Call for Papers: Annual Meeting & OTO EXPO 2010

Attention: AAO-HNSF Committees and Members identify "practice gaps" in the various clinical areas, which guide the education planning process and selection of Academy courses/topics for the Annual Meeting & OTO EXPO. Gaps are identified in several ways: through the work of the Education Committees, literature review/citations, evaluations, needs surveys, development of clinical guidelines, and research study results.

Some specific needs that have been identified for the 2010 Annual Meeting & OTO EXPO include:

• Five risk zones of surgery
• Advocacy primer for physicians
• Allergy
• Coding errors
• CT imaging
• Effective use of physician extenders
• Geriatric care
• Hoarseness
• Infectious disease and antibiotic coverage
• Patient safety
• Pediatric sinusitis
• Physician burnout
• Sleep medicine
• Surgical techniques and demos
• Thyroid and parathyroid surgery
• Tonsillitis

Miniseminars
Submissions Open: November 9, 2009 — Deadline: December 7, 2009
Notification: March 2010

Instruction Courses
Submissions Open: November 9, 2009 — Deadline: December 7, 2009
Notification: March 2010

Scientific Program Abstracts
Submissions Open: February 8, 2010 — Deadline: March 8, 2010
Notification: May 2010