Voice Clinics Forum 2025

This course is suitable for ENT surgeons, voice specialist SLTs, spoken and singing voice practitioners who are interested in learning more about key skills and approaches in the rehabilitation of patients diagnosed with benign vocal fold pathology.

The day includes contemporary surgical techniques, pre and post operative voice therapy components and singing voice rehabilitation approaches. This is a valuable opportunity for Voice Clinic Teams to collaborate and network.

There will also be a free papers session. Deadline for abstract submissions: Monday 6 January 2025. Please use this link to submit: https://forms.gle/FQ9eeVB7oVZRn63q7

Newly added! The BVA is delighted to host the first one-day DoctorVox DVT Training Program in the UK as part of Voice Clinic Forum 2025, on Thursday 27th February 2025.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bva-presents-doctorvox-voice-therapy-technique-dvt-training-program-tickets-1143075482539?aff=oddtdtcreator

Voice Clinic Forum

Friday 28th February 2025

Governor’s Hall, St. Thomas’ Hospital

Multi-disciplinary management of benign vocal fold pathology

8.40am Registration

9.00am Welcome from Tori Burnay, Chair of BVA Voice Clinic Forum

Session: Surgery 

Chair: Ms Natalie Watson, Consultant ENT Surgeon

9.05am Surgical approaches for benign vocal fold lesions – Julian McGlashan, 

Consultant ENT Surgeon.

9.55am Management of scar – Mr Nicholas Gibbins, Consultant ENT Surgeon

10.20am Panel discussion

10.35am Coffee Break

Session: Therapy

Chair: Dr Rehab Awad, Clinical Lead Speech and Language Therapist

11.00am Feasibility, adherence and acceptability of the PAPOV intervention 

Anna White, SLT

11.55am Doctorvox Voice Therapy: A muscle-specific approach for benign vocal fold pathologies' - Assoc. Prof. Dr. İlter Denizoglu, Phoniatrician.

12.30pm Q and A

12.45pm Lunch - Please visit our sponsors in Central Hall where lunch will be served

Free papers session chair: TBC

1.45pm Free paper session:

Session: Singing rehabilitation

Chair: Tori Burnay, Clinical Lead Speech and Language Therapist

2.45pm Eleanora Bruni and Erika Biavati – Title TBC

3.45pm Tea

4.05pm Eleanora Bruni and Erika Biavati – Title TBC

5.05pm Q and A

5.15pm Meeting closes

Erika Biavati Vocologist

Eleonora Bruni Vocologist

Ilter Denizoglou Phoniatrician

Nick Gibbins Consultant ENT Surgeon

Julian McGlashan Consultant ENT Surgeon

Anna White Speech and Language Therapist

This is an in-person event: however, if you prefer you can watch it live-streamed or watch at a later date (or revisit it if you attended in-person!). Please see 'Tickets' and how to sign up for these different options. Please note that everyone who signs up for this event will be sent a recording. The recording will be made available after the event for three months.

BVA Member in person – £130/105 (early bird rate before 27 January) - £80 online

Non BVA in person – £150/120 (early bird) £95 online

Full time student/retiree online or in person (no lunch) - £45

Recording link included in all prices

Booking and registration: www.britishvoiceassociation.org.uk/events or Eventbrite

For further information: [email protected]

• 4 weeks (or more) = 90% refund
• 1-4 weeks = 25% refund
• 1 week or less = no refund (under any circumstances, including illness)
  

Should the BVA cancel a course, a full refund will be offered.

Erika Biavati is a singer, singer-songwriter, singing and vocal technique teacher, artistic vocologist and expert in training methods for the whistle register, based in Bologna, Italy. Erika has taken part in many important singer-songwriter festivals and her work has been highly commended. She has sung and recorded many different types of music including Pop, Soul, Rock and Rhythm and Blues. In 2010, Erika won the “Artistic Vocology International Prize” and since then has been a Singing and Extended Vocal Techniques Professor at Alma Mater Studiorum University. She has conducted extensive experimental studies relating to extreme vocals. She invented and teaches Biavati Training for Whistle Register. She founded the VoiceToTeach® specialization course for voice and singing teachers. She has given workshops and lectures for PEVOC, COMET, VOICE FOUNDATION, UEP. As founder and Director of the Live Music School in Bologna, she uses a multifaceted and inter-methodological approach. In 2019 she was vocal coach in the TV programme “Sanremo Young”. In the same year Erika published the book “MIX & BELTING sounds comparison – The voice in modern singing”. She is professor of vocal technique and “vocal emissions” at the BSMT (Bernstein School of Musical Theater) in Bologna.

Professor Eleonora Bruni is a singer, researcher, teacher of singing and vocal technique, artistic vocologist, vocal coach for singers and actors, and expert in extreme vocal training methods. She was awarded the "Demetrio Stratos Prize - International Prize for Experimental Music 1996" and the "International Prize for Artistic Vocology 2009". She is a CoMeT (Collegium Medicorum Theatre) member. She is a Giva honorary member. She has sung in many productions of rock, jazz, musical theater and experimental music. She is the voice of the Iato Orchestra (an ensemble of radical improvisers directed by Alvin Curran). Eleonora Bruni is a Professor of singing and advanced vocal techniques at the AlmaMater Studiorum University of Bologna, at the University of Almatu and at the Master in Artistic Vocology Conservatory of Milan. She conducts extensive experimental studies in the field of Extreme Vocality and Extended Vocal Techniques. She lectures throughout Italy and abroad (USA, Brazil, Turkey, Denmark, Finland, Spain, Scotland, Poland, Austria, Estonia), and has authored contributions to singing books, conference proceedings and specialised magazines, and a chapter on the didactics of extreme training in the book 'The rehabilitation of partial laryngectomies, an integrated approach' (Franco Fussi (Ed)). She designed and teaches the Bruni Training® for Extended Voices and the advanced training for vocal coaches Voices Formazione, and founded VoiceToTeach, a graduate course for voice and singing teachers. Her multifaceted and inter-methodological approach allows her to teach and train many famous singers (pop, rock, metal, musical theatre, contemporary classical) and film and theatre actors and dubbers. For many years she has been preparing artists for European and Italian tours, for the Sanremo Festival and for TV broadcasts.

Professor Denizoglu is an otolaryngologist, clinician and researcher based in Izmir, Turkey, where he is the founder and Director of the Vocology Centre. His medical work is exclusively in phonosurgery, voice therapy, and singing voice therapy. His research and development process focuses on the medical, biophysical and musical aspects of the human voice. He has been devising new devices for voice therapy and vocal training, and tools and surgical techniques for phonosurgery as well. Based on Sihvo’s LaxVox Tube Exercise; he has structured the DoctorVox Voice Therapy and Vocal Training Program with its devices. He is an amateur singer and interested in vocal music in various approaches (Singing pedagogy, musical acoustics). He prepared the curriculum of the pedagogical vocology course and has been teaching since 2008 in conservatories. Likewise, he also prepared the clinical vocology course curriculum and teaches in the language and speech therapy department. His book ‘Textbook of Clinical Vocology’ has been published in January 2020.

Nick Gibbins is a Consultant Otolaryngologist and Voice Surgeon at University Hospital Lewisham, London. He graduated from Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals, London in 1998 and was awarded the Registrar’s Gold Medal for research by the ENT Masterclass in 2011. He has been head and neck cancer lead and Clinical Director. He is a laryngologist and has a specialist interest in the diagnosis and treatment of all types of voice disorders, the management of the professional voice, vocal fold scars and sulci, and the biomechanics of the body that can affect both voice and swallow. He is Secretary of the British Laryngological Association and previous Vice-President of the European Laryngological Society. He has published widely, written many text-book chapters regarding the management of voice disorders and is editor for the Chapter about the Larynx for 43rd edition of Grays Anatomy. He is always in demand as a speaker, having given lectures to the Royal College of Music, the Royal Academy of Music and the British Association of Performing Arts Medicine to name a few. His passions include the evolution of the larynx, ensuring professional voice users know how to manage their voice, and what to do when it goes wrong.

Julian McGlashan FRCS(Otol.), Hon FRCSLT has worked as a consultant Laryngologist and Head & Neck Surgeon at Nottingham University Hospitals for 28 years. He works as a part of several complex multidisciplinary teams including Voice, Neurolaryngology, Airway and Swallowing Disorders. He has published over 50 Peer-reviewed publications and 12 book chapters. His main research interests are in voice measurement, imaging of the vocal folds, the effects of gastric reflux on the upper aerodigestive tract and the singing voice. He is a past-president of the BVA and is a member of the BLA, ELS, BAPAM, CoMeT and the British Neurotoxin Network.

Anna White is a Clinical Academic Speech and Language Therapist at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. She has 22 years’ experience working as a Speech Therapist with patients with voice disorders and has worked with the Nottingham team for over 17 years. She works in the joint voice clinic as well as offering virtual and face to face appointments to patients. She has done additional training related to the assessment and management of voice disorders including cognitive behavioural therapy for voice disorders, solution focused brief therapy, laryngeal manual therapy, and endoscopic evaluation of the larynx. She currently holds a prestigious National Institute of Health Research, Clinical Doctoral Research Fellowship which she is undertaking at the University of Nottingham. Anna’s research interests include pre- and post-operative voice therapy for benign vocal fold lesions, the development and evaluation of complex interventions, improving voice outcomes for patients with voice disorders and investigating behaviour change techniques within the field of voice therapy. Anna is now in the final year of her PhD and undertaking a non-randomised feasibility study with embedded process evaluation to consider implementation and acceptability of the pre- and post-operative voice therapy (PAPOV) intervention she has developed.

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