Multidisciplinary Approach To Managing Singers Following Phonosurgery
09-12, 10:45–11:45 (Europe/Istanbul), Phoniatrics 3 (Hilton - Liz)

This is a panel on managing singers following phonosurgery

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Professor Miroslav Tedla, MD, MPH, PhD is a Chairman of the Department of ORL- HNS at the Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital of the Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia.  He is a member of several international societies, CORLAS member and at the moment serves as a Treasurer of European Laryngological Society and the President Elect of  the Confederation of European ORL- HNS.

Dr. Tedla is a main author of three textbooks, author/co-author of more than 130 in extenso scientific papers/book chapters and is regularly invited to present at the international venues. His main clinical and research interests include Thyroid and Paratyhyroid Surgery, Head and Neck Cancer, Voice, Airway and Dysphagia. 

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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.

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Mr Sean Fang is a Consultant ENT / Head & Neck Surgeon at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, London, UK. His specialist interests span laryngology, head and neck surgery including thyroid, parathyroid and salivary gland disease.