Tentative Agenda
Day 1
8:00
AM
Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30
Guiding Physical Principles and Theorems
Instructor: Marcia Hall Thompson
10:15
Break
10:30 – noon
Nystagmus in detail: A review in context
Instructors: Marcia Hall Thompson and Jim Atkins
Noon -
1:00
Lunch
1:00 -
3:00 Omniax
lab session (with volunteer patients) and
case study reviews
Instructors: All
3:15
- 5:00 Differentiating
particle versus non-particle positional
vertigo disorder
Instructors: Marcia Hall Thompson and Karen Atkins
5:00
Shuttle back to hotel
6:30
Reception and dinner at Celebration Hotel
Day 2
8:30 -
10:00
Interpretation of nystagmus-based exam findings
Instructors: Karen Atkins and Gerry Gianoli
10:00 -
10:15 Break
10:15 -
11:00 Round Table:
Differentiating your practice and
increasing
referrals.
Instructors:
Jim Atkins, Karen Atkins, Gerry Gianoli
and Kelly Hansen
11:00 -
Noon Treatment
maneuvers and strategies using the Omniax.
Instructors:
Karen Atkins and Gerry Gianoli
Speaker Bios (more coming
soon)
Gerry Gianoli
Dr. Gerard J. Gianoli graduated summa cum laude from
Tulane Engineering School where he majored in Biomedical
Engineering and then completed Medical School at Tulane as
well. He did a
General Surgery internship, General Pediatrics internship and
an Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery residency at
Tulane. He
completed a fellowship in Neuro-otology and Skull Base Surgery
at the Michigan Ear Institute and then joined the faculty of
Tulane Medical School. Although he continues his
affiliation with Tulane as a Clinical Associate Professor in
the departments of Otolaryngology and Pediatrics, he has been
in private practice at The Ear and Balance Institute in Baton
Rouge since July 2000, where his practice is limited to
otology, neuro-otology, and skull base surgery. He is board certified in
Otolaryngology since 1993 and is one of less than 150 board
certified neuro-otologists in the country. He has received numerous
awards including the American Academy of Otolaryngology’s
Honor Award and has been named to America’s Top Doctors
and America’s Top Physicians for every year since their
inception in 2001 and 2003 respectively. Dr. Gianoli practices all
aspects of neuro-otology but has a special interest in
vestibular (balance) disorders. He has had 8 research grants
– mostly dealing with inner ear issues. He has been director and/or
on the faculty of the national Vestibular Testing Course
jointly sponsored by the American Academy of
Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and the American
Neuro-otology Society for 7 years and has given numerous other
courses regarding vestibular subjects. He has given 104
international or national presentations, has 85 publications in
peer-reviewed journals, has written 29 book chapters and has
been an editor or reviewer for 14 professional journals.
Dr. Gianoli opted out of
Medicare in 2001 and has had a 100% third-party-free practice
since 2005.
