Dr. Nupur Kapoor Nerurkar is an ENT surgeon, who has graduated in 1994 from KEM Hospital with a first rank in the Bombay University. Since 2004, she is practicing exclusively as a laryngologist and is currently heading the Bombay Hospital Voice & Swallowing Center. Dr. Nerurkar is DNB coordinator of the ENT department and director of the laryngology fellowship program. She is course director of the annual phonosurgery workshops being conducted since the past 18 years.

Nupur is a past president of the Association of Phonosurgeons of India (APSI) and currently on the governing council. She is the chief editor of the “Textbook of Laryngology” - official textbook of APSI and has authored “Atlas of Phonomicrosurgery” in 2017.

She has over 100 publications and book chapters to her credit and has delivered over 300 presentations including multiple prestigious orations and keynotes, such as at IFOS (Paris), LSA (Sydney) and Cutting-Edge Laryngology (London).

Dr. Nupur has been awarded multiple prizes at national AOI meetings such as the gold medal junior consultant award, first prize in S.L. Jaiswal video session, first prize at Phonocon 2006 and senior consultant award. She was awarded the David Howard prize in cutting edge laryngology 2012 and a Presidential citation by the ALA in 2024 in Chicago

Nupur is currently the only Indian fellow of the American Bronchoesophagological Association as well as the American Laryngological Association, founder and board member of the International Association of TransVoice Surgeons and executive committee member of International Association of Phonosurgery.

Nupur is focused in phonomicrosurgery, neurolaryngology, laser surgeries for early glottic cancer, care of the singing voice and transvoice surgeries.

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.