Target Audience
- Otologists
- Otorhinolaryngologists
- Lateral and Anterior Skull Base Surgeons/ Neurosurgeons
- Neurosurgeons
- Neurotologists
- Hearing Implant Specialists
- Skull Base Surgeons
- Neuroradiologists
- Neurophysiologists
- Neuro-Anesthesiologists
- Audiologists
- Cochlear Implant specialists
- Speech therapists
- General practitioners
- Specialized nurses interested in the field
Topics for the WCEES2026
Otology Topics
- 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
Endoscopic Ear Surgery Topics
- Principles of endoscopic ear surgery
- Transitioning from microscopic to endoscopic approaches
- Instrumentation and technological advancements in endoscopic ear surgery
- Endoscopic surgery of external, middle and inner ear
- Endoscopic management of middle ear tumors
- Endoscopic approaches to mastoiditis and petrous apex lesions
- Pediatric Endoscopic Ear Surgery
- Complications and Revision Surgery
- Management of complications in endoscopic ear surgery
- Endoscopic approaches to revision surgery
- Innovations and Future Directions
- 3D endoscopy in ear surgery
- Exoscope
- Robotics and AI in endoscopic ear surgery
- Advances in endoscopic imaging (e.g., 4K, narrow-band imaging)
Eustachian Tube Research and Interventions
- Updated Management of ET dysfunction
- Ballon dilation of ET
- Pediatric tuboplasty
- Adverse events, failures and Outcomes of ET dilation
- Updated consensus of ETD management
Hearing implants and Cochlear Implantation Topics
- Surgical Techniques and tips and pearls
- Endoscopic-assisted cochlear implantation
- Minimally invasive cochlear implantation
- Pediatric Cochlear Implantation
- Early implantation and outcomes
- Management of congenital anomalies in cochlear implantation
- Bilateral cochlear implantation in children
- Adult Cochlear Implantation
- Cochlear implantation in single-sided deafness
- Outcomes of CI in elderly patients
- Electroacoustic stimulation (EAS) and hybrid cochlear implants
- Techniques for residual hearing preservation during CI and long-term outcome
- CI complications and Challenges: diagnosis and management
- Cochlear implantation in otosclerosis and other challenging cases
- CI revision surgery
- Future Directions and new innovation in CI surgery
- Advances in cochlear implant technology
- Totally implantable cochlear implants
- Robotic-assisted cochlear implantation
- Artificial intelligence in cochlear implant programming
Speech and Language Rehabilitation Topics
- 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
Neurotology and Skull Base Topics
- 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 and Multidisciplinary Topics
- 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.
Audio-Vestibular Topics
- Acute vestibular disfunction: what’s new?
- Meniere disease: a “long life” story
- Superior Semicircular Canal Dehiscence Syndrome
- Vestibular Implant
- Vestibular function after cochlear implant
- Postural Perceptual Persistent Dizziness (PPPD): how to manage?
- Neo-natal screening pathway to cochlear implant
- Hearing rehabilitation & challenges post CI
- Approach to different vestibular syndromes
- Vestibular Rehabilitation after CI
Anterior Skull Base Topics
- Endoscopic Surgery of the Eustachian Tube: Anatomy and Techniques
- Endoscopic Approaches to the Petrous Apex Through the Eustachian Tube
- How to Monitor Nerves During Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery
- Surgical Navigation and New Technology for Endoscopic Anatomy
- Reconstructing the Skull Base: Local Tissue Flaps
- Working Together: Combined Ear and Sinus Approaches to the Skull Base
- Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery in Children: Anatomical Challenges
- How to Manage Nerves and Blood Vessels in Endoscopic Surgery
- Surgery Around the Internal Carotid Artery: Strategies and Decisions
- Future Tools: Advanced Materials and Therapies in Skull Base Surgery