Courses

Head & Neck Reconstructive Surgery is a complex and highly technically challenging field central to effective management of oncologic and other defects. This is the only UK practical and theoretical microvascular course designed solely for, led by, and taught by head & neck surgeons

This practical microvascular training course, now in its 33rd year, takes place in a new purpose-built facility. It integrates over 30 hours of hands-on surgery using a live femoral and epigastric vessel model with 15 hours of tutorials and lectures.

Course Date: 17th – 21st March 2025

Venue: University of Liverpool

Course Director: Professor Richard Shaw & Professor Andrew Schache, OMFS, Aintree University Hospital and University of Liverpool

Strictly limited to 10 delegate per course

Early Bird Rate: £1800

(£2000 after 1st Feb 2025)

*The course is included in the EACMFS Educational Rolling Programme. After the course, a refund of 300 euros is available for each EACMFS Trainee Member attending this course. Please note that EACMFS membership of at least one year is required and only one application for an award, scholarship or grant is permitted each calendar year. Contact Essie Winer for EACMFS refund – ewiner@eacmfs.org

32 CME Credits & Certificate

A one-day programme of current topics and recent advances in anaesthesia. Aimed at both anaesthetic consultants and trainees.

Including talks on the recent national audit project (NAP7), trauma and processing trauma, artificial intelligence, transgender considerations and palliative care.

Venue: online

Course Leaders: Dr Layla Meshykhi and Dr Steph Raybould

Fees: £15

5 RCOA CPD Points applied for.

The course is designed for senior residents, fellows and young staff members in Ear-Nose-Throat Surgery or Maxillo-Facial Surgery, with topics on work-up, multidisciplinary management and follow-up of head and neck cancer patients.

Location: UMC Utrecht Cancer Center

Update on current palliative management strategies for H&N cancer

Ethical considerations and decision making in nutrition and airway management for patients with a palliative diagnosis

Available support and resources for patients with complex symptoms

Speakers:

Professor Christian Ottensmeier - Professor Immuno-Oncology
Dr Anoop Haridass - Consultant Clinical Oncologist
Dr Dan Monnery - Clinical Lead Palliative and Supportive Care
Vikki-Lee Birchenough - Homeless Palliative Care Service Lead
Professor Jo Patterson - Professor of Speech and Language Therapy
Dr Catriona Mayland - Senior Clinical Lecturer & Honorary Consultant in Palliative Medicine

Fees: £40 - this also covers lunch and refreshments

Registration: 08:30

Finishing: 13:00

Suitable for a multi-disciplinary audience, the day will focus on multi-dimensional assessment and management of head and neck lymphoedema.

Places available in person or online.  

Optional workshop is included  in the fees on Monday 22nd July 2024 for those attending in person.

Lunch and refreshments are included in the fees for people attending in person.

This full study day will include the following speakers:

Prof Cherith Semple - Professor of Clinical Nursing, Ulster University

Alison Smith - Highly Specialist SLT, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust

Prof Heather Starmer - Dept of Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery, Stanford University, USA

Prof Jo Patterson - Professor of SLT, LHNC, University of Liverpool

Mr Jason Fleming - Consultant Head & Neck/Thyroid Surgeon, Senior Clinical Lecturer, LHNC, University of Liverpool

Prof Joani Christensen - Assistant Professor, The University of Texas MD Anderson Center

Ms Holly McMillan Senior Speech Language Pathologist and Certified Lymphedema Therapist Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Section of Speech Pathology & Audiology, The University of Texas at MD Anderson Cancer Centre

Ms Emma Gwynne - Specialist Lymphoedema Therapist, Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Course Fee: £85

In person - includes lunch, refreshments and optional 1/2 day workshop on Monday 22nd July 2024.

AO CMF, in collaboration with the International Academy for Oral Oncology (IAOO), proudly present the Global Oral Cancer Diploma – an advanced online program designed to provide professionals like yourself with a standardized, evidence-based knowledge platform for the effective treatment and management of oral cancer cases.

Program starts:

• August 31, 2024: Welcome session - online (60 minutes)

• December 15, 2024 – January 15, 2025 (Winter break) 10 online Zoom sessions for 90 minutes each

• (Saturdays, 12 – 1 pm CET)

Program ends on June 22, 2025

Fees

• CHF 100 administration fee

• CHF 2,000 early bird fee

• CHF 2,400 tuition fee after April 8, 2024

The Liverpool Head and Neck Centre would like to invite you to attend this one of a kind learning opportunity. The course reflects a synthesis of clinical experience of the Liverpool team in managing sinonasal tumours in a multidisciplinary fashion.

This course focuses on external approaches to the paranasal sinuses, orbit and skull base in the context of surgical management of sinonasal malignancy. It is suitable for senior trainees (maxillo-facial, plastics, otolaryngology) who have an interest in head and neck oncology, as well as established surgeons who are practicing in this field and require refresher training. The programme focuses on instructional sessions and supervised cadaver dissection, therefore maximising time in the anatomy laboratory.

Unlike other courses, extended endoscopic sinus techniques, neck surgery or reconstruction are not included in the programme. As this course is primarily aimed at more experienced clinicians, prior exposure to management of sinonasal pathology or malignancy is expected. Although not mandatory, some experience in endoscopic sinus surgery will be advantageous.

The course is hosted at the state-of-the-art anatomy laboratory at the University of Liverpool. There will be two hands-on dissectors per work station. The course is limited to 14 dissectors and 6 observers. Early booking is advised. Course fee includes refreshments and lunch on both days of the course.

Techniques: lateral rhinotomy, rhinectomy, orbital exenteration, combined approach to the anterior skull base, zygomatic osteotomy

Course fee: Hands-on £1,000 Observer £450

Course venue: Human Anatomy Resource Centre, University of Liverpool

Course directors: Mr Owais Khattak FRCS(OMFS), Mr Samuel Leong MPhil FRCS(ORL-HNS)

The Liverpool Head and Neck Centre is proud to host a two-day intensive hands-on course aimed at trainees in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Plastic Surgery. The course includes instructional sessions, supervised cadaver dissection and expert panel discussions.

The course will be delivered at Human Anatomy Resource Centre state-of-the-art facilities at the University of Liverpool. Under the direction and supervision of expert tutors, delegates will have the opportunity to revise anatomy and become better equipped to perform head and neck surgical interventions to a high standard. The focus will be on maximum hands-on dissection time to allow delegates to consolidate previously acquired skills and refine their operative technique. Dissectors will be able to have work-based assessments completed for the procedures covered. There will be 2 dissectors per Thiel soft-fix cadaver.

The course fee is £750 for dissectors, and £350 for observers (includes refreshments, lunch and a course dinner on Thursday 19th September).

The course is limited to 16 dissectors and 8 observers, and early booking is advised.

https://sites.google.com/view/liverpoolheadandneckcourse

Topics covered:

• Tracheostomy

• Thyroidectomy

• Submandibular gland excision

• Partial/total parotidectomy

• Neck dissection

• Total laryngectomy

• Primary puncture and surgical voice restoration

• Pectoralis major and deltopectoral flaps

• Sternotomy & mediastinal vascular anatomy

• Mandibulotomy

Feedback from previous courses

"Well run, engaged faculty"

"The course is very much practical-oriented, updated with immediate positive effect in everyday work"

"Excellent course. High faculty number and a very social atmosphere."

"Excellent course for the budding head and neck surgeons"

"Incredible course, will change my day-to-day practice and has given me increased operating confidence."

"This was an extremely high yield training course and I am very grateful to have had the opportunity to attend. I will definitely be attending future courses with the team."

"Excellent course, well run, great consultant teaching and ratios, excellent catering and course dinner - cannot fault it at all great value for money"

"A thoroughly well organised and delivered course. A great emphasis on hands on dissection. The faculty were very good educators and explained the procedures brilliantly. Would highly recommend this course to others."

"Very well supported with faculty and individual attention was much appreciated throughout both days to maximise the use of the time."