Physicians
This list consists of physicians who practice laryngology, known as laryngologists and seem to have a major interest in voice disorders. Some physicians prefer the term phonosurgeon. Laryngologist or phonosurgeon, their training in voice was likely after completing a residency in ENT or otorhinolaryngology. I have tried to highlight in bold those physicians that I personally 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 suggesting how I would evalute 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
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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
- 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.
- Dinesh Chhetri trained with Dr. Berke and is now his partner.
- Garrett D. Herzon practices at Cedars Sinai
Medical Center.
- Hans Von Leden has practiced laryngology for many years. He has been around long enough to have lectures and awards named after him.
- Newport Beach
- 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.
- 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
- Boulder
- 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 performed a fellowship at Johns Hopkins.
Connecticut
Florida
- Boca Raton
- Gainesville
- Neil Chheda is at the University of Florida and performed a laryngology fellowship with Greg Postma.
- 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.
- Daniel Vincent practices laryngology and trained in Houston, Texas.
Georgia
- Atlanta
- Augusta
- Gregory Postma specializes in laryngology at the Medical College of Georgia. He does a lot of work with swallowing as well.
- N. Scott Howard will be working at the Medical College of Georgia and the Army's Fort Gordon Hospital (July 2010). He fellowship trained with Gerald Berke.
Illinois
- Chicago
- Robert Bastian My fellowship mentor. 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 is Robert Bastian's partner.
- I am not sure who is now covering at Northwestern since a 2006 departure.
- Lee Akst is at Loyola
- 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
- 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 - Harvard
- 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. And I have observed his surgical skills and they are in a class by themself - one of the leaders in our field.
- James Burns is at the Mass General Voice Center and is Steve Zeitels partner.
- Boston - Mass Eye and Ear
- Ramon Franco is at the Mass Eye and Ear Infirmary. He trained with Dr. Zeitels.
- Phillip Song is at the Mass Eye and Ear Infirmary. He trained with Dr. Franco.
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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.
- Columbia
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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
- Englewood
- Jared Wasserman trained with Ramon Franco in Boston and practices some laryngology.
- 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 Weill Medical College of Cornell University. I have enjoyed his thoughts at our national meetings. He is director of the Neurolaryngology Study Group. He has put up a very nice website with laryngeal photos nicely arranged.
He is joined by speech therapist Frizzi Linck.
- 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 is director of the Eugen Grabscheid Voice Center and is active at our national meetings. He 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.
- Michael Pitman practices at the New York Eye & Ear Infirmary. He completed a fellowship in laryngology in Nashville.
- Rochester
- Michael Haben practices primarily laryngology at the University of Rochester.
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North Carolina
- Chapel Hill
- Mark Weissler is at University of North Carolina and seems to mix some laryngology with other surgery.
- Durham
- Seth Cohen is at Duke University and performed a fellowship at Vanderbilt.
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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.
- Michael Benninger has an interest in voice disorders at the Cleveland Clinic.
- Harvey Tucker is at Case Western Reserve University and seems to concentrate on cancers of the larynx.
- 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.
- Paul Flint works with voice disorders. He became chairman at OHSU in 2009.
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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
- Ted Mau specializes in laryngology at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
- Houston
- 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
- Salt Lake City
- 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.
- David Palmer has an interest in laryngology and studied with Dr. Sataloff. He is joined by speech therapist Karin Cox.
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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.
He has edited a textbook on laryngology.
- Tanya Meyer completed a fellowship with Andrew Blitzer in New York in 2005 and moved to Seattle in 2009. She works with neurolaryngology & laryngeal stenosis.
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Washington, DC
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West Virginia
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Wisconsin
- Madison
- 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.
- Milwaukie
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Canada
- Alberta
- British Columbia
- Manitoba
- Mark Barker specializes in laryngology the University of Manitoba.
- 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
- Leon
- Claudia B Bonner Osorio studied laryngology with Manfred Gross in Germany & Mark Remacle in Belgium and practices at Hospital Angeles. She has a special interest in pitch change surgery.
- Mexico City
- Monterrey
Brazil
- Sao Paulo
- Escola Paulista de Medicina
- Paulo Augusto de Lima Pontes practices laryngology at the Escola Paulista de Medicina.
- San Paulo University Medical School
- Domingos H. Tsuji practices at Hospital das Clínicas
- Rui Imamura
- Santa Casa De Sao Paulo
- Henrique Olival Costa
- Claudia Alessandra Eckley
- Andrea duPrat
- Alessandro Murano
- Leonardo Silva
- Sao Caetano do Sul
- Porto Alegre
Colombia
- Andres Montoya started practice in Barranquilla in January 2005. He has completed a 6 week fellowship in voice disorders with James Thomas.
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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
- 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
- Bruno Coulombeau - phoniatrician
- Romain Perouse - laryngeal surgeon
- Marc Boucayer & Guy Cornut practiced in Lyon, France. They performed a most thorough exam and were leaders in laryngology in France. They have both retired in early 2001. They have produced a most thorough video on diagnosing voice problems.
- Marseille
- Antoine Giovanni is at University Marseille
- Paris
- Erkki Bianco works in Paris as a laryngologist and phoniatrist
- 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
- Groningen
- Frederik Dikkers works at the University of Groningen
- 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.
- Spain
- Paseo Castellana
- Ignacio Rabanal has an interest in voice at the La Paz University Hospital.
- Magdalena Perez-Ortin has an interest in voice at La Paz University Hospital.
- Sweden
- Switzerland
World
- Australia
- New Zealand
- Bren Dorman practices in Auckland, New Zealand at Gilles Clinic and has some interest in laryngology.
- 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.
- Sachin Gandhi practices in Pune at Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital and he has founded the Indian Voice Association. He runs an annual laryngology teaching conference in November.
- 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 Ganga 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.
- Sanjiv Badhwar practices at the Armed Forces Research and Referral hospital in Delhi Cantt.
- WVBS Ramalingam practices at the Army College of Medical Sciences in Delhi Cantt
- Kolkata
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- Japan
- Kumamoto
- Tetsuji Sanuki practices at the Kumamoto University
- Singapore
- South Africa
- Parktown
- Lance Maron practices larynogology.
- Thailand
- Bangkok
- 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.
- 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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