Peak Woo
Dr. Peak Woo is a laryngologist practicing in New York City. His practice is limited to laryngology and communication and voice disorders. His primary professional and research interests are in the field of voice production and its disorders.
Dr. Woo is clinical professor of otolaryngology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. His private practice is on 300 Central Park West in New York City. As clinical professor, he participates in the training of residents in otolaryngology and fellows in Laryngology at the Icahn School of Medicine.
Born in Taiwan, Dr. Woo immigrated with his family to the New York area at the age of 11. In 1972, he enrolled in the six year BA/MD joint degree program offered by the College of Liberal Arts and the School of Medicine at Boston University. After graduation in 1978, his internship in surgery and medicine was at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Woo returned to Boston to do his otolaryngology residency at the combined Boston University/Tufts University otolaryngology training program. In 1983 he entered academic medicine at the State University of New York Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse. He returned to Boston at the Tufts-New England Medical Center as Vice Chairman of Otolaryngology from 1994 to 1996. He was named the Grabscheid Professor of Laryngology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York in 2002. He is now Clinical Professor in Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York
He has more than 150 articles in peer reviewed journals. He is the author of the textbook: Stroboscopy. He has given courses in many countries on topics of laryngology.
Dr. Woo was a past president of the American Laryngological Association, the American Broncho-Esophagological Association, the New York Laryngological Society and the New York Head and Neck Society. He was a vice president of the Triological Society and the past President of the American Laryngological Association. Dr. Woo’s past community activities include Doctor to the New York State Theater and the New York City Opera and he serves as advisor to the New York Singing Teacher Association Professional Development Program. He is an adjunct lecturer at the Columbia Teachers College.
Dr. Woo lives in New Jersey with his wife. He has three grown children Christina, Geoffrey, and Ryan.
Sessions
this is a 60 minutes panel with 4 distinguished speakers about Vocal fold scars and aging
Introduction and Background: Professional singers present unique challenges to surgeons in terms of management for optimal results. Beyond phono-surgery techniques, the surgeon must factor into the decision to proceed with surgery factors such as the timing of surgery, preoperative phoniatric care, postoperative vocal rehabilitation, and the timing and decision to return to full voice use.
Goals:
a. To give the participant knowledge of the unique challenges in treating professional singers by surgery or office intervention
b. To appreciate the variety of office and surgical techniques tailored to the lesion and know how the impact of surgery will be on the singer vocal range and tambre.
c. To have a working appreciation of working with the singers’ schedule to produce maximum functional results.
At the end of the course, the attendee should have a better understanding of the special considerations for professional singers who undergo phono-surgery or office procedures.
ABSTRACT:
This 30-minute course will discuss the critical considerations regarding pre-operative, operative, and post-operative management unique to the professional singer who may require surgery or office intervention. We will discuss:
a. The common types of lesions in professional singers that may need surgical intervention. These include vocal fold lesions such as vocal fold varix, vocal fold polyps, nodules, cysts and pseudocysts, keratosis, and lesions of uncertain significance.
b. We will discuss the management of vocal fold scar, nodule, and vocal atrophy in the professional performer.
c. We will discuss management of glottis insufficiency due to vocal fold paresis and presbyphonia
d. Phonosurgery techniques that will be covered will include:
a. Microflap techniques, advancement flaps, and sutures
b. Use of operative angiolytic lasers
c. Role of fillers such as Restylane, PRP, nano fat, and microfat
We will cover important issues such as Preoperative and perioperative management considerations, including:
a. The singer’s lesion, style of singing, decision, and timing to proceed with surgical intervention.
b. The consideration for office-based intervention using KTP and Blue lasers, injection laryngoplasty with fillers or fat versus surgical operative intervention by microlaryngeal surgery with or without CO2 or angiolytic lasers, and the use of fillers
c. The role of office endoscopy and stroboscopy in the comprehensive rehabilitation of the singer after surgery regarding return to singing and return to full function.
At the end of the course, the attendee should have a better understanding of the additional considerations for professional singers who undergo surgery or office procedures.
this is a panel about Therapeutic approach for unilateral vocal fold paralysis