Target Audience

Topics for the WCEES2026

Cholesteatoma Surgery: endoscopic vs. microscopic approaches
Cholesteatoma: classification and outcomes
Pediatric otitis media and cholesteatoma
Extensive cholesteatoma of the temporal bone
Eustachian Tube dysfunction and management
Otosclerosis and Stapes Surgery, outcome and complications
Tympanoplasty and ossiculoplasty: Endoscopic vs. microscopic
Ossicular chain reconstruction techniques and materials
Congenital Ear Anomalies: Management of congenital aural atresia
Hearing rehabilitation in congenital ear malformations
Inner ear regeneration
Management of middle ear tumors
Otologic Trauma: Management of temporal bone fractures
Necrotizing otitis externa and skull base osteomyelitis: diagnosis and management

Speech and language assessments pre and post cochlear implant for both pediatrics and adults
Auditory-verbal therapy post CI for both pediatrics and adults
Early intervention challenges and opportunities
Listening, Language, Literacy in children with hearing loss
Adult and pediatric (re)habilitation for children and adults with bilateral and unilateral deafness as well as those with additional diagnoses
Multidisciplinary team involvement in CI (re)habilitation
CI (re)habilitation complications and challenges: navigation and solutions
Advances and future directions in CI assessments and management

Vestibular schwannoma surgery: endoscopic and microscopic approaches
Vestibular schwannoma: lines of management
Vestibular disorders: diagnosis and management
Surgical and non-surgical management of Meniere’s disease
Superior semicircular canal dehiscence
Management of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV)
Facial Nerve Disorders: Endoscopic facial nerve decompression
Management of facial nerve tumors
Rehabilitation strategies for facial nerve palsy
Management of glomus jugulare tumors and other skull base lesions
Surgery of Jugular foramen tumors: Neurosurgical perspective
Endoscopic approaches to the lateral skull base
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) Leaks: Diagnosis and management
Techniques for hearing preservation in vestibular schwannoma surgery
Hearing implants and cochlear implantation following skull base surgery
Innovations and Future Directions: AI and augmented reality in lateral skull base surgery

Combined Endoscopic-Microscopic Approaches
Integration of endoscope, exoscope and microscope in complex skull base surgery
Multidisciplinary approaches for advanced skull base and neurotologic pathologies
Multidisciplinary management of otologic trauma
Hearing restoration following lateral skull base surgery
Advances in Neuroradiology and skull base imaging
Advances in Neuroanesthesia for complex Neurosurgery and skull base surgery
Advances in intraoperative Neurophysilogical monitoring for neurotology and skull base surgery
Advances in Neuronavigation and cutting edge technology instrumentation.