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.

Miss Hey is a fellowship-trained Consultant ENT Surgeon and Laryngologist at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust in London, and also holds a visiting clinical role at King’s College Hospital. She specialises in voice, swallowing and airway disorders, with a particular interest in the care of professional and artistic voice users.

After graduating from the University of Edinburgh and completing specialist ENT training in Scotland, she undertook a Royal College of Surgeons of England-accredited Laryngology Fellowship at Guy’s Hospital. Her subspecialist interest in phonomicrosurgery, neurolaryngology and artistic voice care was further augmented through international travelling fellowships at the Massachusetts General Hospital Voice Center in Boston and the University Hospital of Rouen in France.

Miss Hey is passionate about education and is an elected member of the Faculty of Surgical Trainers at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. She is frequently invited as faculty at national and international training events and holds several leadership roles, including council member of the British Laryngological Association, Director of the Written Examination for the European Examination Board in Laryngology, and Director of mentoring programme at Young European Laryngological Society. Within the Union of European Phoniatricians, she serves on the voice committee and is the invited host of its official podcast, The UEP Voice Box, which reaches an international audience. She is also a member of the International Recurrent Respiratory Papillomatosis Task Force and a Fellow of the Collegium Medicorum Theatri.

She has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications and book chapters, delivered invited lectures at academic meetings, and received awards for both academic and clinical excellence. She is actively involved in advancing clinical practice and patient care, including recent work on office-based laryngology published through NHS England’s Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) initiative. Her wider work reflects a strong commitment to education, innovation and international collaboration across ENT and laryngology.

Gerd Fabian Volk is active since 2006 as a physician at the Department of Otorhinolaryngology of Jena University Hospital. Since 2012 he has built up and is the Leader of the interdisciplinary Facial-Nerve-Center Jena.

His clinical interests are: diagnostic and treatment of facial nerve palsy, telemedicine to improve diagnostic and treatment of rare diseases, application of botulinum toxin and electrostimulation in the head and neck region, functional diagnostics and therapy of peripheral nerve lesions, electrophysiological and imaging techniques, especially ultrasound and MRI, for the evaluation and rehabilitation of the muscles and nerves. Experimental topics: development of new methods of reconstruction of the facial and laryngeal nerve, electrostimulation as diagnostic and therapeutic tool, central changes after brain nerve failure, in particular of the facial and vestibular nerves, telemedicine and health care networks to improve treatment quality.