The 3-day intensive course promotes a multidisciplinary approach to the dizzy patient and is designed to appeal to all those who have an interest in balance including managing balance patients. The course would be relevant to ENT and medical consultants and trainees, audiologists, clinical scientists and physiotherapists. We always welcome colleagues from other medical backgrounds, and from around the world, with an interest in the balance patient in a relaxed and interactive environment.
- Expert talks
- Master classes
- Case studies
- Practical sessions
Topics covered will include
- Mechanical Stimulation of Balance Function
- A topical peer discussion of a range of pathologies: Menieres, BPPV, vestibular neuritis, vestibulopathy, migraine, non-vestibular causes of dizziness, superior canal dehiscence, paediatric dizziness, PPPD, and others from our highly experienced faculty
- A comprehensive clinical assessment of balance patients, including practical demonstrations, form a medical and scientific approach
- Demonstrations and some hands on with, vHIT, the new Bertec video posturography, and the new TRV BPPV chair
- Problem Based Learning in areas around VNG recording and Calori testing
- Medical management and Vestibular rehabilitation in a case based or problem based learning approach
The course includes refreshments and snacks throughout the day and lunch. There is also the keynote lecture followed by the formal course dinner, allowing networking opportunities.
Faculty:
Professor Peter Rea is a consultant ear nose and throat surgeon at the Leicester Royal Infirmary where he has been in post since 2004. He runs one of the busiest balance clinics in the UK where, with his team, has approximately 7,000 balance patient appointments per year. He is Honorary Professor of Balance Medicine at De Montfort University, and Honorary Professor to the Departments of Neuroscience and Informatics at The University of Leicester.
He is currently President of the Royal Society of Medicine, Section of Otology, for 2023-2024, as well as the UK secretary of The European Association of Otology and Neuro-otology (2022-2024) and Past-President of The British Society of Otology with his term of office 2020-2022. He was previously Chairman of The British Society of Neuro-otology from 2013-2019.
Professor Rea is on the faculty of several national and international otology and neuro-otology meetings and courses. This includes Academic Vice-Chair of BACO 2023, the UK’s biggest ENT academic meeting. He has run the annual 3-day Leicester Balance Course since 2004 so this will be his 20th anniversary year!
His research interests include intra-tympanic therapies for Meniere’s Disease with a landmark paper published in the Lancet in 2016, and collaboration with a Nasdaq listed biotech firm trialling novel injectable drugs for both Meniere’s and tinnitus. He was also clinical lead on a collaboration with leading computer scientists in the UK and USA, and IBM in the UK, developing artificial intelligence-led diagnostic solutions for dizziness (BalanceAID. He has authored many scientific papers and writes for leading textbooks of ENT, most recently the Oxford Textbook of Vertigo, the Oxford Textbook of Otolaryngology and Scott Brown Otolaryngology.
Professor Joel A Goebel, MD, FACS, FRCS, Professor Emeritus of Otolaryngology, Department of Otolaryngology- Head and Neck Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine
Before retirement from clinical practice in June, 2020, he was the Director of the Dizziness and Balance Centre for clinical and clinical research activities. He has published over 120 peer reviewed and invited publications and continues his research activities as a consultant on two government grants and one international consortium. He is the 2006-2007 past president of the American Neurotology Society and served as Vice Chairman and Residency Program Director in the department. Current research interests include development of a portable dynamic posturography system, assessment and prevention of spatial disorientation in high performance flight, and development of early predictors for development of persistent postural-perceptual dizziness (PPPD) following vestibular injury. His lecture activities centre around clinical and laboratory assessment and treatment of vestibular disease.
Professor Chris Degg - Professor in Balance Science and Consultant Clinical Scientist Nottingham University Hospitals. He is an NHS Clinical Scientist for the past 31 years, the first 21 years as Head of Evoked Potentials and latterly acting Head of Physiological Measurement in the Department of Medical Physics, University Hospitals Leicester. For the last 10 years as Head of Evoked Potentials in the Department of Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering, Nottingham University Hospitals.
He has been the Chair of the IPEM Physiological Measurements specialist interest group, Chair of the BSA professional guidance group and external examiner for both City University London and University College London.
Mr Daniel Petersson – Specialist Physiotherapist in Dizziness. Master´s degree medicine with specialization in physiotherapy. Adjunct Professor at Linköping University, Sweden. About 14 years of experience in the field of dizziness and balance disorders. He operates a private company offering educate and training to heath professionals as well as designing and producing vestibular anatomical models. He describes himself as a ‘vestiboliholic’.
Ms Michaela Burton – Vestibular Audiologist and Clinical Hypnotherapist, Leicester
Mr Anil Banerjee - Consultant ENT Surgeon, Leicester
Prof. Owen Judd - Consultant ENT Surgeon and Professor of Balance Medicine, Derby
Dr Waheeda Pagarkar - Consultant Paediatric Audio-vestibular Physician, London
Dr Peter Savundra - Consultant Audiovestibular Physician, ENT 150, London
Peter has a special interest in the management of concussive injuries and reducing the cognitive impact of auditory and vestibular dysfunction. He is a founder member of the Vestibular Interdisciplinary Working Group (VIWG)
Dr Yougan Saman - Consultant ENT surgeon, Leicester
Miss Rachel Mora Gomez – Senior lecturer in Audiology, Leicester
Mrs Mahdiyya Dharas – Lecturer in Vestibular Rehabilitation, Leicester
Mr Rakesh Patel - Associate Professor in Audiology, De Montfort University, Leicester
Location and Facilities
The course will be held at De Montfort University, boasting modern facilities and located in the heart of Leicester with excellent transport links. The campus is self-contained and talks will be held in the new state of the art Vijay Patel Building which boasts an outdoor terrace where delegates can relax and reflect. The surrounding area has a number of hotels within a 10-minute walk and also a number of restaurants catering for various tastes due to the multicultural nature of the city.
Course fees
Non-Medics: £500
Medics: £575
Consultants: £650
Course fees include refreshments and lunch for the 3 days and the course dinner in the evening is sponsored by Interacoustics.
18 CPD credits from ENT UK (TBC)
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For all queries please contact us at leicesterbalancecourse@dmu.ac.uk