Physicians
This list consists of physicians who are laryngologists or have a web page on a voice disorder or at least treat some voice disorders. Some physicians prefer the term phonosurgeon. Laryngologist or phonosurgeon, they both are likely otolaryngologists who emphasize voice in their practice. Some people are listed because they treat spasmodic dysphonia with Botox - since these physicians can be hard to find. Many of these physicians are on the list because a patient gave me their name. Thus, for some, I have no first hand knowledge of the extent of their interest in treating voice problems other than SD. I have tried to highlight in bold those physicians that I know focus on voice problems for all or a substantial portion of their practice.
The general political considerations of working with many of the people below preclude me from making a recommendation for or against them. It remains your responsibility to evaluate their talents for caring for you. See Choosing your Doc for my best effort at evaluting the care you receive.
Arizona
- Scottsdale
- Stephen F. Bansberg is at Mayo Clinic Scottsdale. Recommended by a patient for Botox. He seems to specialize in facial plastics, but does inject Botox for spasmodic dysphonia.
California
- Crescent City
- Hoarseness symptoms A nice consumer oriented approach to thinking about your symptoms of hoarseness by Douglas Hoffman in Crescent City, California.
- Fountain Valley
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- Daniel Truong is a neurologist who performs laryngeal Botox injections at a movement disorders clinic.
- Irvine
- Roger Crumley is at UC Irvine. He has been active in research regarding neurologic disorders of the voice box, starting a national study group that meets twice yearly.
- Los Angeles
- Gerald Berke is at UCLA. He has developed a surgical procedure for spasmodic dysphonia that appears to be demonstrating successful results. He offers a fellowship in voice disorders.
- Sacramento
- San Diego
- An algorithm used by Terrence Davidson at UCSD for treating hoarseness. I do not particularly agree with the decision tree, but I thought it was an interesting page.
- San Francisco
- Herbert Dedo in San Francisco has been practicing laryngology for some time and developed a number of surgical techniques on the voice box.
- Krzysztof Izdebski is a speech therapist in San Francisco who works nearly exclusively with the voice and works closely with Herbert Dedo.
- Mark Courey is at University of California, San Francisco. He is very active in laryngology having worked in Nashville, TN at the voice institute for many years.
- Andrew Murr is at the University of California, San Francisco. He performs laryngeal Botox injections and performs other laryngeal surgery.
- Mark Singer is at the University of California, San Francisco. He is renowned for his work in restoring the voice after voice box removal.
- Lisa Orloff is at UCSF and I have found her ideas on pitch changing surgery interesting.
- Stanford
- Sunnyvale
- David Downie does at least an occasional laryngeal botox injection.
Colorado
- Denver
- Karen Rhew At University of Colorado School of Medicine. Recommended by patient.
- Mona Abaza At University of Colorado School of Medicine. Recommended by patient.
- David Opperman He trained with Gerry Berke at UCLA and with Robert Sataloff.
- Englewood
- Andre Reed is a recent graduate from a voice fellowship at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore.
Connecticut
Florida
- Boca Raton
- Gainesville
- There has been a faculty change and I am unaware if there is a new laryngologist on staff.
- Jacksonville
- Richard A. Beck has some interest in voice disorders and does botox injections.
- Miami
- Roy Casiano is at the University of Miami. I have heard him give a thoughtful lecture on voice disorders.
- Tampa
- Marion B. Ridley is at the University of South Florida, performs Botox injections and voice disorders is his primary interest.
Georgia
- Atlanta
- Michael Johns specializes in laryngology at Emory University having done a fellowship at Vanderbilt in Nashville, TN.
- Adam Klein has joined Dr. Johns in Atlanta at Emory. He completed a voice fellowship with Steve Zeitels in Massachussets
- Augusta
- Gregory Postma specializes in laryngology at the Medical College of Georgia. He does a lot of work with swallowing as well.
Illinois
- Chicago
- Robert Bastian My fellowship mentor. This page has a little information on how to contact him. He is an outstanding voice physician. On occasion, he will offer a fellowship in voice disorders.
He is the originator of the concept of the three part laryngeal exam described by this site. Other physicians listed here specialize in voice disorders but in all likelihood perform an exam that is relatively more dependent on looking than on listening, so do not be surprised if your examination is different from that described in the handbook on this site.
- Brent Richardson specializes in voice disorders and utilizes the three part exam described in the handbook on this site.
- I am not sure who is now covering at Northwestern since a 2006 departure.
- H. Steven Sims is at the University of Illinois Medical Center. He has taken a formal fellowship at the NIH for research with Christy Ludlow and a clinical fellowship at Vanderbilt Voice Center.
- Springfield
- Gayle Woodsen is at Southern Illinois University in Springfield. She devotes her practice to voice, does quite a bit of research and is active on a national level.
Indiana
- Fort Wayne
- Mohan Rao Recommended by patient for Botox injections
- Indianapolis
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Iowa
- Iowa City
- Henry Hoffman has worked quite a bit with vocal cord paralysis and implants
Kansas
- Kansas City
- There is a voice lab is at the University of Kansas staffed weekly by Lee Reussner.
- Lawerence
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Maryland
- Baltimore
- Tanya Meyer is at the University of Maryland medical school. She completed a fellowship with Andrew Blitzer in New York in 2005. She works frequently with laryngeal stenosis.
- Paul Flint works with voice disorders at Johns Hopkins University.
- Samuel Lumpkin does Botox injections at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. I couldn’t get this site to work well.
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Massachussets
- Boston
- Steve Zeitels at Mass General Hospital in Boston is an innovator of new surgical techniques for voice disorders. He is probably the most knowledgable historian on the field of voice disorders as well. He offers a research fellowship in voice disorders. He has designed a very nice laryngoscope.
- Ramon Franco is at the Mass Eye and Ear Infirmary. He trained with Dr. Zeitels.
- James Burns is at the Mass General Voice Center.
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Michigan
- Ann Arbor
- Detroit
- Lake Claire Shores
- Southfield
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Minnesota
- Rochester
- Nick Maragos at Mayo Clinic in Rochester runs a course on medialization laryngoplasty with his interest in phonosurgery.
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Missouri
- St. Louis
- Randal Paniello is at Washington University and does Botox injections there.
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Mississippi
- Jackson
- John Schweinfurth is fellowship trained at Vanderbilt and recently joined the staff at the University of Mississippi.
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Nebraska
- Omaha
- There has been a change in staff so I am no longer sure if anyone specializes in laryngology.
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Nevada
- Reno
- Robert Wang is at the University of Nevada School of Medicine.
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New Jersey
- Newark
- Soly Baredes received a patient recommendation for Botox injections.
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New York
- New York
- Andy Blitzer has been a pioneer in the area of neurologic voice disorders and the use of Botox. He runs the NY Center for Voice and Swallowing Disorders and offers laryngeal fellowships
- Lucian Sulica studied voice disorders with Andrew Blitzer (above) and practices in Midtown at Beth Israel New York. I have enjoyed his thoughts at our national meetings. He has put up a very nice website with laryngeal photos nicely arranged.
- Milan Amin practices at NYU and is well spoken at out national meetings. He completed a fellowship in voice at Wake Forest University with Dr. Kaufman.
- Peak Woo is active at National Meetings and always has interesting new ideas in the diagnosis and managment of voice disorders.
- Ken Altman took his voice fellowship in Nashville. He was at Northwestern University Medical School and is active at our national meetings and moved to Mt. Sinai in 2005.
- Anat Keidar is a speech & language pathologist who works at the same institution as Dr. Blitzer with a special interest in vocal disorders.
- Jamie Koufman is in New York. Dr. Koufman has written extensively about the role of reflux and voice.
- Benjamin Asher has an interest in voice disorders.
- I have heard that Marshall Strom is joining the NY Center for voice in 2007.
- Mt. Kisco
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North Carolina
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Ohio
- Cincinnati
- Cleveland
- Nicole Maronian finished her voice fellowship with Dr. Hillel at the University of Washington and moved to Case Western in 2007.
- Toledo
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Oregon
- Portland
- The author of this site, James P. Thomas. is located in Portland. Guess you can tell I am interested in voice disorders.
- Josh Schindler did his fellowship in Nashville with Dr. Ossoff and practices at OHSU.
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Pennsylvania
- Philadelphia
- Robert Sataloff works with voice disorders and is active internationally with several voice organizations. He offers a fellowship in voice disorders.
- Joseph Atkins does Botox injections at the University of Pennsylvania.
- Ahmed Soliman is a laryngologist at Temple University. He did a fellowship with Paul Flint at Johns Hopkins.
- Natasha Mirza is at the University of Pennsylvania.
- Pittsburgh
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Tennessee
- Nashville
- The Vanderbilt voice team consists of Bob Ossoff, Gaelyn Garrett, Tom Cleveland and others. They offer fellowship training in voice disorders.
- Jim Netterville works quite a bit with voice implants. He is at Vanderbilt.
- Bob Sinard does some voice work.
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Texas
- Dallas
- Houston
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- Richard Stasney works with voice disorders in Houston and is quite active at national meetings. He is also on the staff at Methodist Hospital.
- Donald T. Donovan is at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas and has an interest in laryngology.
- San Antonio
- C. Blake Simpson is at the University of Texas Health & Science Center in San Antonio. He has done interesting presentations with some unique ideas at our national meetings.
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Utah
- Marshall Smith is at the University of Utah but their web pages are under construction (2/6/03). Nelson Roy is a speech therapist in the department who has particularly good skills with muscle tension and nonorganic voice disorders.
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Virginia
- Warrenton
- Norfolk
- Randall Plant at Eastern Virginia Medical School has put up a useful web site.
- Richmond
- Andrew Heller practices laryngology at Virginia Commonwealth University.
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Washington
- Bellevue
- Seattle
- Al Hillel is in Seattle at the University of Washington for many years. He has a special area of interest in neurologic disorders and the use of electromyography. He has offered a voice fellowship in the past.
- Albert Merati moved to the University of Washington in 2007.
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Wisconsin
- Charles Ford in Madison at the University of Wisconsin has been involved in voice problems for some time.
- Seth Dailey in Madison at the University of Wisconsin has done a fellowship at Mass Eye and Ear and joined the UW staff in 2004 or 2005.
- Joel Blumin completed his studies with Gerald Berke and is also in Milwaukie at the Medical College of Wisconsin
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Canada
- Alberta
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- British Columbia
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- Manitoba
- Mark Barker specializes in laryngology the University of Manitoba.
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- Nova Scotia
- Elhamy Attia specializes in laryngology at Dalhousie University in Halifax.
- Ontario
- Quebec
- Karen Kost is at the Montreal General Hospital with McGill University. I believe that Francoise Chagnon also does laryngology there.
South & Central America
Mexico
- Guadalahara
- Mexico City
- Masao Kume has a voice clinic at the Hospital Angeles del Pedregal.
- Rosa Eugenia Chávez de Bartelt is director of the Voice clinic Centro de Foniatria y Audiologia in Mexico City.
Colombia
- Andres Montoya plans to start practice in Barranquilla in January 2005. He has completed a 6 week fellowship in voice disorders with James Thomas and is planning further study with Clark Rosen and Ramon Franco as well.
- Bogotá
- Luis Humberto Jiménez Fandiño practices in Bogotá.
- Guillermo Campos Carrillo has practiced laryngology for some time and is presently at Instituto de Laringología Guillermo Campos.
Europe
- Austria
- Graz
- Gerhard Friedrich works at Univ of Graz - ENT Hospital, Auenbruggerplatz 20, Graz A-8036
- Vienna
- Belgium
- Flammand
- Kathleen Delsupehe is a laryngologist who has studied with Robert Bastian. Her practice is located at St Raphael University hospital, Kapucijnenvoer 33, 3000 Leuven. Telephone: +32 16 332340 .
- Wallonie
- Camille Finck practices at CHU Liège.
- Marc Remacle works at the University of Louvain and lectures frequently around the world on the use of lasers in voice surgery.
- Czech Republic
- Prague
- Frantisek Sram, a phoniatrician, works at Centre for Communication Disorders, Medical Healthcom, Ltd., Resovska 10/491, Prague 8
- Brno
- Radan Havlik, a phoniatrician, is located at Audio-Fon Centrum, Obilní trh 3-4 in Brno ph:+420 541 246 598.
- Denmark
- England
- Bristol
- Martin Birchall in the Section of Laryngology at the University of Bristol emphasizes voice disorders.
- London
- Tom Harris
- John Rubin
- Peter Clark performs cricothyroid approximation surgery.
- List of voice centers in England
- Finland
- France
- Lyon
- Marc Boucayer & Guy Cornut practiced in Lyon, France. They performed a most thorough exam and are leaders in laryngology in France. They have both retired in early 2001. I understand Drs Romain Perouse, surgeon and Bruno Coulombeau, phoniatrician have taken over their practices. However, Monsieur Cornut has produced a most thorough video on diagnosing voice problems.
- Germany
- Hamburg
- Markus Hess works at Universitäts-Krankenhaus Eppendorf Universität Hamburg
- Berlin
- Wolfram Seidner works at the University Hospital Charite
- Greece
- Athens
- Anastasios Hantzakos specializes in Laryngology in the ORL department at the University of Athens. His laryngeal fellowship was with Marc Remacle in Belgium.
- Italy
- Ravenna
- Franco Fussi works at the Centro Audiologico Foniatrico dell’ Azienda USL di Ravenna and organizes a biennial conference on the singing voice - la Voce Artistica.
- The Netherlands
- Amsterdam
- Nijmegen
- Utrecht
- Philippe Dejonckere works at Inst of Phon-Utrecht Univ Hospital, P.O. Box 85500, Utrecht Nl 3509 GA
- Slovakia
- Bratislava
- Dagmar Volmitová is a phoniatrist at Zdravotné stredisko, My'tna 5, 811 07 Bratislava. O: 39-61-51/213.
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World
- Australia
- New Zealand
- Bren Dorman practices in Auckland, New Zealand at Gilles Clinic and has some interest in laryngology.
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- India
- Andhra Pradesh
- V. Phaniendra Kumar practices at Melody voice clinic, Hyderabad, India and is Chairman and Founder President of The Association of Phonosugeons of India. I have visited and seen his operating skills and they seem excellent. He is trying to promote a laryngologist in every state in India.
- Maharashtra
- Sadhana Nayak practices at AAROHA- The Voice Clinic - Mumbai 400014, India. She has studied in the US with Dr. Sataloff and concentrates on the medical aspects of voice disorders.
- Nupur Nerurkar concentrates on laryngology. She has studied with some of the above physicians in the US. She is at 408,4th floor, Doctor Center, August Kranti Marg, Kemps Corner in Mumbai 400 036, India
- Sachin Gandhi practices in Pune at Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital and he has founded the Indian Voice Association
- Kerala
- R Jayakumar practices in Thiruvananthapuram at the Kerala Institute Of Medical Sciences and is active in The Association of Phonosurgeons of India
- Delhi
- Manish Munjal practices at the Sir Gang Ram Hospital. He studied as a fellow with James Thomas for 6 weeks in 2007.
- K Kumar Handa practices at the All India Institute Of Medical Sciences.
- Singapore
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Thailand
- Somyos Kunachak performs surgery to alter the pitch of male to female transgender patients. He has developed a very fascinating procedure.
- Ornouma Sriwanishvipat has studied with me and performs laryngeal surgery. She also works with transgender patients and their voice.
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Turkey
- H Hakan Coskun practices laryngology at Uludag University and trained in the US with Clark Rosen in Pittsburgh.
- Ilter Denizoglu practices at Alsancak State Hospital ENT Dept. Yzmir Turkey
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