The Department of Surgery
Division of Head and Neck Surgery
UCLA Voice Center for Medicine and the Arts
http://www.surgery.ucla.edu
The Voice Center for Medicine and the Arts consists of a multidisciplinary team of experts, including speech pathologists, voice scientists, and surgeons, work closely with referring physicians to optimize voice function. Many patients who had lost their voices have returned to normal, productive lives through treatments offered at the Center. Providing comprehensive care while advancing prevention, diagnosis, and treatment is a hallmark of the UCLA Voice Center for Medicine and the Arts. In addition, it seeks to improve public awareness of laryngeal diseases through education and to enhance the knowledge and treatment of voice disorders through research. Basic science and clinical investigations are ongoing, with an emphasis on the development and evaluation of diagnostic and therapeutic protocols.
The Voice Center manages patients with a wide variety of vocal problems, ranging from common disorders, including vocal nodules, polyps, weak voice due to advanced age, and hoarseness resulting from gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), to those of a more serious nature, such as spasmodic dysphonia, tracheal scarring and stenosis, laryngeal trauma and fracture, and laryngeal cancer. The Voice Center was established at UCLA under the direction of Dr. Gerald S. Berke, Chief of the Division of Head and Neck Surgery, and a leader in the subspecialty field of "arts medicine." Dr. Berke is considered by his peers to be an international authority on laryngeal physiology. He is either an editorial consultant or board member of most, if not all, of the distinguished Head and Neck Surgery journals. Dr. Berke's studies have produced the foundation for an extraordinarily productive voice laboratory dedicated to the assessment of laryngeal function.
| Physician | Specialty |
|---|---|
| Berke, Gerald MD | Otolaryngology |
| Chhetri, Dinesh Khatri MD | Otolaryngology |
| Gerratt, Bruce PhD, SP | Speech-Language Pathologist |
