09-12, 10:45–11:45 (Europe/Istanbul), Hum+ Trverse+Global 2 (ICC - B3 Floor - 3B/10)
This Round Table session will bring together a group of surgeons who have been actively involved in providing paediatric outreach OHN surgical services across a range of low resource settings in different continents.
We will discuss a range of issues that face both recipient and visiting teams, including how to start a program, the factors that contribute to successful outcomes and those that present greater challenges. These include caseload, local personnel and their training, resource availability, funding and long-term sustainability.
We aim to provide guidance to those involved in establishing outreach partnerships to assist in achieving best outcomes from the beginning and leading to long term self-sufficiency.
To present a 20-year experience of pediatric otology in Cambodia and demonstrate how chronic ear disease management evolved from humanitarian surgical missions focused on disease eradication to a sustainable model based on local ENT training, imaging resources and hearing rehabilitation. This experience highlights the importance of capacity building in LMICs and shows that outcomes comparable to those of developed countries can be achieved when infrastructure, expertise and follow-up systems are progressively established.
Professor Thierry MOM, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor Thierry MOM is the Head of the Otolaryngology Head Neck Surgery Department of the University Hospital of Clermont-Ferrand, France.
He started the University Cochlear Implant program in 2000, as well as the lateral skull base surgery program with the Neurosurgical team .
He created the Clermont-Ferrand University Formation Center of Orthophonie (Speech Therapy-CFUO) in 2016 and the University Formation Center of Audioprothèse (Hearing Aid-CFUA) in 2023.
His domain of expertise is Otology, Otoneurosurgery and Audiology
He is much involved in global outreach for many years, heads the Otolaryngology French Action for Global Outreach (AEGOF) since 2014 , represents the Global Outreach section of IFOS since 2017 and is the scientific director of the French speaking International Society of Otolaryngology Head Neck Surgery (SIFORL) since 2025.
Monash University Medical School Graduate; Australian ORL Training; Fellowships with Prof Donald Harrison, London and Prof Dietrich Plester, Tubingen. Main practice in Otology Neurotology from 1986.
Past Federal President Australian Society for OHNS, Past President Neurotology Society of Australia.
Royal Australian College of Surgery: Past Senior OHNS Examiner, Past Councillor, Past Chair of Academy of Surgical Education
IFOS Executive Board member for Oceania 2009 - 2017, Regional Secretary for South East Asia, Western Pacific & Oceania 2017 - 2026.
Outreach experience in China 2001 - 2025, Papua New Guinea 2010 - 2014, Zimbabwe 2015 - 2024
Dr Jean-Baptiste Lecanu is a French ENT and Head & Neck Surgeon,Associate Professor at the French college of Paris Hospital , Head of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology at the Institut Arthur Vernes in Paris, President of its Medical Board, and President of the humanitarian NGO ASEAR, with extensive expertise in rhinology, otology, ambulatory surgery, and international surgical outreach. He has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications, contributed to French national ENT guidelines, and has led clinical, academic, and humanitarian initiatives in Southeast Asia for more than two decades.
Dr. Ostap Orishchak is a Pediatric Otolaryngology Fellow at McGill University in the Department of Otolaryngology (Canada). He completed his Doctor of Medicine and otolaryngology residency at Ivano-Frankivsk National Medical University (Ukraine). His academic and clinical interests include pediatric otolaryngology, otology, hearing care, airway disorders, and global surgery.