ESPO 2025: 17th Congress of the European Society of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology
ESPO 2025 in Stuttgart promises to be an exciting get-together. Every aspect of paediatric ORL will be covered in what has become the largest global gathering in the subspecialty. Looking after children is integral to the practice of almost every otolaryngologist, and the range of topics President-elect Professor Christian Sittel and his team have chosen to showcase reflects this. A star-studded faculty, including key players from Europe, the USA and beyond will stimulate, inform and debate on a whole range of current issues, controversies and developments.
The theme is ‘Creating innovations, implementing innovations’, so expect a focus on digital health and its transformative possibilities in pediatric ORL. There will be state-of-the-art updates on implantation technology, artificial intelligence, imaging, therapeutic advances in airway management and new frontiers in head and neck surgery in children.
In keeping with the focus on ‘Innovation’, the keynote lecture comes from world-renowned evolutionary biologist and science writer, Professor Andreas Wagner from Zurich University. Prof Wagner will share his radical thoughts and research on the parallels between species-evolution in the natural world and human creative thought-processes leading to technological innovations. A provocative, controversial and deeply original thinker, he will have you discussing his ideas in the Kneipen and Biergärten that Stuttgart is so famous for well into the long May evenings as you sample the local brews!
‘Hands-on’ training using simulators has become a feature of recent ESPO congresses, and Stuttgart will not disappoint, with multiple opportunities to practice complex interventional procedures under the watchful eyes of experienced trainers and supervisors.
Don’t miss the spectacular networking even at the celebrated Mercedes Benz Museum www.mercedes-benz.com, where car enthusiasts and their long-suffering partners can indulge their fantasies and enjoy displays showing the evolution of the famous brand since 1886 in a truly magnificent futuristic setting.
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