Program

The “60th Nijmegen Ear Surgery Course” will take place April 19th– 23st 2027 in the Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen – The Netherlands. 

An application has been made for the 60th Nijmegen Ear Surgery Course  to the European UEMS (EACCME®) for the CME/CPD accreditation of this event.

Preliminary program 2027 

Monday, April 19th, 2027

07.30  Coach service from Rebyl hotel to the Lecture Hall

07.45  Registration Experience Center, conference room De Snelbinder, route 5

08.15  Emmanuel Mylanus: Introduction to the course

08.20  Thomas Zahnert: Reconstruction of the tympanic membrane

08.50  Discussion

09.00  Presentation of surgical cases

09.15  Live televised surgery: Pennings & Saeed

Moderators: Mylanus & Zahnert

11.45  Thomas Zahnert: Reconstruction of the ossicular chain

12.05  Discussion

12.15  Chris Lanting: clinical audiology

12.35  Discussion

12.45  Lunch

13.30 Temporal Bone Dissection

Supervisors: Zahnert, Mylanus, Jansen, Delsing and Saeed

16.00  Coffee/Tea

16.15  Meet the surgeon

16.30  Emmanuel Mylanus and Sjoert Pegge: Imaging of the temporal bone

17.30  Coach service to restaurant

18.00  Dinner at ‘Tante Koosje’

21.00  Coach service to Rebyl Hotel

Tuesday, April 20th , 2027

07.40  Coach service from Rebyl hotel to the Lecture Hall

08.00  Froukje Cals: Bone conduction devices

08.30  Arno Janssen:Audiological aspects of implantable devices

09.00  Presentation of surgical cases

09.15  Live televised surgery: Zahnert – Cals – Mylanus

Moderators: Pennings & Saeed

11.45  Thomas Somers: Canal wall up and the Bony Obliteration Technique

12.15  Corinne Delsing: Endoscopic middle ear surgery

12.35  Discussion

12.45  Course photograph/Lunch

13.30 Temporal Bone Dissection

Supervisors: Zahnert, Mylanus, Jansen, Delsing and Saeed

16.00 Coffee/Tea

16.15  Meet the surgeon

16.30  Shakeel Saeed: Facial nerve management

17.00  Corinne Delsing: Panel on results 2025

17.30  Coach service to Rebyl Hotel

Wednesday, April 21th , 2027

07.40  Coach service from hotel to the Lecture Hall

08.00  Nicola Quaranta: Surgery of the External Ear Canal 

08.30  Emmanuel Mylanus: Middle ear implants

09.00  Presentation of surgical cases

09.15  Live televised surgery: Somers & TBD

Moderators: TBD

11.45  Corinne Delsing: Earsurgery: a musculaskeletal challenge!

12.15  Ronald Pennings: Otogenetics

12.35: Discussion

12.45  Lunch

13.30  Temporal Bone Dissection

Supervisors: Quaranta, Somers, Cals, Mylanus and Delsing

16.00  Coffee/Tea

16.15  Meet the surgeon

16.30  Coach service to Rebyl hotel

18.00  Coach service to Aula Radboud University, Comeniuslaan 2, Nijmegen

18.15  Drinks and snacks

19.00  The 42th W.F.B. Brinkman lecture by Daniele Marchioni

20.15  Buffet

22.30  Coach service to Rebyl Hotel

Thursday, April 22th, 2027

07.40  Coach service from hotel to the Lecture Hall

08.00  Thijs Jansen: Complications & how to deal with them

08.30  Wendy Huinck: Cochlear implants

09.00 Presentation of surgical cases

09.15  Live televised surgery: Mylanus & Jansen

11.45  Pennings: Reconstruction of the radical cavity

12.05  Discussion

12.15  Participants: Discussing complex cases

12.45  Lunch

13.30  Temporal Bone Dissection

Supervisors: Mylanus, Somers, Quaranta, Pennings, Delsing and Cals

16.00  Coffee/Tea

16.15  Meet the surgeon

16.30  Marc van Hoof: Innovation in otology

17.00  Thomas Somers: Vestibular Schwannoma

17.30  Coach service to restaurant

18.00  Course Dinner at ‘De Pelgrim’

21.00  Coach service to Rebyl Hotel

Friday, April 23st , 2027

07.40  Coach service from hotel to the Lecture Hall

08.00  Temporal Bone Dissection

Supervisors: Jansen, Delsing and Mylanus

11.00  Nicola Quaranta: Petrous Bone Cholesteatoma

11.30  TBD

12.00  Closure and lunch

12.30  Coach to hotel