Graduated from Ankara University Medicine Faculty (2005) and completed residency in Gazi University Medicine Faculty Department of Otorhinolaryngology (2010). Working as an ENT specialist for 16 years. As an observer, I have been in Gruppo Otologico (Piacenza, Italy), Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (Boston, USA), and King’s College (London, England). Earned a PhD degree in neuroscience in 2023 from Gazi University Health Science Faculty Neuroscience Department.

Is currently affiliated in Mugla Sitki Kocman University Department of Otorhinolaryngology since the year 2018.

Interested in central auditory processing and diseases that affect this process.

Migraine and related inner ear diseases.

Dr. Rehab Awad has been leading the voice services for both adults and children in the Speech and Language Therapy Department and providing voice therapy input in the Multidisciplinary voice clinic, being the main therapist providing pre- & post-operative voice rehabilitation for patients who undergo phonosurgery. She has also been leading the Parallel Voice Clinic at UHL since 2011. She is a Professor of Phoniatrics Sciences at Kasr Alaini Hospital, Cairo University since 2025.

Rehab has a long experience in managing voice disorders in both adults and children, providing a holistic approach to improving voice quality and ensuring the multidisciplinary approach to addressing voice problems. She has special interest working with professional voice users (singers, actors, performers) with special interest in using treatment naso-endoscopy. As the Clinical Lead Voice Therapist at University Hospital Lewisham, she is involved in developing departmental policies and competencies frameworks for developing therapists’ skills in managing voice disorders.

She is the most senior FEES therapist and clinical governor for FEES services at LGT, has helped developing FEES services across three sites as well as developing inhouse-training for the SLT team. 

She has been a council member of the British Voice Association since 2022 and a member of the British Voice Association Education Working Party since 2018.

She has participated in developing and updating various position papers for the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists.

She has special interest in research and has published a few research articles and book chapters in national and international journals and has been a speaker in many national and international conferences.