Dueling Doctors, Part 2: Surgical Specialties: Cut or Coagulate? (Non-CME)

Saturday, April 13, 2024

10:30 AM – 11:15 AM EDT

Location: Room 322

Course Director(s)

Lee Akst, MD

Director, Laryngology
Johns Hopkins Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Matthias Donelan, MD

Chief of Staff, Emeritus. Visiting Surgeon
Shriners Hospital-Boston. Massachusetts General Hospital Boston

Course Directors: Lee Akst, MD; Matthias B. Donelan, MD

In “Dueling Doctor, Part 2: Surgical Specialties: Cut or Coagulate”, a group of three plastic surgeons and two laryngologists will speak on the use of lasers in each of their practices, offering insights into the procedures and techniques that laser allows for them to bring into patient care and reviewing the pluses/minuses that laser use has as compared to cold-instrument approaches to these pathologies.

10:30 AM – 10:38 AM EDT

Lasers Have Turned Scars into Reconstructive Donor Sites
Faculty: Matthias B. Donelan, MD – Shriners Hospital-Boston. Massachusetts General Hospital Boston
10:39 AM – 10:47 AM EDT

Pulsed Angiolytic Lasers for Laryngeal Disease in the Office
Faculty: Lee Akst, MD – Johns Hopkins Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
10:48 AM – 10:56 AM EDT

Combining Lasers and Surgery Optimizes Form and Function
Faculty: Charles Hultman, MD
10:57 AM – 11:05 AM EDT

Pulsed Angiolytic Lasers for Laryngeal Disease in the OR
Faculty: Grace Snow, MD – Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck SurgeryUniversity of Maryland School of Medicine
11:06 AM – 11:14 AM EDT

Multi-Modal Laser Therapy Remodels and Rejuvenates Scars
Faculty: Branko Bojovic, MD