The International Federation of Head and Neck Oncologic Societies presents

Global Continuing Education Program

Current Concepts in Head & Neck Surgery & Oncology

October 21 – November 6, 2018

After five very successful World Tour Programs in 2008, 2010, 2012, 2016 and 2017, the International Federation of Head

and Neck Oncologic Societies is again offering a global continuing medical education program featuring the most

respected leaders in the field of Head & Neck surgery and oncology. This worldwide program will cover locations in a

sequence (shown below). Future programs will cover other parts of the world. Nations are clustered into regions to offer

easy access to as many individuals as possible at each session. The program will provide state-of-art knowledge and

explore the frontiers of Head and Neck cancer diagnosis and treatment through introductory lectures, intense

interactive discussions with regional specialists through case presentations, and demonstration of operative techniques

through video sessions. Ample opportunity for discussion between the local faculty, attendees and the traveling faculty

will be provided.

Date Location

st rdOctober 21 - 23 , 2018 Manila, Philippines

th thOctober 26 - 28 , 2018 Kolkata, India

st ndOctober 31 - November 2 , 2018 Beijing, China

th thNovember 4 - 6 , 2018 Milan, Italy

Milan,

Italy

Kolkata,

IndiaManila,

Philippines

Beijing,

China

TOUR SCHEDULE

Jatin P. Shah

MD, PhD (Hon.), DSc (Hon),

FACS, FRCS (Hon.),

FDSRCS (Hon.), FRACS (Hon.),

FRCSDS (Hon)

Professor Jatin Shah is an international leader who holds The Elliott W. Strong Chair in Head and

Neck Oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. Professor Shah has

served as President of The New York Cancer Society, The New York Head and Neck Society, The

Society of Head and Neck Surgeons, The North American Skull Base Society, and the International

Academy of Oral Oncology. He is Founder and CEO of The International Federation of Head and

Neck Oncologic Societies (IFHNOS).

Professor Shah has been the recipient of numerous awards from all continents and is an honorary

member of several Head and Neck societies in Europe, Asia, Australia and South America. He

serves on the Editorial and Review Boards of 18 scientific journals and has published more than

500 peer-reviewed publications, 78 book chapters and 10 books. His textbook of Head and Neck

Surgery and Oncology won First Prize from The British Medical Association and The Royal Society

of Medicine, and was awarded the George Davey Howells Prize from the University of London for

the best published book in otolaryngology in the preceding five years. He is a much sought-after

speaker who has delivered 87 named lectures and keynote addresses and over 1,200 scientific

presentations in 49 countries. In recognition of his outstanding contributions and world

leadership in Head and Neck surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has established an

endowed Chair in his name, the American Head and Neck Society has named an annual

symposium in his honor, and the IFHNOS has established an eponymous lecture in his name at its

World Congresses.

Ashok R. Shaha

MD, FACS

Professor Ashok Shaha is an Attending Surgeon on the Head and Neck Service at Memorial Sloan

Kettering Cancer Center, Professor of Surgery at Cornell University Medical College, and holds the

Jatin Shah Chair in Head and Neck Surgery at MSKCC. Dr. Shaha completed his surgical training at

M.S. University of Baroda and at The Tata Memorial Hospital in India. He completed his surgical

training at Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York and a fellowship in Head and Neck

surgery at Memorial Hospital. He joined the Department of Surgery at Downstate Medical Center

in 1982 as a Head and Neck Surgeon, rising to the rank of Professor of Surgery in 1992. During this

period, he was also Chief of Head and Neck Surgery at King’s County, Brooklyn VA Hospital and

University Hospital. He joined the full time faculty of MSKCC in 1993.

Dr. Shaha has been awarded many honors throughout his career. He has served as President of the

New York Head and Neck Society, the American Society for Surgeons of Indian Origin, the

Brooklyn Surgical Society, the New York Cancer Society, the New York Surgical Society, the

American Head and Neck Society, and the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons. His CV

includes more than 500 publications. Dr. Shaha has dedicated his professional career to the

training of medical students, residents and fellows. He was Chairman of the Advanced Training

Council for Head and Neck Surgery and Oncology Fellowships in the USA.

TRAVELING FACULTY

Dr. Witterick is Professor and Chair of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery at

the University of Toronto. He is the Chief of Otolaryngology-HNS and Chair of the Medical

Advisory Committee at Sinai Health System in Toronto.

Dr. Witterick is a Head and Neck surgical oncologist with special interest in sinonasal and skull

base malignancies. He finished his term as President of the North American Skull Base Society in

February 2018 and is currently Vice-President of the Canadian Society of Otolaryngology-HNS.

He has been on the steering committee of the three World Congresses on Thyroid Cancer and is

helping in the organization of future congresses in Rome (2019) and Boston (2021). He is a

member of the Collegium Oto-Rhino-Laryngologicum Amicitiae Sacrum, an associate editor for

the American Journal of Rhinology & Allergy and he is on the Editorial Boards of four other

journals.

He is a frequently invited speaker nationally and internationally and has published widely in the

fields of Head & Neck oncology, rhinology, and skull base surgery.

Ian Witterick

MD, MSc, FRCSC

Professor Hisham Mehanna is the Chair of Head and Neck Surgery and Director of the Institute of

Head and Neck Studies and Education, at the School Cancer Sciences, University of Birmingham.

Hisham's clinical interests are recurrence Head and Neck cancer surgery and thyroid and minimal

access parathyroid surgery.

Hisham has a keen interest in clinical and translational research, heading a research team of 20

researchers, and holding over £12million in research grants. The main research areas of his

research are Human Papillomavirus-associated Head and Neck cancer and thyroid cancer.

His research themes are drug development and redeployment, biomarkers of treatment response

and early and late phase clinical trials. He is chief investigator of several multicentre and

multinational clinical trials, including the PET NECK trial, published in NEJM 2016.

He is currently the President of the British Association of Head & Neck Oncologists (BAHNO), the

Chair of the UK's National Cancer Research Institute's Head and Neck Group, and the Founding

Secretary of the Head and Neck Cancer International Group, a collaboration of 20 national Head

and Neck cancer research groups.

Hisham M. Mehanna

PhD, BMedSc (Hon.),

MBChB (Hon.), FRCS,

FRCS (ORL-HNS)

TRAVELING FACULTY

TRAVELING FACULTY

Jan B. Vermorken was born in 1944, started his medical training in 1961, graduated in 1970 from

the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and became a board-certified specialist in internal

medicine in 1975. Since that time he has worked in the field of Medical Oncology and was

officially registered as a Medical Oncologist in the Netherlands in 1992. He received his Ph.D. in

Medical Sciences in 1986 from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. From May 1997 until October

1, 2009, he was Professor of Oncology at the University of Antwerp (UA), and head of the

Department of Medical Oncology at the University Hospital Antwerp (UZA), in Edegem, Belgium.

After his retirement, he remains connected to both University (Emeritus Professor) and University

Hospital (consultant).

His main fields of interest are head and neck oncology and gynecologic oncology. He chaired

both the Head and Neck Cancer Group (2006-2009) and the Gynecologic Cancer Group (1983-

1989) of the European Organization for the Research and Treatment of cancer (EORTC). He was

founding chair of the Gynecologic Cancer InterGroup (GCIG: 1997-2003) and strongly involved in

establishing the Head and Neck Cancer International Group (HNCIG) in 2015. He devotes a large

part of his time to teaching, professional training, and continuing medical education.

Professor Vermorken is member of various scientific societies, member of several editorial boards

of International journals, reviewer of multiple cancer journals and author or co-author of about

700 publications. He was Editor-in-Chief of Annals of Oncology from 2009 to 2014 and is chief

editor of the head and neck cancer sections of The Oncologist (since 2003) and Frontiers in

Oncology (since 2015). He received the ESMO award in 2007 and on March 1, 2013 he received the

title of Commander in the Order of Leopold for his contributions to oncology.

Dr. Sandro Porceddu is an internationally recognized radiation oncologist and a leading authority

in Head and Neck and skin cancer. His areas of clinical expertise include Head and Neck cancer,

skin cancer, sarcoma and lymphoma.

He is currently a senior radiation oncologist and Director of radiation oncology research at the

Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Professor of Medicine, University of Queensland and

Associate Editor for the International Head and Neck journal, Oral Oncology. He is a Fellow of the

Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists, President of the Clinical Oncology

Society of Australia (COSA) and the Trans-Tasman Radiation Oncology Group (TROG).

He has over 150 peer-review articles. He runs an active Head and Neck/Skin cancer research

program and is the principal investigator of numerous trials.

Sandro Porceddu

Jan B. Vermorken

MD, FRANZCR

MD, Ph.D.

TIME TOPIC

08:00 - 08:15 AM Introduction : Jatin P. Shah

08:15 - 09:30 AM Oral Cancer

Ian WitterickModerator :

08:15 - 08:45 AM Jatin P. ShahSpeaker:

08:45 - 09:30 AM Panel Discussion

Hisham M. Mehanna, Sandro Porceddu & 3 Regional Faculties Panelists:

09:30 - 10:00 AM Break - Coffee

10:00 - 12:00 NOON Thyroid Cancer

Hisham M. MehannaModerator :

10:00 - 10:30 AM : Jatin P. ShahSpeaker: Surgery for Primary

10:30 - 11:00 AM : Ashok R. ShahaSpeaker: Surgery for Neck

11:00 - 12:00 NOON Thyroid Panel Discussion

Ian Witterick, Sandro Porceddu & 3 Regional Faculties Panelists:

12:00 - 01:00 PM Lunch

01:00 - 01:30 PM Advances in Radiotherapy: Sandro Porceddu

01:30 - 02:00 PM Advances in Systemic Therapy: Jan B. Vermorken

02:00 - 03:00 PM Multidisciplinary Panel

Ian Witterick Moderator :

Ashok R. Shaha & 3 Regional FacultiesPanelists:

03:00 - 03:30 PM Coffee Break

03:30 - 04:30 PM Salivary Tumors

Ashok R. Shaha Moderator :

03:30 - 04:00 PM Hisham M. Mehanna Speaker:

04:00 - 04:30 PM Salivary Panel Discussion

Jatin P. Shah, Ian Witterick & 3 Regional FacultiesPanelists:

04:30 - 06:00 PM Videos

Jatin P. Shah / Ashok R. ShahaModerator :

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TIME TOPIC

08:00 - 09:30 AM Oropharynx

Jan B. Vermorken Moderator :

08:00 - 08:20 AM Surgery : Hisham M. Mehanna Speaker:

08:20 - 08:40 AM Radiation Therapy: Sandro PorcedduSpeaker:

08:40 - 09:15 AM Panel Discussion

Ian Witterick & 3 Regional FacultiesPanelists:

09:15 - 10:00 AM Melanoma

Sandro PorcedduModerator :

09.15 - 09:45 AM Ashok R. Shaha Speaker:

09:45 - 10:00 AM Panel Discussion

Jatin P. Shah & 3 Regional Faculties Panelists:

10:00 - 10:30 AM Coffee Break

10:30 - 12:00 NOON Larynx preservation

Ashok R. Shaha Moderator :

10:30 - 10:50 AM Surgical : Jatin P. Shah Speaker:

10:50 - 11:10 AM Non Surgical - Chemotherapy : Jan B. VermorkenSpeaker:

11:10 - 11:30 AM Non Surgical - Radiation therapy : Sandro Porceddu Speaker:

11:30 - 12:00 NOON Panel Discussion

Ian Witterick, Hisham M. Mehanna & 3 Regional FacultiesPanelists:

12:00 - 01:00 PM Lunch

01:00 - 02:00 PM Skull Base Surgery

Jatin P. Shah Moderator :

01:00 - 01:30 PM Ian Witterick Speaker:

01:30 - 02:00 PM Panel Discussion

Sandro Porceddu, Jan B. Vermorken & 3 Regional Faculties Panelists:

02:00 - 03:00 PM Reconstructive Surgery

Jatin P. Shah Moderator :

02:30 - 03:00 PM Ian Witterick Speaker:

03:00 - 03:30 PM Break – Coffee

03:30 - 04:30 PM Stump the Faculty

Ashok R. Shaha Moderator :

Jatin P. Shah, Ian Witterick, Hisham M. Mehanna, Sandro Porceddu, Jan B. VermorkenPanelists:

04:30 - 06:00 PM Videos

Moderator : Jatin P. Shah / Ian Witterick

Day 2

WORLD TOUR PROGRAM

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