Webinar | A Tour of Voice Disorders with a Focus on Spasmodic Dysphonia

In this webinar, Dr. Robert W. Bastian provides an overview of the anatomy of the voice and then touches on different types of voice disorders with a focus on spasmodic dysphonia (laryngeal dysphonia).
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Robert W. Bastian, MD, a board-certified otolaryngologist, has practiced laryngology exclusively since 1987. Dr. Bastian spent 20 years in academic medicine, at Washington University-St. Louis and then at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Illinois. He founded and is the Director of the Bastian Voice Institute. Dr. Bastian is an internationally recognized authority on the treatment of voice, airway, swallowing, and coughing disorders, having been invited to teach in university and professional society contexts in the U.S., Canada, Australia, Mexico, Ireland, France, Belgium, and Turkey. He has been listed for several years by Chicago magazine as one of “Chicago’s Top Doctors,” and by Castle-Connolly as one of “America’s Top Doctors.” He is also the recipient of the Honor Award for teaching contributions to the American Academy of Otolaryngology, as well as, in 2010, the Distinguished Service Award.
Dr. Bastian also created an educational website, Laryngopedia, which has a wide array of encyclopedia entries, photos, and videos on voice, swallowing, airway, and coughing disorders. Dr. Bastian is the Chairperson of the Medical Advisory Board of the National Spasmodic Dysphonia Association, now Dysphonia International.
Dysphonia International, formerly the National Spasmodic Dysphonia Association, is dedicated to improving the lives of people with spasmodic dysphonia and related voice conditions through research, education, awareness, and support. Providing information, resources, and most importantly hope, we are organization that cares about you and your voice.