Phoniatrics I

Fundamentals.- Voice Disorders including Rehabilitation of Tumour Patients.- Disorders of Language Development.- Disorders of Hearing Development.

Antoinette am Zehnhoff-Dinnesen studied medical sciences in Düsseldorf and Bonn. In 1983 she became a medical specialist in ENT diseases and in 1986, a medical specialist in phoniatrics and pedaudiology. In 1988, she gained her Habilitation from Düsseldorf University for her work on regulation of vocal amplitude and frequency during voice onset. In 1990 Dr. am Zehnhoff-Dinnesen was appointed Professor of Phoniatrics and Pedaudiology at the Medical Faculty of Philipps University in Marburg. The following year she became Professor at the Medical Faculty at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster, where she is Head of the Clinic of Phoniatrics and Pedaudiology. She is author or co-author of more than 100 original papers in German and English language on various aspects of phoniatrics and pedaudiology and co-author of several books. She has been both Secretary and President of the German Society of Phoniatrics and Pedaudiology. In 2011, she was elected President of the Union of the European Phoniatricians (UEP) for the 2011-2014 term.

Tadeus Nawka studied medicine at Humboldt University in Berlin and then trained in ENT in Cottbus before specialising in Phoniatrics and Pedaudiology at the Charité in Berlin. He completed his scientific education at Harvard Medical School in 1994, after which he became Assistant Professor for ENT/Phoniatrics and Pedaudiology. After a three years term as a surgeon at the ENT department of the St. Georg Hospital in Hamburg, in 1999 Dr. Nawka became Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Phoniatrics and Pedaudiology at the University of Greifswald. Since 2009 he has been Professor and Head of the Division of Voice and Swallowing at the Department of Audiology and Phoniatrics, Charité - University Medicine Berlin. His main interests are diagnosis and treatment of voice and swallowing disorders and phonosurgery.