Paper Award: Rishi Mani Srivastav, PGIMER, Chandigarh

Invited Talks

* Prof. Hans Behrbohm (Germany) – Secondary Rhinoplasty – my way of problem solving.

* Dr. M.M. Mehdiratta, (Neurologist,  New Delhi) - a neurologists approach to a rhinologists dilemma"

* Dr Hetal Patel, Mumbai Patel- Endoscopic closure of CSF rhinorrhea,

* Dr. P. Misra, (Jaipur) – Maxillary Swing for Angiofibroma

* Dr. Nishit Shah, (Mumbai) – Approaches to skull base surgery

* Dr Daniel F. A Wengen (Switzerland) on “Breath Implants”