The World Voice Consortium is a worldwide, independent organization concerned with scientific and professional voice issues.
PRESIDENTManuel Pais-Clemente
Portugal He was awarded a Medical Certificate from Porto University School of Medicine in Porto, Portugal in 1966. He has finished his Residency Training Program in Otorhinolaryngology at Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, U.S.A. (1972-1977). Since that time he become interested in voice disorders, medical and surgical management and voice rehabilitation. In the past he was Full Professor and Chairman of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology at the Porto University School of Medicine (1979-2012) and Chief of Service at the Hospital S. João, Porto, Portugal (1986-2006). Currently he is Emeritus Professor at the Porto University School of Medicine. He was appointed Representative from Portugal at the Union of European Phoniatricians (UEP) since 1993. He is a Board Member of the Latin Societies of Otorhinolaryngology since 2000 and Vice-President of the European Medical Association (E.M.A.) since 2014. Among current research and clinical areas of interest are voice disorders, head and neck cancer, tobacco smoking prevention, Predictive, Preventive and Personalized Medicine (3P´s), lasers, innovation technologies and worldwide health policies. He has participated in various Projects at national and international levels. He has presented more than1000 scientific papers, more than 250 published articles in scientific journals and books and his a member of 34 organizations. He has been awarded with numerous medals and honours.
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VICE PRESIDENTKrzysztof Izdebski
USA He is a Founding Chair of the Pacific Voice & Speech Foundation (PVSF) based in San Francisco, CA, USA. He is also a Professor of Voice at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music; an Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA; a Scientific Advisor to the Brain Plasticity Institute, San Francisco; an Advisory Board Member of the Department of Bioengineering at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, CA; a Vice President of the World Voice Consortium based in O’Porto, Portugal; and the Editor-in-Chief of e-Phonoscope, an official Open Access Journal of the PVSF. His activities are represented by over 100 peer reviewed articles on normal and abnormal voice, vocal emotions, and voice technology; by over 400 world-wide presentations; numerous books and chapters; and by organizing 24 Annual Pacific Voice Conferences. For his contribution to voice science and care, Dr. Izdebski received many awards and was given honorary memberships in various international societies and organizations.
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SECRETARY GENERALAntoinette am Zehnhoff-Dinnesen
Germany In 2015 Antoinette am Zehnhoff-Dinnesen was elected Secretary General of the World Voice Consortium. After study of medical sciences in Düsseldorf and Bonn, she became medical specialist in ear, nose and throat diseases in 1983 and in 1986 medical specialist in phoniatrics and pedaudiology. In 1988, she was awarded her postdoctoral lecturing qualification from Düsseldorf University with the topic « The Transient Effect of the Voice: Examinations of the Regulation of Amplitude and Frequency ». In 1990, she became professor of phoniatrics and pedaudiology at the Medical Faculty of Philipps University in Marburg, in 1991, professor at the Medical Faculty at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster, where she holds the position of head of the Clinic of Phoniatrics and Pedaudiology. Within this clinic she established the first day hospital of Phoniatrics and Pedaudiology in Germany, the Newborn Hearing Screening Center for Westphalia-Lippe and an outpatient clinic for musicians’ medicine. Antoinette am Zehnhoff-Dinnesen is author or co-author of more than 130 original papers in German and English language on various aspects of phoniatrics and pedaudiology and co-author of several books. She graduated 11 specialists in phoniatrics and pedaudiology and promoted about 40 dissertations and 3 habilitations. From 1995 to 2000, she officiated as the manager of the German Society of Speech, Language, and Voice Pathology, from 2003 to 2007, as secretary of the German Society of Phoniatrics and Pedaudiology. She was elected president of the German Society of Phoniatrics and Pedaudiology from 2007 to 2009 and reelected from 2009-2011. In 2011, she was elected president of the Union of the European Phoniatricians for the 2011 to 2014 term and reelected for the term 2014-2018. On her initiative the European Academy of Phoniatrics (EAP) was founded on 6th September 2013 in Aachen. At present she is working on the first European Manual of Phoniatrics (2 volumes). She and her team were awarded with the Prize for Teaching in Phoniatrics and Pedaudiology of the German Society of Phoniatrics and Pedaudiology in 2005 and in 2010 awarded with the Health Prize of North Rhine-Westphalia (2. place) for the Newborn Hearing Screening Center for Westphalia-Lippe. The Annual General Assembly of the Union of the European Phoniatricians on 26th August 2013 in Turin awarded her the honorary membership of UEP. On occasion of XLVI Congress in Bydgoszcz, 3rd -6th September 2014, Prof. Antoinette am Zehnhoff-Dinnesen became honorary member of the Polish Society of Otorhinolaryngologists & Head- and Neck Surgeons for her merits for European phoniatrics.
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TREASURERMette F. Pedersen
Denmark In 2015, Mette Pedersen was elected President of the 7th World Voice Consortium Conference 8-9 of December 2017. World Voice Consortium (WVC) is an independent organization concerned with professional and scientific issues. She was awarded medical certificate from Copenhagen University and finished her residency training program in Copenhagen at Gentofte Hospital, headed by Mirko Tos. Since that time, she became interested in voice disorders, being herself a concerto singer and pianist, also in medical and surgical management of voices. She has two honoured doctoral degrees and one honoured professorship in Cambridge (IBC) and she has more than 30 medals of honour. Her official representations are in the union of phoniatrics and academy of Phoniatrics. Among her research and clinical areas are development of voices in boys and girls and technological development of voice instruments. Others subjects were focus on evidence in randomized controlled trials showing very little evidence in two Cochrane reviews of hoarseness. She has participated in various projects at national and international levels. She has made six European Cooperation in Science and Technology -related symposia in Copenhagen (COST symposia 1-6, 2009-2015) The next one being in 2016. She has presented more than 300 scientific papers and has more than 100 published articles in scientific journals and books. She is a member of more than 10 organizations, she has more than 30 medals of honour.
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BOARD MEMBERS
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R. Eugenia Chavez
Mexico Hong-Shik Choi
South Korea Philippe Dejonckere
The Netherlands |
Gürsel Dursun
Turkey Ruth Epstein
UK Gerhard Friedrich
Austria |
Manfred Gross
Germany Norbert H. Kleinsasser
Germany Eirine Lentari
Greece |
Ekaterina V. Osipenko
Russia Paulo Pontes
Brazil Iris Rodriguez
Argentina |
Robert T. Sataloff
USA Josef Schlömicher-Thier
Austria Virgilijus Uloza
Lithuania |
OFFICE MANAGER
Matthew Blanco
USA
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