Dear Colleague,

The spring meeting of the Royal Belgian Society for Otolaryngology and Cervicofacial Surgery (free communications and awards) will take place on 29 April 2023.

The congress will take place at the Palais des Académies, rue Ducale 1, 1000 Brussels. 

The deadline for submission of abstracts is 6 March 2023.

Abstracts should be sent to the secretariat of the Society (secretary@orl-nko.be) and to the President (mdefrere@chuliege.be).

Please find here the instructions for writing the abstract.

For the spring meeting 2023 the following 4 prizes of 1000 euros each will be awarded:

• 1 prize for the best oral presentation in the field of Otology-Audiology
• 1 prize for the best oral presentation in the field of Rhinology
• 1 prize for the best presentation in the field of Laryngology and Head and Neck Surgery
• 1 prize for the best poster 
• A fifth prize of 1000 euros is foreseen for the Temporal Bone Contest.

For your information, the Annual Congress will take place on 8 and 9 December 2023 at the Palais des Congrès in Liege.

Thank you in advance and I hope you will accept my best wishes.

Prof Philippe Lefebvre

President 2023

pp.lefebvre@uliege.be

Chères Amies,                                                                         
Chers Amis,
Chers collègues,
 
 
C’est en ma nouvelle qualité de Président de notre Société que j’ai l’honneur de vous souhaiter une année 2023 plus sereine, je l’appelle de tous mes vœux.
 
Je tiens à remercier le Professeur Indesteege pour sa présidence et le magnifique congrès organisé à Genk.
 
Alors qu’il y a cinq ans nous célébrions le centenaire de la fin de la première guerre mondiale, le conflit ukrainien nous rappelle que la paix n’est jamais acquise. 
 
Notre société, déjà mise à mal par une pandémie mondiale, fait désormais face à une crise de l’énergie plaçant le climat au centre de tous les débats.
 
Tous ces questionnements et préoccupations nous touchent individuellement et collectivement et pourraient nous pousser à l’individualisme.
 
Il est toutefois important de ne pas céder à cette tentation et de continuer à nous réunir pour échanger et partager.  Ces différentes crises nous ont poussés à nous réinventer pour continuer à communiquer.
 
C’est ensemble que nous surmonterons les difficultés.
 
C’est pourquoi j’ai le plaisir de vous communiquer les dates pressenties pour nos prochaines réunions :
notre session de printemps se tiendra le samedi 29 avril 2023 au Palais des Académies à Bruxelles.  Comme chaque année les prix seront attribués dans les domaines de l’otologie, la rhinologie, la laryngologie – chirurgie cervico-faciale.
notre congrès annuel se tiendra les vendredi 8 et samedi 9 décembre 2023 au Palais des Congrès de Liège. 
 
Dans l'attente de vous revoir, portez-vous bien, prenez-soin de vous et de vos proches et ayez le grain de folie nécessaire pour réaliser vos rêves.
 
 
Pr Philippe LEFEBVRE
Président 2023 de la Société Royale Belge d’ORL et de Chirurgie Cervico-Faciale

Dear colleagues,

During the last year, the Confederation has developed a “Current Practice in ORL-HNS” Seminars Program, which is branded under the name of “Confederation Academy” to outreach all practicing ENT colleagues.

We are now glad to announce the first Academy Course on March 3rd and 4th, 2023 in Zagreb, Croatia. This educational course is tasked with improving and updating knowledge and skills among ORL-HNS residents and young specialists, aiding in their preparation for national and international exams. 

Besides improving ORL-HNS knowledge, the Academy's mission is to gather young people from all around Europe in a spirit of friendship and strengthening our professional ties.

Thanks in advance for your support and cooperation. Yours sincerely,

Tomislav Baudoin, MD, PhD, FEBEORL-HNS (Hon)

Course Coordinator

https://www.ceorlhns-academy.org 

Dear colleagues,

Dear friends,

It’s a great honour and even a greater pleasure to invite you to our annual Congress of the Royal Belgian Society of ENT, Head and Neck Surgery on November 25-26, 2022 at the beautiful venue of the old coalmine site “Thor Central” in Genk.  

We believe we offer you a well-balanced congress programme with not only topics in the three classic fields of our specialty but also some interesting speakers enlightening the fast-changing environment in which we will be providing our healthcare.

We will have an ethic session on both congress days, important for your accreditation and

we also have the pleasure to host at the same time the joint congress of the Belgian and Netherland Audiology Societies.

On top of our programme, we hope to meet many of you to discuss the actual issues that matter in our profession of which the new nomenclature and the reorganization of oncology care in ENT seem to be the most important in my opinion.

Lots of reasons thus to meet again!

Download the program here.

Finally, I want to express my gratitude to Prof. Marie-Paule Thill who, as former president of our society in 2021, was a great help and support in organizing this event.

Really looking forward seeing you all in Genk!

Frans Indesteege

President RBS ENT-HNS

In view of the recent evolutions in the corona virus problem, the board of directors of the Royal Belgian ENT Society has again decided to postpone the Spring Meeting, scheduled for 6 and 7 March 2022, to a later date in May. We wish to have this meeting take place in the best possible circumstances.

We are aware that these changes will greatly disrupt your accreditation process. Please take this into account when collecting your points.

We will inform you about a new date in the coming weeks. We will of course inform you of the alternative date as soon as possible. In doing so, we sincerely hope that the pandemic will give us the opportunity to meet again.

We thank you for your understanding,

With collegial greetings,

Dr Frans Indesteege, chairman 2022 of the KBV NKO-HHC

Prof Dr Jean-Baptiste Watelet, Managing Director of the KBV NKO-HHC

Dear Colleague,

As you have already heard, the Spring meeting 2022 will be combined with the postponed Annual Congress 2021.

If Covid allows, the congress will continue live.

If the corona measures in force at that time do not allow a physical conference, a virtual conference will take place in the form of a webinar.

The deadline for submitting abstracts is changing and will be January 31, 2022.

These must be sent to the secretariat of the Society (secretary@orl-nko.be) and to the president (frans.indesteege@kno.be).

The guidelines for preparing the abstract can be found here.

The following 4 prizes of 1000 euros each will be awarded for the Spring Meeting 2022:

•    1 for the best oral presentation in room 1
•    1 for the best oral presentation in room 2
•    1 for the best poster in room 1
•    1 for the best poster in room 2

The fifth prize of 1000 euros goes to the winner of the Temporal Bone Contest.

Please note that the deadline for submitting rock bones to participate in the Temporal Bone Contest is January 31, 2022.

For your information, the Annual Congress will take place on November 25-26, 2022, on the site Thor Central in Genk.

With sincere thanks and best regards,

 Dr Frans Indesteege

President 2022

frans.indesteege@kno.be