Category: 2000-2009

Professor Randall Payne Morton presented his Semon Lecture in 2009. This lecture looks at the importance of considering quality of life in patients with head and neck cancer. Morton highlights the fact that there is a difference between the patient’s view of their quality of life and their doctor’s view and states that it is … Continue reading “Quality of Life in Patients with Head and Neck Cancer”

Professor Christopher John O’Brien gave his Semon Lecture in 2008. In his lecture, he focused mainly on melanoma and parotid cancer as those were two of the most common cancers affecting Australians. O’Brien then explored the various treatment and management options for the two different forms of cancers and what was more effective in each … Continue reading “Skin Cancer – Current Concepts and Personal Experience”

Professor György Lichtenberger presented his Semon Lecture on the 2nd of November 2007. His Lecture looked at bilateral vocal cord paralysis and explored the management options. Lichtenberger described the research he had done on managing laryngeal stenosis with an extra-endolaryngeal suture technique and how that provided two routes of treating vocal cord palsy without using … Continue reading “The Evolution of Surgery for Vocal Cord Palsy”

Professor Jatin P Shah delivered his Semon Lecture in 2006. His lecture starts by exploring how thyroid cancer has changed over the last thirty or so years. It then analyses the treatment options available and what provides the best outcomes for the patient over time. Shah then highlights the idea that we are currently diagnosing … Continue reading “Diverse Outcomes and Discretionary Decisions in Thyroid Cancer”

Professor Paul J Donald gave his Semon Lecture in 2005. He spoke about the trauma caused by ballistics and focused on the difficulty faced in treating such wounds to the face, whether to hard or soft tissue. Donald then highlighted the fact that outcomes have improved in terms of reconstruction and functionality due to innovative … Continue reading “Advances in the Management of Head and Neck Trauma”

Professor Wolfgang Steiner presented his Semon Lecture in 2004. His lecture starts by explaining the current use of excisional biopsy for laryngeal and hypophyseal cancers and then explores the potential of transoral laser microsurgical resection as a more effective and efficient treatment. Steiner cites a number of benefits to this newer procedure, such as the … Continue reading “The Evidence for Change in the Management of Laryngeal and Hypopharyngeal Cancer”

Professor Lauren Holinger gave his Semon Lecture on the 7th of November 2003 at the Royal Society of Medicine. Holinger’s lecture represented the first time that a father and son had both delivered this lecture, with Dr Paul Holinger delivering his lecture back in 1960. Holinger’s lecture explored various laryngeal conditions and how they are … Continue reading “The Changing Face of Paediatric Airway Intervention”

Dr Margaret Flora Spittle delivered her Semon Lecture in 2002, the second woman to deliver this eponymous Lecture. Her Lecture focused on what mixture of surgical, chemotherapy and radiotherapy management regimes best worked to treat cancers of different areas in the head and neck. She comments that, in determining the best treatment, it is important … Continue reading “Head and Neck Malignancy Skull-base to Clavicles, Who Needs Surgery?”

Dr Jack Gluckman presented his Semon Lecture in 2001. This lecture explored the necessity for a programme of recertification and maintenance of certification to keep diplomates up-to-date in their medical knowledge and skill. This programme was implemented by the American Board of Otolaryngology (ABOto) and became compulsory. The rationale behind this project’s implementation was explored, … Continue reading “Certification, Re-Certification and Maintenance of Certification in Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery”

Mr Tony Raymond Bull gave his Semon Lecture in 2000. He detailed the difficulties faced by those carrying out nasal plastic surgery in order to both satisfy a patient’s desire for an aesthetic nose and also the necessity for any airway obstruction to be removed. Bull also challenges the misconception that large and deformities are … Continue reading “Beauty, Form or Function?”