2020 Fall Voice Conference Course Directors

Peter Belafsky, MD, MPH, PhD
Director, UC Davis Center for Voice and Swallowing
Professor of Otolaryngology, UC Davis
Medical Director, National Foundation of Swallowing Disorders
Edie Hapner, PhD, CCC-SLP, ASHA Fellow
Co-Director, UAB Voice Center
Director, Division of Speech and Hearings, Department of Otolaryngology
Professor, University of Alabama, Birmingham
Lisa Evangelista, CScD, CCC-SLP, BCS-S
Director of Speech-Language Pathology |
Dysphagia, Head and Neck Cancer
UC Davis Medical Center - Department of Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery
Michael M. Johns, MD
Director, USC Voice Center
Division Director, Laryngology Professor
USC Caruso Department of Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery

2020 Fall Voice Conference Scientific Program Chairs

Dinesh K. Chhetri, MD, FACS
Professor and Vice Chair
Co-Director, Laryngology Program
Department of Head and Neck Surgery
University of California, Los Angeles
Elizabeth Direnzo, PhD, CCC-SLP
Assistant Professor
Division of Laryngology
Department of Otolaryngology –
Head & Neck Surgery
Stanford University School of Medicine

2020 Fall Voice Conference Program Committee

Deanna Britton, PhD, CCC- SLP
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Speech & Hearing Sciences
Portland State University
NW Center for Voice & Swallowing
Dept. of Otolaryngology/Head & Neck Surgery
Oregon Health & Sciences University
C. Kwang Sung, MD, MS
Assistant Professor - Division of Laryngology
Residency Program Director
Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
Stanford University School of Medicine
 
Derek Isetti, PhD, CCC-SLP
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Speech Lang Pathology
University of the Pacific
Lauren Timmons Sund, BM, MS, CCC-SLP
Speech-Language Pathologist
USC Voice Center
Caruso Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
 
Priya Krishna, MD, MS, FACS
Co-Director, Loma Linda Voice and Swallowing Center
Associate Professor,
Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery
Loma Linda University Health System
Sunil Verma, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery
University of California, Irvine School of Medicine
 
Maggie Kuhn, MD, MAS
Clinical Director,
Center for Voice and Swallowing
Associate Professor
Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery
University of California, Davis
Philip A. Weissbrod, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery
Division of Otolaryngology
Director, UCSD Center for Voice and Swallowing
University of California San Diego
 
Jan Pryor, PhC, CCC-SLP
Doctoral Candidate in Rehabilitation Science
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine
University of Washington, Seattle
VyVy Young, MD, FACS
Associate Professor and
Associate Residency Program Director
University of California, San Francisco Department of
Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
Voice and Swallowing Center
 
Heather M. Starmer, MA CCC-SLP, BCS-S
Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery
Director, Head and Neck Cancer Speech and
Swallowing Rehabilitation
Stanford Cancer Center
Aaron Ziegler, PhD, CCC-SLP
Speech-Language Pathologist
Singing Voice Specialist
Director and Co-Owner, The Wellness Group for Voice, Speech and Swallowing, LLC
Portland, Oregon