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Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Head & Neck Service COURSE DIRECTORS Ian Ganly, MD, PhD Snehal Patel, MD HIGHLIGHTS Didactic lectures supplemented with video clips and case discussions. Hands-on teaching on cadaveric specimens. COURSE DESCRIPTION The hands on course will teach participants transoral laser microsurgery (TLM) using the Lumenis CO2 laser AcuBlade and flexible CO 2 laser fiber on human cadaveric specimens. Participants will be taught TLM for cancers of the glottic larynx, supraglottic larynx and hypopharynx using a variety of laryngoscopes and high powered microscopes with the Lumenis Digital AcuBlade micromanipulator. Transoral laser resection of tonsil and base of tongue cancers will be taught using the Lumenis flexible CO 2 laser fiber and a variety of retractors. The 2 day course will consist of half day lectures and half day hands-on dissection on each day of the course. The program is limited to a maximum of 20 participants. DIDACTIC PRESENTATIONS • Laser physics and safety • Indications for TLM • Patient selection • Outcomes of TLM • Room set-up, instrumentation, exposure MSKCC FACULTY Ian Ganly, MD, PhD Snehal Patel, MD Richard Wong, MD Luc Morris, MD Hands-on Transoral Laser Microsurgery for Head & Neck Cancer Saturday & Sunday October 10-11, 2015 Fusion Solutions Bioskills Laboratory 190 Duffy Ave, Hicksville, NY 11801 COURSE FEES: $1,000 (2 days with hands on training) • Margin analysis and pathologic considerations • Endoscopic partial laryngectomy : Glottic larynx • Endoscopic partial laryngectomy: Supraglottic larynx • Transoral laser microsurgery of the hypopharynx • Transoral laser microsurgery of the tonsil and base of tongue GUEST FACULTY Ben Judson, MD (Yale) Ramatulla Rahmati, MD (Columbia) Marc Cohen, MD (Cornell) Lucian Sulica, MD (Cornell) For more information, please contact Dr Ian Ganly at: Email: [email protected] Phone: 212-639-2221
