Podcast Host: Scott Fortune, MD, FAAOA Podcast Guests: Meha Fox, MD, FAAOA; Peter Filip, MD, FAAOA If you’ve trained in the last decade, you probably learned to classify chronic rhinosinusitis as one of two things: CRS with nasal polyps or CRS without nasal polyps. That’s CRSwNP and CRSsNP. Simple. Clean. Easy to document. But here’s the problem — that binary has been quietly failing us for years. It doesn’t tell us why a patient has polyps. It doesn’t predict who will respond to biologics. And it doesn’t explain why two patients with identical CT scans can have completely different disease tr
Are you missing rare eosinophilic disease diagnoses? Join an expert multidisciplinary panel for a podcast series highlighting the diagnostic challenges of eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA; formerly Churg-Strauss) and what the otolaryngologist needs to know. Moderated by Dr. Jennifer Villwock. Rare Eosinophilic Disease Part 2 – Diagnostic Challenges & the Role of the ENT Listen to 2 expert otolaryngologists, Drs. Michael Platt and Ashoke Khanwalkar, in conjunction with their pulmonologist (Dr. Praveen Akuthota) and rheumatologist (Dr. Anisha Dua) colleagues, review the nuance
Listen to Drs. Praveen Akuthota (pulmonologist), Anisha Dua (rheumatologist), and Michael Platt (otolaryngologist) provide an overview of EGPA and highlight what findings might increase the level of suspicion for rare disease.
In the fourth and final episode of CRS with/without Nasal Polyps Podcast Series: Shared Decision-Making, Jennifer Villwock, MD will bring together the 3 speakers from the previous 3 podcasts in this series to discuss their approaches to shared decision-making with patients diagnosed with chronic rhinosinusitis with/without nasal polyps as well as their thoughts about how to incorporate multidisciplinary/co-specialty management into their respective practices to optimize patient care. Please take a short feedback survey: https://forms.gle/wFABuP8JXWUhPDwQ8 or email communications@aaoallergy.org
In the third episode of CRS with/without Nasal Polyps Podcast Series: Quality of Life Burden, Jennifer Villwock, MD will be speaking with Christine Franzese, MD about the potential quality of life burdens experienced by patients with chronic rhinosinusitis with/without nasal polyps, how this may impact course of disease and optimal ways to address these issues with patients. Dr. Villwock is an associate professor, Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Kansas University Medical Center and Chief of Otolaryngology, Kansas City Veterans Affairs Hospital. Dr. Franzese is Professor of Clinical Oto
In the second episode of CRS with/without Nasal Polyps Podcast Series: Common Co-morbidities, Jennifer Villwock, MD will be speaking with Amber Luong, MD, PhD, about recognition of the respiratory and non-respiratory co-morbidities often associated with chronic rhinosinusitis with/without nasal polyps and how this might influence diagnosis and disease outcomes. Dr. Villwock is an associate professor, Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Kansas University Medical Center and Chief of Otolaryngology, Kansas City Veterans Affairs Hospital. Dr. Luong is Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Dep
In the first episode of CRS with/without Nasal Polyps Podcast Series: From Immune Pathways to Clinical Practice, Jennifer Villwock, MD will be speaking with Joshua Levy, MD, MPH about how to better understand immune pathways associated with chronic rhinosinusitis with/without nasal polyps and how this might influence diagnosis, disease presentation and course of disease. Dr. Villwock is an Associate Professor, Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Kansas University Medical Center and Chief of Otolaryngology, Kansas City Veterans Affairs Hospital. Dr. Levy is Associate Professor of Otolaryngo
In the third episode of the AAOA’s NEW podcast series Today in ENT Allergy: AAOA’s Podcast, Jennifer Villwock, MD, FAAOA speaks with Gavin Setzen, MD, FAAOA. They are discussing the integral role allergy plays in ENT practice. How and why one might consider adding allergy to her/his ENT practice. Dr. Setzen shares his experience and expertise. Dr. Gavin Setzen received his medical degree from the University of Witwatersrand Medical School in Johannesburg, South Africa. He was a general surgery resident at North Shore University Hospital, Cornell University Medical College in New York, NY, befo
In the second episode of the AAOA's NEW podcast series Today in ENT Allergy: AAOA's Podcast, Jennifer Villwock, MD, FAAOA speaks with the AAOA's current Presedent (2019-2020) Alpen Patel, MD, FAAOA. They are discussing ENT allergy and the role of otolaryngologists in diagnosis and treatment of allergies.
In the first episode of the AAOA's NEW podcast series Today in ENT Allergy: AAOA's Podcast, Jennifer Villwock, MD, FAAOA speaks with William Reisacher, MD, FAAOA. They are discussing Food Allergy: what is food allergy, food allergy treatment, and the future of food allergy. Note: The views, information, or opinions expressed during the AAOA podcast series are solely those of the individuals involved and do not necessarily represent those of The American Academy of Otolaryngic Allergy (AAOA) or its employees or members. The AAOA is not responsible and does not verify for accuracy any of the inf
