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.  

Emel Çadallı Tatar, M.D. is a Professor of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery. She has graduated from Hacettepe University, School of Medicine in 1999 and completed her Otolaryngology residency in 2004 at the same university. She was an otolaryngologist between 2007-2010, an attending otolaryngologist between 2010-2013, an associate professor between 2013-2020 and a professor since 2020. She has over 110 articles published atnational/international journals and over 425 citations.

MD, MSc, PhD Candidate

ENT-Head & Neck Surgeon, Laryngologist & Phoniatrician

Mr Chadwan Al Yaghchi is a consultant laryngologist at the National Centre for Airway Reconstruction, Imperial College Healthcare, London. He manages the full spectrum of laryngeal disorders with specialist interest in airway stenosis and complex dysphagia. Mr Al Yaghchi holds a PhD in Molecular Oncology from Queen Mary’s University of London studying oncolytic viruses in head and neck cancers. In addition, he has an active clinical research program in voice, airway and swallowing disorders.

Mr Al Yaghchi is a founding member of the British Laryngological Association and the president-elect. He is the deputy general secretary of the Eropean Laryngological Society and Board member of the International Association of Transvoice Surgeon. He is a board member of the UK Swallowing Research Group and former Vice president of the Royal Society of Medicine, Section of Laryngology and Rhinology.