RAOM 2017

19th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Otitis Media (RAOM 2017)


A group from the WATCH Team presented at the 19th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Otitis Media (RAOM 2017) held on the Gold Coast from 4 – 8 June 2017.

Presentations included:

  • Keynote Address: Practical research officer training in urban otitis media setting - Kelvin Kong and Sissy Tyson
  • Early outcomes of the watch trial: randomised controlled trial of immediate antibiotics compared with watchful waiting in children with acute otitis media in urban Aboriginal communities - Jenny Reath and Letitia Campbell
  • Rethinking capacity building in Indigenous health research: learnings from a multi-site urban Indigenous RCT of antimicrobial treatment versus watchful waiting for acute otitis media (The Watch Trial) - Chelsea Bond
  • Conducting an otitis media clinical trial in the real world – a non-Indigenous researcher’s perspective of learnings from The Watch Trial - Robyn Walsh
  • Protocol for a multi-centre randomised controlled trial to compare nasal balloon autoinflation versus no nasal balloon autoinflation for otitis media with effusion in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children (the INFLATE Trial) -  Penny Abbott & Shavaun Wells