Thursday, 5 September 2019
12pm to 2pm (12pm-Lunch, 1pm–Talk)
Farrer Park Medical Centre, 1 Farrer Park Station Road, Connexion #16-06, TK Low Academic Specialist Centre, Singapore 217562
Dyspnea as a symptom is usually respiratory, less often cardiovascular and in some cases neurological. Other upper aerodigestive causes affecting both children and adults may be overlooked in the diagnostic differential and benefit from early referral to the otolaryngologist.
This CME Talk will feature a few 'other' reasons for breathing difficulty, not necessarily related to the more obvious symptoms such as stertor or stridor which are harbingers of upper airway obstruction. Several case studies will also be provided and treatment algorithms discussed at the session.
*This session is open to doctors and healthcare professionals only.
Lunch and complimentary parking will be provided. CME points will be awarded. Thank you.
Call us to register or email us at [email protected].
ENT Specialist
Dr Vyas M.N. Prasad is a Consultant Otolaryngologist-Head and Neck Surgeon. He completed his higher surgical training in ENT in the Oxford and London Training Programs. Having gained invaluable experience at The Royal Marsden, Royal Free, Great Ormond Street Hospital, Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospitals as well as having completed a further year and a half of head and neck training post-FRCS at Barts and the London he returned to Singapore to join the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, National University Health System. While at NTFGH, he was lead laryngologist and developed and ran the service with a dedicated group of Speech and Language Therapists. He specialized in voice and swallowing disorders as well as benign and oncological head and neck surgery performing minimally invasive surgery utilizing lasers, sialendoscopes and open oncological procedures for cancers of the head and neck, thyroid and salivary glands.
He spent a year at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (Universite Catholique de Louvain, Mont-Godinne, Belgium) with Professors Marc Remacle and Georges Lawson where he underwent training in head and neck surgery and laryngology with a focus on robotics (flexible and da Vinci), lasers, phonosurgery, minimally invasive surgery and oncology in both children and adults.
He is a member of the European Laryngology Society, British Laryngological Association, Asia-Pacific Laryngology Association, American Bronho-Esophageal Association, reviewer for the European Archives of Otolaryngology, Affiliate of the National Cancer Institute of Singapore and fellow of the American Academy of Otolaryngology. He has contributed to several book chapters, is the editor of a textbook of Neurolaryngology and has published and presented widely. He was appointed Adjunct Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology in the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine in January 2018, National University of Singapore where he was actively involved in the training of residents and medical students in head and neck surgery and laryngology. He is also currently a member of the faculty at Duke-NUS Medical School where he teaches undergraduates Anatomy of the Head and Neck and faculty for the training of General Surgical residents in surgical approaches to the Head and Neck.
