Since 1999, my medical and surgical practice has been limited to voice care. I maintain an

informational web site on voice disorders - voicedoctor.net, preceptor medical students in their

early years at Oregon Health Sciences University, offer an international fellowship in laryngology as

well as short observerships to physicians, speech therapists, voice teachers and interested students.

I produce “voxdoc, the voicedoctor” on YouTube, including Laryngology 101, a series of learning

videos. I published “Why is there a frog in my throat? A guide to hoarseness.” I frequently lecture

internationally on laryngology and phonosurgery. I remain surprised at how much there is still to learn

about the larynx.

I am; Prof. Dr. Selmin Karataylı Özgürsoy; graduated from Hacettepe University (Ankara, Türkiye) Faculty of Medicine, in 2002. I completed my residency training in Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery at Ankara University Faculty of Medicine and became an Otolaryngology specialist in 2008. I got ECFMG certification in 2007; I also hold both European and Turkish Board Certification in Otolaryngology.

My international academic and research experience includes observership at the House Ear Institute in Los Angeles in 2003, followed by a one-year research fellowship at Mayo Clinic, Florida, in 2008. In 2010, I worked as a research fellow at the University of Michigan, and in 2013, I completed a six-month TÜBİTAK-funded research fellowship at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland. In 2017, I returned to Mayo Clinic, Florida, as a Crawford Research Fellow for one year.

Throughout my career, I have participated in numerous advanced clinical courses, cadaveric dissection courses, and professional meetings both in Türkiye and internationally. In 2014, I presented my research entitled “Dysplasia in Recurrent Respiratory Papillomatosis” at the 10th European Laryngological Congress which lead to receive the prestigious Lichtenberger Award.

I was awarded with the title of Associate Professor in 2017, in Ufuk University, Ankara, and Professor in 2023, and still work in the same institution as vice dean.

I also completed a master’s degree in Audiology, Speech and Language Disorders, and Voice Disorders at Ankara University in 2021.

Graduated from medical school in Magdeburg, Germany in 1999. General ENG Training in Jena. He is working in SRH Wald-Klinikum Gera, Germany since 2005 as registrar and since 2012 as consultant. Special interest in laryngology and laryngeal electromyography since 2008.