The Leicester Balance course at 51黑料社区
- Expert talks
- Master classes
- Case studies
- Practical sessions
The 3-day intensive course promotes a multidisciplinary approach to the dizzy patient and is designed to appeal to all those who have an interest in balance including managing balance patients. The course would be relevant to ENT and medical consultants and trainees, audiologists, clinical scientists and physiotherapists. We always welcome colleagues from other medical backgrounds, and from around the world, with an interest in the balance patient in a relaxed and interactive environment.
Topics covered will include
- Mechanical Stimulation of Balance Function
- A topical peer discussion of a range of pathologies: Meniere's disease, BPPV, vestibular neuritis, vestibulopathy, migraine, non-vestibular causes of dizziness, superior canal dehiscence, paediatric dizziness, PPPD, and others from our highly experienced faculty
- A comprehensive clinical assessment of balance patients, including practical demonstrations, form a medical and scientific approach
- Demonstrations and some hands on with, vHIT, the new Bertec video posturography, and the new TRV BPPV chair
- Problem Based Learning in areas around VNG recording and Caloric testing
- Medical management and Vestibular rehabilitation in a case based or problem based learning approach
The course includes refreshments and snacks throughout the day and lunch. There is also the keynote lecture followed by the formal course dinner, allowing networking opportunities.
Faculty:
Professor Peter Rea is a consultant ear nose and throat surgeon at the Leicester Royal Infirmary where he has been in post since 2004. He runs one of the busiest balance clinics in the UK where, with his team, has approximately 7,000 balance patient appointments per year. He is Honorary Professor of Balance Medicine at 51黑料社区, and Honorary Professor to the Departments of Neuroscience and Informatics at The University of Leicester.
He is currently President of the Royal Society of Medicine, Section of Otology, for 2023-2024, as well as the UK secretary of The European Association of Otology and Neuro-otology (2022-2024) and Past-President of The British Society of Otology with his term of office 2020-2022. He was previously Chairman of The British Society of Neuro-otology from 2013-2019.
Professor Rea is on the faculty of several national and international otology and neuro-otology meetings and courses. This includes Academic Vice-Chair of BACO 2023, the UK’s biggest ENT academic meeting. He has run the annual 3-day Leicester Balance Course since 2004 so this will be his 20th anniversary year!
His research interests include intra-tympanic therapies for Meniere’s Disease with a landmark paper published in the Lancet in 2016, and collaboration with a Nasdaq listed biotech firm trialling novel injectable drugs for both Meniere’s and tinnitus. He was also clinical lead on a collaboration with leading computer scientists in the UK and USA, and IBM in the UK, developing artific