AHNS 10th International Conference on Head and Neck Cancer
“Survivorship through Quality and Innovation”
July 22-25, 2021
Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
*Program and Faculty Subject to Change
Thursday, July 22Friday, July 23Saturday, July 24Sunday, July 25
| All Times Listed in Central Time | Session Title |
| 8:00am – 9:15am | Opening Ceremony Grant Achatz |
| 9:15am – 9:45am | John J. Conley Lecture Rebekah Gee, MD |
| 9:45am – 10:15am | Presidential Address |
| 10:15am – 10:30am | Presidential Awards |
| 10:30am – 11:00am | Break |
| 11:00am – 12:20pm | Controversial Topics in Thyroid Management |
| Management of Margins in Oral Cavity Cancer | |
| Controversies in Robotic and Transoral Laser Surgery for Oropharynx Tumors | |
| Proffered Papers Session | |
| Proffered Papers Session | |
| Proffered Papers Session | |
| 12:20pm – 1:00pm | Lunch on Own |
| 1:00pm – 1:50pm | Controversies in the N0 Neck |
| Updates in Immunotherapy | |
| 2:10pm – 3:00pm | Controversies in Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer Management |
| Battleground Oropharynx: Robots vs Lasers – When? How? Why? | |
| 3:00pm – 3:30pm | Break |
| 3:30pm – 4:20pm | Controversies in Reconstruction Surgery |
| Laryngeal Cancer – Controversies | |
| 4:40pm – 5:30pm | Video Session: Experts in Surgical Technique – Head and Neck |
| Health Disparities in Modern Head and Neck Practice: How Can We Do Better? (Women in AHNS) | |
| Proffered Papers Session | |
| 5:30pm – 7:00pm | Women in AHNS Reception |
| Welcome Reception | |
| 6:00pm – 7:00pm | Industry Symposia |
| All Times Listed in Central Time | Session Title |
| 7:30am – 8:30am | De-escalation Therapy What it Means for Patient Care Today |
| 8:45am – 9:30am | Keynote Address Otis Brawley, MD |
| 9:45am – 10:30am | Hayes Martin Lecture James Netterville, MD |
| 10:30am – 11:00am | Break |
| 11:00am – 12:20pm | Reducing the Burden |
| Improving Quality of Life in Survivorship | |
| Oropharynx Cancer Debate | |
| 12:20pm – 1:00pm | Break/Lunch On Your Own |
| 1:00pm – 1:50pm | Advanced Thyroid Cancer Tumor Board |
| 2:10pm – 3:00pm | Management of Salivary Gland Tumors |
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| 3:00pm – 3:30pm | Break |
| 3:30pm – 4:20pm | Current Concepts in Speech and Swallow Rehabilitation |
| Proffered Papers | |
| 4:40pm – 5:30pm | Video Session: Experts in Surgical Technique – Thyroid and Parathyroid |
| 5:30pm – 7:00pm | Industry Symposia |
| 7:00pm – 8:00pm | Poster Session and Poster Tours |
| All Times Listed in Central Time | Session Title |
| 7:30 – 8:30 am | Milton J. Dance Symposium: Survivorship and Late Effects |
| 8:45am – 9:30am | Christopher O’Brien Lecture – Suzanne Topalian, MD |
| 9:45am – 10:30am | Closing Comments Jim Kelly |
| 10:30am – 11:00am | Break |
| 11:00am – 12:20pm | HPV: Epidemiology, Behavior, Prevention and Clinical Implications |
| Innovations in head and neck cancer treatment – Immunotherapy to New Robotics (Thyroid Ablation, Neoadjuvant Immunotherapy, Imaging, etc) | |
| 12:20pm – 1:00pm | Break/Lunch on your own |
| 1:00pm – 1:50pm | NPC and Skull Base Surgery: Complex Case Discussion |
| Proffered Papers | |
| 4:40pm – 5:30pm | Video Session: Experts in Surgical Technique – Salivary and Reconstruction |
| Proffered Papers | |
| 5:30pm – 7:00pm | Industry Symposia |
| 7:00pm – 8:00pm | President’s Reception |
| All Times Listed in Central Time | Session Title |
| 8:00am – 12:30pm | Robotic/TORS Course |
| 8:30am – 11:30am | Speech and Swallow Course |
| 12:30pm – 3:40pm | Primer Course on Endocrine |