Prof. Dr. Tamer Abou-Elsaad, PhD, is the Professor of Phoniatrics at the ORL Department of the Faculty of Medicine at Mansoura University in Mansoura and the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the Mansoura National University in Gamasa city, Egypt. He is currently also a visiting lecturer at the University of Malta.
He is the president of the International Association of Communication Sciences and Disorders IALP and the Chair of the UEP/EAP (Union of the European Phoniatricians/ European Academy of Phoniatrics) Committee for the preparation of the European Board Examination in Phoniatrics. Additionally, he is the Chair of the Scientific Committee of the Egyptian Board of Phoniatrics Medicine.
He is the Secretary of the ORL board of the Supreme Council of Egyptian Higher Education for promoting professors and assistant professors in ORL, Phoniatrics, and audio-vestibular specialties. He created the Phoniatrics curriculum at the Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, and developed the Professional Diploma in Feeding and Swallowing Disorders in Children and Adults at the same university. He established the Phoniatric units in three Egyptian universities: Mansoura, Zagazig, and Kafr Elsheikh.
Dr. Barbara Arnold, MD, is a specialist in Phoniatrics and Pediatric Audiology, as well as Otorhinolaryngology. She works in her own office in Munich, Germany.
She is the President of the professional association of Phoniatrics and Pediatric Audiology in Germany. She is a co-opted member of the DGPP, a scientific phoniatric organization in Germany.
Further, she is Vice President of the European Academy of Phoniatrics and has worked on the implementation of the European Board Exam in Phoniatrics.
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Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zahide Çiler Büyükatalay Yaldız, MD, PhD, is an otorhinolaryngologist at Ankara University Faculty of Medicine in Turkey.
She graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Medicine, completed her ENT residency there, and earned an MSc in Audiology and Speech Disorders from Hacettepe University. Her academic and clinical interests include laryngology, voice and swallowing disorders, otology-audiology, vestibular disorders, and sialendoscopy. She has authored more than 60 scientific articles and numerous conference presentations, with publications in internationally indexed journals. She is also actively involved in academic publishing and currently serves as an editor for ENTcase and KBB-Forum.
Prof. Bengü Çobanoğlu, MD, MSc, is a Professor of Otorhinolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery at Karadeniz Technical University in Turkey, with clinical and academic interests in laryngology and head and neck oncology. Her work focuses on laryngeal disease, premalignant lesions, multidisciplinary cancer care, education, and research.
She serves on the Advisory Board of the European Academy of Phoniatrics (EAP), the Board of the Voice, Speech and Swallowing Disorders Association, and the European Laryngological Society Laryngeal Cancer Study Group. She is Turkey’s representative in the COST Action INTERCEPTOR and Secretary General of the National ENT Board Examination Committee.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. İlter Denizoglu, MD, PhD, MSc, is the founder and director of the Vocology Centre. He has prepared the curriculum for Pedagogical Vocology and is the lecturer at Dokuz Eylul University’s Faculty of Stage Arts, Opera Division. He has also developed the Clinical Vocology curriculum and teaches in the Speech-Language Therapy Division of the Faculty of Health Sciences at Izmir’s Tınaztepe University.
His medical work focuses on phonosurgery, voice therapy, and singing voice therapy. His research focuses on phoniatric practice. He has created new devices for voice therapy and vocal training. Based on Sihvo’s LaxVox Tube Exercise, he developed the DoctorVox Voice Therapy and Vocal Training Program (DVT). He holds the patent for the tools designed for DoctorVox therapy. Additionally, he has developed new techniques, such as mini-microsuture and posterior glottoplasty, as well as surgical instruments for phonosurgery. His book, ‘Textbook of Clinical Vocology,’ was published in January 2020.
Dr. Barbara Jamróz, MD, PhD, is a specialist in otorhinolaryngology, audiology, and phoniatrics. She is a Senior Assistant at the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, National Medical Institute of the Ministry of the Interior and Administration in Warsaw, the Speech Pathophysiology and Upper Airway Endoscopy Laboratory of the Mother and Child Institute in Warsaw, and the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery of the Medical University of Warsaw. She is a Former Chair of the Teaching and Program Council and Coordinator of the Bachelor’s and Master’s programs in Speech-Language Pathology at the Medical University of Warsaw. Her professional practice focuses on oropharyngeal dysphagia, cleft lip and palate, chronic cough, exercise-induced laryngeal obstruction, and patients in coma.
She is a Vice-Chair of the Swallowing Disorders Section of the Polish Society for Parenteral, Enteral Nutrition and Metabolism. She co-authored the Polish standards for clinical swallowing examinations, FEES, and VFSS, and is an instructor in flexible endoscopic evaluation of swallowing (FEES) within the ESSD FEES Accreditation Program. She is also a member of the Polish IDDSI (International Dysphagia Diet Standardization Initiative) Reference Group and co-developer of the Polish framework for textures and consistencies.
Dr. Paulina Krasnodębska, MD, PhD, MBA, is an audiologist and phoniatrician and Deputy Head of the Audiology and Phoniatrics Clinic at the Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing in Kajetany/Warsaw, Poland. Her clinical and scientific work focuses on voice disorders, particularly the assessment of glottal function using mucosal wave imaging and the clinical neurophysiology of the head and neck.
She has authored and co-authored book chapters and numerous peer-reviewed articles, serves as a reviewer for international scientific journals, and is actively involved in medical education. She is a member of the IALP Phoniatrics Committee and the UEP Biomarker Committee.
Prof. Dr. Sanja Krejovic, MD, PhD, is an otolaryngologist and phoniatrician. She has been affiliated with the Clinic of Otorhinolaryngology and Maxillofacial Surgery at the Clinical Center of Serbia in Belgrade since 2000, and also provides patient care at Acibadem Bel Medic. Her clinical expertise includes ENT examinations for children and adults, phoniatric assessments, and endovideolaryngostroboscopic diagnostics.
She is the author of numerous scientific publications and textbook chapters and is a frequent speaker at national and international congresses and symposia. In recognition of her contribution to medical science, she received the City of Belgrade Award for Medicine in 2017 for her authorship of the book Laryngeal Carcinomas. Her research and clinical interests focus on head and neck oncology, voice disorders, laryngeal rehabilitation, and improving quality-of-life outcomes for patients following laryngeal surgery.
Dr. Matthias Leonhard, MD, PhD, received his training as an ENT specialist at the Department of Otorinolaryngology of the Medical University Hospital of Vienna and further specialized in the Division of Phoniatrics-Logopedics to become a Phoniatrician in 2014. In 2018, he received the Science Award of the Austrian Association of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, and was habilitated in 2021 at the Medical University of Vienna.
Besides his regular clinical practice in diagnostics, treatment, and surgery of voice pathologies and dysphagia, his special research interests focus on neurolaryngology, laryngeal pacing, tracheostomy management, and voice rehabilitation after total laryngectomy, as well as office-based procedures in laryngology, contributing to over 30 publications in these research fields. He is the chair of the Austrian Society of Logopedics, Phoniatrics and Pediatric Audiology (ÖGLPP), and an active member of the German Society of Phoniatrics and Pedaudiology (DGPP), International Association for Communication Sciences and Disorders (IALP), and the Union of European Phoniatricians (UEP), and is actively engaged in national and international research collaborations and teaching programs.
Dr. Barbara Maciejewska, PhD, MD, is an audiologist, phoniatrician, and neurologist at the Department and Clinic of Phoniatrics and Audiology, Poznań University of Medical Sciences, and at the Phoniatrics and Audiology Ward, in the University Clinical Hospital in Poznań.
Her main areas of interest are neurootology, pediatric audiology, the impact of systemic diseases on the voice and hearing, and the relationship between dentistry and phoniatrics. She is actively involved in teaching and training young doctors, including outside of required classes, as a tutor, mentor, and facilitator at PUMS.
She is a member of the Union of European Phoniatricians, coordinator of Multicenter Studies on behalf of the Union of the European Phoniatricians (Officer for Scientific Application and Multicenter Studies, Union of the European Phoniatricians), and the Head of the UEP Committee: Phoniatric Aspects of Medical Disorders. Moreover, she is a member of the Committee for Development of Digital Teaching Materials at the European Academy of Phoniatrics, a member of the Board of the European Academy of Phoniatrics (EAP), a member of the Polish Audiological and Phoniatric Society and the Polish Neurological Society, and a member of the Polish Headache Society. She is also a co-founding member of the Laboratory of Interdisciplinary Language Research at the University of Gdansk.
Asst. Prof. Beata Miaskiewicz, MD, PhD, is an otorhinolaryngologist, audiologist, and phoniatrician. She works in the Audiology and Phoniatrics Clinic and the Oto-Rhino-Laryngology Clinic at the World Hearing Center of the Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing in Kajetany/Warsaw, Poland. Her clinical and research interests are voice disorders and phonosurgery. She is the author and co-author of numerous publications in internationally indexed scientific journals, as well as chapters in monographs.
She is a member of the European Laryngological Society, the Union of European Phoniatricians, and Polish scientific societies in the fields of otolaryngology, audiology, and phoniatrics.
Professor Dr. Dirk Mürbe, MD, PhD, is a professor for audiology and phoniatrics and Head of the Department of Audiology and Phoniatrics at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany.
He is a specialist in phoniatrics and audiology, as well as in otorhinolaryngology, with additional training in ENT surgery. His main focus is highly specialized phonosurgery for patients with voice disorders. Another specialization is the care of professional voices with particular expertise in voice disorders and the hearing of professional singers and actors. His research focuses on morphological and functional characteristics of professional voices.
He is a member of the German Society of Phoniatrics and Pediatric Audiology (currently President), German Society of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, German Society for Music Physiology and Musicians’ Medicine, Union of the European Phoniatricians (UEP), and Collegium Medicorum Theatri.
Prof. Katrin Neumann, MD, PhD, is Professor of Population Medicine in Communication Disorders, an otolaryngologist, Director of the Department of Phoniatrics and Pediatric Audiology at Muenster University Hospital, Germany, and the Adjunct Professor at Universitas Airlangga, Indonesia.
She serves as an audiological advisor to the WHO Ear and Hearing Care Program. She represents several professional societies in the WHO World Hearing Forum. She chairs the Hearing and Language Committee of the Union of European Phoniatricians, is the Editor-in-Chief of an Elsevier journal, and has published over 310 scientific works. Her research focuses on hearing, speech, language, fluency, and voice disorders.
Prof. Dr. Haldun Oğuz, MD, PhD, is Professor of Otorhinolaryngology at Lokman Hekim University Faculty of Medicine in Ankara, Türkiye, and a laryngologist – phoniatrician specialising in voice medicine.
A graduate of Hacettepe University, he is President of the Union of the European Phoniatricians and of the Turkish Professional Voice Society, General Secretary of the Turkish Society of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, and the co-president of the APLA 2027 Congress.
He has more than 250 publications and presentations with over 1,700 citations, edited the textbook “Clinical Voice Disorders”, and is an Associate Editor of Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology.
Prof. Monika Ołdak, PhD, is a clinical geneticist and laboratory diagnostician, specializing in clinical genetics and laboratory medical genetics. She is Head of the Department of Genetics at the Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing.
Her research focuses on the genetic and molecular causes of diseases of the sensory organs and the skin, particularly the genetic causes of hearing loss, combining knowledge of human genetics with modern DNA analysis techniques and developing animal and cellular models that enable the functional assessment of the consequences of detected mutations. She is also a qualified laboratory diagnostician and holds specialisms in clinical genetics and laboratory medical genetics.
She is a member of numerous scientific societies, including the Polish Society of Human Genetics, the European Society of Human Genetics, and the Polish Society of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngologists.
Ao. Univ. Prof. Dr. Berit Schneider-Stickler, PhD, is an otolaryngologist, phoniatrician, and trained singer. She is President of the European Academy of Phoniatrics (EAP), a board member of the Austrian Society of Logopedics, Phoniatrics and Pediatric Audiology (ÖGLPP), and deputy head of the Division of Phoniatrics-Logopedics at the Medical University of Vienna.
Her clinical work and research focus on artistic voice, laryngology, phonosurgery, and neurolaryngology. She is the co-founder of the working group “Neurolaryngology” of the Austrian Society of Otorhinolaryngology.
She is an author and coauthor of many peer-reviewed papers and co-editor of two textbooks.
Prof. Piotr H. Skarżyński, MD, PhD, MSc, is a specialist in ENT and pediatric ENT, audiology, phoniatrics, and public health. He is a Deputy Head of the Department of Teleaudiology and Screening at the Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing and the Director of Science and Development at the Institute of Sensory Organs in Kajetany. He has an impressive academic record comprising 3,200 publications and conference presentations.
He is a founding member of the World Hearing Forum at the WHO, a WHO expert on digital health, and a board member and representative of the International Society for Telemedicine and e-Health. He also served as President of the International Advisory Board of the American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery and is currently a member of the AAO-HNS Hearing Committee, the Consultant Committee of the International Experts of CPAM-VBMS, an honorary member of the ORL Danube Society and the Société Française d’Oto-Rhino-Laryngologie, and a Corresponding Member of the German Society of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery and the American Otological Society.
Assoc. Prof. Elżbieta Włodarczyk, MD, PhD, is a medical doctor specializing in audiology and phoniatrics and a certified speech and language therapist for the deaf. She is the Head of the Department of Rehabilitation in the Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing. Since 2023, she has served as the Polish National Consultant in Surdologopaedics.
She is actively engaged in the diagnostics of children and adults with hearing loss, candidacy assessment for hearing implants, and the organization of post-implantation rehabilitation programs. She also coordinates a multidisciplinary team providing speech therapy, psychological, and educational support for patients with complex communication needs. In addition, she is a certified Tomatis® Method therapist and has co-organized training for Tomatis therapists in Poland. She is the author and co-author of numerous publications and presentations at international conferences.
She is a member of the Union of European Phoniatricians.