Frans Hilgers

Medical and research background and activities


Faculty memberships
  • 3rd World Congress On Laryngeal Cancer, Cairns, Australia, July 26-30, 2015
  • 5th IFHNOS World Congress New York, July 26-30, 2014
  • 38th Annual Meeting of Japan Society for Head and Neck Cancer, June 12, 2014 (lunch seminar + round table)
  • La Riabilitazione di Voce e Deglutizione dopo Laringectomia Partiziale e Totale: Raffronto con le Terapie non Chirurgiche, Prof. Antonio Schindler, Prof. Giovanni Succo. Milan, May 8-9, 2014
  • 2013 International & 12th National Head and Neck Tumor Conference, Shanghai, October 11-12, 2013
  • XXth IFOS World Congress Seoul, June 1-5, 2013
  • Upover-Downunder X International ENT Meeting. Campitello January 26-February 2, 2013
  • Brisbane Head and Neck Cadaver Dissection Course, July 6-7, 2012 (Introduction in HN Surgery; parotidectomy; Modified Radical Neck Dissection; Total Laryngectomy and primary TEP)
  • Upover-Downunder IX International ENT Meeting. Campitello January 21-28, 2012
  • XXIII Congresso Brasileiro de Cirurgia de Cabeça e Pescoço, Santos, September 2-6, 2011
  • 12th Asia-Oceania Otolaryngology Congress, Auckland, March 1-4, 2011
  • South African Head and Neck Oncology Society meeting, Drakensburg, October 24-27, 2010
  • Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery International Convention. Riyadh, November 9-11, 2009, and The International Voice Surgery Course. Riyadh, November 12, 2009
  • 1st Meeting of the European Academy of ORL-HNS in collaboration with EUFOS, Mannheim, Germany, June 27-30, 2009
  • Upover-Downunder VI International ENT Meeting. Campitello January 25-31, 2009
  • 8th International Netherlands Cancer InstituteHead and Neck Symposium - Diagnosis and treatment of Head and Neck Cancer - Controversies in multidisciplinary management. November 15-16, 2007
  • Upover-Downunder IV International ENT Meeting. Campitello January 27-February 3, 2007
  • 3rd World Voice Congress, Istanbul, June 19-22, 2006
  • Spanish ENT meeting Madrid; consensus meeting postlaryngectomy voice rehabilitation. November 13, 2005.
  • 43rd Annual Conference of the Deutsche Geselschaft für Plastische und Wiederherstellungschirurgie. Ulm, October 13-15, 2005; Honorary Corresponding Membership.
  • International and 8th National Head and NeckCongress, Beijing, China, September 3-5, 2005.
  • Bundesbeiratssitzung 2005, Bundesverband für Kehlkopflosen, Braunschweig, April 22, 2005; Rundtischgespräch.
  • 15th Annual meeting of the Japanese Society of Head and Neck Surgery, January 22, 2005, Niigata.
  • 57th Annual Conference of the Association of Otolaryngologists of India. January 6-9, 2005. Hyderabad.
  • 1st Annual Conference of the Assiciation of Phonosurgeons of India. January 5, 2005. Hyderabad.
  • 4th National Conference of the Head and Neck Foundation of India, January 4-6, 2005; Hyderabad.
  • Cancer CI 2003, Apollo Cancer Centre, August 24, 2003, Hyderabad, India.
  • 1st national meeting of the Egyptian Head&Neck Society, Cairo December 13, 2003.
  • Tracheoesophageal voice in the new milennium. MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston. February 8-10, 2002.
  • XVII World Congres of Otolaryngological Societies (IFOS), Cairo, October 21-26, 2001
  • 8th International Congress on Surgical and Prosthetic Rehabilitation after Laryngectomy/EGFL, Amsterdam April 18-21, 2001 (2 round table sessions, i.e. 'decontamination of voice prostheses', and 'new developments in prosthetic rehabilitation of laryngectomees')
  • 8th British Head and Neck Surgery Course (incorporating the XXXVI Stel & Maran Head & Neck Course), London, January 23-25, 2001 (6 presentations)
  • 35th Congresso Brasileiro de Otorrinolaringologia, Natal, October 16-20, 2000
  • Seminar on current clinical approaches to alaryngeal speech, voice & dysphagia in the head and neck cancer patient. Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York. September 28, 2000
  • Fifth National Head and Neck Oncology Conference. Nottingham, September 4-6, 2000.
  • The management of larygeal carcinoma in the next millennium, Philadelphia, March 10-11, 2000 (presentation and workshop).
  • 7th British Head and Neck Surgery Course (incorporating the XXXV Stel & Maran Head & Neck Course), London, January 18-21, 2000 (6 presentations)
  • 75th Anniversary Composium IAL, Gothenburg, August 26-29, 1999
  • 2nd World Voice Congress. Sao Paulo, February 8-11, 1999.
  • 6th British Head and Neck Surgery Course (incorporating the XXXIV Stel & Maran Head & Neck Course), Nottingham, January 19-22, 1999 (7 presentations)
  • XVI World Congress ORL‑H&N Surgery, Sydney Australia, March 2‑7, 1997.
  • 1st European week of the Larynx, Voice, and Deglutition. Arcachon, May 25-28, 1998.
  • Combined meeting of DCHNOG / AHNOGB, Groningen October 12‑13, 1995.
  • 6th International Congress on Surgical and Prosthetic Voice Rehabilitation after Total Laryngectomy. San Sebastian, Spain, September 29 ‑October 2, 1995.
  • 1st World Voice Congress. Oporto, Portugal, April 9‑13, 1995
  • 2nd World Congress on Laryngeal Cancer. Sydney, Australia, February 20‑24, 1994.