Welcome Note of the President for the annual meeting
Ladies and gentlemen,
dear colleagues,
we are pleased to invite you to the 96th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, Head and Neck Surgery.
The event will take place from 28–31 May, 2025 in Frankfurt (a. M.). This is the first time in the almost 100-year history of our specialist society that Frankfurt has hosted our annual meeting. We will be holding our traditional and renowned congress with national and international participants on the premises of Messe Frankfurt, in the Main metropolis and thus in the heart of Europe.
Under the guiding theme of “Individualisation versus Standardisation”, our event is aimed at all interested specialist colleagues, nursing staff, members of related disciplines and all other interested experts. In addition to the scientific discourse, this year's motto also offers the opportunity to take stock of health policy in the context of the current topics of outpatient care, intersectoral care, hospital reform, including demand planning, the reform of the financing basis, the continuing shortage of resources, a dramatically changing working environment with simultaneously increased quality requirements and targets. This results in a multitude of contradictions and seemingly irresolvable contradictions, which at the same time represent an enormous development potential for our specialist field, which has always been subject to continuous change.
The upcoming congress will therefore be an important platform for exchanging views, forming opinions and ultimately also for health policy work, which, in addition to our professional expertise, will form the basis for the future development of our field. The upcoming congress will therefore serve, more than ever, to promote scientific exchange, but also to determine the direction of our field.
Despite the many challenges that our specialty is currently facing and will continue to face in the future, the enthusiasm for our specialty should also be a reason to welcome young employees in particular - students, nurses, technical staff and trainees - into the “ENT family”. The annual congress is the ideal opportunity for this, in addition to selected specialist contributions, structured sessions, top-class scientific and clinical lectures and presentations on the state of the art of our specialist field, to actively get to know each other, or “networking” in new German.
The Rhine-Main region, and Frankfurt in particular, also offers a wide range of highlights from the fields of history, science and culture.
We look forward to welcoming you to Frankfurt in 2025 to help make the 96th annual meeting of our specialist society a success.
Welcome to Frankfurt!
With best regards
Yours
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Timo Stöver
President DGHNO-KHC