2025 Meeting

We thank our partners for their support of SPOEG, without their support and commitment this meeting could, and would not have occurred. Our patients have benefited from the sharing of information and the interaction of our members and participants. Therefore, we thank not only the participants, but our industry partners listed below.

  • Advanced Bionics
  • Aerin Medical
  • Bryan Medical
  • Cochlear
  • Grace Medical
  • Joe DiMaggio Children’s HospitalKarl Storz
  • Medtronic
  • Olympus
  • Preceptis Medical
  • Smith and Nephew
  • Stryker
  • Xoran

Vendors

MEMORIES FROM OUR 2025 MEETING

Final Agenda for the 2025 SPOEG

January 17-19, 2025 (MLK Weekend)

Friday, January 17

On arrival

Arrive and settle in. Dinner on your own. Meet at the lobby bar for late night social hour.

Saturday, January 18

8:00-8:45 am

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

  • ASPO: BREAKOUT MONTREAL MAY 1-3,2025 : Jeff Simons via David Chi
  • AAO-HNS: Jeff Simons
  • BOG: Christina Baldassari
  • SENTAC: David Darrow
  • AERo-D: Tom Gallagher
  • ESPO: Stutegart, Germany May 3-6, 2025, Craig Derkay
  • AAP: Jeff Simons
  • ACS: Craig Derkay

8:45-10:00 am

Business Issues: Moderatator: Craig Derkay

  • Are RVU’s really what we should be measuring to gauge contributions?: Bill Collins/John Carter
  • Charitable giving and other legitimate tax deductions to save money on your taxes: Derkay
  • Update on Complex Pediatric Otolaryngology Certification: Baldassari
  • UUpdate on Private Practice (community based) Section at AAO-HNS: Dan Wohl
  • Update on Private Practice (community based) Section at AAO-HNS: Jim Thomsen

10:00-10:20 am

Break with Exhibitors

    10:20-11:20 am

    Thinking outside the box regarding our specialty: Why are Fellowships not filling? Are we training enough or too many Pediatric Otolaryngologists? How do we address the access problems (long waits for routine appointments and routine surgeries in some practices) if there aren’t enough new Fellows to recruit? What can we do to improve the QOL for the profession? Is some of this coming from CPO or ACS-CSV? What brings you joy in your work? What do you dislike the most? Are there ways to increase the former and decrease the latter? How can we help each other? Tell me it isn’t just about the money! (60 minutes should be plenty of time to sort this out). Derkay/John Carter/Bill Collins/Jeff Simons/Lindhe Guarisco

      11:20-12:15 am

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

      • What’s new in Pediatric Airway: Clayton Farahani
      • What’s new in OSA: Zorik Spector (coblation study)
      • What’s new in Pediatric Otology/Audiology: Jeff Carron

      12:15-1:15 pm

      Lunch with Exhibitors

      1:15-1:45 pm

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

      • What’s new in Allergy/Rhinology/Sinus: Dave Mandell
      • What’s new in Otitis Media: Maria Carratola/Amelie Guarisco

      1:45-2:05 pm

      Teaching Otology to non-Otolaryngologists: David Darrow/Scott Rickert

      2:05-2:20 pm

      Break with Exhibitors

      2:20-2:50 pm

      Balance disorders in children—differential diagnosis/workup and treatment: Melissa Scholes

      2:50-3:15 pm

      Single sided deafness in children 2025: cost-effective workup and decision-making regarding amplification/CI: Brian Reilly/Sam Ostrower

      3:15-7:00 pm

      Free Time

      7:00 pm

      Course Dinner

      Rustico Italiano
      701 Lucerne Ave
      Lake Worth Beach, FL 33460
      (561) 547-2782

      Sunday, January 19

      7:00-8:00 am

      Breakfast Workshop: Clinical Experience with COBLATION◊ Intracapsular Tonsillectomy and In-Office Tympanostomy with Tula: Dr. Kelvin Kwong/ Dr. Jordan Schramm

      8:00-8:15 am

      Discussion of future venues/formats/funding

      8:15-9:40 am

      Difficult /interesting cases

      • Airway: Angela Black
      • Otology: Samantha Allen
      • Rhinology/Nasal FB: Jordyn Lucas
      • Foreign body: Erin Hamersley
      • Sleep Apnea: Lindhe Guarisco

      9:40-10:00 am

      Break with Exhibitors

      10:00-10:30 am

      Point counterpoint: To DISE or not to DISE: What and when to do this in surgically naive children?: Cristina Baldassari/Eileen Raynor

      10:30-11:00 am

      Quality improvement opportunities in Pediatric Otolaryngology: Are there two or three projects that we can tackle together? Habib Zalzal/David Lee_/Karin Hotchkiss

      11:00-11:30 am

      Utility of surveillance airway evaluations and intervals for ENT office visits in children with tracheostomies: divide and conquer with AERO-D/pulmonary; institutionalized children vs those cared for at home; post-decannulation protocols: Steve Sobol/George Zalzal

      11:30-noon

      Side gigs for a Pediatric Otolaryngologist: Some ways to make beer money or finance a yearly trip to Vegas: Bruce Maddern/Brian Reilly/Rande Lazar/Craig Derkay

      12 noon

      Adjourn