Featured In This Issue of ENT Today
April 2012
TRIO/ACS Grants Support Academic Careers
Researchers studying adult hearing loss, dizziness
Last fall, the Triological Society gave two new Clinical Scientist Development Awards, one cosponsored by the American College of Surgeons, to physicians already awarded an NIH Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Award. ENT Today recently talked to the two new awardees, who are studying adult hearing loss and dizziness.
Adverse Event Know-How
Experts ponder why few medical errors are reported
Nearly 13 years after the release of the Institute of Medicine’s landmark report To Err Is Human, which called national attention to the rate of preventable errors in U.S. hospitals and galvanized the patient safety movement, six out of every seven hospital-based errors, accidents and other adverse events still go unreported.
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Correction
The article, “Conflicting Evidence on Tobacco’s Effect on ESS Outcomes” (in the March 2012 issue), misquoted David Kennedy, MD, professor of rhinology at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center and Veterans Administration Hospital in Philadelphia. [Full Article]
Meeting Calendar
Endoscopic Surgery of the Sinuses and Eustachian Tube
April 2-3 - Boston, Mass., Harvard University
ENT for the PA-C
April 12-15 - Arlington, Va.
Combined Otolaryngology Spring Meetings (COSM)
April 18-22- San Diego, Calif.
5th Annual European Congress on Head and Neck Oncology
April 19-21 - European Head and Neck Society, Poznan, Poland
Triological Society 115th Annual Meeting at COSM
April 20-21 - San Diego, Calif.
Preliminary Program of the American Otological Society, Inc.
April 21-22 - San Diego, Calif.
3rd Middle East Congress on Rhinology and Facial Plastic Surgery
April 24-27 - Tehran, Iran
12th International Conference on Cochlear Implants and Other Implantable Auditory Technologies
May 3-5 - Baltimore, Md.
2012 Board of Governors Spring Meeting
May 6-7
International Federation of Facial Plastic Surgery Societies (IFFPSS) VII International Congress
May 9-12 - Rome, Italy
83rd Annual Meeting of the German Society of ORLHNS with 6th International Forum
May 16-20 - Mainz, Germany
11th International Congress of the European Society of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology
May 20-23 - Amsterdam, the Netherlands
