Topics/Lecturers

Topics

• How to treat patients with smell and taste complaints: cases  - plenary discussion
• Anatomy of Smell and Taste - Martin Witt
• Assessment of the olfactory bulb / nasal imaging – Nasreddin Abolmaali
• Olfactory and gustatory event-related potentials - Thomas Hummel
• functional MRI in patients with olfactory dysfunction - Emilia Iannilli / Cornelia Hummel
• Sinunasal olfactory dysfunction - Michael Damm
• Other causes of olfactory loss – parosmia phantosmia - Antje Welge-Lüßen
• Taste dysfunction - Basile Landis / Tino Just
• Chemosensory dsfunction in patients with neurodegenerative disorders - Antje Haehner
• Postviral and posttraumatic olfactory loss - Jordan Konstantinidis
• Treatment of olfactory loss – Carl Philpott

• Olfactory cleft disease(s) and olfactory dysfunction - Philippe Rombaux

Practical courses

During the practical courses we will focus on the following:

• olfactory testing
• taste testing
• chemosensory event-related potentials
• recording of electro-olfactograms
• electrogustometry
• retronasal olfactory testing
• investigations of trigeminal sensitivity
• anatomy of the "olfactory brain"
• histology of the olfactory epithelium
• MRI-based volumetry of the olfactory bulb
• biopsies from the olfactory epithelium
• and functional MRI

Lecturers

• Abolmaali, Nasreddin, Prof. Dr. med. (Dresden, Germany)
• Damm, Michael, Prof. Dr. med. (Cologne, Germany)
• Gudziol, Volker, PD Dr. med. (Dresden, Germany)
• Haehner, Antje, PD Dr. med. (Dresden, Germany)
• Hummel, Thomas, Prof. Dr. med. (Dresden, Germany)
• Iannilli, Emilia, Ph.D. (Dresden, Germany)
• Just, Tino, PD Dr. med. (Rostock, Germany)
• Landis, Basile, Dr. med. (Bern, Switzerland)
• Konstantinidis, Jordan, M.D. (Thessaloniki, Greece)
• Vodicka, Jan, M.D. (Pardubice, Czech Republic)
• Rombaux, Philippe, M.D., Prof. (Brussels, Belgium)
• Philpott, Carl, M.D. (Norwich, U.K.)
• Witt, Martin, Prof. Dr. med. (Rostock, Germany)

plus

• Viola Bojanowski, M.D.
• Therese Fark, M.D.
• Jens Reden, Dr. med.

To be confirmed

• Martin Smitka, Dr. med. (Dresden, Germany)
• Welge-Lüssen, Antje, Prof. Dr. med. (Basel, Switzerland)