• 12th Annual ENT in the Desert 2025

    February 6-8, 2025
    Loews Ventana Canyon Resort
    Tucson, Arizona

Welcome to ENT in the Desert 2025

The University of Arizona Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery cordially invite you to join us for an exciting 3-day course in Otolaryngology.

A Comprehensive ENT Practice Update for the General Otolaryngologist

  • Best practice panels
  • Evidence-based recommendations
  • Interactive format, audience participation encouraged
  • Focus on new and evolving technologies
  • Practice management
  • Featuring internationally renowned speakers

This symposium is aimed at general otolaryngologists, residents, physician extenders and primary care physicians interested in Otolaryngology. Along with University of Arizona Otolaryngology faculty, we have invited internationally renowned experts to teach and share their insights, informal lectures, and interactive panels. Many of our state’s prominent academicians will be lecturing during this course. 

New this year: Join us for a demonstration of our Virtual Reality Surgical Simulator. This is a technology designed by the University of Arizona to help users visualize head and neck anatomy. Users will be taken step by step through surgical procedures, identify 3-dimensional anatomy in an immersive virtual environment using the Oculus Quest 3, and identify sites that are critically important to head and neck anatomy. This demonstration is open to all conference participants including vendors to introduce the next generation of surgical simulation. We have 25 VR headsets available to test and therefore we are limited to the first 25 participants to sign up after the Friday sessions. This demonstration will be held in the state of the art Arizona Simulation and Technology Education Center (ASTEC). The demonstration should take approximately one hour, and will be free of charge although we would request you provide feedback on our device. Email alillie@arizona.edu to sign up to experience the future in surgical simulation!

The meeting will take place at Loews Ventana Canyon Resort in Tucson, Arizona. 

We look forward to hosting another great meeting!

ENT in the Desert Conference Co-Directors

Steven Wang, MD, FACS

Chair, Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery
Professor, Otolaryngology
Director, Head / Neck Oncology Program
University of Arizona


Eugene H. Chang, MD, FACS

Professor, Otolaryngology
Director, Rhinology
Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery
University of Arizona


Accreditation

The University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson designates this live activity for a maximum of 17 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.