Faculty
Our mission is to offer laryngologists and phoniatricians exceptional teaching: an in-depth curriculum, a collaborative setting and direct access to the people advancing the field.
The Summer Course 2027 faculty will be announced soon.

Ahmed Geneid
Head of Department, Helsinki University Hospital
Finland
Adjunct professor, laryngologist and phoniatrician. President and founding member of the Finnish Laryngological Society, president of the Union of the European Phoniatricians, and vice-president and founding member of the International Association of TransVoice Surgeons. Leads the multidisciplinary voice and swallowing team at Helsinki University Hospital and has authored over 60 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. Finland’s ENT doctor of the year 2020.

Elisabeth Sjögren
Laryngologist, Leiden University Medical Center
Netherlands
All-round laryngologist and head and neck surgeon focused on endoscopic treatment of early and intermediate laryngeal cancer and reconstructive surgery for glottic closure defects. Directs several PhD projects. Past General Secretary of the European Laryngological Society and of CEORL-HNS, and active in their teaching and training projects.

Teemu Kinnari
Laryngologist, Helsinki University Hospital
Finland
Founding member and former president of the Finnish Society for Laryngology, with over ten years of office-based laryngeal procedures. Research interests include laryngology, phonosurgery, biofilm-related infections and implant materials.

Yakubu Karagama
Consultant Laryngologist, Guy’s and St Thomas’, London
UK
Leads the multidisciplinary specialist voice clinic at Guy’s and St Thomas’ and is founder and course director of the London and Manchester Phonosurgery courses. MSc in Advanced Voice Research, over 27 publications, and the first Secretary of the British Laryngological Association.

Markus Hess
Otolaryngologist and phoniatrician
Germany
Subspecialises in laryngology, phonosurgery and the professional voice.

Berit Schneider-Stickler
Deputy Head, Phoniatrics-Logopedics, Medical University of Vienna
Austria
Otolaryngologist, phoniatrician and trained singer. President of the European Academy of Phoniatrics and of the Austrian Society of Logopedics, Phoniatrics and Pediatric Audiology; works on artistic voice, phonosurgery and neurolaryngology.

Guan-Min Ho
Senior Consultant, laryngology and phonosurgery
Austria / Taiwan
Graduate of the Medical University of Vienna and former assistant professor at the National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences. His research focuses on glottic insufficiency, and he invented the VOIS-Implant for medialisation thyroplasty, adjustable both during and after surgery.

Antti Kinnunen
Clinical neurophysiologist
Finland
Specialist in clinical neurophysiology since 2016, with a main interest in laryngeal neurophysiology. Every second week he leads neurophysiological diagnostics and treatment for patients with laryngeal dystonia and vocal fold paresis and paralysis. Also a PhD student working on AI and neurophysiological tools in early dementia diagnostics.

Tiia Ojala
Phonetician, Phoniatrics Clinic, Helsinki
Finland
Phonetician (MSc) working in the voice laboratory, recording and analysing the voices of patients with a wide range of voice disorders.

Kaarina Ruusuvirta
Speech-language pathologist, Helsinki University Hospital
Finland
Specialised in voice disorders for over 20 years, working in the multidisciplinary team of the Phoniatrics Clinic at Helsinki University Hospital.

Isabel Garcia-Lopez
Laryngologist, La Paz University Hospital and Hospital Ruber Internacional, Madrid
Spain
Clinical practice in voice, swallowing, airway disorders and cancer. Member of the editorial board of the Journal of Voice, the International Association of Phonosurgery and the Collegium Medicorum Theatri, and Vice-President of the European Laryngological Society.

Simon Best
Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins Voice Center
USA
Focuses on HPV-related disease, particularly recurrent respiratory papillomatosis, leading a large surgical practice and a laboratory studying its immunology. A leading advocate of systemic bevacizumab and HPV-specific immunotherapy, and a busy voice and airway surgeon.

Juliët Schuering
ENT resident, Leiden University Medical Center
Netherlands
Final-year ENT resident training under Ton Langeveld and Elisabeth Sjögren, with a background in classical voice studies at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. Clinical epidemiologist completing a PhD on subglottic stenosis and laryngeal dystonia, and founder and president of Young ELS.

Taru Ilmarinen
Head Physician, HUS ENT Emergency and Outpatient Clinics
Finland
Adjunct Professor at the University of Helsinki with a PhD on laryngeal papillomatosis. Research on recurrent respiratory papillomatosis and head and neck tumours. President of the Finnish Society for Head and Neck Oncology.

Ton Langeveld
Head and neck surgeon and laryngologist, Leiden University Medical Center
Netherlands
Wrote his thesis on adductor spasmodic dysphonia and has published on head and neck cancer and laryngology, including botulinum toxin treatment, TA-myoneurectomy and laser surgery for early laryngeal cancer.

Chadwan Al Yaghchi
Consultant Laryngologist, Imperial College Healthcare, London
UK
Specialist in airway stenosis, complex dysphagia and gender-affirming voice surgery, who introduced several voice feminisation procedures to the UK. Laryngology section editor of Scott-Brown’s Otolaryngology and founding member of the International Association of TransVoice Surgeons.

Jean-Paul Marie
Professor, University Hospital of Rouen
France
Head of the Experimental Surgery Laboratory, known for developing laryngeal reinnervation from animal research into clinical practice. Main interests are phonosurgery and neurolaryngology.

Dinesh K. Chhetri
Professor of Head and Neck Surgery, UCLA
USA
Vice-Chair of the UCLA Department of Head and Neck Surgery and director of its swallowing disorders programme and laryngology fellowship, with over 140 publications on voice, swallowing and head and neck oncology.

Kirsten Meenan
Laryngologist, Medical University of South Carolina
USA
Completed her laryngology fellowship at UCLA and has a particular interest in the diagnosis and treatment of spasmodic dysphonia.

Kate Heathcote
Consultant Laryngologist, Poole Hospital
UK
Known for introducing laryngeal reinnervation in the UK; founded the Airway, Voice and Swallow centre at Poole and teaches and mentors surgeons internationally.

James P. Thomas
Laryngologist
USA
Has practised laryngology since 1998 and is known worldwide for voicedoctor.net, his teaching on diagnosing voice disorders and his book Why is there a frog in my throat?

Nupur Kapoor Nerurkar
Head, Bombay Hospital Voice & Swallowing Center
India
Past President of the Association of Phonosurgeons of India and Chief Editor of the Textbook of Laryngology. Focuses on phonomicrosurgery, neurolaryngology, laser surgery for early glottic cancer and pitch-alteration surgery.

Tetsuji Sanuki
Associate Professor, Nagoya City University
Japan
Trained at the Isshiki Clinic Kyoto Voice Surgery Center and leads a multidisciplinary voice team in Nagoya.

Emilie Dronkers
Laryngologist and clinical epidemiologist
Netherlands
First to complete the two-year UEMS European Laryngology Fellowship, focusing on laryngopharyngeal oncology, neurolaryngology, dysphagia and complex airway reconstruction.

Maja Rogić Vidaković
Neuroscientist, University of Split
Croatia
Heads the Laboratory for Human and Experimental Neurophysiology, researching the neurophysiology of voice, speech and language.

Braco Bošković
ENT specialist, University Hospital Split
Croatia
Works in head and neck surgical oncology, phoniatrics and in-office laryngeal procedures, and in swallowing and post-laryngectomy rehabilitation.

Ivana Gunjača
Molecular biologist, University of Split
Croatia
Heads the Laboratory for Biology and Human Genetics, specialising in genome-wide association analysis.

Annika Laaksonen
Phoniatrician, Helsinki · Lifestyle speaker
Finland
Phoniatrician and amateur singer with a broad interest in wellbeing and the many factors behind patients’ complaints.

Rose Henrichs
Managing Director, Soluvos Medical · Lifestyle speaker
Netherlands
Over 20 years in the international medical device business, 15 of them in ENT and laryngology. Founder of Soluvos Medical and co-founder of AmplioVox.
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