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Mr Sam Hall RIP
The President and Council Members of the IOS would like to express their sincere sympathy to the family of Mr. Sam Hall who died on the 20th October. May he rest in peace.
IOS Winter Meeting Belfast 2024
The 65th annual meeting of the Irish Otorhinolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery Society (IOS) was held at the Titanic Centre in Belfast on 11-12th October 2024. This proved to be a very successful meeting. The academic standard of the conference was very high. While the subspecialties of Otology/Neuro Otology, Head & Neck, Paediatric Otolaryngology, and Rhinology were all well represented at the meeting, the lead theme was Head and Neck cutaneous malignancy/Facial Reanimation. The annual Wilde discourse, which is in honour of Sir William Wilde, father of Oscar, was delivered by Professor Kofi Boahene, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, US. The topic was facial reanimation. The Wilde medal together with a copy of Sir William Wilde's textbook, “Practical Observations on Aural Surgery”, was awarded to Kofi by the President of the IOS, Professor Rory McConn Walsh. The guest speakers for the meeting were Carstein Palme (Sydney), Lisa Prior (Dublin), Louise McDermott (Birmingham), Matt Lechner (London) and Charlie Huins (Birmingham).
The Aonghus Curran Medal and Bursary for the best head and neck presentation was awarded by Dr Noreen Dowd to Emma Finnegan. The best oral presentation was awarded to R McKenna. The runner up oral presentation was awarded to Katherine Griffin. The award for the best poster presentation was awarded to Nadia Van Den Berg. Congrats to all. This meeting was greatly supported by industry sponsors.
The next annual IOS meeting will be held in Galway on 10-11th October 2025. There will also be a joint Irish Otorhinolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery Society/North of England ENT Society/RSM Travelling Professors Meeting at the RCSI in Dublin on 9th May. This will be hosted by the IOS with eight distinguished speakers and six CME awarded. All are welcome to both of these meetings.
Welcome Message from our New President Prof. Rory McConn Walsh
It is truly a great honour and privilege for me to take over as President of the very prestigious North-South Irish ENT surgical society , which is entering its 65th year, especially when I note the names that have preceded me.
I have a hard act to follow in taking over from Robin Adair who has done an amazing job over the last 2 years and I commend him for that. The Irish Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Society is a highly successful North-South Medical Society with close ties, links and collegiality between ENT in the North and South of Ireland and I will endeavour to further augment and cement those ties. I look forward to working closely with the Southern Secretary Peter Lacy, the Northern Secretary Brendan Hanna, the Treasurer Martin Donnelly and indeed the entire council of the Society who work very hard behind the scenes.
The Annual Meeting has evolved year on year such that it is a truly international meeting with a very high academic standard, and I will do my very best to continue that. The Wilde Medal, in honour of Sir William Wilde, father of Oscar, will be awarded to our Wilde Discourser at the meeting.
Prizes are awarded to trainees for the best presentation and poster presentation every year. This year the inaugural Prof Aonghus Curran prize for the best presentation in Head and Neck was funded and awarded by his wife Dr. Noreen Dowd and their children. The IOS are indebted to Noreen for coming to the meeting in 2023 to award this prize personally. I will also ensure that our trainees, our colleagues of the future, are very much to the fore. I will also endeavour to increase our international links. As well as a strong academic side, there is also a very important social side to this Society and I encourage partners and their families to continue to come to the annual meeting where they are most welcome. The next meeting is in the Titantic centre in Belfast on the 11th & 12th October 2024 and I look forward to seeing you all there where there will be a very exciting academic programme involving all ENT subspecialities.
Best wishes
Prof. Rory McConn Walsh
IOS Winter Meeting 2023 Sligo
At our Annual Meeting in Sligo there was a very exciting academic programme involving all ENT subspecialities.
Prizes were awarded to trainees for the best presentations and poster presentation.
Joint 1st Best Paper
An audit of the Beaumont Hospital ENT Physiotherapy Led Vestibular Clinic.
- Tattersall, I Clancy, F. Glynn, PD Lacy, S. Mamdouh, D. Murray, A. Naude, C. Ni Chearbhaill, JP. O’Neill, N. Shine, P. Walshe, R. Woods, RM. Walsh
Beaumont Hospital Dublin
Acute Vertigo in the Emergency Department
- Wauchope, M. Feenan, M. McCormack, E .Devlin, B. Rea, D. McShane, N Thompson, J. Dennison, EK Reddy
Southern Health and Social Care Trust, UK
2nd Best Paper
Button battery ingestion in children is potentially fatal. Assessing and raising community awareness of a decades old problem.
A Mahesh, K Majeed, IJ Keogh University of Galway, Ireland.
Best Poster Presentation
An otologist’s workload - are they all ears?
Vianka Marcelino, Lisa O’Byrne, Mel Corbett , Mubassir Ullah, S Guan Khoo,
St Vincent’s University Hospital
Joint IOS / RSM Travelling Professors Meeting (CPD Accredited)
Venue: Cheyne Lecture Theatre, RCSI
Date: Friday 12th May 2-5pm
There will be five International guest speaker with an emphasis on Otology and Rhinology / Facial Plastics (programme to follow)
There will be a light lunch before in the RCSI and dinner afterwards for those who wish to attend
Please click here to register. Cost of Meeting is €30 payable online or on the day (Dinner not included). 3.0 Credits has been assigned to this event.
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