SOUTH WESTERN LARYNGOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
SPRING MEETING
CHELTENHAM RACE COURSE


The SWLA meeting held in the spacious and grand venue of the Cheltenham Race Course was extremely successful.

Thanks to the vision and the hard work of Mr Robin Youngs, the SWLA meeting was combined with the lecture tour of the RSM JLO Visiting Professors and of both RSM Section Presidents.

Watson Williams Senior was a founding member of the Laryngology section of the RSM and Watson Williams Junior was the founder of SWLA (both based at Bristol) and it is befitting that we conbined the SWLA and RSM Meeting.

The morning section was chaired by Mr Ranjit Mal and the afternoon session by Mr Neil Weir.

Mr Ranjit Mal welcomed the speakers, guests and the members and thanked the host, Mr Robin Youngs.

The quality of the lectures was the highest possible. The lectures of the two visiting Professors were recorded for future access via JLO online.

Mr Martin Bailey (President section of Laryngology RSM) alluded on the management of difficult paediatric airway problems.

Professor Paul Fagan (visiting Professor Sydney) elaborated on the key surgical factors in achieving a trouble free mastoid cavity allowing the essential Australian activity of swimming.

Mr Guy Kenyon (Editor JLO) outlined the anatomy of the nasal valve and the surgical technique of restoration of the nasal airway and improvement in cosmasis at the same time.

In the afternoon, Mr Robert Mills (President of the Otology section RSM) clarified the course of action o patient mollification for complication related to otological surgery.

Professor Peter Koltai (Visiting Professor Stamford USA) narrated in detail his long experience of treating rhinosinusitis in children.

Finally Mr Robin Youngs (Editor JLO) defined the improvements in JLO pertaining to the readers and the prospective authors.

A tour of the race course after the academic meeting was very enjoyable.

It was a memorable day.

The JLO generously treated the Executive Committee Members of SWLA to a banquet at the Dormy House Hotel, Broadway in the evening.