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The Annual Meeting features an array of education opportunities, including our distinctive series that run throughout the conference. These signature programming tracks offer unique formats and focused approaches to learning that complement the wide variety of sessions available.
From Ask the Experts, where you bring the questions, to the Great Debates, where leading voices argue opposite sides of the specialty’s toughest issues, these series offer diverse ways to engage with critical topics. Pardon the Oto-ruption (PTO) also returns—expanded this year to feature five game-show-style sessions.
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Ask the Experts
Sometimes you don’t need another lecture. You need access to someone who has seen the problem hundreds of times. That’s the idea behind Ask the Experts. Bring your difficult case. Bring the question you’ve been discussing with your partners. These sessions flip the script: Instead of experts deciding what to teach, you decide what to ask.
Sunday, October 18, 2026
Ask the Experts: Rhinology/Allergy
9:30 am – 10:30 am (PT) Location: 403 A
Ask the Experts: Laryngology/Broncho-Esophagology
11:00 am – 12:00 pm (PT) Location: 403 A
Ask the Experts: Pediatric Otolaryngology
2:30 pm – 3:30 pm (PT) Location: 403 A
Great Debates
In medicine, answers aren’t always clear-cut. Evidence evolves. Reasonable experts interpret the same data differently. That’s where the Great Debates come in. Experts take opposing positions on questions facing the specialty and make their strongest case.
Weigh the evidence. Challenge your assumptions. And decide who made the better argument.
Sunday, October 18, 2026
Great Debate: The Nose Knows? Reassessing Nasal Surgery’s Role in OSA
9:30 – 10:30 am (PT) Location: Concourse Hall 150 - 151
Great Debate: Closing the Gap or Widening It? Telehealth’s Role in Otolaryngology Care Disparities
11:00 am – 12:00 pm (PT) Location: Concourse Hall 150 - 151
Great Debate: Neoadjuvant Immunotherapy: Implementing Keynote 689
11:00 am – 12:00 pm (PT) Location: Concourse Hall 152
Great Debate: Neuromodulators vs. Superior Laryngeal Nerve Block for Management of Neurogenic Cough
1:00 – 2:00 pm (PT) Location: Concourse Hall 150 - 151
Monday, October 19, 2026
Great Debate: Advanced Degrees and Career Paths: Limitless Potential or Limited Value?
8:00 am – 9:00 am (PT) Location: Petree Hall C
Great Debate: Staged vs. Comprehensive Facial Feminization Surgery
9:30 am – 10:30 am (PT) Location: Concourse Hall 152
Great Debate: Artificial Intelligence: A Powerful Tool for Patients and Practitioners, or a Purveyor of Misinformation and Confusion for Both?
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm (PT) Location: Petree Hall C
Pardon the Oto-ruption (PTO)
Combining the energy of a game show with the rigor of evidence-based medicine, Pardon the OTO-ruption (PTO) challenges expert panelists to respond to rapid-fire clinical questions, controversial topics, and real-world dilemmas. And attendees don’t just watch—they judge! Armed with green thumbs-up and red thumbs-down paddles, the audience helps steer the scoring, rewarding insightful answers or clever rebuttals and penalizing weak arguments or failed attempts at humor.
Sunday, October 18, 2026
Pardon the Oto-ruption: Sleep Medicine
9:30 am – 10:30 am (PT) Location: Theatre
Pardon the Oto-ruption: Private Practice
11:00 am – 12:00 pm (PT) Location: 502 B
Pardon the Oto-ruption: Laryngology/Broncho-Esophagology
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm (PT) Location: 511 A – C
