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Erie ENT Alumni Day
This activity provides attendees with up-dated scientific knowledge and practice guidelines in Otolaryngology—Head & Neck Surgery, including subspecialty are-as such as sinus, head and neck cancer, head and neck reconstruction, molecular biologics, and plastics. Participants will learn relevant and timely information on the benefits of the private practice of medicine and best practices for communicating with difficult patients.
Target Audience
Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery physicians, residents, and medical students are the primary audience for this conference. Nurses, advanced practice providers, and other clinical staff who currently work in an ENT setting or who would like to expand their ENT knowledge may also benefit from attending.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:
- Describe the different biologic medications available, noting those with FDA approval
- Understand the mechanisms of how biologics work
- Describe the current clinical trials underway for the use of biologics
- Identify ways to reduce the effects of radiation mucositis and xerostomia using safe and effective mean
- Provide basic nutritional counseling for patients newly diagnosed with head and neck cancer
- Describe various reconstructive approaches for head and neck defects
- Understand the indications for microvascular reconstruction in the head and neck
- Describe the complications associated with regional and free flap reconstruction
- Discuss why dog bites to the face require care from a diverse field of health care professionals
- Describe the psychological trauma, pain, and distress caused by dog bites to the face
- Describe why the private practice of medicine is alive and well
- Understand the pros and cons of private practice
- Employ a consistent and evidence based approach to the initial work up of the unknown primary of the head and neck
- Compare the benefits and risks associated with different treatment modalities for the unknown primary of the head and neck
- Identify ways residency training in Erie has changed over time, including the challenges that are unique to today’s trainee
- Describe how connectedness and positive professional relationships provide support and balance to physicians throughout their careers
- Employ common communication strategies to deescalate patients who are showing intense emotion
- Understand best practices for navigating complex family dynamics at the bedside
- Understand that GoPro cameras during tonsillectomy could provide improved visualization for the attending surgeon supervising the resident
- Understand that GoPro cameras during tonsillectomy could enhance resident learning pre and post-procedure
- Recognize symptoms and management of hemorrhaging thyroid hematoma
- Describe patient preparation and preoperative evaluation for success with FESS procedure
- Understand intraoperative technique and how balloon sinuplasty has changed approach
- Evaluate and describe available options and products for modern FESS procedures
- Describe post-operative and follow-up regimens for modern FESS procedure
Additional Information
| Attachment | Size |
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 Brochure | 926.75 KB |
6:45 – 7:30 | Registration/Continental Breakfast | |
7:30 – 7:45 | Celebrating 33 Years of Erie ENT Residency Training | Sean T. Carroll, DO & Kirk W. Steehler, DO, FOCOO |
7:45 – 8:30 | Molecular Biologics in Head and Neck Surgery | Kirk W. Steehler, DO, FOCOO |
8:30 – 9 | Unknown Primary | Andrew W. Agnew, DO, MS Ed |
9 – 9:30 | Tips and Tricks for Modern FESS Procedures | Jared Bunevich, DO, MS Ed |
9:30 – 10 | Reconstruction of Head & Neck Defects: from Simple to Complex | Rizwan Aslam, DO, MS Ed, MBA, FACS |
10 – 10:15 | Break | |
10:15 – 10:45 | Preserving the Private Practice of Medicine: A Personal Journey | Benjamin W. Murcek, DO, FAOCO |
10:45 - 11 | Communicating with Difficult Patients | Ellen H. Ko-Keeney, DO, PGY5, UPMC Hamot |
11 – 11:15 | Adjunct Treatment of Head & Neck Cancer Using Nutrition & Other Means | Carter M. Denne, DO, PGY4, UPMC Hamot |
11:15 – 11:30 | Ear Avulsion and Penetrating Neck Trauma from Repeated Dog Attacks: An Unusual Case Presentation | Robert J. Archbold, DO, PGY3, UPMC Hamot |
11:30 – 11:45 | GoPro Cameras for Tonsillectomy | Brandon Fornwalt, DO, PGY4, St. Elizabeth Boardman |
11:45 – 12 | An Aggressive Disfiguring Supraorbital Mass | Cang Nguyen, DO, PGY5, St. Elizabeth Boardman |
12 – 1:30 | Lunch | |
1:30 – 5:30 | Wellness Activity/Leisure Time 18-hole golf, aerial ropes course, spa, biking, hiking, etc. (Wellness activity fee payable to Peek’n Peak at time of event) | |
5:30 – 7 | Happy Hour Woods’n Wedges | |
7 | Dinner & Closing Remarks Significant others and children welcome | |
Attire
Business casual is expected. Meeting room temperatures and personal comfort levels vary; you're encouraged to bring a sweater or jacket.
Special Needs
We welcome all registrants to this activity. If you need special accommodations in order to participate, we will try to provide for your needs. Please submit written notice at least one month prior to the course by emailing kutza@upmc.edu.
Stay with us
Click here to book a room at Peek'n Peak Resort
Travel
For travelers from Erie, Pittsburgh, and Cleveland, take I-90 East to Route 86, then take Exit 4 for Findley Lake.
For travelers from Buffalo, take I-90 to Ex-it 41 for North East, then continue on PA-89 South before turning left onto Route 430.
Course Director
Sean T. Carroll, DO
ENT Associates
Erie, PA
Faculty
Andrew W. Agnew, DO, MS Ed
Robert J. Archbold, DO, PGY3, UPMC Hamot
Rizwan Aslam, DO, MS Ed, MBA, FACS
Jared Bunevich, DO, MS Ed
Carter M. Denne, DO, PGY4, UPMC Hamot
Brandon Fornwalt, DO, PGY4, St. Elizabeth Boardman
Ellen H. Ko-Keeney, DO, PGY5, UPMC Hamot
Benjamin W. Murcek, DO, FAOCO
Cang Nguyen, DO, PGY5, St. Elizabeth Boardman
Kirk W. Steehler, DO, FOCOO
Accreditation
In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the health care team.
Physician (CME)
The University of Pittsburgh designates this conference for a maximum of 4.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.
AOA Category 1-A Credit
The Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine is accredited by the American Osteopathic Association to provide osteopathic continuing medical education for physicians. The Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine designates this conference for a maximum of 4.0 AOA Category 1-A Credit. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Other Healthcare Providers
Nurses and other health professionals will receive a Certificate of Attendance. For information on applicability and acceptance, please consult your professional licensing board.
Available Credit
- 4.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
- 4.00 Attendance