7:00

Registration

8:00

Welcome  — Laura Matrka, MD & Apoorva Ramaswamy, MD

8:05

Trach Me Up Before You Go-Go — Andrew Tritter, MD

8:25

iCilia, Biofilms, and Surfactant - Oh My! — Noam Cohen, MD, PhD

8:45

Funky Breathers — Ashley Davis, CCC-SLP

9:05

Loosen it Up! Mucus Tricks from a Pulmonologist — Jonathan Parsons, MD

9:25

The 6 Million Biometric Man: Early Detection and Prevention of Lung Infection in Persons with Chronic Aspiration  — Nina Zhao, MD

9:45

Break With Exhibitors

10:15

Keynote: MOTHERS of Laryngology — Natasha Mirza, MD *

10:45

Q&A *

10:55

Dysphagia in Big Kids — Gresham Richter, MD

11:15

A GI’s Focus on the Globus — Megan Chan, MD

11:35

Don’t Fear the Reaper: Phagophobia Diagnosis and Management — Leia Chapman, CCC-SLP

11:55

Diagnosing GERD in 2025: The Lyons Consensus — James Callaway, MD

12:15

Lunch on your own

1:30

Shar Pei Larynx — Laura Matrka, MD

1:50

The Hyoid Bone in OSA: Victim or Perpetrator? — Raj Dedhia, MD, MSCR

2:10

Cough from the GI Perspective: Reflux, Reflux, or Rubbish  — James Callaway, MD

2:30

Breath or Blockage? Differentiating the Source of Dyspnea in Complex Airway Patients — Jonathan Parsons, MD

2:50

Break With Exhibitors

3:20

To Sleep, to Dream: Sleep Endoscopy — Raj Dedhia, MD, MSCR

3:40

Still Burping After All These Beers: The Past, Present, and Future of RCPD — Andrew Tritter, MD

4:00

Q&A

4:20

Laryngeal Karaoke

5:15

Adjourn

7:45

Hands-On Workshops:

• TEP
• Stroboscopy - Rigid
• Stroboscopy - Flexible
• Trach Care

9:00

How Did We End Up Here? A Recent History of Our Cottage Industry — C. Blake Simpson, MD

9:20

Show Me the Med Li$t! How Medications Affect the Voice — Kathleen Tibbetts, MD

9:40

Cutting Through the Noise Part I - The Crucial Perioperative Role of the SLP from a Surgeon's Perspective — Greg Postma, MD

10:00

Cutting Through the Noise Part II - The Crucial Perioperative Role of the SLP from the SLP's Perspective — Steve Uliana, MM, MS, CCC-SLP

10:20

Q&A

10:30

Break With Exhibitors

10:50

I Screen, You Screen, We All Screen the Esophagus! — Stephanie Watts, PhD, CCC-SLP

11:10

Beyond Our Sphere of Knowledge: 10 Pearls on Taking Care of the Individual With Profound Swallowing Impairment — Liza Blumenfeld, MA, CCC-SLP, BCS-S

11:30

What to Expect When You’re Expecting…Anti-Reflux Surgery — Kelly Haisley, MD

11:50

You Want Me to Do What? Optimizing Adherence in Voice Therapy — Sarah Schneider, MS, CCC-SLP

12:10

Lunch on your own

1:30

We’re Not as Good as We Think We Are: Accuracy of Anatomic Localization on Swallowing Fluoroscopy? — Nina Zhao, MD

1:50

It’s a Bitter Pill to Swallow (The Wide-Ranging Implications of Bitter Taste Receptors) — Noam
Cohen, MD, PhD

2:10

True Pitch: Transformative Gender-Affirming Voice Care — Ashley Davis, CCC-SLP *

2:30

Tighten Up Your Wendler’s Game: New Takes on Pitch-Elevation Surgery — Natasha Mirza, MD *

2:50

Break With Exhibitors

3:10

GI Panel: If You Only Knew…The Knowledge Gap Among Our Fields — James Callaway, MD; Megan
Chan, MD; Kelly Haisley, MD

4:00

In the Zone: Everything About the PES — Greg Postma, MD

4:20

No OR, No Problem - History of In-Office Procedures in Laryngology — Kathleen Tibbetts, MD

4:40

The Q&A Game Show! — Faculty

5:15

Adjourn

7:45

Hands-On Workshops:

• TEP
• Stroboscopy - Rigid
• Stroboscopy - Flexible
• Trach Care

9:00

She’s Got the Bloat! Lymphedema and Its Co-Morbidities — Apoorva Ramaswamy, MD

9:20

Remove Your Mental Blocks!  Expanding Indications for Superior Laryngeal Nerve Injections — Laura Matrka, MD

9:40

Cough and Tell: How Your Cough’s Acoustics Predict Dysphagia — Stephanie Watts, PhD, CCC-SLP

10:00

Put a Ring On It! Esophageal A, B, and C Rings — Peter Belafsky, MD

10:20

Becky Leonard is My Work Grandmother — Leia Chapman, CCC-SLP

10:40

I’m a Survivor: Survivorship in H&N Cancer Patients — Apoorva Ramaswamy, MD *

11:00

Fluffy Ethics (Too Hard to Swallow!) — Gresham Richter, MD **

11:20

What I’ve Learned from 19 Years of Sin City Laryngology — Liza Blumenfeld, MA, CCC-SLP, BCS-S

11:40

Q&A **

12:15

Adjourn