2^nd Head and Neck Conference: The Multidisciplinary Approach December 05-06, 2019 Abu Dhabi, UAE

Track 1: Otorhinolaryngology 

Otorhinolaryngology also known as otolaryngology and otolaryngology–head and neck surgery, a surgical subspecialty inside medication that bargains with conditions of the ear, nose, and throat (ENT) and related structures of the head and neck.

Track 2: Head, Neck and Oral Oncology

Head, Neck and Oral Oncology includes growth of mouth, nose, sinuses, salivary organs, throat and lymph hubs. Head and Neck disease is connected with life hazard factors including tobacco smoking, liquor utilization, UV light, chemicals utilized and certain strains of infections. These tumors are mostly forceful into the biologic conduct, patients with similar disease are at a higher risk of building up another growth in the head and neck territory. Head and neck disease are mostly treatable if identified in earlier stages via surgery, yet radiation treatment may also be assumed an imperative part, whereas chemotherapy is regularly incapable.

Track 3: Otology and Neurotology

Otology is generally defined as the treatment of middle ear disease and resultant conductive hearing loss and neurotology includes the treatment of inner ear conditions, hearing and balance disorders. Neurotology or neuro-otology is a branch of otology which studies and treats nervous system of the ear and neurological disorders especially the inner ear and associated brainstem structures also called Otoneurology. Otology surgery also incorporates treatment of conductive hearing disorder by recreating the hearing bones because of disease or by replacing the stapes bone with a stapedectomy for otosclerosis. Neurotology includes more complicated surgery of the internal ear.

Track 4: Head and Neck Pathology

Head and Neck Pathology manages otorhinolaryngologic clutters notwithstanding maxillofacial disarranges and also deals with mucosal and Mesenchymal lesions of the upper aero digestive tract and lesions of the thyroid gland, parathyroid gland and orbit. Patients seek treatment from otorhinolaryngologists. Head and neck pathology helps in the differentiation the cancerous lesions and noncancerous lesions and diagnosis of various infections, inflammations and other pathological conditions. Radiation Pathology is an investigation of the collaboration between human tissues and radiation. When human tissue is presented to radiation, it can be hereditarily modified and distorted which could prompt an assortment of diseases that could be minor or lethal. Oral and maxillofacial pathology alludes to the ailments of the mouth, jaws and related structures for example, salivary glands, temporal mandibular joints, facial muscles and perioral skin around the mouth.

Track 5: ENT Infectious Diseases

The ears, nose and throat are all inter-connected and thus infection occurred in one area can easily be spread to other quickly. Ear infections rarely cause death, but an ear infection not identified and treated early can lead to complications such as mastoiditis, meningitis or encephalitis, deafness and sinusitis. The most common nose infections are rhinitis and sinusitis. The symptoms depend on the cause of infection i.e., either viral or bacterial. The signs and symptoms are worse in people with bacterial infection. Throat infection can be caused either due to viruses or bacteria. Infection of the tonsils causes swollen tonsils, red sore throat, fever and difficulty in swallowing.

Viral Throat Infections occur as a part of a general upper respiratory tract infection they appear red and the glands in the neck may be swollen and tender. Bacterial Throat Infections has worse symptoms of sore throat. Streptococcal throat infection is treated with antibiotics.

Track 6: Rhinology

Rhinology comes under a subspecialty in the field Otolaryngology which concentrates on the treatment of illnesses and scatters influencing the nasal depression and sinuses. This may induce allergies, difficulty in tasting and smelling, nosebleeds, obstructed breath and sinusitis. Rhinology has huge advancements in treating of sinus and nasal issue. The utilization of compound sedated sinus rinuses, drug escaping sinus stents, in office swell sinuplasty, minimally intrusive endoscopic sinus surgery and intraoperative surgical route frameworks are few of inventive treatments. Sinusitis is the most widely recognized condition with the nasal problem. Intense sinusitis is extremely normal and commonly treated with a blend of various anti-toxins and operators to diminish aggravation in the nose. Sinusitis can be dealed with surgically or non-surgically methods.

Track 7: Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology

Pediatric otolaryngology includes surgical and non-surgical study of infants and youngsters having inborn disarranges, tumor and irresistible illnesses and other related structures of the head and neck. The main conditions included are Hearing disorder, Paediatric voice and reverberation, Sinusitis, Tumours of the head and neck, Tonsillitis, Cleft sense of taste etc., ENT disease is thought to be the most predominant issue and the main cause are the germs that enter into the ear. These diseases are more typical in children. ENT Infectious illnesses predominantly incorporate implications for gonococci identification, parasitic laryngitis etc.,

Track 8: Cosmetic Facial Plastic Surgery

Cosmetic Facial plastic surgery can be vital since our facial expressions permit us to associated and communicate with each other. Our appearance has an effect on how others see us. Whereas a few would like to make strides certain parts of their confront, others are born with facial anomalies such as a cleft lip, a pigmentation, or other birth abandons. Luckily, numerous conditions such as the impacts of maturing, sun harm, or past facial injury can be rectified through methods performed by a skillfull specialist.

Track 9: Anesthesia and Pain Relief in ENT Surgery

Head and neck surgery give many challenges to anaesthetist. The presenting pathology may result in airway obstruction or lead to intubation difficulties. It is very crucial to maintain a secure airway when operating on a patient’s head which may be limited and the need to be flexible regarding the airway management during surgery, particularly in nose and throat regions. Surgeons may obstruct or displace airway equipment. The possibility of contaminating of the airway needs to be under check. when an airway problem is identified intraoperatively correcting it is the first priority and stop surgery if necessary.

Track 10: Head and Neck Cancers - Risk Factors & Preventive

Being aware of the compelling pro as a purpose behind threat gives a couple of approaches to the probability of balancing activity, incorporating decreasing and getting rid of the prologue to the administrator, developing an immunization  or treating the pollution before tumor is formed.

Various preventive measures are guided at removal or wiping out the exposure to malignancy causing specialists or protecting the body from exposures. Distinctive undertakings may include screening technique for instance, those for cervical and colorectal tumors which can recognize premalignant wounds in individuals without any signs which can be managed before infection effects.

The neutralizing activity of harm and the progression of the approaches to recognize tumor and starting time developments, when treatment may be ideal, remain fundamental targets. The time from starting prologue to a threat causing expert it as often takes various years before a decrease in introduction realizes a diminishment in danger rate and mortality. Biomarkers make inherited changes, diverse changes in the DNA and varieties from the standard in proteins or other natural particles that demonstrate the closeness of a quirk. They may be perceived in blood, stool, other body fluids, or tissue.

Track 11: Physiological Disorders of Ear, Nose & Throat

Physiological Disorders of ENT causes certain disorders like Chronic nasal obstruction, Nasal polyposis, epistaxis and myasis, Rhinorrhoea & Rhinolith, Septal hematoma, Deviated nasal septum, Nasal reflexes, Post-Nasal drip & Young’s syndrome, cleft palate, Kartagener’s syndrome. Sinonasal disorders like Unified Airway disease, Asthma, tumors can be treated surgically using functional endoscopic sinus surgery, endoscopic frontal sinusotomy, transnasal endoscopic surgery, sinus dilation and stenting.

Track 12: Quality of life, Supportive Care and Management

In spite of the way that radiation treatment is routinely a capable technique for removal of threat cells, it can similarly hurt neighboring veins that maintain the skin, ligaments, tendons, muscles, nerves, bones and lungs, which can lead to a dynamic condition called radiation fibrosis issue. It is a late ensnarement of radiotherapy which may show up clinically years after treatment. Radiation-actuated mischief can join "myelo-radiculo-plexo-neuro-myopathy," causing muscle weakness and brokenness and leading to neuromuscular disorders. RFS is an honest to goodness and profound established issue which regardless may take much of the time be decremented when perceived and re-established adequately early. This remedial treatment should be a brain-boggling framework containing direction, practice-based recovery, orthotics and medicated.

Track 13: Advances in Technology and Innovation Treatment in Head and Neck

The deformations of lips and perioral district provide a basic test for reconstructive surgeons. It is essential to obtain comes to fruition that is a win from the valuable and smart perspective. In masterminding the multiplication, the surgeons should consider the age and general state of the patient and the dental status. The master should be acquainted with the essential norms in orchestrating reconstructive procedures. The authority will have the ability to complete the intents, purposes and cosmetically reasonable system in each specific case.

Track 14: Audiology in Otorhinolaryngology

Audiology is the clinical assessment and administration of hearing and adjust issues in individuals of all ages. It moreover includes the fitting and administration of hearing helps and other hearing assistive devices.

Track 15: Radiology in Otorhinolaryngology

Imaging for Otolaryngologists distils the fundamentals of otolaryngologic imaging into a brief reference that concentrates on key subjects that are of quick intrigued to otolaryngologists practicing in a advanced clinical environment.

Head and Neck is a worldwide multidisciplinary production of unique commitments concerning the analysis and the board of sicknesses of the head and neck. This region includes the covering interests and ability of a few careful and medicinal claims to fame, including general surgery,pathology, otolaryngology, radiotherapy, plastic surgery, oral surgery, neurosurgery, dermatology, ophthalmology, medical oncology, and the corresponding basic sciences.

Importance & Scope:

The clinical life systems of the head, neck and back is critical to know on the grounds that the structures situated here enable you to think, talk, see, hear, taste and smell. The head, neck and back additionally house the sensory system control focus that is accountable for everything that occurs in the body. In 2015 head and neck cancers globally affected quite 5 million individuals (mouth a pair of.4 million, throat 1.7 million, larynx 1.4 million) and resulted in additional than 379,000 deaths (mouth 146,000, throat 127,400, larynx 105,900). Along they're the seventh most frequent cancer and also the ninth most frequent reason for death from cancer specialists have anticipated that by 2020. The occurrence of oropharyngeal growth will overwhelm that of the cervical tumor. Notwithstanding, the examination found that lone 0.7% of men will ever create oropharyngeal growth in their lifetimes.

Head and Neck 2019 will exchange the view on latest research outcomes and technological advancements in the field .The Conference is bringing together leading otolaryngologists, head and neck surgeons, physicians, physiotherapists, dentists, ophthalmologists, research scholars, students along with industrial and pharma professionals in a single platform to discuss the various innovations in the field of head and neck.

Target Audience:

Market Research:

The worldwide ENT gadgets showcase estimate was esteemed at USD 15,704.0 million of every 2014 and is required to develop at a CAGR of 5.0% over the conjecture time frame. Rising future because of the nearness of refined medicinal services foundation and rising discretionary cash flow levels has prompted a quick development in the geriatric populace base in this manner, activating development in target ailment frequency rates. The developing pervasiveness of maturing related clutters for example, hearing misfortune and reduction in working levels of ear, nose and throat is relied upon to drive the ENT gadgets industry over the estimated time frame.

The expansion in age additionally prompts diminish in insusceptibility levels making individuals more inclined to diseases for example, a sore throat because of streptococcus contamination. As per the action on hearing Loss information more than 10 million individuals in the UK or one out of six persons experience hearing misfortune. Out of these 6.4 million individuals had a place with the age gathering of 65 or more and 800,000 million individuals experienced significant or serious deafness.

Why Abu Dhabi?

    Abu Dhabi is the second most thickly populated city of the United Arab Emirates. Abu Dhabi rests on a T-shaped island jutting into the Persian Gulf. Abu Dhabi is the capital of both United Arab Emirates and emirates of Abu Dhabi. It’s the largest emirates of the UAE. I has many tourist attractions such as the Abu Dhabi Louvre, Ferrari World and the Emirates Palace. A big crowd gathers to the most populated city of UAE for the international Jazz festival. The event is celebrated in the month of May, for attracting the music lovers. the national day is celebrated by the public of UAE in the month of December. The Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque is the major sight attraction, but the city also makes a good base for excursions to the desert landscapes of Liwa Oasis and the oasis city of Al Ain. Here there is a good place for visitors to see local women demonstrating traditional skills such as weaving, embroidery, and basketry that place is known as women’s handicraft Center. Abu Dhabi is the second-best city to live, work and do business.

Hospitals 

Worldwide

• Princess Margaret Hospital
• Sun Yat-Sen University Cancer Center
• Johns Hopkins Hospital
• Institute Gustave Roussy
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
• Dana-Farber, Boston
• Memorial Sloan Kettering, New York City
• NKI Amsterdam, Amsterdam
• Royal Marsden Hospital, London
• German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ), Heidelberg
• Mayo Clinic, Rochester
• Johns Hopkins, Baltimore
• Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona

Middle East

• Danat Al Emarat Women & Children’s Hospital
• Shaikh Khalifa Medical City 
• Dar Al Shif (Private)
• Healthpoint hospital
• Burjeel Hospital & Medical Centers
• NMC specialty hospital
• Koc University Hospital
• Anadolu Medical Center
• Medicana Healthcare Group
• Neolife Oncology Center
• Sourasky Medical Center
• Sheba Medical Center
• King Fahad National Centre for Children's Cancer and Research
• National Center for Cancer Care & Research (Al Amal Hospital)

Abu Dhabi

• Mafraq Hospital
• Danat Al Emarat Women & Children’s Hospital
• Mediclinic Hospital
• NMC Specialty Hospital Abu Dhabi
• LLH Hospital Abu Dhabi
• Gulf Diagnostic Center Hospital
• Al Salama Hospital
• Al Ahalia Hospital
• Medeor 24x7 Hospital Abu Dhabi
• Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City
• Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City

Associations and Societies:

Worldwide

• American Laryngological, Rhinological and Otological Society (The Trilogical Society)
• American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
• American Head and Neck Society
• British Association of Otorhinolaryngologists-Head and Neck Surgeons
• Australian Society of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
• Canadian Society of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
• The Voice Foundation
• American Society of Pediatric Otolaryngology
• International Federation of Oto-rhino-laryngological Societies
• American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
• American Academy of Otolaryngic Allergy
• American Broncho-Esophagological Association
• American Laryngological Association
• Society for Ear, Nose and Throat Advances in Children
• European Federation of Otorhinolaryngological Societies
• American Rhinologic Society
• American Otological Society

Abu Dhabi 

• Emirates Medical Association
• Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Medical Sciences
• Burjeel Medical and Wellness Centre
• Al Jalila Foundation
• Dubai Health Authority
• Dubai Healthcare City

Medical Universities

Worldwide

• University of Toronto, Canada
• Washington University in St. Louis
• Thomas Jefferson University
• National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore
• Indianapolis University “La Sapienza” of Rome, Rome, Italy
• University of Wisconsin, Madison
• University of Tokyo, Japan
• Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, China
• University of Lyon, France
• University Of Leeds
• University Of Queensland, Australia
• University of Arizona Cancer Center
• University of Utah
• Georgetown University Medical Center
• University of Southampton
• University of Pittsburgh
• McMaster University
• University Of Florida
• Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
• Wayne State University School of Medicine

Middle East       

• Shiraz University of Medical Sciences
• American University of Beirut
• Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences and Health Services
• Tehran University of Medical Sciences
• Mashhad University of Medical Sciences
• United Arab Emirates University
• University of Sharjah
• King Saud University
• Alfaisal University

Abu Dhabi

• Abu Dhabi University
• Fatima College Of Health Sciences
• European International College
• Khalifa University
• Gulf Medical University
• Avalon Univesrity
• University of Sharjah

Companies Related to Head and Neck:

• Roche Pharma
• Marksans Pharma Ltd
• GE Health Care
• Biothera
• Super Gen, Inc.
• Cell Therapeutics
• Sciclone Pharmaceuticals Inc.
• Blood Cancer & A. M. L. Leukaemia Informaion
• United Biotech, Inc.
• LIFE Healthcare Group
• Netcare
• Merck Frosst Canada Ltd.
• Southern Medical

A glance at Market for head and neck cancer Research:

Growing occurrence of head and neck cancer and increasing research activities to develop cost-effective treatment options are the factors which are driving the growth of the global head and neck cancer market. According to the World Health Organization 3 - 5% of the population around the globe suffers from head and neck cancer. Moreover, worldwide approximately 550,000 new cases of head and neck cancer are diagnosed annually with almost 300,000 deaths annually. While cancer can affect people across different age groups, it is especially prevalent among people over 50 years of age. Head and neck cancer are projected to result in 13,360 fatalities (3,420 women and 9,940 men) in 2017. These types of cancers are more than twice as common among men as women.

Increasing geriatric population and rising number of initiatives by government and non-governmental organizations such as Support for People with Oral and Head and Neck Cancer (SPOHNC) creates a highly conducive environment for the growth of the global head and neck cancer market.

Related Societies

Asia-Pacific & Middle East  Emirates Medical Association, Asian Cancer Foundation India, Childhood Cancer International Netherlands, Emirates Medical Association, Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Medical Sciences, Burjeel Medical and Wellness Centre, Al Jalila Foundation, Dubai Health Authority, Dubai Healthcare City, Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists, Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists

Europe  European Association of Radiology, European Society for Medical Oncology, European Network for Smoking Prevention, European Society for Vascular Surgery, European Tissue Repair Society, European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, European Society of Radiology (ESR), German Medical Association, Irish Medical Organisation.

Worldwide  Association of Cancer Physicians, The Cancer Prevention and Education Society, American Association for Women Radiologists, American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, American Board of Radiology, American Medical Association, Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology, Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre, American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Radiological Society of North America, Society for Pediatric Radiology, Society of Interventional Radiology, Society of Hospital Medicine, Australian Medical Association.