Miss Hey is a fellowship-trained Consultant ENT Surgeon and Laryngologist at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust in London, and also holds a visiting clinical role at King’s College Hospital. She specialises in voice, swallowing and airway disorders, with a particular interest in the care of professional and artistic voice users.

After graduating from the University of Edinburgh and completing specialist ENT training in Scotland, she undertook a Royal College of Surgeons of England-accredited Laryngology Fellowship at Guy’s Hospital. Her subspecialist interest in phonomicrosurgery, neurolaryngology and artistic voice care was further augmented through international travelling fellowships at the Massachusetts General Hospital Voice Center in Boston and the University Hospital of Rouen in France.

Miss Hey is passionate about education and is an elected member of the Faculty of Surgical Trainers at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. She is frequently invited as faculty at national and international training events and holds several leadership roles, including council member of the British Laryngological Association, Director of the Written Examination for the European Examination Board in Laryngology, and Director of mentoring programme at Young European Laryngological Society. Within the Union of European Phoniatricians, she serves on the voice committee and is the invited host of its official podcast, The UEP Voice Box, which reaches an international audience. She is also a member of the International Recurrent Respiratory Papillomatosis Task Force and a Fellow of the Collegium Medicorum Theatri.

She has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications and book chapters, delivered invited lectures at academic meetings, and received awards for both academic and clinical excellence. She is actively involved in advancing clinical practice and patient care, including recent work on office-based laryngology published through NHS England’s Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) initiative. Her wider work reflects a strong commitment to education, innovation and international collaboration across ENT and laryngology.