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News -> July, 2001 News
First, I would like to thank our outgoing President, Dr. Fred Kuhn, for leading the American Rhinologic Society through a highly successful year. It's a pleasure to report the wonderful success of our Spring COSM meeting in Palm Desert. We had an outstanding attendance with 374 members registered, and evaluations were highly complimentary. We organized the program into research, medical and surgical segments with special emphasis on newer endonasal rhinoplasty techniques, and integration of computer-assisted surgery into endoscopic sinus surgery. The varied program was well received and the panels on Turbinate Surgery led by Dr. Dale Rice, and the panel on Computer Surgery, which I hosted, were excellently received. Our international guest lecturer, Dr. Aldo Stamm, of Brazil, board certified in both Otolaryngology and Neurosurgery, was brilliant in scope of presentation and quality of surgical videos on "Endoscopic Surgery from Minimal to Maximal." Our other international guests, Dr. Jean-Michel Klossek of France, and Dr. Valerie Lund of England, also added immeasurably to the panel on Skull Base and Endoscopic Sinus Surgery.
The 2001 program committee, consisting of Drs. Dan Becker, Michael Benninger, Bill Bolger, and Don Leopold did an outstanding job selecting our scientific presentations in Spring, and it appears they've again done a superb job for our Fall Meeting in Denver, Saturday, September 8, 2001, preceding the AAO-HNS exposition. The committee had a difficult but pleasant task because approximately twice the number of outstanding rhinology abstracts were submitted for the available presentation slots in the meeting. They did their job, however, spectacularly and the program portends to be again fascinating and informative. Emphasis will again be on research, medical, and surgical rhinology topics, and an international flavor will be added by our excellent contributors from Australia, Brazil and Italy.
Dr. Winston Vaughan will moderate a timely panel on medical management of difficult sinusitis cases, including developments in the immunology field that impact our patients. Dr. James Stankiewicz will also lead a panel on "Fungus or Not Fungus?," including Drs. Berylin Ferguson, David Scherris, Fred Kuhn, and David Kennedy, to place perspective on this controversial area.
I urge our membership to support the wonderful contributions of our academic and clinical faculty and plan to enjoy Denver at the end of the summer when the Rocky Mountains are so beautiful.
Lastly, a word of thanks for the support of our Corporate Affiliate Sponsors. They contributed $43,000 to our Society's unrestricted research grant funds this past year, raising their total contributions to $286,000 over the past six years. Several grants are being awarded by the Research Committee, under the able leadership of Dr. Tom McCaffrey, and we should try to support our sponsors, listed on Page 6.
Again, thanks to the wonderful Program Committee of Drs. Becker, Benninger, Bolger and Leopold, for making my job of planning the 2001 meetings a pleasure; and I am sure that Dr. Don Lanza will have the same wonderful support when he plans our 2002 meetings.
See you in Denver!
Paul Toffel, M.D.
ARS President-elect
Los Angeles, CA
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