Professor of Otolaryngology - UFCSPA - Brasil

Head - Department of Otolaryngology - Santa Casa de Porto Alegre - Brazil

Former President - Brazilian Academy of Laryngology and Voice

Former President - Brazilian Association of Otolaryngology

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.  

Markus Hess, MD, otolaryngologist and phoniatrician, specialized in laryngology, phonosurgery, professional voice disorders. Head of first Voice Clinic in Germany (MEDICAL VOICE CENTER), chairman of PEVOC, founder of European Academy of Voice (EAV), past president CoMeT, founder of German Society of Phonosurgery, president of International Association of Transvoice Surgeons (IATVS). Introduction of blue laser to laryngology. Long-standing experience in minimally invasive phonomicrosurgery and office-based surgery. Presentations, workshops, instructional courses at international conferences. Memberships on various editorial boards and scientific committees. Authorship in over hundred peer-reviewed articles in professional journals and textbooks.

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.

Adj. Professor Ahmed Geneid is an internationally recognized ENT consultant specializing in laryngology and phoniatrics. Head of Department at Helsinki University Hospital, he has authored over 100 publications, co-founded the International Association of TransVoice Surgeons, led major professional societies, and received awards including Finland’s ENT Doctor of the Year.