Smell and Taste 06

Where: Lecture hall (“Hörsaal”) at Herzzentrum, Fetscherstrasse 76, Dresden, Germany

Start: Thursday, 20^th of November, 2014, 9:00 h

End: Friday, 21^th of November, 2014, 14:00 h

Registration deadline: 10^th of October

Aims

This course is an attempt to teach Smell and Taste in a most practical and interesting way, meaning that the meeting is not only defined by lectures, but through practical courses and demonstrations. In addition, the meeting is meant to provide a platform for the informal discussion of questions related to clinical issues around smell and taste - to this end we will entertain plenary sessions where, for example, cases will be presented. Last, no least, the meeting is meant to build or to strengthen networks among the small community of clinicians interested in smell and taste.

Location

Lecture Hall (“Hörsaal”) at the Herzzentrum, Fetscherstrasse 76, D-01307 Dresden

Location through Google Maps

It will be organised through the Smell & Taste Clinic of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology of the University of Dresden Medical School, Fetscherstrasse 74, 01307 Dresden, Germany, phone +49- 0351 458-4189. 

How to get there - please click here.

Specific site map of the clinic

Dresden-overview plus map of University Clinic

How to get to the conference site?

Lecture Hall (“Hörsaal”) at the Herzzentrum, Fetscherstrasse 76, D-01307 Dresden

Location through Google Maps

from the Airport:

From the Airport, please take the train S2 (every 30 min) to the train station Bahnhof-Neustadt. Then take the tram no. 6, direction Niedersedlitz, to the station Augsburger Strasse/Universitätsklinik. Cross the street and walk along the street Augsburger Strasse till you come after 50 m to the intersection with Fiedlerstrasse. Take a left, walk 150 m until intersection with Fetscherstrasse, then take a right, wlak for 300 m, and then you find the entrance to the Herzzentrum on the right.

by train:

From the main train station Hauptbahnhof please take the tram no. 10 from Hauptbahnhof Nord, direction Striessen, to the station Fetscherplatz. Then take the tram no. 12, direction Striessen, to the station Augsburger Strasse/Universitätsklinik. Cross the street and walk along the street Augsburger Strasse till you come after 50 m to the intersection with Fiedlerstrasse. Take a left, walk 150 m until intersection with Fetscherstrasse, then take a right, wlak for 300 m, and then you find the entrance to the Herzzentrum on the right.

From the train station Bahnhof Neustadttake the tram no. 6, direction Niedersedlitz, to the station Augsburger Strasse / Universitätsklinik. Cross the street and walk along the street Augsburger Strasse till you come after 50 m to the intersection with Fiedlerstrasse. Take a left, walk 150 m until intersection with Fetscherstrasse, then take a right, wlak for 300 m, and then you find the entrance to the Herzzentrum on the right.

You will find the Herzzentrum at number 68 on the map below

The Dinner

The dinner will take place on Thursday evening at the local wine distributor EDELRAUSCH – it will be open at 19:30, dinner will start at around 20:00h. For certain requirements please ask.

Address: Bautzner Straße 2, 01099 Dresden; phone 0351 31776411

To get there: It would probably be best to take a taxi cab. This will cost you less than 10 Euro coming from the conference site. Alternatively, you could also walk (30-40 min; 3 km). 

As to a map please click here.

Fee

Fee for participation is 150 Euro; for students it is 75 Euro. For people with an industrial background the participation fee is 500 Euro. Fees must be paid on registration with money transfer or through credit card. The refund for no show is limited to 20%. For payment details click here.

Continued Medical Education: The course will earn you 21 points, Category C.

Conference fees can be paid either by credit card or by money transfer. To pay by credit card please email the following information to Thomas Hummel

Credit Card payment:
Last name, first name (as written on card)

Card Type (VISA or MASTERCARD)

Credit card number

Expiration date

Conference fee

Email for possible inquiry

Money transfer - please send the money to the following account:

Within Germany:

Carl Gustav Carus Management GmbH

Important: Please indicate as purpose of the payment “SMELLANDTASTE06” plus your name

Bank: Deutsche Kreditbank AG

BLZ: 120 300 00

Account number: 11 248 333

From outside of Germany:

Receiver: Carl Gustav Carus Management GmbH

Important: Please indicate as purpose of the payment “SMELLANDTASTE06” plus your name

IBAN: DE 71 1203 0000 0011 248 333

BIC: BYLADEM 1001

Contact

Prof. Dr. med. Thomas Hummel

Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University of Dresden Medical School

Fetscherstrasse 74 , 01307 Dresden, Germany

phone +49- 0351 458-4189 or -3197

Fax +49- 0351 458-7370

thummel@mail.zih.tu-dresden.de

Deadline

Deadline for registration is the 10^th of October 2014. Please send an informal application to Thomas Hummel. Please let us know whether you would like to participate in the conference dinner on the 20^th of November. The maximum number of participants is 32; in case of more than 32 applications the date of application will decide about participation.

Support

The European Chemoreception Organisation (ECRO) may give out travel awards to students or researchers who would like to attend this course. Applicants are asked, among others, to send a CV, bibliography, accompanying letter and a letter of recommendation from the head of their institution to Dr. Didier Trotier (Didier.Trotier.ecrogs@gmail.com), general Secretary of ECRO.

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 and phantosmia - Antje Welge-Lüßen
• Taste dysfunction - Basile Landis
• 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
• Olfactory dysfunction and quality of life - Jan Vodicka

Timetable

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
• nasal endoscopy and intranasal volumetry
• anatomy of the "olfactory brain"
• histology of the olfactory epithelium
• MRI-based volumetry of the olfactory bulb
• biopsies from the olfactory epithelium
• functional MRI

Lecturers

• Welge-Lüssen, Antje (Basel)
• Landis, Basile  (Bern)
• Konstantinidis, Jordan  (Thessaloniki)
• Vodicka, Jan  (Pardubice)
• Rombaux, Philippe  (Brussels)
• Philpott, Carl  (Norwich)
• Witt, Martin  (Rostock)
• Alberto Macchi (Milano)
• Simona Negoias (Bern)

• Jens Reden (Dresden)
• Antje Haehner (Dresden)
• Mandy Cuevas (Dresden)
• Charlotte Sinding (Dresden)
• Ilona Croy (Dresden)
• Valentin Schriever (Dresden)
• Mohammed Aziz Mohammed (Dresden)

• Abolmaali, Nasreddin (Dresden)
• Gudziol, Volker(Dresden)
• Haehner, Antje(Dresden)
• Hummel, Thomas (Dresden)
• Iannilli, Emilia (Dresden)

What to see?

a tour through Dresden
City of Dresden homepage
Dresden and Saxony (Dresden is the state capitol of Saxony!)

Where to stay?

prices are estimates