2022 Meeting

Final Agenda for the 2022 SPOEG

January 14-16, 2022 (MLK Weekend)

Friday, January 14

Arrive and settle in. Meet at the lobby bar for late night social hour.

Saturday, January 15

Breakfast and AV Setup

Update on the activities of our societies that impact our practices:

• ASPO: ______
• AAO-HNS: Earl Harley
• SENTAC: ______
• AAP: Steve Sobol
• ACS: Craig Derkay
• AMA: Craig Derkay

Business Issues: Moderatator: Craig Derkay

• E&M coding update (and strategies to enhance reimbursement): ______
• Standardized order sets for post-op procedures, opioids and discharge instructions (processes for getting all partners to agree): ______
• Staffing and recruitment challenges with reduced volumes due to COVID: ______

Break with Exhibitors

Office challenges:

• COVID policies 2022: Visitors (number of adults and children), Aerosol generating procedure precautions, Staff vaccination policies, ongoing PPE requirements, testing policies before procedures in vaccinated children, social distancing in scheduling, waiting room issues: ______
• Post-COVID approach to: Remote jobs (billers, Secretaries), Virtual office meetings, use of Telehealth for post-op and follow-up appointments and for screening of urgent appointments: ______

Pediatric Otolaryngology Journal Club (Presentations of one or two key articles from the past year in each field with critique)

• What’s new in Otitis Media: ______
• What’s new in OSA/Recurrent tonsillitis: ______
• What’s new in Pediatric Otology/Audiology: ______
• What’s new in Allergy/Rhinology/Sinus: ______

Lunch with Exhibitors

Point/Counterpoint

• Ideal management of Pediatric TM perforations/retained ventilation tubes: ______

Point/Counterpoint

• Management of children with severe OSA (surgical techniques including multi-level surgery, DISE, post-opmonitoring, work-up, follow-up): ______

Break with Exhibitors

New technology topic #1 (TBD): ______

New technology topic #2 (TBD): ______

Free Time

Course Dinner

Sunday, January 16

Breakfast and AV Setup

Discussion of future venues/formats/funding

Difficult /interesting cases

• Airway: ______
• Head and neck: ______
• Otology: ______
• Rhinology: ______
• Tonsils/adenoids: ______
• Foreign body: ______

Break with Exhibitors

Point/Counterpoint: Complex Pediatric Otolaryngology Certification: ______

Working towards achieving Work/Life balances in Pediatric Otolaryngology in your 30’s, 40’s, 50’s and 60’s: ______

What to do with children with Chronic Throat Clearing/Vocal Tics (is it Tourette’s? Does the child need operative or office endoscopy?): ______

What is new in Simulation training in Pediatric Otolaryngology: ______

Soft tissue surgery in children: Anything new in suture materials, dressings, ointments to enhance healing and reduce keloids/hypertrophic scars: ______

Adjourn